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Etherisc

Etherisc is developing a protocol for decentralized insurance applications. We use blockchain technology to make the purchase and sale of insurance more efficient, enable lower operational costs, provide greater transparency into the industry.

Benefits/Why Etherisc:
•  Build decentralized insurance applications
•  Increase transparency and fairness of insurance
•  Enable lower operational costs
•  Make the purchase and sale of insurance more efficient
•  Common infrastructure, product templates and insurance license-as-a-service make a platform that allows anyone to create their own insurance products.  
•   Independent workers and risk capital providers earn fair share of created value.

Main sectors: Banking & Financial Services

Main applications: Disintermediation and decentralized networks;
Financial Services/Market Infrastructure

Established in: 2016

URL: https://etherisc.com/

 

Organisation: Etherisc GmbH

Organisation type: Companies (for-profit) – Startup

Founders: Christoph Mussenbrock, Co-founder; Stephan Karpischek, Co-founder; Renat Khasanshyn, Co-Founder

Partners: MME; Inacta; Lakeside Partners; Altoros; Wachsman; KR1; Bochsler Finance; Bity; Captain Frank; Generali

Country: Germany; Switzerland

City: München; Zug

Stage of project: Pilot

Geographical reach: International

DLT / Blockchain: Public – Ethereum

Other technologies: N/A

 

Whitepaper: https://etherisc.com/files/etherisc_whitepaper_1.01_en.pdf

Github: https://github.com/etherisc

Twitter: https://twitter.com/etherisc

 

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.