Showing posts with label blockchain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blockchain. Show all posts

Monday, 19 November 2018

Atomz.io ICO full review


The idea behind ATOMZ project, as it is underlined in the Whitepaper, is: How can one invest easily in cryptocurrencies? What if there is a software or device to signal us the best coin to buy or sell at the present moment? There are 1600+ coins to choose, but only the less known ones tend to accumulate wealth quickly, even if they are hard to track. Today is much easier to buy bitcoin, but some altcoins are still hard to buy. We all know that is good to buy low and sell high, but with the new crypto you never know if a project will fail completely after you buy low or will rise and rise long after you sell at what you were thinking is an all time high. Storage is another problem to solve, and these days if an exchange is hacked, chances to get your crypto back are quite low (see Mt. Gox case, one of the first hacked exchanges who did not pay back yet). Automated trading is another issue at hand, and it is hard to do it, as the good trading bots are quite expensive, not very transparent, not on the cloud (private servers instead) and not very customizable.
The Atomz project aims to make investing easy while generating profit. The proprietary software will analyze trends, rate the cryptocurrencies and determine the best to buy or to sell at any given moment. Help will be available for the beginners. You need to understand that the more blockchain technologies will be available and reach customers safely, the more acceptance they will gain and more value will be created.
The token symbol is ATZ, and the time of the token generation event is not yet known. There will be three phases, first for private investors, 2 millions ATZ at the price of 0.40 USD, second phase for pre-ICO, 3 millions ATZ at the price of 0.60 USD and the last phase, the ICO, with 10 millions ATZ, at the price of 0.8–1 USD. The accepted cryptocurrencies for payment are BTC, ETH, LTC, ETC, BCH and DASH.
The allocation for the tokens will be done like this:
  • 20% team (5 millions ATZ)
  • 40% ICO (10 millions ATZ)
  • 14% pre-ICO (3.4 millions ATZ)
  • 14% investors (3.5 millions ATZ)
  • 12% marketing and other services (3 millions ATZ)
All unsold tokens will be locked for one year and sold later.
Funds distribution will be done like this:
  • 50% research and development
  • 25% operations and admin
  • 15% marketing
  • 5% legal expenses
  • 5% charities.
Let’s take a look at their Roadmap. They started in November 2017 making the journey from idea to first software development, after the team was made. The first functional base software for advice tier and the token sale preparation began in April 2018. In August 2018 they started to recruit private investors and partners to help with the ICO and product development. In November 2018 the pre-ICO sale was organized, to bring additional funds for the project and gain a functional user base. Next steps to follow are:
  • 12.2018 -launch of the ICO public sale and the growth of the Atomz platform;
  • 2.2019 -end of the Atomz ICO, software improvements and team new members if needed, marketing and exchange listing;
  • 6.2019 -closed beta launch, feedback and software improvements;
  • 7.2019 -growth of the platform and new partnerships;
  • 9.2019 -open-beta platform testing and optimizing (community voting, decentralized login/token login, limited user base).
The final product will have 3 tiers (cryptocurrency advice, cryptocurrency mutual funds like, cryptocurrency trading bot). Regarding the cryptocurrency advice, they want to be able to determine the best crypto to buy and sell at any given moment. The cryptocurrency packs, similar with mutual funds, with price being determined automatically. There will be different types of packs: top packs, techno packs, market cap packs. The trading bot is utilizing Atomz index, choosing custom strategies, blacklisting cryptocurrencies if needed, making investing easy and safe.
They claim to use different trends like RSI (relative strength index -to detect if the market is oversold or overbought), MACD (moving average convergence divergence -to detect trends), Bollinger bands to add reliability to RSI and MACD, market cap proportions. There are risks associated with this, the market crash being the biggest risk, adjusted by news investigation, done manually and by AI. Another risk is related to the data gathering -right now it takes 15 minutes to analyze top 100 cryptocurrencies, in the future can go up to 2 hours.
The access to the Tiers can be achieved by paying ETH equivalent of the fee in ATZ. Tier 1 is 0.16 ETH (80 ATZ), Tier 2 is 0.32 (160 ATZ) and the Tier 3 is 0.64 ETH (320 ATZ). Mutual packs and the trading bot can be bought using only ATZ tokens.
To find more about them, you can check the links to Atomz social media:
(Disclaimer: This article was created in exchange for a potential token reward through BountyOx. BountyOx username: Heruvim78)

Friday, 19 October 2018

Block66 ICO review

Block66 is a mortgage lending platform. They aim to build a blockchain enabled marketplace for mortgages, for institutional and private lenders to offer loans to borrowers, from origination to facilitation. Loans will be transformed in tokens as tradeable securities with the ability to be traded as fractions, reducing the fees to make it an attractive investment vehicle. This way different problems, such as the need for bank account, geographical lending restrictions and counterparty risks, are overcomed. On the platform the lenders can access a marketplace of vetted borrowers looking for mortgage finance. Everything is public, transparent and highly automated. Each loan is using a pool of Proof of Loan (PoL) tokens that can be individually resold to provide lenders with liquidity. Each loan has his own smart contract, doing its own minting and selling and tracking the ownership of their PoL tokens. Block66 will run on the Ethereum network and it will be implemented as and decentralized App. 
Who are the users of this platform? First of all, the borrowers, looking for better mortgage offers, then the brokers, searching for bigger pipelines to make up for the compressed margins, private investors looking to reduce exposure and lower the risks and institutional investors also, to address some of the risks exposed by the latest 2008 financial market crisis. Then we will have the solicitors, because once the borrower and lender(s) have been matched, we need professionals to check what conditions need to be satisfied before the application can progress. Underwriters also, as a group of Block66 vetted professionals, will be present, and their fees will be paid by either the broker or the borrower. 
According to the White Paper, there will be two phases, first, in the Phase I, they will have a matching engine for borrowers and lenders, with an advantageous three fold saving on conventional mortgage application times, and all loans will be on the blockchain, with funds used via Smart contracts. In the Phase II a platform of choice for lenders will be created, in order to make tokenized mortgage-based securities on the blockchain. This will have as a result a platform that matches private and institutional lenders with borrowers and make a secure mortgage loan agreement. First will be tested in US and Canada, and later will be implemented globally. 
The Block66 token (B66) is used to produce Block66 network tokens (BNET). The Block66 network tokens are used to pay for services on the Block66 network and they are ERC20 compatible. PoL tokens (Proof of Loan) are generated once a mortgage is fulfilled . All the network fees are to be paid exclusively in BNET tokens. This part sounds a bit complicated, so we have three types of token. Let’s find out more!
Block66 Token symbol: B66
Hard Cap: 12.285.000.000 USD
Platform: ERC20
Token supply: 300 millions
Circulating supply: 135 millions 




Tokens breakdown:
  • 46% (138 millions)held by Block66
  • 10% (27 millions) for team, advisers and bounty
  • 44% for sale out of which 40.5 millions for pre-sale with 33% discount at 0.07 USD and 94.5 millions for crowd-sale at 0.10 USD.
The token pre-sale will start at 6.9.18 and the end date is to be discussed. The minimum amount for the bonus is 500 USD. The supported cryptocurrencies are: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and BitcoinCash (BCH) and the value for each currency can be seen in the next tab.




The budget allocation is as following:
  • 30% business development
  • 40% engineering
  • 15% marketing
  • 15% operations.




Now we will take a look at the Road Map. Everything started in the first quarter of 2017 with the inception of the project, White Paper draft and the contact with the early advisers and initial team members. Next steps where:
  • Q4 2017 -User journey and matching engine operating flow was designed;
  • Q2 2018 -Token generation event, the office was built out, wireframing and prototypes for the platform were produced;
  • Q3 2018 -Design and distribution phase. The Block66 Alliance of customers was created. Product was planned and designed.
  • Q4 2018 -Build phase. The Alpha testing was done with the help of the first customer users on the platform. Block66 Alliance first report. 
  • Q1 2019 -Release of the Phase I, MVP launch, first batch of on the chain loans funded and distributed via network. 
  • Q3 2019 -Release of the Phase II, loan tokenization available, network users can trade on-chain securities of a fractional basis, with smart contracts ensuring that loan repayments are distributed to all token holders. 
The project seems solid, the White Paper is self explanatory and you can always check the website for more informations. As a person who went through the experience of trying to get an mortgage, i can only say that i welcome this kind of application on the blockchain. 

(Disclaimer: This article was created in exchange for a potential token reward through BountyOx. BountyOx username: Heruvim78)

Saturday, 13 October 2018

Poins ICO (review)


Poins.io is an innovative ICO with the motto: Three platforms, one coin. What they want to say with that? Poins platform is based on the blockchain technology using Scrypt algorithm for high transaction speed, and they offer a complete trading platform (Poinsdex), a trusted payment platform(Poinspay) and a startup incubator platform (Poinsku).
The trading platform will have a developed website integrated with a high level of security, advanced technology and many different features. The integrated website will have different levels of trading, like Beginner (offering 24/7 trading account, easy to open, tutorials and training videos, in-depth F.A.Q. and many bonuses and airdrops) or Expert (with trading conditions -offers, rules, policies, crypto-trading analysis, charts, TV Poins feature with news and links, specialized trading platform). Promotions will happen often (contests, promotional material, official sponsoring and Poins Star products). The crypto service will have crypto-trading, API client cabinet, Crypto Copy System (following succesful traders), browser web trader (classic -with instrument list, trend direction, price changes and trader position, dashboard and charts -candlesticks, OHLC charts, tick charts), trading investment system (collective investment tool with two clients categories -investors and managing traders), Crypto-bot (to perform automatized transactions using Auto-Bot techniques with API features and another supporting script), a Poinsdex wallet that will take us to the payment platform, partnership features with an affiliate program and Crypto-community (forum, company blog, crypto-portal, humor section and social media links).
The crypto payment platform has a multi-functional wallet accepting altcoins for a flat fee of 0.5% (trey aim to decrease the fee in time as they gain traction) and full integration for shopping carts as plug-ins for E-Commerce, with added world class security. The features offered are:
  • Poins Flash -instant transfer of supported cryptocurrency via Bit Go Instant, protected by Multisig technology;
  • Poins Freeze -to lock your coins safely;
  • Mobile app -to access account, receive payments and change coins, Android and iOS supported;
  • Poins fiat settle -withdrawal direct to your bank account;
  • Poins auto-conversion -no need to exchange for some supported coins;
  • Poins POS -simple POS interface to receive transactions directly;
  • Connect exchange account -connection to your registered account on the trading platform;
  • Connect wallet -connects with other altcoin wallets.
The Trading Platform and the Payment Platform are interconnected.
The Poins incubator offers a vast opportunity to finance your ideas as a start-up company, and you have analysts team to check every project and guide you through the early stages. The incubation program has several stages and degrees of involvement.
Poins coin has the following characteristics:
Name: Poins
Symbol: PIN
Algorithm: Scrypt
Total supply: 90 millions
ICO: 30 millions
Mining: 60 millions
Reward: 50 PIN/block
Price: 1000 PIN = 1 ETH
ICO minimum purchase: 0.5 ETH
Accepted payment: ETH, BTC.
What are the advantages of buying Poins coin:
  • If it is obtained from the ICO it will be calculated as a temporary shareholding of the company;
  • Your idea can be applied as a start-up in the project incubator using Poins coin;
  • Instant transactions using Poins wallet;
  • Can be used as a voting tool for each project;
  • Can be exchanged with fiat or other cryptocurrency;
  • Will be used in Airdrops to increase awareness of the coin;
  • Will be used to pay for online products or services that receive the crypto using the plugin of Poins wallet at Poinspay.com;
  • Coin holders will obtain various discounts or even eliminate the transaction fee made through Poins wallet;
  • The coin is a digital asset that allows mining by everyone and everywhere.
Let’s talk about the Roadmap. The main dates on it are:
Quarter 1 2018 -the formation of the team;
Quarter 2 2018 -concepts, prototypes and strategy creation, White Paper;
Quarter 3 2018 -Poins website;
Quarter 4 2018 -start the ICO, web wallet offered for Linux and Windows;
Quarter 1 2019 -Distribution (Instant and Plus), Poinsdex.com trading platform launch, version Alpha for internal market, entry of Poins coin to external market and CoinMarketCap.
ICO phases
The ICO will have 3 phases. Phase 1 will start in 08.10.2018 with 5.000.000 coins distributed in 15.12.2018, the discounted price will be 2000 PIN = 1 ETH. Phase 2 will start in 29.10.2018 with 10.000.000 coins distributed in 30.12.2018, the discounted price will be 1800 PIN = 1 ETH. Phase 3 will start in 01.12.2018 with 5.000.000 coins distributed in 10.01.2019, the discounted price will be 1200 PIN = 1 ETH.
Coin allocation
The money they raise through the ICO will be allocated as per following:
  • 50% technology;
  • 25% marketing and operational costs;
  • 15% business development;
  • 5% legal costs;
  • 5% emergency fund and other expenses.
The White Paper is quite thorough, with extensive knowledge of the basics of the blockchain, cryptocurrency and ICO definition, and a detailed exposition of the project.
Their contact info are:
(Disclaimer: This article was created in exchange for a potential token reward through BountyOx. BountyOx username: Heruvim78)

Tuesday, 2 October 2018

Berminal ICO (complete review)

Berminal ICO (complete review)

What is Berminal? The name is a mix of two words (Blockchain and Terminal), and is trying to be an impartial, decentralized cryptocurrency and blockchain information app. Berminal ICO went online on 21.07.18 and just finished two days ago on 30.09.18. Initially starting as a mobile solution for all the news about cryptocurrency, slowly evolved into a real time cryptocurrency price and news alert service. The BERM protocol is using blockchain to build a honest, unbiased information feed. We got the Protocol Layer, where users got paid to vote for delegates that are producing the most value with the least bias, and the Application Layer, to give to the developers the possibility to build their own apps on top of the protocol and monetize it (similar with building a DEX on 0x protocol).
Here is the initial screen view, as you can see it on your mobile.
Opening screen
In the left upper corner we have an icon for the language selection, with 11 languages at this moment, at the top we can also see the news, divided by the featured and the regulation screens. On some featured news you have a quiz added, answering to it correctly will reward you with 2 BERM. Each news has a time and a date, a Bull/Bear voting option and a Share button. You can click on each news title to see the whole text.
As we scroll down, we can see our selected cryptocurrency watch list, with the top performers list coming right after (real-time also).
Watch list — in real time
Top performers — also in real time
At the bottom we have 4 icons: Home, which we already discussed about, Market, Rewards and Me tab.
The Market tab is offering two options, first being the Portfolio, where we can see the balance of their own coin called Berminal (BERM) with a fixed value of 0.05$ (whatever you gain playing the Rewards tasks), followed by your watch list (you can select each coin to see a graph of the last day, week, month or 3 months, 1 year, 5 years, and long-short ration for Binance and Bitfinex). The second tab is containing all the coins, with the same utilities as in your watch list.
Your watch list
The coin list
When you select one coin, you can also see the latest news related to that specific coin.
Selected coin
Next is the My Rewards tab, showing the amount of BERM earned and two daily task options. First is the Vote Reward, where you can vote 10 times every day for 1 BERM reward for each vote. The second task is a game called Crypto Psychic, where you can predict the BTC price and win BERM from a daily pool if you are part of the top 50% players predicting the price that day. The submission window is usually opening at 1:00 AM and it is closing at 5:00 PM. The winning price is revealed daily.
The daily tasks
The last tab is the Me one, where you can find information about your account, your name, you have a Redeem Tokens option and your Invite code (by the way, mine is 75c5e59a , if you make download the app and you are kind enough to use it). There is also a Join Telegram link, a Support link and a shortcut to Frequently Asked Questions. And at last, you can see your login/logout option.
(The version reviewed here is V1.7.2.)