The Akropolis platform delivers secure, transparent and efficient savings to pensions savers of the future by putting individuals in control of their data and funds. Akropolis is a domain-specific financial protocol dedicated to the needs of the informal bank-less economy. It can be implemented on any blockchain with a Turing-complete virtual machine. Our proposed initial implementation is on the Ethereum blockchain.

Main sectors: Banking & Financial Services

Main applications: Payments/Financial Infrastructure

Established in: 2017

URL: https://akropolis.io/

Organisation: Akropolis Decentralised Ltd. 

Organisation type: Companies (for-profit) – Startup

Founders: Ana Andria, Founder; Kate Kurbanova, Co-Founder

Partners: Maker Dao; Polkadot; W3F; ChainX; Chainlink; Wyre; Poa; Cindicator; Bancor; Kenetic; Zerion; Certik; Aurum; Mixbytes; Messari; Xangle

Country: United Kingdom 

City: Gibraltar

Stage of project: Demo

Geographical reach: International

DLT / Blockchain: Public – Ethereum

Other technologies: Other/s

Whitepaper: https://wiki.akropolis.io/whitepaper/

Github: https://github.com/akropolisio

Twitter: https://twitter.com/akropolisio

This project is part of the #DLT4Good Scanning. ‘#DLT4Good: Co-creating a European Ecosystem of Distributed Ledger Technologies for Social and Public Good’ is a forward-looking science for policy project supported by the European Parliament, and coordinated by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in cooperation with the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG CONNECT). Learn more about #DLT4Good.