Abstract: A platform, system and method are herein provided to enable enhanced stone trading, the system including a stone listings data storage means, at least some of the stones being listed with a stone profile and a sell asking price; a stone buy requests data storage means; at least one pricing server including a pricing algorithm for calculating the real time estimated pricing of the listed stones; and at least one matching server including a matching algorithm for matching stone listings to stone buy requests, at least partially in accordance with the stone profile, asking price, user profile, trading history data, and estimated price, wherein at least one of the stone listing data storage means, stone buy requests data storage means, the pricing server or the matching server are cloud computing compatible, and wherein the stone listings, the buy requests and the real time estimated pricing are block-chained to enable transaction data to be resistant to modification.

Abstract: A platform, system and method are herein provided to enable enhanced stone trading, the system including a stone listings data storage means, at least some of the stones being listed with a stone profile and a sell asking price; a stone buy requests data storage means; at least one pricing server including a pricing algorithm for calculating the real time estimated pricing of the listed stones; and at least one matching server including a matching algorithm for matching stone listings to stone buy requests, at least partially in accordance with the stone profile, asking price, user profile, trading history data, and estimated price, wherein at least one of the stone listing data storage means, stone buy requests data storage means, the pricing server or the matching server are cloud computing compatible.