1) What problem are you solving, why do you need the blockchain technology and what are the main pillars that define your company and differentiate you from your competitors?

What we are trying to create with Sapien is a tokenized, decentralized, reputation-based social news platform that not only will reward users for quality content, but also let them share ad revenue and fight fake news.

By leveraging the latest Blockchain technologies, we can build a platform that is immune to censorship, guards our free speech, respects our privacy, and persists content throughout humanity’s existence.

Main Pillars — Sapien Core Values

Democracy, Free Speech, Privacy, Customizability (Tailoring your own social experience)

In the white paper we describe two competitors: Steemit and Synereo. Both are platforms using the Blockchain like Sapien.

Steemit rewards users for quality content and Synereo hopes to create an attention economy infrastructure. We wouldn’t, however, consider any of them direct competitors. What we are trying to create with Sapien is a tokenized, decentralized, reputation-based social news platform that not only will reward users for quality content, but also let them share ad revenue and fight fake news. No other platform is taking this route to fundamentally disrupt existing mass-market platforms.

As for Web 2.0 platforms, we’re hoping to take a stab at Reddit’s market share — already we’ve gotten hundreds of signups from Redditors looking for a more transparent platform. The key is to build Sapien 100x better and make it undeniably better than any existing offering. We truly believe we can do this with a powerful utility token that underpins a more democratic platform that empowers its users.

2) What value are you adding to your industry value chain and which are the main obstacles to the success of your solution?

Sapien is a highly customizable, democratized social news platform capable of rewarding millions of content creators and curators without any centralized intermediaries. The Sapien network will rapidly evolve to include a marketplace, various integrations, and third-party applications.

We believe that SPN will be one of the most versatile tokens in the online space. Not only will the SPN token be immensely useful within the Sapien ecosystem, SPN will also facilitate creating and transferring value within and beyond the platform.

Fake news will be greatly mitigated with secure identities on the Blockchain and an extensive reputation system. Content creators will truly have a viable means of earning rewards without being exploited by centralized entities. Users will finally have a real voice in collaborating and shaping the community they want to be part of.

Scalability will most likely be our main obstacle for success, however, we are currently carefully keeping a close eye and evaluating the current developments with Ethereum and the plethora of potential scaling options available.

3) Why did you decide to launch an ICO and why do you need a public Token Sale?

Sapien is powered by our utility token SPN. The functions are outlined in the next question. SPN will be the backbone of every social action and transaction that happens, embedding its growth potential in the expansion and adoption of the platform instead of any arbitrary fluctuations in the crypto market. Our goal is to create a SPN token economy ecosystem which will include millions or even billions of users.

We did not hold a public token sale as it was cancelled at the advice of our lawyers. We did have organize a successful public presale that is currently allowing us to move forward aggressively with our development and marketing efforts.

4) How does your token function within the platform and why is it needed? How did you decide the total supply and distribution among stakeholders?

SPN is a flexible, ERC20-compliant cryptocurrency that will incentivize quality content, power all platform actions, and serve as the backbone of our tokenized economy.

SPN Token Utilities:

a) Holding SPN is required to access the Sapien Network

b) Tokens will exist in staked and unstaked forms. Staked tokens will provide users with platform functionality.

c) The token will keep track of a reputation within each community the user is part of, accumulating a score that reflects their expertise and reduces the spread of fake news.

d) Power a Democratized Autonomous Platform (DAP), enabling users to participate in organizational decisions and shape product roadmap.

e) Allow holders to purchase physical and virtual goods, content, and services in a decentralized marketplace.

f) Reward digital content creators who generate quantifiable value, determined with the consensus of the community.

g) Share ad revenue with users who opt-in to see advertisements. By staking more tokens, users can earn a larger portion of the revenue they generate.

Initial token supply is 500mil SPN and will follow the inflation rate of Ethereum.

Distribution is as follows:

20% reserved for team and advisors (100M)

»» 6-month cliff with a 24-month vesting schedule

45% sold during Pre-sale (225M)

Up to 5% distributed as Bounties (25M)

30% in Sapien reserve for future Token Sales and Airdrops (150M)

5) Where do you see the value of your token in the medium to long term and the ultimate benefit for the token holders?

We cannot legally comment or speculate on the value of the token at this time. However, we are currently focusing on the development of the platform and aim to provide the best customer and user experience for all our users.

6) Thinking about the future, what are your plans after ending the ICO? Are you afraid that the volatility of the cryptocurrency market might affect the economy of your project in any way?

The primary focus is to securely and accurately implement the proposed utility of SPN. At the same time, the success of the Sapien platform is essential to the longevity of the SPN token. Thus, it is also necessary to create a sustainable business model that aligns the values of SPN token holders, platform users, and company shareholders. This includes the implementation of our Marketplace as well as our Ad Platform for advertisers.

The volatility of the cryptocurrency market is inevitable, however, we don’t see it greatly affecting our project significantly. We believe that delivering on a quality product with its own tokenized ecosystem that enables a superior user experience will allow us to circumvent and avoid being directly affected by fluctuations in the market.

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1) What problem are you solving, why do you need the blockchain technology and what are the main pillars that define your company and differentiate you from your competitors?

The DAV Foundation’s purpose is to create an open, common network for autonomous vehicles. We use blockchain technology to enforce transparency, and a peer-to-peer operating model with no gatekeepers on the network. We are fundamentally a non-profit open-source foundation seeking to enable access to mobility for everyone. Our closest “competitor” is probably IOTA, but they are broad where we are deep; our only focus is the transport sector. We see IOTA more as an adjacent organization rather than a competing one. We approach our goals from a philosophy of abundance rather than scarcity, and believe in sharing with all.

2) What value are you adding to your industry value chain and which are the main obstacles to the success of your solution?

The DAV Foundation is building infrastructure, the underlying network that will open vast opportunities to everyone in the autonomous vehicle vertical, and in the interim, manned vehicles as well. You could consider the World Wide Web as a parallel to the DAV network, in what it did for the Internet, making silos such as AOL and Compuserve irrelevant and enabling virtually limitless opportunities for development and business. Our main challenge is adoption, but this will inexorably crumble in the face of advances made by both blockchain and autonomous vehicle technologies.

3) Why did you decide to launch an ICO and why do you need a public Token Sale?

The purpose of our token sale is to raise funding for the Foundation’s short- and mid-term goals. We decided to offer a public component to our token sale as we believe DAV’s success relies heavily on individual users and entrepreneurs, not just institutions and larger enterprises.

4) How does your token function within the platform and why is it needed? How did you decide the total supply and distribution among stakeholders?

Technically speaking, DAV tokens are essential for a truly decentralized transportation marketplace. The tokens are transferred using smart mission contracts. These contracts are automatically enforced, so the correct number of tokens is paid to the vehicle owner, to the service provider, and to the insurer, at the right time, with an agreed upon process to handle potential disputes. Economically speaking, the DAV token is needed for incentivising platform development, participation, and investment early on. Early AV owners and service providers using DAV will benefit from historically low barriers to market entry (enabled by the DAV platform), along with operational optimization. As AV transportation matures and grows, so will the utility of the token and it’s value.

The total supply was decided after a great deal of consideration and examining the crypto landscape. We decided on our token metrics less than a month away from the launch of our crowd sale as we recognize how much crypto can shift in a relatively short period of time. The numbers we arrived at reflect the conditions of the crypto sector and treats every contributor to our token sale as equitably as we could possibly manage.

5) Where do you see the value of your token in the medium to long term and the ultimate benefit for the token holders?

The DAV Foundation is a non-profit technology foundation, and as such we don’t speculate or comment on market-making or secondary markets. We anticipate that the DAV token will be heavily utilized when the DAV network achieves traction and we see mass adoption.

6) Thinking about the future, what are your plans after ending the ICO? Are you afraid that the volatility of the cryptocurrency market might affect the economy of your project in any way?

The real work starts at the Foundation after the token sale is completed. We have to continue and ramp up R&D, build out infrastructure, consolidate alliances and partnerships, and hit our milestones. The volatility question is always on our minds. We have the benefit of expert advice from crypto-economists and have developed a financial strategy to help hedge against dips so that we can maximize the resources we deploy in our journey to our goal.

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1) What problem are you solving, why do you need the blockchain technology and what are the main pillars that define your company and differentiate you from your competitors?

Current bitcoin and crypto exchanges are difficult to use for everyday users. They don’t offer a one stop shop to buy and trade all the cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies most users want — this is where Nauticus comes in.

Aiming our solutions at average users — not just people who are well-versed in blockchain technology already.

Upon the launch of the Nauticus exchange, we will include up to 100 cryptocurrencies and 6 fiat currencies. Within 12 months we aim to boost this up to 300 cryptocurrencies and 16 fiat currencies — this is more than any other exchange in the world.

We are working hard to include as many fiat currencies as we can, depending on the demand for it. For example, in a survey we recently introduced, there was a huge demand for the Russian Ruble to be introduced on our exchange. We want to keep our users’ needs and wants first priority — we are building the service for them so we need to make sure it’s consistent with what we think they want/need.

We’re also registered with Australian government regulator AUSTRAC as an independent remittance dealer which means we are able to transfer funds in and out of the platform.

The overall picture of Nauticus is the fact that each platform is built off the previous one. The exchange, which is the first solution we will launch in mid 2018, is the foundation to all the other solutions we have such as the e-commerce and global payments platforms.

2) What value are you adding to your industry value chain and which are the main obstacles to the success of your solution?

We aim to make buying a Bitcoin as easy as ordering a pizza.

Users currently needs half a dozen exchanges to access all the coins they desire — we will become a ‘one stop shop’ which means lower transaction fees, and easier reporting for tax.

Creating a better world for everyone, including those who are underprivileged. Here at Nauticus we are dedicated to social responsibility and philanthropy. Our blockchain mining centre will be environmentally friendly as it will only use green energy — keeping costs low will help provide a social benefit to the communities living in the area, such as providing employment, improving infrastructure and increasing living standards. That in itself is a value-added component.

One big obstacle is the issue of trust in ICOs at the moment. With the amount of ICO scams uncovered over the past year, we don’t blame users for being vigilant and cautious about where they’re putting their money into. In fact, we urge them to do their due diligence before investing in ANY ICOs. Read the whitepaper, get to know their team, see what people are saying about them and join their Telegram chats.

3) Why did you decide to launch an ICO and why do you need a public Token Sale?

From the get go we have already been working on a large scale, and we are aware of this. 6 solutions for one coin certainly sounds ambitious, but we really want to see to the success of the project. To do so however will require a large amount of investment (in particular for banking licenses to operate internationally with so many fiat currencies) — one that we cannot personally come up with ourselves. Apart from raising funds of course, we want to look for like-minded supporters who share the same vision and really believe in our project and what we want to do. By launching an ICO, anyone in the public can join. This also means that we are directly targeting our end-users.

4) How does your token function within the platform and why is it needed? How did you decide the total supply and distribution among stakeholders?

We mentioned before that one of the key differentiation points from our competitors is that the Nauticus token (NTS) is an essential part of the solutions. For example, NTS holders will enjoy 50% off trading fees in the first year, stimulating adoption and supporting the value of the token. Token holders will be able to benefit from real market rates, instead of extra charges typically imposed by banks or other institutions in return for using their services.

With our users in mind, we have allocated 80% of our tokens to them — that’s 2 billion out of the 2.25 billion tokens we are planning to issue altogether. Understandably, we have a small pool of 10% dedicated to our team and advisors, as they are an integral part in making this project happen. We’ve also reserved another 10% for referral tokens — those tokens earned from signing up, surveys, etc. These tokens are those that have a 2 year restriction on them. The reason for this is simple — to prevent a ‘pump and dump’ situation. All this means is that referral tokens can be used on our platforms only for the first 2 years. After this period however, all coins can be freely traded for any fiat/cryptocurrencies.

5) Where do you see the value of your token in the medium to long term and the ultimate benefit for the token holders?

Looking at a few other exchanges such as Huobi, Kucoin and Binance, all their coins have increased in value. For example, the Binance coin saw an increase in value of over 22,660% in just six months. Nauticus Coin will be the preferred medium of exchange across our exchange, payments and eCommerce solutions.

6) Thinking about the future, what are your plans after ending the ICO? Are you afraid that the volatility of the cryptocurrency market might affect the economy of your project in any way?

No more than it already has — the price of Bitcoin is clearly affecting how much money we are raising as NTS is pegged to the price of BTC. However, we have already surpassed our soft cap, which means the exchange is going ahead.

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1) What problem are you solving, why do you need the blockchain technology?

The AR/VR is a highly promising field. Goldman Sachs expects the software AR/VR market to achieve $35bln by 2025 with 60% of VR/AR software revenue driven by the consumer. However, there is a major obstacle that gets in the way of the development of AR/VR industry. Today the industry is facing the lack of compelling 3D content as well as its labor-intensive production and disappointing quality.

That is why we are introducing the first platform that solves the problem of creating and embedding 3D and AR/VR content in an affordable way. We believe that content creators will drive 3D revolution.

The platform uses blockchain infrastructure to store and manage 3D digital assets copyrights. CAPP utility token enables us to encode copyrights to store them in the blockchain.

2) What are the main pillars that define your company and differentiate you from your competitors?

Our main difference is that we are the first cloud-based platform that allows businesses to create and embed photorealistic and interactive 3D content into their websites, mobile apps, and VR/AR applications without hassle.

Cappasity is the first pipeline solution which solves all the problems of 3D product imaging. Our solution runs on a regular photo equipment. Our software creates a 3D in just two minutes allowing retailers to shoot thousands of products in 3D every day. It also automatically embeds 3D images into online stores through API. 3D View format loads in seconds on all devices including smartphones. In addition, Cappasity content is compatible with AR/VR devices so our clients can bring the products from their catalogues directly to the client’s home as well as sell their products in virtual reality. Another significant feature is that we actually track customers’ behavior when they interact with 3Ds.

At this point in time, our platform serves more than one million views of 3D content each month.

3) What value are you adding to your industry value chain?

In fact, the Cappasity platform and ecosystem create all the necessary conditions for acceleration, optimization, and availability of 3D content production and distribution. The ecosystem participants are provided with the opportunity to have free access to the necessary tools for the 3D content creation. For instance, we provide API for the third-party developers and free utilities and modules allowing users to connect to the platform via websites, mobile, and AR/VR applications. We also support developers through Cappasity Innovation Fund — www.cappasity.vc. Thanks to the blockchain, the copyrights of the participants are reliably protected.

Taking into consideration the fact that the ecosystem is the most convenient environment for content exchange, which is aimed at attracting the most talented developers, it is likely that VR/AR and 3D technologies will soon reach a new level in their development.

4) Why is it important to protect copyrights and to what extent is the copyright protection in demand?

Of course, the copyright protection is an issue of significant importance.

Imagine the following situation. Content creators or app developers work hard to produce a new 3D model or an app. They spend a lot of time and put many efforts into their work. After the work is completed, they expect to be fully paid. However, a fraud steals their model or app and claims to be the author or distribute the content or the app for free on the Internet. Thanks to the Cappasity ecosystem, it is possible to completely avoid unpleasant situations of this kind.

We keep track of copyrights on digital content using blockchain technology. Our digital currency — CAPP tokens — is used to encode copyrights to store them in the blockchain. In addition, we will provide users with an API to validate copyrights or retrieve data of a particular piece of content.

5) What are the main obstacles to the success of your solution?

As for obstacles, we are now developing a mobile application allowing anyone to easily create 3D images with smartphones. This process is associated with some technical difficulties, but we are successfully overcoming them. Our goal is to create a truly universal application.

6) Why did you decide to launch an ICO and why do you need a public Token Sale?

Our platform has been created and is still developing with the help of venture capital. By announcing a crowdsale, we informed a wide audience about us and our project. The crowdsale allowed us to draw the attention of those who were really interested in the platform and our technological solution. It was not the money that we were interested in, but in attracting an audience of like-minded enthusiasts. When buying CAPP tokens, participants became early contributors who showed their interest in 3D content and services.

7) How does your token function within the platform and why is it needed? How did you decide the total supply and distribution among the crowdsale participants?

The CAPP tokens are the company’s digital asset and their main utility is the creation of a digital license for the content stored on the Cappasity platform or partners’ platforms. CAPP tokens enable us to encode copyrights to store them in the blockchain.The cost of one copyright record creation is equal to 1 CAPP and does not depend on the exchange rate of the token. In this case, one token is used to encode one 3D View or one 3D model.

CAPP is also issued as the only payment solution for the Cappasity ecosystem. All payment operations within the ecosystem will be conducted in CAPP. By using tokens, the participants can pay for 3D content or services.

We have released the number of tokens that is enough for the development of the ecosystem. The number is based on our economic model.

8) Where do you see the value of your token in the medium to long-term and the ultimate benefit for the token holders?

The CAPP tokens are used to encode copyrights on the content created within the ecosystem. Our goal is to develop the ecosystem, provide its participants with all necessary tools for the content creation and protect their copyrights. Moreover, we plan to become an industrial standard — creators and consumers will utilize the platform services every day. That’s why CAPP is a utility token.

9) Thinking about the future, what are your plans after ending the ICO? Are you afraid that the volatility of the cryptocurrency market might affect the economy of your project in any way?

We have successfully finished the ICO and we are sure that the volatility of the cryptocurrency market can’t affect the economy of your project in any way. Our token is a utility token and the demand for our token depends on the demand for ecosystem. The cost of one copyright record creation has little dependency on the exchange rate of the token.

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1) What problem are you solving, why do you need the blockchain technology and what are the main pillars that define your company and differentiate you from your competitors?

Online B2C business struggle with two mayor things: they don’t get enough traffic to their websites and even more importantly, they don’t know who their visitors are in real-time, what are their demographic and psychographic characteristics, such as gender, age, interests, etc. Therefore they cannot interact with their online visitors in real-time or offer them products and services that fit their profile.

BehaviourExchange will enable B2C online businesses to identify visitors the moment they enter their website and customize the website’s content in real-time, engage with visitors proactively, offering them products/services that correlate with their needs and interests.

Blockchain technology will help to fuel growth by enabling BehaviourExchange to create visitors profiles faster and with visitor’s consent profiles will be safely stored in Blockchain. BehaviourExchange will be the first profiling model that will offer so far only centralized profiling services to all online B2C businesses in decentralized way. It will be also the first profiling model that will offer profile recognition and content customization in the exact moment when visitor enters the website.

2) What value are you adding to your industry value chain and which are the main obstacles to the success of your solution?

Already in the middle ages merchants wanted to know as much as possible about their customers in order to personalize their offer and consequently increase their sales and efficiency of customer management. Nowadays with enormous amount of various offers on the internet, truly knowing and engaging with customers became bigger challenge.

The importance of knowing and understanding the customer became crucial for any B2C business. There are millions of B2C companies today that have difficulties getting to know their online customers. With BehaviourExchange they will be able to solve that situation and truly know who their visitors and (potential) customers are. BehaviourExchange will revolutionize the way companies behave and communicate with all of us today.

3) Why did you decide to launch an ICO and why do you need a public Token Sale?

BehaviourExchange will use BEX tokens to stimulate the growth of the network. Our goal is to create BEX token economy ecosystem which will include one billion visitors profiles on one hand and one million B2C companies which will use BehaviourExchange services on the other hand, connected within one business model.

4) How does your token function within the platform and why is it needed? How did you decide the total supply and distribution among stakeholders?

BEX tokens are needed for the stimulation of the economic ecosystem that connects three parties. (1) Online visitors will be rewarded with BEX tokens for sharing their personal data, the same as websites who will help us profile visitors.

(2) B2C companies that will be able to pay for BehaviourExchange services with BEX tokens and will be therefore rewarded with discounts. (3) Online visitors that will be able to pay for services or products B2C companies offer with BEX tokens and be rewarded with discounts as well. BehaviourExchange will use BEX tokens to fuel both the website partner network and the number of active visitor profiles.

The total token supply is based on our business plan. Distribution of tokens: 67% of the tokens will be sold through the crowd sale campaigns, 15% will go to the founders, 10% will be used as a faucet to encourage the growth of the network, 5% to endorsers, supporters and advisors and 3% to early contributors and legal funds.

5) Where do you see the value of your token in the medium to long term and the ultimate benefit for the token holders?

Personal profiles are the currency of the future and BehaviourExchange business model enables constant flow and need of new profiles through connecting three parties: web visitors, B2C companies and websites. BehaviourExchange will provide benefits to each of the parties included:

- websites are offered the free service of exchanging traffic with other websites from the partner network to boost their reach

- B2C businesses will understand who their visitors are in real-time and will use our service to show the most appropriate product or service to each visitor

- visitors will immediately find a product or service that fits to their needs and won’t be bombarded with irrelevant content/ads.

One of the biggest benefits for the token holders will be the ability to enjoy the special offers from the companies that use BehaviourExchange services. Apart from that the token holders will have better online user experience due to personalized website content.

6) Thinking about the future, what are your plans after ending the ICO? Are you afraid that the volatility of the cryptocurrency market might affect the economy of your project in any way?

Very fast after the ICO will end we will enter the B2C market with BEX services which will enable use of BEX Token. The advantage of BehaviourExchange project is that it’s not only idea on paper but already working platform with 1,5 million profiles and with beta version of the final product around the corner.

That is why we are very calm and certain that our project won’t be affected with the volatility of the cryptocurrency market and therefore the economy of the project. By the end of the year 2018 we are planning the massive growth of BEX token economy and functionality and Global expansion in the year 2019.

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1) What problem are you solving, why do you need the blockchain technology and what are the main pillars that define your company and differentiate you from your competitors?

The problem that we solve is equal access to medical care. Blockchain eases this because it allows maximization of population health on an individual basis (Strictly speaking on a peer-to-peer basis where peers agree that the most severely ill are prioritized and this priority decreases with decreasing need.) Being decentralised, the very definition of competitors is ambiguous.

2) What value are you adding to your industry value chain and which are the main obstacles to the success of your solution?

The value added is first a moral one pertaining to a rule of rescue, second, an economical one where government savings or other fund savings on financing interventions that are not so severe but that meet cost-effectiveness thresholds can be allocated elsewhere and third, a legal one that ensures that numerous laws, such as UN right for person with disability, and other laws protecting our fundamental right to life are observed. The current obstacle is opportunity costs of individuals who are already contributing to some type medical safety net. But I do not see any obstacle that cannot be overcome.

3) Who is working on the project? What is the background and experience of the team members?

The project is totally decentralised and anyone wishing can currently contribute with their work or with their Bitcoins. A voting platform will initially be built on RSK for work to be uploaded. All interested parties, academics, volunteers from the UN, biotechnologists and actuaries can choose to take an active role and upload their work.

4) Why did you decide to launch an ICO and why do you need a public Token Sale?

I am not currently launching an ICO but rather an Initial Coin Earning (ICE) scheme for work that is already done. When the voting platform is up and running, then votes on procurement for work to be done can be launched. Even then, it is not an ICO because coins are not sold except for a minimum work of voting. But a public token sale is needed so that all individuals, inclusive of a patient, can share in the decision making. So, all participants can choose to take an active role or a passive role.

5) How does your token function within the platform and why is it needed? How did you decide the total supply and distribution among stakeholders?

Within the platform, the token functions as stakes and as reward for work done. The total supply is arbitrary as it should because it is unpriced yet. It is currently 1 billion and might as well have been 21 million or 1 million or even 1 token that is divisible. But distribution of stakeholder token will be demographically distributed. People from poor regions, who likely do not have technologies for acquiring stakeholder tokens, will have their share in custody until fundraising can provide basic technologies and education.

6) Where do you see the value of your token in the medium to long term and the ultimate benefit for the token holders?

The value of the token depends on network effect. Patients groups, academics involved in pricing, and other representative parties, who are interested would not add as much value to the token as the public itself. And, a patient or any member of the public would rather gain some remuneration for sharing a distress than not. So, the token value should increase in correlation to users.

7) What is your roadmap and what are your plans after ending the ICO? Are you afraid that the volatility of the cryptocurrency market might affect the economy of your project in any way?

As mentioned, I am not launching an ICO but a platform for vote on work done and work to be done. Proposals for roadmaps also amount to work that are voted. I was afraid of volatility and have a built in mechanism for hedging against volatility.

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1) What problem are you solving and why do you need blockchain technology?

AbacasXchange simplifies the complex world of trading. It solves a number of problems:
a. Typically, it takes a minimum of 3 and as many as 5 fees to trade one asset for another. In contrast, Abacas allows you to exchange AAPL stock for BTC in 1 transaction. This reduces a great deal of the transaction cost.
b. Both traditional and cryptocurrency exchanges have been known for “gaming” their clients by using system tweaks such as queue jumping, maker-taker pricing models, server colocation preferences, price crawlers and unfair pricing practices. In other words, there has been a lack of transparency. All transactions on AbacasXchange are posted on a public ledger and can be viewed by anyone. The Abacas order management process is transparent to the community.
c. Nowadays, trading is mostly binary. You can choose to receive only EUR or only USD or only something else in exchange for the stock you are selling. AbacasXchange improves liquidity by Direct and Indirect trading. Think of it like this. If you want to sell 1000 GOOG, you can decide to receive some GLD or MSFT or BT or EUR or USD or ABCS or BTC. This creates an infinite coincidence of supply.
d. The AbacasXchange “safety deposit box” provides a decentralized secure backup for your private keys.

There is no chance to lose your funds by accident. Abacas needs blockchain as it creates an immutable record of transactions clearly defining ownership. It is also used as a tool for audit to provide transparency to the users and for reconciliation of the assets in custody. Moreover, exchange settlement times greatly improve when assets are committed to a ledger.

2) What are the main pillars that define your company and differentiate you from competitors?

AbacasXchange is the first universal exchange that allows you to trade, exchange and transfer any asset. This means Cryptocurrencies, Commodities, Stocks and etc. all on one platform.

AbacasXchange stands for fair financial markets and is ethical towards its investors. Crypto-exchanges are fraught with conflicts of interest as they fulfil the role of a matching engine, custodian, broker-dealer, market-maker [at times], settlement agent and order manager. Abacas acts solely as an operator and matching engine. Abacas has no conflicts of interest in its process.

Subject to regulations, the AbacasXchange allows one to tokenize one’s own assets. For example, you can deposit an asset to custody, it is then tokenized and can be transferred on the AbacasXchange.

3) Why did you decide to launch an ICO and why do you need a public token sale?

a. Roadblocks by the vested interests meant we had to pivot our model to be universally inclusive. In other words, we had to step beyond our first baby step in order to gain traction. We initially wished to partner with the vested interests but they were very slow and very territorial.

b. We modified the model and built a framework to manage both value transfer; data transfer and micro payments.

c. The token acts as a utility token but also as a liquidity token. Our token is used to pay for transaction processing and it is simultaneously used as a liquidity outlet.

d. Abacas wanted a broad ownership pool — unlike a fully subscribed presale, a public sale creates a more diverse user base.

4) How does your token function within the platform and why is it needed?

An ABCS is the native payment token for use on the AbacasXchange. It is made up of “abbits” (0.000000001 of an ABCS).

Abacas solves the micro payments challenge: Imagine a typical transaction in which a client wishes to trade from a mosaic on XEM to an ERC20 token via the exchange. That single transaction may require 8 or 10 “partner chain” validations eg PoA (Proof of Asset), AML/KYC, Value Transfers, custodial validations, regulatory validations subject to asset class — each of these chains and suppliers may have a different pricing models based on their service or asset which means that a client would need to hold many 100s of currencies at any time. This is highly inefficient and impractical. It also increases costs. The ABCS readily conveys between all of the chains mitigating the cost and nuisance of the micropayments as it relates to the activity in the AbacasXchange.

ABCS tokens also operate as liquidity tokens within the AbacasXchange. The tokens act as a currency token and may be a client selection if they wish to “park value” in the exchange while they seek their next opportunity. It can also act as a “Gateway Asset”.

5) How did you decide the total supply and distribution among stakeholders?

We researched how others were conducting their token sales & distributions and selected the method which best suited the needs of the project.

6) Where do you see the value of your token in the medium to long term?

We are building a real product and have been for a number of years. There is the expression, “It takes 10 years to become an overnight sensation.” That is Abacas. We have invested our energies into a winning solution. We have also priced our token very competitively. We understand the costs of building what we are building. We have communicated with successful exchange start-ups so we understand the revenue-cost model. However, it could potentially be illegal for me to reflect on where I think the price will be in the mid to long term. Suffice it to say that we know what is built [we are impart this to our community], we know our team, we know where we are going, and therefore we expect to be successful.

7) What is the ultimate benefit of your token for the token holders?

The ABCS token has two purposes — it acts as the currency among blockchain service providers. It also acts as a liquidity token in two areas: i. for clients who use the AbacasXchange for data transfer and may not otherwise have a liquidity channel; ii. for clients who wish to use the ABCS token as its reserve currency or a Gateway Asset.

8) Do you believe that the volatility of the cryptocurrency market might affect the economy of your project in any way?

Yes, without a doubt but if you recall the history of the internet, a great many firms had initiatives in the late 90’s early 00’s but only a precious few survived. These were the firms that were interested in building a product rather than simply raising money. We do believe that blockchain is here to stay and that provides us a foundation to continue the development.

9) What are your plans following the ICO?

We have developed our generalized roadmap that brings us to launch in Q1/Q2 2019. Our detailed roadmap includes much more than simply the technology. We have business development, community development, legal and regulatory, and product development workstreams that we are active while we build. We welcome the token event as this provides us with an audience that will act as a stakeholder and can be a sounding board and source of innovation. We are motivated to enhance our community.

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1. What problem are you solving, why do you need the blockchain technology and what are the main pillars that define your company and differentiate you from your competitors?

At present, backend business processes are labor intensive and all run via different services which are not inter-connected (inventory management, accounting, scheduling, credit card processing, communications, security systems, payroll etc.) The Aitheon platform was created to solve this. By automating all of these processes using AI in one single simple platform, business owners can focus on the front end of the business that they set out to run. We use the blockchain not only to verify financial transactions, but to verify accuracy of work being completed within the system.

2. What value are you adding to your industry value chain and which are the main obstacles to the success of your solution?

We are enabling creators and entrepreneurs alike to be able to build on our platform and share ideas / new technologies within our ecosystem and to expand. Usually with technology you hear of how it takes jobs away from the people but our system will actually create new jobs. This obstacle is being overcome by public education about the reality of the current capabilities of AI and the necessity for human input.

3. Why did you decide to launch an ICO and why do you need a public Token Sale?

The decision to launch an ICO actually came as a way to build the Aitheon community. The larger the community, the stronger the ecosystem. Having the system run on tokens makes more sense being that we are a global entity.

4. How does your token function within the platform and why is it needed? How did you decide the total supply?

Above all, AIC is a utility token. Businesses running on the platform will be required to pay monthly fees using the tokens. Specialists and Pilots (miners) assisting the AI and robots will be paid for their services in AIC tokens. Transaction fees for credit card processing and payments made between businesses will be charged in AIC tokens. In this way the token is a necessity for the utilization of the system. The total supply was based on half of a token for every person in the world. We know that not everyone will have a chance to run a business or work on the aitheon platform, but everyone is represented.

5. Where do you see the value of your token in the medium to long term and the ultimate benefit for the token holders?

Above all, AIC is a utility token. Businesses running on the platform will be required to pay monthly fees using the tokens. Specialists and Pilots (miners) assisting the AI and robots will be paid for their services in the AIC tokens. Transaction fees for credit card processing and payments made between businesses will be charged in AIC tokens. Implementation and upkeep of robotics and warehouse management will be paid using AIC tokens. In this way the token is a necessity for the utilization of the system. At present, we are continually onboarding multi million dollar enterprises who will be required to purchase their tokens for services from current token holders. The token holder benefit is their stake in the Aitheon ecosystem as well as their ability to participate.

6. Thinking about the future, what are your plans after ending the ICO? Are you afraid that the volatility of the cryptocurrency market might affect the economy of your project in any way?

The current state of the cryptocurrency market is unfortunate and we have indeed lost some equity in the funds raised in our presale. Fortunately however, Aitheon is an established business both before and after the introduction of cryptocurrency. We had businesses running on the Aitheon platform before we had a token, and are continuing to onboard many more. The value of our token lies in its utility within the platform, where users are all interconnected. Despite the crypto crash, we are expanding exponentially. From our whitepaper: “Aitheon’s Year 1 goal is to get robots and systems available for the public to use. With the funds from the tokens sold, Aitheon will add additional staff to improve the user interface and flow of the platform. We plan to educate, integrate, and onboard the first Enterprises, Governments, Small to Medium Sized Businesses and Individual Users. We also plan to interact and contract with most robotics and AI suppliers in the world as well as major contributors to the technology space.” The exciting thing about this, is that these were our year 1 goals as we wrote the ICO white paper 3 months ago, due to the outpouring of public interest that we have received, they are already happening faster than we had even anticipated.

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1) What problem are you solving, why do you need the blockchain technology and what are the main pillars that define your company and differentiate you from your competitors?

Traditional education is over: students are not motivated, teachers are badly paid and there’s a huge gap between employment and education, so we need new models “to fight” the status quo.

We need blockchain because we empower users -through relevance- and use this relevance (a tokenized measure of your knowledge in any skill) to decentralize governance. Users decide most of the things that happen in the platform.

Our competitors are in the traditional industry (they don’t pay users neither have their governance decentralized) or they are decentralized but don’t have base installed (they are starting from scratch). We have the best of both worlds: a decentralized governance and a big community (1 million users, 130,000 video courses and presence in 160 countries).

2) What value are you adding to your industry value chain and which are the main obstacles to the success of your solution?

We disrupt our industry because of the introduction of a new business model, so users (students, teachers and companies) start to use the services in a different way and close a value-added loop: the more I learn and the more I help other users to learn, the more money I earn.

Main obstacles are about user behavior and time to adapt the new platform: we are educating our community in blockchain, tokens and these kind of services to be able to use the new platform in a more efficient way.

3) Why did you decide to launch an ICO and why do you need a public Token Sale?

We have a clear mission: to reach 100 million people during the next 3 years and to improve their lives though education, getting them to earn money while they study. With our classical business model it’s something really hard to get, so we developed a new tokenomics model and a new platform (tutellus.io) to be able to do it. For that, we needed money.

4) How does your token function within the platform and why is it needed? How did you decide the total supply and distribution among stakeholders?

Out token (TUT) is used in a multiple way depending on the moment you are: as a crypto currency (to access courses), as a functional and exclusive system for teachers and companies (to access services), and as a governance system through our internal token, the STUT (the one that measures relevance).

We decided the tokenomics after studying our ecosystem and finding the way to create the maximum value for stakeholders.

5) Where do you see the value of your token in the medium to long term and the ultimate benefit for the token holders?

We see the TUT as a protocol for the educational industry: a token used to access learning products and services and a token being able to hold your relevance in the skills you want to boost.

6) Thinking about the future, what are your plans after ending the ICO? Are you afraid that the volatility of the cryptocurrency market might affect the economy of your project in any way?

We are working to have the token TUT deployed even before the ICO. We don’t think in the market, we think in the users and the pains we solve. Our goal is to create a tokenomic ecosystem the strong enough to hold tokens demand bigger than the offer: we have the content and the users, so let’s work to match offer with demand and to fix the pains detected.

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1) What problem do you solve, why do you need blockchain technology and what are the main pillars that define your company and distinguish you from your competitors?

Blockchain technology accelerates the exchange of transactions anywhere in the world with minimum commission. ALTTEX has developed a robust and fast platform with 3 products. The first product is a De-centralized Exchange with an easy and intuitive user-interface with Face ID and Touch ID and cloud storage of crypto assets for mutual settlement of cryptocurrency for services and products. Next, we’ve developed a unique Crypto-Messenger. Finally, we have a Smart Safe.

2) What value do you add to your production chain and which are the main obstacles to the success of your solution?

We constantly implement advanced solutions based on the technology of blockchain. The value of our digital platform is the use of cloud storage, which means the absence of central servers, as well as the continuous improvement of existing versions of their implementation. As a basis, we take the protocol 0x as well as a number of tools that allow you to increase the transaction speed to 100,000 transactions per second.

3) Why did you decide to launch ICO and why do you need a public sale of tokens?

There is a huge lack of real products that support and give impetus to the rapid growth of cryptocurrencies. Our ALTX token was created for the development, promotion and maintenance of our platform, which will be constantly in demand due to the improvement of products and their successful promotion on the global market.

4) What is the function of the token inside the platform and why is it needed? How did you determine the total volume of supply and distribution among stakeholders?

The role of the token is used to calculate within the system when performing all sorts of transactions by which it is possible to buy or sell goods and services, purchase stickers, use for mutual settlements for crypto-games, and also exchange it for other popular crypto-currencies. In addition, ALTX tokens are accepted as payment for placing advertisements on different Internet portals and social networks with the help of Bounty and Airdrop campaigns forming our network of users for further trade on major world exchanges.

5) Where do you see the value of your token in the medium and long term and the maximum benefit for the holders of the tokens?

The medium-term perspective of our token is already formed by the release of our product in its Alpha version on the Play store. The iOS version is coming very soon! Long-term perspective, we’ll constantly update and expand our products which enables token holders to get maximum benefit.

6) Thinking about the future, what are your plans after the end of the ICO? Can the volatility of the crypto-currency market affect the economy of your project?

We must work together on two tracks. This is the development of our products and the popularization of our coins on major world exchanges. When we talk about the future of our company after the ICO, we understand that the volatility of our token is inevitable, so we are working on implementing marketing plans to promote the product.

At the moment we already have a large community and we really appreciate the contribution of everyone who is with us, and therefore we are aimed to constantly increase the number of users of our products. One of our key decisions is the introduction of an ecosystem with a smart user economy, which includes all the key aspects in which each user can comfortably store their assets for education, entertainment, recreation and even retirement and legacy. We hope to make it possible to transfer funds via DNA or by direct instruction so you can clearly indicate who inherits your crypto assets, while setting the time threshold for freezing the purse, and after that the system activates the inheritance protocol, which in the future will guarantee your cryptocurrency legacy continues.

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