SHIPIT

Shipit is a symbiosis of best ideas and practices of courier, crowdsource and crowdshipping services. We have synthesized the best business practices to create a revolutionary and unique service. Just as Uber and BlaBlaCar have already become a part of our daily lives, Shipit is going to become an irreplaceable tool for shipping.

"It is the first app of its kind that will use smart contracts and blockchain as a native tool to make people lives easier all around the world. By implementing Shipit tokens and using the blockchain we want to build relationships between users based on transparency, safety and ease of tracking for all deliveries on the platform".

While courier services are becoming more expensive, Shipit allows users to ship and track open packages at lower costs and risks. Shipping has never been easier.

Reputation and safety

Shipit takes security issues very seriously. We have developed strict requirements for senders and travelers to make platform safe for every user.

Security Deposits

Deposits are to serve as insurance for shipments. Shipit uses security deposits to prevent theft, loss or damage to the item. Such deposits are optional, but they are done to safeguard senders.

Factoring

Shipit Factoring solves the issue of deposit for shipment's safety payable by a traveler. Shipit makes a deposit for the traveler – only a small factoring fee is required.

Smart contracts

Smart contracts are the best solution to automatize processes without moderators. All transactions are to be processed by smart contracts. Their history data will be stored on blockchain.

Mail forwarding

Mail forwarding is purchasing an item internationally and further forwarding it from the country of purchase by intermediary's services. Shipit aims to build new online trade chains that can help people get any item from any country.

Shipit — Send packages.

No couriers. Just people.

Senders

Shipit allows to reduce shipping costs and simultaneously get better service that is safer and efficient.

Travelers

Shipit is a useful tool that lets you earn money and makes your trips more cost-efficient.

• Simple

You can easily find someone who is taking a trip to the place you need your shipment delivered and is ready to make the delivery.  

• Convenient

Set the destination to track deliveries. Pick anyone whom you want to deliver your package.  

• Safe

Shipit has a system of deposits, reviews and multi-factor verification that ensure a safe delivery.

How It Works

Shipit verifies its users and monitors all shipments providing safe delivery. Interactive interface makes the whole process simple and fast. User is free of any concerns about having missed something important.

Senders

1. Post a listing
2. Schedule a meetup with a traveler
3. Use tracking system
4. Track the delivery
5. Pay for the delivery

Travelers

1. Pick a listing
2. Schedule a meetup with a sender
3. Communicate with the sender in real time
4. Deliver the shipment
5. Get paid

Known issues

of courier and delivery companies

Why is shipping so expensive?

Significant operating costs. Courier and delivery services are forced to have thousands of employees, machinery, and equipment units.

Fact: Shipping a package of documents from Moscow to New York will cost more than $200. Although, the value of the documents might be even less than $20

Why do shipments get delayed?

Transit hubs

Delivery services often cannot ship a parcel directly from one point to another.

Bureaucracy

Parcels are often processed by customs and postal systems.

Intermediaries

Courier and delivery companies are sometimes forced to rely on third party services.

Fact:"According to the report by Mintel 15% of delivery companies' customers from Great Britain had to put up with delivery delays and waiting."

Why do shipments get lost or damaged?

Theft

Customs, courier and postal services' employees steal shipments.

Absence of personal responsibility

Customs, courier and postal services' employees treat shipments irresponsibly and with negligence.

Fact:"According to the report by Mintel 10 out of 100 delivery companies' customers from Great Britain had to deal with their shipments getting lost or damaged."

The future belongs to sharing

economy and crowdshipping

"The idea of collaborative consumption is one OF those that are going to change our world within the next 10 years."

Although, there are prominent players in some sharing economy industries such as Airbnb in traveling, ZipCar in carsharing, Uber in taxi – the crowd shipping market is still at its very early stages of development. The number of start-ups contributing to sharing economy and attracting more investments grows annually.

Why sharing economy is popular

Technology

Smart contracts and Blockchain

Smart contracts connect people within the system and make them aware of their responsibilities, because all their activities will be recorded and stored on blockchain without any possibility to manipulate the recorded data.

Crypto wallet

Fiat transactions may be subject to certain barriers that negatively affect the scalability of the app. Governmental bodies sometimes enforce long, costly, bureaucratic procedures that an enterprise is obliged to pass in order for its users in that particular jurisdiction to be able to execute transactions. That is where our own cryptocurrency and crypto wallet come into play.

Deposits

To ensure a safe delivery, a sender may request a deposit to be created by a traveler and kept by Shipit app. This function is optional and is applicable in case the item shipped has high value and the traveler who responded to the listing is willing to comply with deposit requirements.

Senders

Deposits posted by travelers serve as an insurance for shipments in case of theft, loss or damage.

Travelers

In case of incompliance with Shipit rules and requirements, loss, theft, or damage, travelers are not refunded the amount deposited. They will not be able to earn money and will be excluded from the system.

Factoring

Factoring solves the issue of a deposit for shipment's safety payable by a traveler. Shipit makes a deposit for the traveler – only a small factoring fee is required.

Mail forwarding

Mail forwarding means purchasing an item internationally and further forwarding it from the country of purchase by intermediary's services. Foreign online and offline stores may have certain advantages unlike those in your country, such as lower prices and wider range. Some brands may even be unavailable in certain countries, therefore, mail forwarding might be the only viable option to get access to their goods.

How it works:

1. A customer posts a listing in Shipit with a detailed description of a desired item.
2. Shipit finds a traveler who is flying to customer's region of residence.
3. The customer creates a deposit and sets a fee.
4. The traveler buys the item and flies to the customer's region of residence.
5. The traveler hands off the item to the customer.
6. Shipit transfers the fee and the amount payable for the item to the traveler.
7. Shipit recieves a commission.

Shipit mail forwarding advantages:

• 1,5-3 times lower shipping fees.
• Access to any goods all around the globe.
• Access to exclusive items unavailable in the customer's region of residence.
• Higher speed of delivery.
• High-quality service and guaranteed safety.

Key Features

No need to pay customs taxes

Small parcels are not subject to taxation. As a traveler is carrying a parcel as a personal luggage, he or she may pass through customs' green channel.

 

Responsible approach

Deposit and reviews-based rating system lowers the risks of thefts or damages.

 

C2C, B2C, B2B

Crowdshipping will allow shipping items to both individuals and legal entities.

 

More affordable than express delivery

Shipit has no need in keeping numerous machinery units and employees. That is why shipping costs will be lower compared to those of courier and delivery companies.

Personal communication

Users will be able to message each other, thus, being able to keep in touch with each other and track shipments.

 

Less bureaucracy

No paperwork. No need to fill in lots of different forms being afraid of making a mistake.

 

Safety

A sender may request a deposit to be created by the traveler who responded to the listing. The deposit will cover any possible damages.

 

Collaborative consumption and Sharing economy

Sharing economy is more efficient and eco-friendly because travelers better manage their luggage space.

Roadmap

Token Sale

Crowdship your packages with Shipit.

• Shipit Token : Tokens allow users to pay for Shipit app services. 100% of SHPT are to be emitted before the start of fundraising campaign. All unsold tokens are going to be burnt.

• Type : Utility

• Standard : ERC20

• Symbol : SHPT

• Total Tokens : 500 000 000

• Hard Cap : $ 24 000 000

• Soft Cap : $ 3 000 000

• Price : $ 0.1

• We accept : ETH BTC LTC

• Further emission : Нет

• Usability : Using tokens in Shipit app will be available as stated in the Whitepaper & Roadmap.

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I.A.C

DECENTRALIZED MARKETPLACE WITH A MULTILEVEL CASHBACK

IAC is an automated platform bringing together the best features of payment systems, cashback services and partnership programs.

In 2014, a small group of like-minded people set an ambitious goal to make the life of consumers better and easier by providing them with the best quality goods and services at wholesale prices. The company is based on the idea of uniting people to jointly solve issues related to saving the family budget. As a result, the new corporation was established as International Auto Club. The website was launched.

www.auto-club .biz

English version:

www.inautoclub .com

It gradually began to be filled with suppliers providing privileges and users who use these privileges. Over three years, more than 70,000 partners have rallied around this idea. Over 700,000 users and over 12,000 enterprises have become IAC partners and agreed to provide discounts and special offers for participants. For ease of use, a mobile application was developed and launched. For the convenience of users, a payment system was launched.

The multi-level affiliate program demonstrated a particularly effective development, which made it possible to develop the platform with a minimum advertising budget in 250 cities of Russia and CIS countries.

New technological trends require new approaches to business development, especially with regard to the platform as a payment system. For 3 years, our technology has proven its effectiveness. In fact, the first stage of company development has passed. IAC is not a start-up and it’s ready to develop business in other countries.

The corporation transfers all internal payments to the blockchain using internal currency called AutoUnit. This is a system of mutual settlements that allows to increase the level of transparency and financial security of all registered users, to avoid system centralization and users dependency on the corporation, to accelerate development and to increase the turnover of enterprises that joined the platform.

How it works

For consumers:

• Consumer registers free-of-charge in the system and gets access to all valid discounts,promotions and offers.

• After registration, the customer has the opportunity to send a referral link to friends. Friends will also be able to make profitable purchases if register via that referral link.

• The consumer receives percentage cashback of all purchases carried out by referrals and also to those to whom they submitted their referral link.

• The consumer has the opportunity to withdraw the accumulated internal funds in fiat money in any convenient way.

• You can pay more than 20 000 kinds of goods and services (state duty, credits, cellular service, TV, Internet, fines, withdrawal to plastic cards, to the account of any bank, etc.), pay for internal projects and upgrade the status within the system using internal currency.

• You can recharge your internal account in any convenient way by simply clicking the button in your account: from card to card, through the card acquiring to the settlement account, through the cryptocurrency transfer to the company's wallet.

For businesses:

• An enterprise registers free of charge on the IAC platform and has access to an ever-growing base of loyal participants.
• After registration, the business offer (goods and services) is placed in a discount system. The percentage cashback paid by the business to the IAC platform is determined by the agreement.
• The enterprises install the Autobonus program . It identifies and maintains a record of participants purchases.
• The enterprise makes the payment in the cashback amount of all participants purchases specified in the contract.
• The business employee has an opportunity to register new participants. At the same time, all new
• participants will be registered according to the business level in referral system. The business will get a part of the percentage cashback according to the distribution cashback system when participants make purchases.
• The business is given an opportunity to use paid services with a significant discount:

(a) advertising, internet marketing, SMM;
(b) placement on the platform resources in the section of special offers (banners, recommendation);
(c) participation in IAC projects;
(d) creation of websites and mobile applications.

PROBLEMS

1. A consumer wants to save money while business wants to make it. In this case, the consumer and business interests are in opposition to each other. The consumers strive for purchasing goods at profitable prices (to pay less), but businesses strive to increase profits, reduce costs and to gain a competitive edge. The existing cashback services and joint purchase services partially solve this problem. But they offer only a compromise between the consumer wishes and the business interests, although modern technologies allow both sides to give much more than just discounts and new customers.
2. At the moment, there is no cashback service among the market leaders, which would give an opportunity not only to save money on purchases, but also to earn on a multilevel referral system. The number of the system participants is not in direct correlation with the capabilities and benefits of the participants themselves. The number of users is always directly related only to the benefits of the service itself, not its customers.
3. Most of the existing cashback services focus on the online stores. It limits users and the offline business in obtaining the benefits.
4. Currently, many partner programs are associated with the network business. MLM companies have compromised themselves by unscrupulous typical behavior in this market: the use of aggressive marketing, intrusive advertising, the supply of poor-quality and non certified goods. At the same time, some reasonable methods and effective promotion mechanisms successfully working in MLM companies have been discredited. As a result, consumers abandoned really profitable offers, and enterprising people ignored the opportunity to earn on partner and referral programs.
5. Low level of client orientation. Cashback services are essentially intermediaries between business and customers. Such services do not take into account the interests of both parties and they give preference to a business with a larger cashback percentage.
6. Discount systems, cashback services, coupon services work in a well-defined segment, but it is inconvenient for the user. There are no services combining the possibilities of obtaining discounts and cashback, a payment system with the ability to pay in the cryptocurrency and with the option of obtaining passive income.
7. A business that wants to satisfy the demand for cashback from customers, instead of bonus and loyalty programs, lacks effective tools providing this demand and attracting new customers.
8. High marketing costs force the business to inflate prices for goods and services. The number of intermediaries involved in each sale makes prices even less affordable. Modern technologies that attract new customers with minimal costs are used rarely and inefficiently. Despite the development of the digital economy, the technological capabilities are not used.

SOLUTION

What is International Auto Club?

International Auto Club (IAC) is an automated platform bringing together the best features of payment systems, cashback services and partnership programs. At the moment platform already allows solving many of the problems. The blockchain technology will allow the platform to be brought to a new level, to meet new challenges and make the existing solution even more effective.

ONE OF THE LARGEST CASHBACK SERVICES IN RUSSIA:

• 12 000+ offline stores
• 700+ online stores
• 12 000+ promotional deals
• Best offers on cellular services, insurance, tourism and legal services
• The only cashback service with its own payment system and multilevel referral program

PAYMENT SYSTEM:

• Payments for all kinds of merchandise and services via an internal digital wallet
• Rewards for participation in affiliate programs and status upgrades
• Rewards for participation in our projects: Corporate University, Beauty Academy and Real Estate Purchase Crowdfunding Platform
• Issuing of co-brand cards in collaboration with Alfa-Bank

UNIQUE AFFILIATE PROGRAM:

• Multilevel recommendation system includes 9 levels of accruals allocation
• Rewards for new users and cashback from their purchases
• Rewards and turnover percentage for connecting businesses

OUR GOALS

• Implement a payment service that accepts all leading cryptocurrencies through the IAC platform. Payments for goods and services around the world with cryptocurrencies.

• Grow the user base from 60 000 to 60 000 000 in 4 years

• Grow our base of suppliers of goods and services from 12 000 to 1.2 million.

• Increase trade volume x1000

• Open 1 500 offices in 4 years

• Expand IAC’s services to other developed countries

• Implement a system for payments for goods and services via an internal payment instrument called AutoUnit

• Implement a system where all benefits provided within the platform can be accessed only through AutoUnit

• Setting up a bank (NSCA)

Currently the corporation is experiencing steady turnover growth — around 280% per year. It is important to note, that IAC does not invest especially large sums of money into marketing campaigns. This lets us predict that a big marketing budget and a well done marketing strategy will let the company attract many more new users and partners and spread to many other countries.

Firstly the company plans to expand its network of customers (users and businesses alike) and increase the average cost of purchase. Currently there are more than 600,000 users registered in the system, the annual turnover of the corporation equals $8,3 million USD. Based on retrospective data on the growth of these numbers in previous years, we can expect the following rate of growth in the coming 4–5 years:

The main driving forces behind the growth of these numbers should be:

• the creation of a marketing strategy for expansion into foreign markets;

• a marketing campaign developed based on the marketing strategy and media studies;

• constant monitoring of tendencies on the cashback platform markets, as well as on the markets of payment systems, FinTech, blockchain and crowdfunding;

• expansion of the referral network, perfection of advertising methods;

• technological development of the platform, new ways of using the blockchain technology.

Benefits for investors

ICO International Auto Club is an excellent solution which serves almost any investing strategy. Here is why:

A demanded and time proven product.

International Auto Club is not a startup business raising funds to finance an idea. This is a mature business which an easily scalable digital product. More than 750 000 users in Russia and CIS countries in more than 250 cities have already evaluated the product on its merits

A mature business with volume $8.3 mln.

Business record of the company has already marked 4 years. During this time, it has made a great progress: in 2017, its volume made $8.3 mln and increment in profit made 280%.

Business is 100% legal.

The company fully complies with the legislation of Russia and CIS countries. Consumer cooperation is maintained on the state level. Our partners include the trade unions of the state entities, public service and many other entities. The company is a member of the Russian Industrial and Commercial Chamber. Public officials and personnel of the state entities, among others, are using the benefits of the company's discount system. The Federal Intellectual Property, Patents, and Trademarks Agency of Russia registered the International Auto Club's logo and trademark. When entering markets of other states, we make sure to set a legally protected platform to run a business and let ordinary people use it.

A comfortable deposit, withdrawal, and exchange of the internal coin AU for USD, EUR, RUR, BTC, ETH. Low fees.

You can convert your AutoUnit into one of major fiat or cryptocoins with the help of the International Auto Club's payment platform. A high demand for this coin has already sparked the interest of leading exchanges. Interested users and partners are currently working to list the coin.

The possibility to pay for goods and services with the internal coin AU.

Our partners already include over 12 000 vendors in Russia and throughout the world. Many of them accept AU as the payment method.

The possibility to get AU as the cashback for your regular purchases.

Boost your capital as you simply make your regular purchases on the International Auto Club's platform. We'll credit AU as the cashback on each purchase of yours and your friends (acquaintance and relatives) to your personal account on the International Auto Club's website.

Bonuses up to 30% on receipt of tokens.

Upgrade your status on the International Auto Club's platform and receive up to 30% of tokens as your bonus. Check carefully: the discount is getting lower at each next stage.

The multilevel partnership and Bounty programs.

Recommend our project to other investors and users of the cashback service and receive extra profit within the 9 levels' partnership program on each purchase made by your referrals!

Platform capabilities

for consumers and businesses

Consumer:

• Opportunity not only to acquire a wide variety of goods and services on profitable terms but also to earn on a referral program.

• Upgrade your system status to the level of Partner or VIP Partner and thereby significantly increase the amount of funds received.

• Access to partner programs in accordance with the status.

• Payment for goods and services by internal funds at profitable tariffs.

Business:

• New active customers from around the world in exchange for a reasonable discount.

• Free application; Autobonus (mobile loyalty program, monetization of its customers).

• Free placement of products and offers on the site (45,000 users per month).

• Free placement of offers in a mobile application.

• Business connected to the system can register users on the referral link and get a cashback part from their purchases and purchases of their friends to the 9th level of recommendations, even if they go to a competitor.

• Ready-made system of management and motivation of its employees.

• Process large wholesale orders.

• Save on advertising.

Thus, the above-described problems of the industry are being solved. The best compromise between the needs of the consumer and the business is achieved. In addition to mutual benefits, both sides obtain more opportunities. Users can participate in the partnership program and their own IAC projects. Business including offline stores can increase customer flow, access to a huge client base and also earn an income from the referral program. Blockchain provides additional transparency and security.

TECHNOLOGY STACK

Ethereum

The Token is a standard Ethereum ERC20 token, with an additionally implemented role model, defensive math and functions for sales automation and interaction with the existing payment systems. AutoToken is not used for exchange trading as it is designed to charge AU in the AutoUnit system after being tested and debugged. AutoToken is held on the user’s balance and remains unchanged until AutoUnit gets charged. Once an AutoUnit is charged, the AutoToken gets destroyed.

MARKET

CASHBACK SERVICES MARKET OVERVIEW

According to Cashback Industry Report(1), the world's cashback market reached $80 billion in 2015 . RetailMeNot's study “The State of Cash Back Offers(2)” showed that more than a third of the 1,000 service users would make purchases in a new store if it offered a cashback service.

In the US cashback services have already become an essential life part for an average consumer. One year savings can reach $1,000 or even more. Forbes’s author Rob Berger in his article on cards with cashback published in 2016 wrote that for two years the amount of his cashback on the Citi Double Cash Card was $3,404.36(3).

(1)2015 Cashback Industry Report

(2)The State of Cash Back Offers

(3)The Best Cash Back Credit Cards (According To Consumer Reports)

The world leaders in this industry are the following cashback services (sales values of the year 2014):

Russian credit institutions was 211,374. In 2016 those numbers grew by 16%. In 2016, 19.6 million people made at least one payment Internet transaction every month and 8.9 million people used a bank card for that. Over the past 10 years due to e-commerce market fast growth, the cashback went beyond the banking sector and formed a separate business. Cashback services are increasingly popular nowadays. According to Statista.com in 2016 the global e-commerce retail sales market earned $1.86 trillion and will reach $4.479 trillion by 2021. The growth of the e-commerce market stimulates the development of the cashback industry all over the world. In Russia, the e-commerce market changes have a significant impact on cashback services market.

According to the Russian Association of Internet Trade Companies (AITC), the volume of e-commerce market grew by 22% in the first half of 2017 in Russia and earned 500 billion rubles. At the moment the market continues its growth. The Russian Association of Internet Trade Companies forecasts the growth of the market volume to more than 1.1 trillion rubles by the end of 2017. Thus, based on AITC’s data, the Internet trade in goods and services is 36% of the digital economy in Russia. With the growth of the e-commerce market the number of cashback users in Russia increases by almost 500,000 each month.

There are about a hundred cashback services today. By the number of customers, sales and attendance, the market leaders in 2017 are such cashback services as LetyShops, ePN, Megabonus and Kopikot.

LetyShops’s network of partners consists of 1,091 stores, generates a turnover of $20 million USD monthly . Megabonus.com generates a turnover of $17 million USD to its partners (160 stores). About 1.5 million of goods are sold via LetyShops’s cashback service every month. 1.35 million of goods are sold through Megabonus.com monthly. About 100,000 of active users of this service make up to 7 purchases per month through the Internet. Depending on the conditions of the store up to 40% of a purchase amount can be returned back to a customer. For example, the most active users of Megabonus.com make up to 1,000 purchases per year and receive The number of cashback users (in million of people) up to $100,000 USD cashback.

At first, the cashback business faced preconceived notion in the e-commerce market. In 2014 when the Japanese company Rakuten announced the purchase of the cashback service Ebates.com, the value of its shares fell by 4% and analysts predicted a business failure. Nevertheless, time has demonstrated that experts can also be wrong. By the end of the Q2 of 2015 purchases through Ebates.com were made for over $1 million USD. By the mid of 2017 these figures doubled and achieved $2.32 million USD.

All of the aforesaid indicates that the world and Russian cashback services markets offer very attractive prospects. Given that the IAC platform is not a simple cashback service but it also combines a payment system together with the affiliate programs. IAC demonstrates its competitive advantages in comparing with existing Russian market leaders.

TOKENS EMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION

(1 TOKEN = $1)

DISCOUNTS

FUNDS DISTRIBUTION

$50 000 000

In case the project succeeds in acquiring the desired funding, the funds will be allocated as follows.

• $16 000 000 (Marketing)

• $5 000 000 (Technological development of the platform)

• $29 000 000 (Development and enhancement of the payment system, bank setting up (NSCA), opening the bank branches in other countries)

ROADMAP

2014 PROJECT LAUNCH

1500 affiliates, 10 offices, 250 suppliers

Q4 2015

52 offices, 94 cities, 1400 suppliers, 40 online stores. Mobile application for partners.

Q1 2016

105 offices, 180 cities, 8000 suppliers, 60 online stores. 2500 co-branded discount trade union cards.

Q2 2017

Corporate mobile service cashback for affiliates. Free registration for users on the website.

Q4 2017

600 online stores, 600.000 users. Contract with the Trade Union Confederation. AutoBonus mobile app launch.

Q1 2018

IAC mobile application in English. Internal Autotoken and AutoUnit wallets are connected to the cryptocurrency payment system. Geographic growth.

JANUARY 25 2018

The start of AutoToken pre-sale.

Q2 2018

Broadening payment options with internal funds up to 500 types of payments. Servers modernization. Massive SMM campaign.

Q3 2018

Broadening payment options with internal funds up to 1000 types of payments. Purchase funnels for affiliates, intelligent search, 3 million users. 

Q4 2018

Autobonus payment systems integration. Automatic search for suppliers via geolocation. Server optimization. 5 million users.

Q1 2019

Integrating Autobonus payment system for business. Contactless payments for Android. NSCA creation. 8 million users.

Q2 2019

Broaden set of functions, cryptocurrency payments within the platform. 10 million users.

Q3 2019

Cashback in 650 international online stores. 15 million users.

Q4 2019

20 million users. Opening departments of the payment system in 10 countries.

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BLOCKBID

Trade with confidence

Running a cryptocurrency exchange is different from running a stock exchange because the underlying assets are different. For a cryptocurrency exchange, we are dealing with different cryptocurrencies with each having their own special requirements and implementation. For a crypto exchange, having very strong technical knowledge of how the blockchain works is paramount to the secure implementation of all the tradable coins because these coins run on top of different blockchains. At Blockbid, we have a thorough vetting process in place for our coin listing. We will endeavour to make sure that all the coins we list are bug free and implemented securely.

On the other hand, we realised it is very difficult to find knowledgeable engineers in this field. This is one big challenge facing the crypto and blockchain industries at the moment.

Blockbid is a secure exchange with the goal of facilitating the highest  volume of trades for the most cryptocurrencies with a single login

Why Blockbid?

• Fiat Currencies

Blockbid will support mainstream fiat currencies for more diverse trading

• Cryptocurrency

Blockbid will facilitate trading of more coins on a single platform than any other exchange

• Easy Access

Our platform has been built to support traders of all experience levels

• Secure

95% of all crypto asset deposits are stored in an offline multi-signature hardware vault

• Best Rates

With flat 0.1% transaction fees, Blockbid offers the lowest rates available

• Insured

Our exchange is one of the first to be fully covered by cybersecurity insurance

• Speed

Our exchange is built from the ground up to be scalable up to 1 million transactions per second

• Compliant

As a registered digital currency operating in Australia we are fully compliant with the AML/CTF guidelines outlined by AUSTRAC

Blockbid recently caught up with Damien Ducourty, founder of B9lab, to ask him about what quality blockchain education really means.

What was your vision when you started B9lab?

DD: Bitcoin piqued the interest of our founders in around 2009. When it became clear that smart contract platforms were actually feasible (around late 2014), we decided to dive right in.
One thing became immediately clear: the blockchain community desperately needed high-quality, consolidated training material so that interested developers could upskill in weeks instead of months or years.
Hence, B9lab: an online academy where developers and non-programmers alike can find best-in-class, unbiased education, training and talent in blockchain and decentralised applications.

What makes B9lab different from other blockchain education providers?

DD: At the time of its founding, B9lab was one of the very first organisations to come out with a consolidated online training programme. Today we remain the only​ online blockchain academy on the market that combines in-depth, instructor-led training and an industry-renowned blockchain certification programme. The active learning experience is really what makes the difference, with expert instructors actually helping students review and refine their code through lots of hands-on projects.
You could say our mission at B9lab is to educate as many people as possible. But rather than saying, “We want X number of developers trained by year Y,” we focus on making sure that the developers who graduate from B9lab courses are top of the line, and know what questions to ask. It is essential that B9lab alumni have an ethical aspect to their training and they know exactly what they’re doing.

How does B9lab certification work?

DD: Our custom certification dapp places a record of each certification directly onto the Ethereum blockchain along with the recipient’s public key. The blockchain is public and available for everybody to verify, so no one can censor or erase this information or dispute the fact that the certification happened at this point in time.

Why did B9lab decide to certify students in the first place?

DD: Our initial intent with the certification was so we could hire first-rate developers ourselves at any time (to meet our own needs or for clients seeking qualified blockchain talent). We discovered a real need to ensure that B9lab alumni are unequivocally best-in-class. We cannot and will not compromise on quality since it would affect quality of the code our alumni produce and overall project profitability. It goes without saying that for highly-automated decentralised applications and digital asset handling, quality is paramount.

“We discovered a real need to ensure that B9lab alumni are unequivocally best-in-class.”

BB: What is the passing/certification rate for the ​Certified Ethereum Developer Course​?

DD: The final exam of every B9lab developer course is quite demanding, and requires a grade of 80% or higher in order to qualify for certification. Also keep in mind that the certification process is optional​ — some students opt out because they aren’t ready to pass the exam, or because they’ve already been offered a job just for being a B9lab student. Some never plan on being blockchain developers in the first place, and simply want enough knowledge to be able to advise as consultants. That said, although the number of students fluctuates from cohort to cohort, the current passing rate for the entire course is around 15%.

Team Expansion

We’re excited to welcome four new team members to the Blockbid family!

• David Sapper — Chief Operating Officer

Co-founder of Blockbid, experienced in consistently penetrating new markets with having the ability to leverage analytical skills to gather and review in-depth industry, market and competitor research, demonstrated by successful exits of 2 previously founded tech startups.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-s-285650158/

• John Kappa — Senior Designer & Brand Manager

Highly respected designer who specialises in Branding, Digital Design and UI Design with an out-of-the-box thinking and approach.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkappa/

• Casey Gardiner — Technical Advisor

More than 20 years programming experience in a plethora of languages, certified in advanced network technology and strong knowledge of OOP concepts, XML schemas, debugging complex problems, abstract data structures/algorithms, and source control applications.

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USECHAIN

To Become World's First-ever Self-sovereign Identity Blockchain

New blockchain project Usechain is becoming the first-ever blockchain ecosystem to achieve self-sovereign identity for individuals and institutions. Usechain aims to fuse innovative technologies with off-chain identities to create a public blockchain ecosystem based on real identities, addressing the issue of distrust due to anonymity in current blockchain projects, while maintaining uncompromised security.

According to a 2014 study from CTRL-Shift, the cost of identity assurance processes exceeds GBP3.3 billion per annum in the UK alone. Signaling reputation is very costly in the current financial industry and any other place that requires identity assurance.

Usechain Empowers Identity

"Usechain, the self-sovereign identity blockchain, is ultimately aiming to solve the trust issue in this society," says Usechain CEO and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) Professor Huining Cao.

"KYC(Know Your Customer) is important to the financial industry. We have came up with a new concept that can map every person, every business and every asset to the blockchain," says Professor Cao. "Every person or business will have a real account. We then transfer through smart contracts to build deeper trust." By identity mapping, it will allow Usechain to meet the critical KYC standards of traditional financial institutions, shifting the focus on "who you are" to "what you can do", making it more compliant to applications outside of its own ecosystem. It will also greatly reduce the cost of identity assurance and reform financial industry.

Engineered by a world-class technical team, Usechain will achieve a balance between scalability and security by fusing their unique "Randomized Proof of Work" (RPOW) revolutionized consensus built on identity with a multi-tiered sharding network to make transactions safe and efficient. Real identity information will be encrypted for privacy and mapped for legal assurance so as to be available to governments for investigations against criminal actions.

The solid academic background of team members makes Usechain rigorous in designing and developing a blockchain ecosystem, and the business school resources make a great potential to fully utilize blockchain technologies in business scenarios.

The Usechain project is currently at the alpha stage. The beta version will be launched soon.

Product Features

• Hardware-Based Performance Improvement

• Privacy-Protected Identity Application

• Boundaryless Identity Ecosystem

• Top Business School Supported

Solutions

Usechain Innovative Blockchain Solutions

Introduce a brand-new consensus mechanism, Randomized Proof of Work to perfectly balance high performance and strong security, and apply multi-level authentication and encryption mechanism, Zero Proof, Identity Virtual Machine (IVM), Identity Network Sharding (INS), Identity Transaction Sharding (ITS), Enhanced Smart Contract, and other innovative technologies to create a new generation of Blockchain, leading Blockchain 3.0.

Token Distribution

• Volume: 20,000,000,000 UST
• Finite amount of UST created
• No inflation
• Maximum token amount for sale: 45%
• Marketing & Partner Support: 5% (with bounty comprising 6%)
• Community Rewards: 20%
• Technical Community Rewards: 15% 
• Core Team: 15%
• Softcap: 1350 BTC
• Hardcap: 4500 BTC
• ETH(Ethereum), BTC(Bitcoin)

RoadMap

2016

● Determine identity-based blockchain.

● Research on algorithm of identity-based blockchain.

● Put forward the concept of identity tokenization.

Q1&Q2 2017

● Determine design principles and objectives.

● Compile development plan.

● Officially launch the Usechain project.

Q3 2017

● Design system architecture and basic protocol.

● Integrated planning of ecosystem.

Q4 2017

● Develop underlying public blockchain.

● Cooperate with partners to explore application scenarios.

Q1 2018

● Develop fundamental functions of underlying public blockchain.

● Develop address-identity mapping system.

● Certification Authentication Center Service.

Q2 2018

● Develop privacy protection system.

● Form core community and achieve 50000+ people.

Q3 2018

● Develop software-based RPOW consensus algorithm.

● Develop enhanced smart contracts.

● Develop TPOS consensus algorithm.

● Launch beta version of main chain.

● Achieve 100000+ people in the community.

● Launch the first DApp.

Q4 2018

● Set up sub-chain structure.

● Develop cross sub-chain communication.

● Build Usechain eco-fund to accelerate ecosystem development.

● Develop multi-industry vertical community.

2019

● AI system of address behavior analysis.

● Develop tokenized multi-node system.

● Develop hardware-based RPOW consensus algorithm.

● More multi-industry identity-based DApps.

● Launch decentralized exchange.

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