Yes. Several dozen neural networks have been implemented and trained by specialists around the world today, already solving these tasks as the best specialists in their fields. This area is developing dynamically – in 10 years most diagnoses will be made by neural networks, probably under the supervision of a living doctor.

The today’s problem is that these neural networks function within laboratories and institutions and there is no mechanism for the unified use of neural networks by doctors. Skychain will unify all these distributed neural networks and provide doctors with a single window for their use. Skychain's data marketplace will allow the best specialists in the field of artificial intelligence to quickly develop and teach neural networks using the amount of medical data, which no organization or state can ever collect in one place. Due to this, the number and quality of Skychain's neural networks will be unreachable for any private or public project. Besides this, by uploading information about a patient in Skychain, a doctor can analyze it in dozens (or even hundreds) different neural networks and get the most complete state of a patient.

IBM estimates the artificial intelligence market in the sphere of medicine at $200 billion a year in a few years. The goal of Skychain is to take control over 70% of this market! The way to achieve this goal is to create the best open infrastructure that will accumulate the resources of the majority of participants of this industry and surpass any closed corporate product.

Skychain miners can provide their computing resources and get paid not only for mining of cryptocurrency coins, but also providing a requested service, which is in a solvent demand. This fundamentally sets Skychain mining apart from mining of classic cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETC, etc.) where miners perform useless calculations only to proof-of-work.

Skychain will be able to analyze information about a patient according to his medical tests, history, symptoms and research results. Moreover, this analysis can be performed with hundreds of different neural networks at once that will not miss any important detail and can effectively diagnose rare diseases and improve the quality of diagnostics. A doctor and a patient will be able to get a reliable “second opinion” from Skychain.

Yes, Skychain architecture allows storing and processing any neural networks. We decided to focus on medicine at this stage, as this is a very urgent task and the project organizers have a rich experience in this field.

Yes, developments of these companies are interesting. But training even one artificial neural network for diagnosis of a single disease is a complex task that requires painstaking work on designing a neural network and preparing a large data set for its training. A neural network often must be redesigned and retrained after the training. In Skychain, the developer will be able to train his neural networks using large number of datasets provided by independent suppliers for reward, this will make it possible to train the deepest and most accurate neural networks. Thousands of independent laboratories will be able to place their neural networks on Skychain and no corporation in the world can spend so much intellectual and human resources to create their product. Just like no taxi company can compete with the Uber drivers network in the number of cars, no software developer can compete with App Store in the number and coverage of applications.

We admit that at the pre-ICO or ICO stage there may be a situation that the project's tokens will not be redeemed and we will not be able to develop the project without this support. The project failure is possible in this regard. But we are 100% sure that a platform with principles outlined in our whitepaper will be created and universally recognized. Modern technologies allow creating such a system, which means that it will definitely appear, since its high value for people is obvious. If the ICO is successful, we are confident that we will implement Skychain and it will be universally recognized.

The Skychain project is at the intersection of five fields:
1. Blockchain
2. Artificial neural networks
3. IT in medicine
4. Sharing economy
5. Cryptography
We, founders of Skychain, have deep knowledge and experience in all these four fields. And, which is also important, Skychain is a project that we want to devote our lives to.

The attraction of classical investors reduces the level of independence of the team and the project. We want to remain independent, develop Skychain not relying on investors’ opinions and their short-term goals. Therefore, we chose an ICO model and hope for community confidence in our project, team and goals.

Each Skychain Token will be sold for $1. There is a preICO discount of 50%. So at the preICO stage Skychain token price is $0.5.

Yes - during the pre-sale, we offer a bonus of 50% for early investors.

Yes - starting on the 18.12.2017, Two Million Skychain tokens will be sold via the pre-sale which will last 21 days. If all 2 million tokens are not sold during the pre-sale, the remaining tokens will be sold during the main token sale.

The Pre-Sale will start on 18 Dec 2017 (00:00 CET) and end on 7 Jan 2018 (23:59 CET) The main token sale starts on 5 Feb 2018 (00:00 CET) and will last until 28 Feb (23:59 CET).

We will create up to 120 million Skychain tokens. However this depends on the actual subscription amount. Thus the 120 million are the maximum amount created.

A maximum amount of 100 000 000 Skychain tokens will be sold during the token sale.

The mininum cap for the token sale to be considered a success is 400 000 Skychain tokens for presale and 10 000 000 Skychain tokens for ICO.

We will accept ETH, BTC.

The tokens will be distributed after the main token sale ends. Those tokens can be send to a wallet which is ERC20-compatible. We will try our best to distribute the tokens within 10 days after sale closing. The final distribution date is on March 8th 2018.

You are able to fund your account via BTC or ETH. You can buy the tokens with any wallet which holds a BTC or ETH. In order to receive the tokens we will need a wallet that accepts ERC20 tokens.

In order to receive your tokens when the main token sale ends, we need your ETH Address from your ERC20 Wallet.

No, US citizens can’t participate in the sale of Skychain tokens in compliance with the US law. You can participate in the Skychain token sale if you are not a US citizen or reside permanently in the United States, and you don’t have a permanent residence in countries such as Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and other territories under United States control.

Every Nationality, except: United States, Singapore and People’s Republic of China, Vietnam or resident of a country where American embargoes and sanctions are in force, namely Iran, North Korea, Syria, Sudan, or Cuba. More information in our Terms of Token Sale.

You can buy the tokens with any wallet which holds a BTC or ETH. In order to receive those tokens you will need a wallet which accepts ERC20 Tokens.

There are multiple ways for you to create an ETH wallet. We recommend using either Mist, MyEtherWallet, Parity or ImToken.. Let’s have a quick look on how to create a MyEtherWallet: In Order to create a new wallet, you can visit MyEtherWallet.com. On the main page you can simply enter a strong password and click on “Create New Wallet”. After creating your account, please download your Keystore File. Do not share it, lose it and please make a backup of it. The next site will show your private key. This key is crucial for you. Again – do not share it, lose it and make a backup. Those files and keys will help you to retrieve access to your wallet. Now, in order to unlock, please choose “Private Key” and enter your previously saved private key. This will open your private wallet and show your Address. This address is needed for anyone, including us, who wants to send coins to your wallet. So please save this as well. Your address can be used in Skychain to receive your tokens.

It will store all neural networks developed by hundreds of laboratories and organizations in a single registry so that any neural network can be calculated any server connected to Skychain. Besides this, storing neural networks in a single registry is safe for their author as no one except the author can get a reward for the use of his neural network and it can’t be unloaded and launched outside Skychain, because the calculation result is decoded the neural network’s author’s computer with his private key.

TToday developers of neural networks must purchase expensive equipment to train their artificial neural network, experiment with various neural network structures and select the best structure for solving their problem. With Skychain, any researcher can build his own artificial neural network using SkyConstrucor builder tools, pay for renting the required computing resources with Skycoins and train his neural network. The developer will also be able to train his neural networks using a large number of datasets provided by independent suppliers, this will make it possible to train the deepest and most accurate neural networks. Then, Skychain will allow an author to get remuneration from end users of his neural network. This will motivate developers of neural networks to upload their neural networks to Skychain and thus develop the Skychain ecosystem.

Yes, when a doctor sends information about a patient and test results, this information is distributed to a plenty of neural networks and executed on different servers at the same time. neural networks can be also trained in parallel, when one server (for example, of a neural network’s developer) controls the training process and plenty of servers of miners consistently train it on individual examples and send the neural network parameters to the controlling server for combining them together. The calculation of neural networks (inference) will be performed on a miner’s server and decrypted on a server of the neural network’s owner. But an inference is not a costly operation and is effectively performed even on one server.

Yes, data centers of large corporations are really big. But if you look at the current blockchain networks, such as Ethereum, you can see that these networks combine huge computing resources of miners, much superior in their processing power than any centralized data center. That’s why Skychain will provide more computing powers and at a better price than any corporation.

Skycoins can be mined with computers with several powerful video cards. The proof-of-work algorithm used in Skycoin uses matrix multiplication operations (BLAS GEMM), which is most efficiently computed on tensor cores (such as Nvidia Tesla V100). The use of tensor cores allows speeding up the training and calculation of Skychain neural networks a dozen times. We chose this solution to ensure that all computers of miners are useful to the Skychain network, not only for creating new blocks, but also training and calculating neural networks.

Skychain is an infrastructure. We will be adding support for all widespread libraries and tools in Skychain. So, if a new library for artificial neural networks that solves problems well appears tomorrow, for example, we will test it and include its support in our core. Thus, Skychain will speed up spreading the progress in this area and the use of the latest developments and libraries by a wide range of specialists and consumers.