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The blockchain platform to collectively
build AI Apps

dbrain.io

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Introduction
Artificial Intelligence (AI) happens to be the next big thing. AI is all about data.
Datasets used for machine learning are still labeled by hand, which requires a lot
of effort. This creates a lot of friction: labeling quality is not guaranteed, and the
initial source data is not secured. Dbrain allows people to work together in se-
cure, seamless, integrated processes for buying, designing, and building AI apps,
from start to finish.

Dbrain Telegram bot and web application

Dbrain is an open blockchain platform that links crowdworkers and data scien-
tists enabling them to transform raw data into real-world AI solutions. Crowd-
workers do simple tasks of data labelling and validation, and are paid instantly in
cryptocurrency for their work. Data scientists use the resulting datasets to train
Neural Networks (NN) and build AI apps. Businesses use existing AI solutions or
specify new ones to serve their particular needs. Dbrain automates AI produc-
tion and data workflow by providing efficient tools to all parties, including a web
application, a Telegram bot, and a mobile app.

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Blockchain technology helps us meet many of AI’s current challenges. Using
the blockchain, we can confidently manage high-quality data labelling, security
concerns, intellectual property rights, and international micropayments. Using
existing commercial computation infrastructure allows us to build an affordable,
scalable toolkit for developing and deploying AI apps.

We use blockchain protocols and an in-house cryptocurrency to power the AI

production cycle. The SPOCK protocol validates data label quality, ensuring the
most accurate datasets possible. The PICARD protocol ensures the security of
confidential data and automatically manages relations and fair revenue distribu-
tion between stakeholders. Dbraincoin (DBR) is an ERC-20 cryptocurrency to
exchange for work, datasets, and AI app usage.

Anyone with a connected device can join Dbrain and get a role in building In-
dustry 4.0. Our platform connects exploding demand for hand-labeled AI data
with the abundant supply of global crowdworkers. In particular, we reach 2 billion
unbanked people in low-wage countries, offering them cryptocurrency income
in exchange for data labeling and validation. Integrating this global workforce
into its platform, Dbrain provides a secure, unified infrastructure to supercharge
businesses through accessible, high-quality AI products.

Right now, AI is off limits to all but the wealthiest and most powerful operations.
Dbrain makes AI affordable to more customers. We make AI buildable by more
developers. We make AI profitable for more workers. We democratize AI.

Join us to make AI happen!

Join Telegram chat Get in Whitelist

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Contents
Introduction.............................................2 5. Team........................................................25
5.1. Founders.............................................25
Contents....................................................4 5.2. Advisors..............................................26
5.3. Core team..........................................27
1. Challenges...............................................5 5.4. Partnerships.....................................28
1.1. High-quality datasets.......................5 5.5. Background......................................29
1.2. Security and trust...............................6 5.6. Icon8....................................................29
1.3. Abundant crowdwork supply........6 5.7. Connectcome..................................30
1.4. Last-mile infrastructure..................8
6. Roadmap...............................................31
2. Platform....................................................9
2.1. AI production line...............................9 Disclaimer..............................................32
2.2. Blockchain and crypto...................11
2.3. SPOCK protocol...............................11
2.4. PICARD protocol.............................12
2.5. Dbraincoin (DBR)............................13
2.6. Product................................................14
2.7. Web application..............................15
2.8. Telegram bot.....................................16
2.9. Mobile application.........................17
2.10. Competitive advantages...........18

3. Use cases..............................................19
3.1. Image recognition............................19
3.2. Video surveillance.........................20
3.3. Medical data processing.............21
3.4. Natural language processing...22
3.5. You name it.......................................23

4. Revenue model...................................24

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1. Challenges
Blockchain technology helps us meet many of AI’s current challenges. Using
existing commercial computation infrastructure allows us to build an affordable,
scalable toolkit for developing, integrating, and deploying AI apps.

Currently, the most important practical challenges for widespread AI adoption

are a shortage of high-quality datasets, unreliable data security and unreliable
data quality, and the lack of a common framework shared by all parties interested
in AI production.

1.1. High-quality datasets

Large, high-quality datasets contribute more than 80% to AI application success,

making these data even more important for machine learning than algorithms.
Datasets are still labeled by hand and require a lot of human effort. Regardless
of size, poorly labelled datasets can nullify Neural Network (NN) model function
and impede AI progress in general. Leveraging the labor of online crowdworkers
is the most effective solution for creating large datasets. However, existing da-
ta-labelling tools and platforms fail to ensure quality and fail to meet the current
demand for AI datasets.

Dbrain guarantees quality of datasets without any work duplication. To align the
incentives for crowdworkers, validators, AI developers, and data owners, Dbrain
implements the Subjective Proof of Crowdwork Protocol (SPOCK), which vali-
dates data quality automatically and guarantees real-time, fair, transparent billing
to workers and data owners.

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1.2. Security and trust

Sharing sensitive data with third parties, and even in-house developers, poses
certain security risks. AI developers can replicate third-party software within a
very short time when given access to someone else’s data. Labeled data, rather
than software, are the defensible barrier for many businesses. Data owners lose
revenue when datasets are leaked to third parties.

Dbrain protects data owners’ interests and prevents leaks at all stages of AI app
development. No matter who uploads data on the platform, the Protocol for Indi-
rect Controlled Access to Repository Data (PICARD) protects datasets and AI
apps hosted on the platform. It also allows data scientists to train AI models using
datasets without downloading them, and to sell AI solutions to business clients
later on. The protocol guarantees security and trust in the Dbrain community
with regards to data access control and reward distribution.

1.3. Abundant crowdwork supply

In the 10 largest developing countries, the total number of internet users is close
to 2 billion; with nearly 50% technology penetration, the online population is
growing rapidly1. The number of internet users in these countries is greater than
in all other countries combined. At the same time, the World Bank estimates that
there are around 2 billion unbanked people in the world2. Clearly, internet con-
nectivity reaches the developing world much faster than the banking system, and
many people connected to the internet are still excluded from the global finan-
cial system. Cross-border payments via banks are expensive, slow, and location
dependent. Cryptocurrencies can solve this problem by reaching any person
connected to the internet.

The supply of online crowdwork is abundant globally. The World Bank estimates
that in 2013 the minimum total supply of crowdwork was $239B, while the market
demand in 2016 was $4.8B, or 50 times less than the work supply. Only demand
limits the market growth.

1 — (https://www.internetworldstats.com/)
2 — World Bank “Measuring Financial Inclusion around the World” (http://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/globalfindex)
3 — World Bank “The Global Opportunity in Online Outsourcing” (https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/22284)

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 $ 240 B+
CR OWDWOR K
MA R K ET*

D BR A IN
MA R K ET FIT

$200B+
A I M A R K ET *

* — est. by year 2025

Global job automation trends and widespread internet penetration in emerging

markets accelerate the transformation of the classic employment model into an
online work model, which is divided into small, well-defined tasks, most of which
do not require any special expertise. Many people in developing countries are
willing and able to perform simple jobs for less than employers from the devel-
oped world currently pay to their workers. However, compared to local wages,
workers could still earn significantly more by working at crowdsourced tasks
online. The only missing link to connect the two parties in this win-win game is an
efficient channel for employment, payment, and job validation.

Dbrain is the channel for AI data labeling tasks. We see this situation as a blue
ocean opportunity that allows us to build and control a substantial part of that
market instead of fighting for a market share. Our platform will satisfy the explod-
ing demand for human-labeled data and human-in-the-loop APIs. We will pro-
vide a better income for people who need it most and improve their quality of life,
while managing to reduce data labeling costs for our customers.

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1.4. Last-mile infrastructure

Even the most sophisticated AI platform is useless without access to end users.
To use AI solutions in the real world, businesses need to find AI developers, the
scarcest resource on the market. Developers need access to scalable and afford-
able AI computation infrastructure to train and deploy their AI Apps. They also
need access to raw data and crowdworkers for data labeling and model output
validation. Labelers need simple, accessible interfaces, and micropayment chan-
nels to be paid for their work.

An efficient infrastructure for AI development lowers barriers for all stakehold-

ers. Labelers and businesses benefit the most. Telegram messenger solves the
problem of access for labelers. Labeling tasks vary by level of difficulty. For simple
tasks, we offer the Dbrain Telegram Bot, and literally anyone with a connected
device can use it to label data and earn Dbraincoins (DBR) in return.

The Dbrain platform allows users to deploy and share AI solutions. Anyone can
use AI models via convenient on-demand APIs without incurring development
and infrastructure costs.

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2. Platform
Dbrain is an open blockchain platform for turning raw data into real-world AI
solutions. We make AI accessible to businesses and allow anyone to earn money
for their effort.

The platform automates most of the data preparation and human-in-the-loop

workflow. It provides crowdworkers with a user-friendly labeling and validation
tool based on a unique web application and Telegram bot. Blockchain protocols
and internal cryptocurrency ensure transparency and fair revenue distribution
among all stakeholders.

2.1. AI production line

Dbrain levels the playing field for all participants on the AI market.

For crowdworkers, we provide an opportunity to earn money for training and

supervising AI networks and receive a fair share of future AI revenues securely
via smart contracts. For AI developers, we lower barriers significantly for creating
commercially viable AI products and provide scalable and elastic access to accu-
mulated datasets, unique data providers, business clients, and a distributed pool
of workers who create new and process existing data. We enable data providers
to monetize their existing datasets and live data streams. For businesses, we offer
a wide range of turnkey AI solutions, integration, and customization for particular
needs.

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 AI production line

Data

R AW
Data Owners upload data and host
DATA datasets on the platform

DBR

SPOCK

Label

DATA
Labelers label data and validate
S ET datasets to get DBR in return

DBR

PICARD

Train

Data Scientists train neural

AI APP
networks and create AI Apps

DBR

API

DBR

Businesses use existing Apps

B US I N ES S ES
or request new models

Profit

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2.2. Blockchain and crypto

The Dbrain platform works on the Ethereum network and relies on its smart con-
tracts. We’re building a scalable permissioned blockchain anchored to the Ethe-
reum network via state channels. Our solution can securely process thousands of
transactions per second which all involved parties can verify independently. We
implement two blockchain protocols for decentralized access to our platform
and an in-house cryptocurrency.

2.3. SPOCK protocol

To align the incentives of crowdworkers, validators, AI developers and data-

set owners, Dbrain implements the Subjective Proof of Crowdwork Protocol
(SPOCK), which automatically verifies data quality and guarantees real-time, fair
and transparent billing to workers and task requesters.

All work tasks performed on the Dbrain platform require multiple validations by
other random labelers. Validators either do the same work for the simplest tasks
such as image classification, or confirm the correctness of complex tasks. When
the majority of validators agree on the task result quality, then the original worker
receives a payment and a higher rating. Workers get a lower rating and no pay-
ment for rejected tasks.

Validators who approve a bad result, if present, are punished with a significantly
reduced rating. Such a system does not discourage conscientious validators from
being suspicious, because when they are right, they receive a higher rating. How-
ever, it does strongly discourage validators from accepting wrong results.

With validators motivated to accept good results and even more motivated to
reject bad results, the best strategy for workers is to do their best and deliver cor-
rect results,while the best strategy for validators is to accept the correct results.
Such behavior is a Nash equilibrium in this contrived game and payoff matrix.

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We have several requirements for our rating and task validation system to be able
to process task completion and validation in real time:

Online calculations. We need to evaluate work results as they arrive using

only data stored publicly in our Ethereum smart contracts and in our permis-
sioned blockchain that is accessible to relevant task requesters and workers.

Transparency. All rating changes and billing events should be visible to task
requesters and workers online.

Reproducibility. Calculations must be simple enough that an involved party

can reproduce them independently.

Aligned incentives. The system should motivate workers to behave diligently

and conscientiously by providing a good reward and punishment balance.

2.4. PICARD protocol

The Protocol for indirect controlled access to repository data (PICARD) pro-
tects datasets and AI applications hosted on the Dbrain platform and allows data
scientists to train AI models using the datasets without downloading them, and
to sell AI solutions to business clients later. The protocol allows data scientists to
work on a contract basis as well as to contribute to community owned datasets
and public kernels. It also allows participation in Kaggle-like competitions on
openly listed challenges.

To ensure the safety of datasets and intellectual property ownership rights, we

enforce strict access control during model training and deployment. During
training, we charge only for compute time, but do not allow any external access
during calculations. To protect from dataset leaks via this channel, we also do not
allow developers who do not own the dataset to download trained models with-
out additional validation or permission from the owner (e.g., one can simply copy
raw input data as a model output). Dataset and model owners must approve indi-
rect usage of their intellectual property in derived work and may ask for a future
revenue share or direct payments for it.

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We log every access to the data and model APIs as a transaction in our private
blockchain. The entire access history is available to dataset and model owners.
The owners can completely restrict access to their data. However, a much more
interesting scenario is indirect controlled access to datasets and models. Any
developer can build a new better model or mix an existing one with some secret
sauce and sell the results as a new API on the platform. Owners can set a public
price on their data and models and list them publicly on the Dbrain platform.
Alternatively, the owners of existing data and models and new developers can
agree on revenue sharing from the resulting product. Our very granular access
control records history into immutable ledgers audited by third parties, guaran-
teeing fair and precise distribution of revenues from AI Apps.

2.5. Dbraincoin (DBR)

Dbraincoin (DBR) is implemented as a standard ERC20 token. The total number

of Dbraincoins in existence is fixed. We use our coins as an internal currency that
participants use to pay and receive for work, data and AI application usage on the
platform.

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2.6. Product

The Dbrain web application integrated with Ethereum (DApp) allows every
Internet user to perform tasks, earn Crypto and withdraw it with a single click.
Telegram bot for simple data labeling and task validation gives us access to
crowdworker audience with the least imaginable friction. Our upcoming mobile
app will provide user interface for complex tasks on smartphones and tablets and
allow to collect custom data from crowdworkers.

Web application Telegram bot Mobile app

We will release our UI framework publicly, so developers and businesses can

create tasks and adjust them to their particular needs at their discretion. The web
app is integrated with Ethereum and allows any user to withdraw or deposit funds
instantly and verify transactions from our private blockchain.

Later in 2018, we will release our data science computation tool and present it
to the public as a Jupyter notebook with all modern ML libraries and tools and a
connection to our data.

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2.7. Web application

The Dbrain web application integrated with Ethereum (DApp) provides an intu-
itive tool for data labeling and validation tasks for crowdworkers. The complex
user interface allows crowdworkers to perform advanced tasks, such as image
labeling for classification and regression, object annotation with bounding boxes
and segmentation masks.

Desktop and mobile version of the web application

Label data for AI

and get Crypto
Do simple image labeling and data validation tasks,
get paid instantly with Dbraincoins (DBR)
and withdraw your earnings anytime.

Sign up for Alpha

Toolkit for data scientists and businesses to develop and

deploy AI Apps will be out by Q3 2018.

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2.8. Telegram bot

The Telegram Bot is ideal for simple image labeling and validation tasks.3 Anyone
with the internet connected device can label data and get paid instantly with
Dbraincoins. Smartphones are more accessible and widespread in developing
countries than laptops, while internet penetration is high, which gives us an edge
in accessing workers in those regions.

Easy way
to label data
With the Telegram bot, we reach
millions of unbanked people to give
them an income stream in Crypto.

Try Telegram bot

The Dbrain team is among the best at building AI chatbot applications.2 We

have applied our previous experience building the Icon8 chatbot to the data
labeling problem and created a new Dbrain Bot on the Telegram platform.

4 — see section 5.6

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2.9. Mobile application

Mobile apps are a great tool to create new data — video, audio, photos, acceler-
ation, GPS coordinates and touch input. Our app will allow any platform user to
become a data provider and earn additional Dbraincoins.

Coming soon
App Store

Google Play

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2.10. Competitive advantages

There are a few large existing crowdwork platforms that are mostly used for
AI-related tasks (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk, Yandex.Toloka). However, they
fail to meet most of AI developers’ needs . Developers need to find raw data and
upload tasks or validate data themselves. Then developers need access to AI
compute infrastructure in order to train models and build AI Apps. Finally, devel-
opers need to deploy AI Apps somewhere to make them available to business cli-
ents. The Dbrain platform covers all stages of the AI production cycle and offers a
comprehensive solution.

Dbrain AMT Crowdflower Gems Kaggle

Upload data

Label data

Validation

Payments in Crypto

Instant payments

Chatbot integration

Low cost

Custom AI model training

Data security

Revenue distribution

AI marketplace

APIs for businesses

Global reach

AI is by far the major case for online crowdwork that could be formalized with a
decentralized protocol at scale. Our crowdwork solution as part of our AI plat-
form adds much more value to all AI users, and allows for human work integration
with AI Apps.

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3. Use cases
The Dbrain platform provides a scalable and accessible infrastructure to super-
charge businesses with high quality AI, integrated via a convenient API. We offer
a wide range of turnkey and custom AI solutions, integration, and customization
for our clients’ particular needs. Static image recognition, video surveillance and
action detection, medical data processing, and content analysis of text streams,
which currently lack working solutions would benefit from business-ready AI
solutions. These areas account for almost half of the future AI market; they are
our target.

3.1. Image recognition

Image recognition (including classification and tagging) is one of the most com-
monly applied AI use cases today. Image recognition is an area that is developing
rapidly and that will have a major impact on the consumer, automotive, adver-
tising, healthcare, defense, media, and entertainment industries. People com-
municate in images, and images are essential for product discovery nowadays.
Businesses spend billions every year on repetitive graphic design tasks.

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 Pizza is OK!

The Dbrain team launched a successful AI application for content creation in

e-commerce in 2016. We reduced the cost of processing one image from 10-100
US cents to a fraction of a penny by using a deep learning network, thus saving
millions of dollars for one of the biggest e-commerce marketplaces. While the
system involves human supervisors, AI does most of the work. We see an oppor-
tunity to reduce costs further and scale up to multiple new applications by mov-
ing to a decentralized platform.

3.2. Video surveillance

Many clients are interested in AI solutions for video surveillance. Governments,

retail shops, production companies and private security companies can use this
technology. Computer vision-based systems focus on object recognition and
action detection in video streams. Surveillance camera companies often rely on
AI to detect dangerous or criminal behavior automatically. This industry employs
several hundred thousand workers, who perform routine monitoring work that AI
could automate to a large extent, thus saving billions of dollars.

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 Hands washing

Labeled data are essential for implementing AI surveillance. Many AI developers

will create AI algorithms for effective surveillance systems using our platform.
Surveillance companies will upload videos from surveillance cameras onto the
Dbrain platform. Crowdworkers will detect and tag unusual videos and send
them to the neural network. After that, the trained model will become better at
detecting emergencies, fights, robberies, and similar activities.

3.3. Medical data processing

AI is rapidly changing the healthcare analytics market . AI developers can create

systems that predict and detect serious diseases at early stages much better than
doctors do today. AI developers need high quality and large datasets of patient
data like radiology scans and clinical records about illnesses and treatments.

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 Cancer tumor

One of the most important AI use cases is cancer detection. Deep learning
models can assist pathologists in this task. A pathologist’s report serves as a basis
for diagnosing many diseases. Despite the fact that pathologists study for many
years in order to improve their cancer prediction skills, even today AI can detect
cancer with higher accuracy than doctors can. Like in all AI models, more and
better data are needed in order to improve its performance.

Pathologists do not have a platform for data exchange on cancer detection

and on many other illnesses. Dbrain will create a protocol for exchanging data
between all parties concerned in different countries, with different legal restric-
tions.

Pathologists, patients and medical organizations can leverage the Dbrain pro-
tocol and contribute their datasets to AI models without sacrificing patients’
privacy. They will help to create an AI detection algorithm that can complement
pathologists’ workflow naturally. Such a platform could help predict cancer at
early stages, thus saving millions of cancer patients’ lives .

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3.4. Natural language processing

NLP is an AI application that recognizes not only formal content of texts, but also
their sentiment and meaning. AI can also detect messages that signal danger-
ous situations, for example, a terrorist threat or suicide intention. Telegram is one
of the leading messengers worldwide. It has more than 100 million active users
and delivers over 15 billion messages daily. Telegram has recently been blocked
in Indonesia by the government, which said that the messenger is “full of radical
and terrorist propaganda”. The developers of Telegram do not provide access
to users’ messages to any governments or officials. Therefore, AI in combination
with a human feedback loop is the only possible solution for content moderation.

Another use case for AI in NLP is chatbots that streamline consumer experience
in online services. Such chatbots could replace people for simple queries, and
could be of great assistance to people with complex queries. Dbrain will give
access to distributed workers who will perform text analysis, train AI models and
validate ambiguous AI results in near real-time.

3.5. You name it

We offer a wide range of turnkey and custom AI solutions, integration, and cus-
tomization for our clients’ particular needs. Become one!

Request AI App

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4. Revenue model
We charge a 10% commission from every transaction on our platform to com-
pensate our costs of running the infrastructure and maintaining a healthy plat-
form. Our commission is much lower than those charged by the existing crowd-
work platforms. We believe that zero commissions are unsustainable for a large
crowdwork platform. Those who promise to never charge any money for the
value they add either aren’t going to build a sustainable business, or aren’t telling
the whole story, or don’t add any real value in the long run.

Up to 40%
10%
Dbrain Amazon Mechanical Turk

Commission comparision

Our AI platform will save our clients much more than the commission we charge,
because they do not have to set up any infrastructure for data labeling, AI devel-
opment, training, and deployment.

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5. Team
5.1. Founders

Dmitry Matskevich Alexey Hahunov

Chief Executive Officer Chief Technical Officer

Serial entrepreneur, data geek. Founder of Connectome and

Founded 2 leading Big Data R-SEPT. 3+ years in managing
companies. Sold Flocktory, a B2B R&D teams in IT and AI.
AI startup, for $20M in 2017.

Ivan Gorshunov Dima Dewinn

Chief Marketing Officer Chief Design Officer

Mobile Apps Product Expert at Goo- Designer, founder and CEO of

gle, Serial entrepreneur, co-founder Thngs. 12+ years in visual storytelling
of «.etc» and Rutech. and product development.

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5.2. Advisors

Yobie Benjamin Eleanor ‘Nell’ Watson

Co-founder of token.io, CTO at Co-founder of Ethnicsnet, lecturer

Clickswitch.com. VC and innovator, of AI and Robotics Faculty Singu-
member of the US Federal Reserve larity University, cognitive scientist
Bank Faster Payments Task Force. and director of AI-Robotics at AIMY
Robotics. 2017 Foresight Fellow for
Machine Ethics, member of FBCS,
FIAP, FRSA, FRSS, FLS.

Vadim Fedchin Ed Gurinovich

MSc in Law and Finance, Oxford Founder of Carprice and Carmoney,

University. Member of the Open VC investor in Artificial Intelligence.
Data Institute (UK), VC investor with
a focus on AI.

Dean Patrick Mikhail Larionov

Founder and managing partner of CTO BitGuild, ex-Facebook (Mes-

G2H2 Capital, solidity developer, senger Platform), ex-Disney
Stanford University graduate. Interactive.

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Dr. Antti Saarnio Ilya Glazyrin

Co-founder of Jolla, founder of Managing Partner of Salarian Cap-

Zipper Global. Antti is an emerging ital, crypto and equity investment
market and technology business solutions provider. Ilya is experi-
mountaineer and forerunner in enced investment professional in
decentralized economy. Dr.Tech. in tech M&A, having background in VC
Strategic Investments. and crypto.

Matthew Graham

Founder and CEO at Sino Global

Capital. Bridging technology with
China investors and partners, spe-
cializes in investment management.

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5.3. Core team

Pavel Doronin Gleb Sinev

Chief Operational Officer Project manager

Victor Baybekov Elija Glazunov

Chief analyst, blockchain developer Head of IR

Yuriy Aleksandrov Ivan Aleksandrov

Architect, blockchain developer IR manager

Dmitry Ulianov Ksenia Chabanenko

Senior data scientist Head of Communications

Artur Kuzin Yulia Ilina

Data scientist PR manager

Igor Rekun Andy Khachaturov

Data scientist Social media manager

Andrey Kiselev Lena Mintz

Data scientist PR manager

Alexander Lyzhov Natasha Dzera

Junior data scientist Frontend developer

Sergey Kananykhin
Backend developer

Dmitry Dubsky
Frontend developer

David Kuryakin
Frontend developer

Danila Makarov
Designer

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5.4. Partnerships

Participant of Nvidia Inception Program, includes a custom set of ongoing

benefits such as an opportunity for cooperation with major AI companies and
support of Nvidia during critical stages of product development, prototyping and
deployment.

nvidia.com

Dbrain will help Chronobank, a decentralized initiative to disrupt the short-term

recruitment industry, create a fair and intelligent system to evaluate employees in
the labor market.

chronobank.io

Participant of Microsoft BizSpark, a global program that helps startups succeed

by giving them free access to Microsoft Azure cloud services, software, and sup-
port.

bizspark.microsoft.com

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5.5. Background

The Dbrain team is made up of industry-renowned professionals and has already

launched several AI products that we will be expanding on the Dbrain platform.
The team’s background includes development of Icon8, a top-ranked chatbot
and e-commerce tool, and Connectome solutions for activity recognition and
industrial quality control.

5.6. Icon8

The Dbrain team created the Icon8 AI chatbot, which was #1 on Telegram, #3
globally on Facebook, and ranked as the #1 bot in 2016 by VentureBeat. The bot
applies an artistic style to any submitted picture and returns the result almost
immediately. The bot received a grant personally from Telegram CEO Pavel
Durov for cloud infrastructure financing . VentureBeat included Dmitry Matskev-
ich within the list of 100 people to watch in the chatbot space, right next to Pavel
Durov.

Telegram names winners

of its “fast and useful” bot
competition
Read on Techcrunch

These were the top 5 bots

to try in 2016
Read on Venture Beat

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The Icon8 chatbot was mentioned as one of the best examples of good user ex-
perience in a book by Slack director Amir Shevat.

The Dbrain team launched a successful AI application for content creation in

e-commerce in 2016. We reduced the cost of processing one image from 10-100
US cents to a fraction of a penny by using a deep learning network, thus saving
millions of dollars for one of the biggest e-commerce marketplaces. We see the
opportunity for further cost reduction and scaling up to multiple new applica-
tions by moving to a decentralized platform.

5.7. Connectome

Connectome.ai developed solutions for visual inspection of the quality of goods

on conveyor lines, and real time detection and analysis of staff actions and be-
havior from video surveillance images. These solutions are already employed at
one of the largest agriculture holdings and a leading turkey meat producer in
Europe; they reduce human factors in manufacturing and increase profits. Appli-
cation of the AI products from Connectome helped increase turkey production
by 1.5% (90 tons monthly) and reduce the time that staff spends on non-produc-
tive activities.

Connectome Reckoner product for data estimation

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6. Roadmap

Q3 2017 Q4
Proof of concept and research phase Product development and MVP
to define the need for a collective AI testing on the first business clients
development tool
Private seed round for $2.5m
Assembling the team

Q1 2018 Q2
Public Alpha version of web appli- Public Beta for training neural net-
cation and Telegram bot to label works on labeled data, mobile app
and validate data for crowdworkers for data labeling
(SPOCK)
Dbraincoin (DBR) issue
Coin sale

Q3 Q4
Launch of the fully-running block- Scaling platform to meet new mar-
chain platform for building AI Apps kets with a focus on ever-growing AI
with API integration for businesses community and client base

Partnership program for attracting

business clients, active sales phase

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Disclaimer
This document is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an
offer or solicitation to sell any securities in any jurisdiction. Any such offer or solic-
itation will be made only by means that are in compliance with the applicable se-
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presented herein are intended to form the basis for any purchase decision, and
this document does not constitute investment advice or counsel. This document
is not part of, and may not be relied on in connection with, any contract or com-
mitment whatsoever. Any purchase or sale involving Dbrain will be set forth and
governed exclusively by other documents. Dbrain expressly disclaims any and all
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ever arising directly or indirectly from: (i) reliance on any information contained in
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(iii) any action resulting therefrom.

This document contains forward-looking statements that are based on Dbrain’s

current understanding, expectations, and assumptions, which Dbrain believes
to be reasonable. These statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties,
including those relating to our early stage of development, ability to attract users
and grow our business, regulatory matters, and matters bearing on cryptocur-
rencies generally. These risks and uncertainties may cause actual results to differ
materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
You should not place undue reliance on such statements, and no representation
is or can be made as to their attainability or accuracy.

This document is written as of its date and Dbrain undertakes no obligation to

update any statements herein, except as required by law.

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