Introducing Witnet: smart contracts with real power (medium.com)

Witnet is designed to be compatible with existing smart contract platforms like Ethereum thanks to bridge nodes.

Here's another article explaining Witnet<>Ethereum bridges in detail: https://medium.com/witnet/ethereum-loves-witnet-9a3fd21e6f5c

The Wit token plays a really important role in the network, so we want its initial distribution to be as fair as possible. We want it to end up in the hands of its end users (developers), not speculators.

That's we we're conducting a highly compliant token offering open to the general public through the Republic crowdfunding platform:

https://republic.co/witnet