Welcome to ClearingHouse! 
The ClearingHouse project enables decentralized, p2p trading directly on the blockchain. Viacoin was introduced in July 2014 when it also launched ClearingHouse, and the web wallet Clearwallet. Viacoin integrates counterparty assets on top of a Bitcoin based blockchain with a system called the ClearingHouse protocol to allow the building of decentralized exchanges. In other words: you can create your own coins and assets and it enables a host of features to be built on top of the blockchain.
Viacoin was created to avoid issues of Bitcoin blockchain bloat and make decentralized exchange and asset issuance practical with 24 second block times drastically improving performance. XCH is the fee currency of ClearingHouse and cannot be mined.
Features of ClearingHouse 
1. Decentralized exchange: trade your own assets, tokens, viacoins or XCH safely and easily. ClearingHouse matches and settles your trades automatically.
2. Crowd-funding: easily create a coin or token to promote your brand or crowd-sale. Distribute profits or dividends to your users.
3. Blockchain notary: notarize documents with a transferable hash on the Viacoin blockchain. The Blockchain Notary is a two fold protocol that allows for cryptographic timestamping of digital assets and documents; and the ability to own and transfer them. Notaries are owned by a key and can be transferred, just like bitcoins or viacoins to a new owners key, thus transferring the digital rights. Even without considering digital rights transfers, it means notaries can be categorized and stored neatly under specific keys. Notaries also have a convenience description field making them easy to identify.
