The main goal of this system is to spread IDO allocations fairly between both $HYPE holders and WL winners.
It’s a temporary substitute for the Stardust system but also serves as an MVP game theory wise. More importantly, it is built to be: Accessible, Anti-whale, Easy to Use and Fun.

Allocations explained

To access IDO’s on Hypercent users must lock $HYPE tokens or win whitelist spots from project owners. The allocation size is relative to the number of tokens locked. To be able to differentiate between allocation sizes we are splitting the maximum allocation into smaller allocations awarded based on locked $HYPE amount.

Accessible.
To allow smaller players to join IDO’s we are also letting them buy chances of getting allocations through lottery tickets. So, they can’t afford enough $HYPE for a full allocation but they can afford less for the chance of getting one or multiple allocations.

Fun.
To make things more fun we’re letting people try their luck to get multiple allocations (or none) for the price of one guaranteed allocation. We’ve seen how well our lottery works during our IDO where even people with just 1 ticket won the right to participate. Basically, people can opt any combination of guaranteed allocations and lottery ticket to a maximum of 5 allocations and 7 tickets.

Anti-whale
Unfortunately, on most launchpads everything is controlled by 30–40 big players who make things very expensive for the rest. A good launchpad community has a strong and numerous middleclass and this is exactly how we want to do things.
Therefore, we have made each extra allocation and lottery ticket more expensive to avoid granting big players too much pie while keeping the maximum lockable $HYPE relatively low. Users can lock 9970 $HYPE for a total of 7 lottery tickets and 5 allocations.

Lottery tickets: 200/230/265/305/350/405/465
Allocations: 1000/1220/1490/1820/2220

Easy to use
We’ve built the $HYPE locking experience to be as close as possible to the cart/checkout flow you see on ecommerce marketplaces giving the user a familiar UX to feel comfortable.

The process looks like this:

1. Registration opens
2. Users join whitelist locking $HYPE for allocations and tickets.
3. Registration closed
4. We measure the number of allocations and tickets from the whitelist and calculate allocation size

For example, let’s take this project:

Total Raise: 850,000 USD
Total allocations after whitelist closed: 2000 (including wl spots offered by project owner)
Allocation size before lottery adjustment: 850,000/2000= 425$

This means that if there were no lottery each allocation would be worth 425$, However there is a lottery and considering 1 allocation costs exactly as much as 4 lottery tickets we can leave 25% of total amount for the lottery thus increasing the total number of allocations and decreasing the single allocation size.

One thing we need to mention is that WL winners from projects will have one allocation (won in contests) but can also opt to lock $HYPE for extra allocations.

The locked $Hype begins to unlock the second day after the sale ends. It unlocks 10% per day for a total of 10 days.

Rounds explained

The main goal when designing the rounds is to avoid a situation where there are unsold tokens left and people that want to buy them are unable to. Secondary, considering there is a lottery system the rounds should make sure that as many people as possible have a chance to participate.

1st Round Guaranteed Allocations: People who got allocations have access in the round. The round is designed like the 1st round in our IDO, it’s impossible for people to be left out as the round only closes if 100% of the people fully commit to their max allocations.

You will enter the first-round if:

• You won an allocation from the project owner
• You locked $HYPE to get allocations
• You locked $HYPE for lottery tickets and have atleast one winning ticket.

2d Round (Lucky Losers Round): whatever is left from first round is divided equally between losing tickets. So, if after the first round there are 100,000 USD left unsold and there are 1000 tickets who didn’t win the lottery, they will have equal allocations up to $100. This will make sure that people are not left with 0 tokens and will also encourage lottery participation for smaller holders and thus help our fairness system.

So, a user who had a ticket and didn’t win in the first round will have an allocation worth $100 while somebody with 4 losing tickets will have a $400 allocation. On the other hand, since the first round is designed to sell out, there’s no guarantee of how much is left for the second round so users need to balance things accordingly when choosing GA or Tickets.

3rd Round FCFS: Whatever is left after the 2nd round is accessible to anyone who registered to the sale and passed KYC.

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This being our first post-IDO article we firstly want to say a massive thank you to everyone who participated in our sale but also to everyone who supported us knowing they won't be able to participate due to the geographic restrictions of our KYC.

Why Kaddex V1?

1.Giving the people who missed the sale a chance to own $HYPE as soon as possible.
The most important reason to list $HYPE on Kaddex V1 and not wait for the audit to end on V2 lies with the very impressive metrics we have seen during our IDO. We are especially looking at the ratio between the people who wanted to buy $HYPE and the people who had the opportunity to do so.

As we previously announced we had 5200 people on our whitelist, out of which 3800 passed the KYC and 1617 closed the sale, but this is not the complete picture. How about the people who knew they couldn’t pass KYC due to regional restrictions or people who found out too late and didn’t believe in their chances to participate so they didn’t even bother joining the whitelist? I mean check out this organic website traffic we had during our IDO period:

Besides that, looking at our demographics report we can directly see 1k people who couldn’t participate:

2. $HYPE will have the spotlight as it kickstarts Kadena’s ecosystem.
Kaddex V1 has been around for some time now having only one pair: KDA/FLUX. In months like October or November it showed volumes of even $5 mil/month which is very impressive for a DEX with one pair on a blockchain that is yet to kickstart its ecosystem. All the users currently trading there will see a new pair: $KDA/$HYPE.

Besides that, Kaddex were nice enough to integrate X-Wallet into V1 even though V2 is just around the corner. Not only will Hypercent holders be able to import their wallet using the seed phrase, but the 10k users of X-Wallet will have the chance to use the wallet on Kaddex for the first time.
Shortly the whole Kadena ecosystem will have a first taste of swapping Kadena based tokens on a Dex using a chrome extension wallet.

3. When Kaddex V2 arrives, it's going to feel like a whole new listing

There are going to be multiple new features, new pairs, a new UX, Kadena based stablecoins, wrapped tokens from other blockchains and a lot of joint marketing push for the launch of V2 (from Hypercent, Kaddex, Kadena, etc). We will be up there in the featured section due to our partnership with Kaddex.

When listing?

The KDA/HYPE pair will start trading on Kaddex on April 15th at 15:00 CET

How to trade $HYPE on Kaddex?

1.Move HYPE to Chain 2

As Kaddex is running on Chain 2, please move all your HYPE from Chain 1 to Chain 2. For crosschain transactions please watch this video from the 2:50 timestamp.

After the crosschain transaction is finished and all your HYPE has been moved to chain 2 you now have two options of moving the funds to Kaddex:

• Import your Hypercent seed phrase when creating an X-Wallet Account
• Send all your HYPE to the X-Wallet address

This tutorial will cover the first and easiest method, as once the HYPE has been moved to Chain 2 the second option is self explanatory.

2. Download X-Wallet

Please make sure that you go to the correct link as you can see in the screenshot bellow.

Clicking the Download Wallet button will redirect you to the chrome extension page where you will actually download the extension.

3. Be mindful of Chrome Profiles

One thing to mention is that you cannot have multiple X-Wallet on the same chrome profile. That means that if you already have an X-Wallet account on your main chrome profile you won’t be able to import your Hyper Wallet via the seed phrase.

This has an easy fix. You can create a second chrome profile by clicking your profile button.

4. Import your Hypercent Seed Phrase

Now, you can share your Hyper Wallet with X-Wallet and they will act as one. Whatever you have in the Hyper Wallet will be available on the other side as well.

Click the extensions button, and open X-Wallet

Now you can copy the 12 words that have been generated as your secret phrase into and paste them in the Secret Recovery Phrase box.

Create a new password.

Congratulations, you have now connected your Hyper Wallet with X-Wallet!

5. Add HYPE token contract

Click on Add more tokens

Next, input the HYPE coin contract address.

Token Contract Address: hypercent.prod-hype-coin

Token Symbol: HYPE

Congratulations, you can now view your HYPE inside X-Wallet. Make sure that you are viewing Chain 2.

6. Connect X-Wallet to Kaddex

On the same Chrome Profile you will visit www.kaddex.com and click on launch app.

• In the top right corner you will see Connect Wallet.
• Click Connect Wallet and sign in with X-Wallet.

Congrats, you are now ready to start swapping HYPE on Kaddex!

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Fairness is subjective so this is a good opportunity to tell you what we think is fair and how this is reflected in our IDO process.

One sale with the same price and max cap for everyone.

Usually, projects raise money in private sales for lower prices than in the IDO and then spend most of it on marketing. In the end people who buy in the IDO have less opportunity because of this process.
Our strategy was to offer everyone the same price and max cap, and make this project such a great opportunity that people promote it just to have access to the sale, this is how the GA (guaranteed allocation) was born. This was the right call as word about our project has reached far beyond the Kadena ecosystem while our marketing cost is still 0.

Offering group owners and influencers access to our sale for themselves and some community members was a win-win situation. For them it would be a way to give value to their community, for ourselves it would be a good way to have HYPE holders in as many communities as possible. This would ensure that even after the sale ends people will keep spreading the word about our project. Usually, the IDO’s are the peak of communication for most projects and we wanted to avoid such a case.

Furthermore, we offered GA spots to our earliest or most active community members, creative members who created stickers or won meme contests. We never announced anything beforehand because it would create a situation would people would join early with multiple accounts or spam with bots to win GA. We just looked back and saw in Combot who was first, who was most active as we awarded initiative.

The most important rule for us was: nobody can own more than one GA

A lottery model that awards people who supported us from the early days.

Due to the way most sales are made people are used to rushing in as soon as possible to make sure they get to buy some tokens. We aren’t big fans of this approach and we think that as a launchpad that claims to build a lottery system, it’s only fair we use one for our own IDO as well.

Obviously due to selling HYPE in this sale, we couldn’t use it as a base for the lottery. To be fair we built a system where people who have been observing and supporting us from the early stages have more chances of participating in the sale.

Not only did they believe in us when we had less to show but they did so when there were less people in the community to get social proof from. Besides that, our growth was organic but accelerated exponentially, so the early people helped us a lot by helping new members understand better who we are and what we build. Some of these members are now our admins and they are paid for their work.

Participation in our sale is given by either GA (guaranteed allocation) or Lottery Tickets to win an allocation in one of the rounds. We have offered lottery tickets based on how early people have joined our telegram group so users could get either 8, 5, 3, 2 or 1 ticket.

More tickets mean a higher chance of participating in the sale, nobody can have more than 1 allocation in any sale. Basically, the lottery draws a list of people from 1 to 3800 (total KYC members) and lowers means better because you have a higher chance of joining a round.

Lottery and multiple sale rounds go hand in hand.

Before explaining how the rounds are different, we need to mention that the price and max allocation is equal in all rounds.

1.The FIRST ROUND is designed to offer GA to all round participants, so if you made it to round 1 there’s a 100% chance you can buy HYPE. To make sure this happens we have divided the total sale amount of 2m to the max allocation of 1500$ (worth of KDA) and the result is 1333 people.
Basically, the people from the first round have no way of closing the sale as the round wasn’t designed to be closed, but to protect the GA.

In reality not everyone will go for maximum allocation in the first round. Whatever is left from the first round will be available in the second round.

For example, if the average buy in the first round is $900, there are $800,300 worth of tokens left for the second round. This system will only work for the first round though, as if all rounds had this system, it would probably take more than 5 rounds to finish the sale.

2. The SECOND ROUND is designed to offer Projected GA

To avoid going for so many rounds we will use the data from the first round to select the correct number of people for the second round. Basically, when we calculate the participants in the second round, we look at the average buy and split what’s left in the second round.

Example: In the above example we have $800,300 left for the second round, if we were to calculate like the first round, we would divide that to 1500$ and we would get 533 people who have 100% GA. Instead, we divide that to the average buy in the first round as the second round is built to close. In this case 889 people join the second round because that's the theoretical number of people needed to close the round if the average buy equals the one in the first round.

This means that the second round is a combination between the lottery GA and a FCFS system. It is designed that everyone who participates in the round to have a 90% chance of allocation. So yes, some people might end up not getting allocation even if they join the round, but the chances are slim.
There’s still a chance that the sale isn’t closed in the second round, in this case the second-round process would repeat for the 3rd round.

To read before the IDO:

1. Price: 1 $KDA =12.5 $HYPE (price of Kadena was set for $6.25)
2. Min/Max allocation: 40/240 $KDA
3. Before transferring $KDA to your Hypercent wallet make sure you have the mnemonic to access the wallet. The password is stored locally and we don’t store the mnemonic so you can be left out of our wallet.
4. If you make it into a round you only have one chance to swap, once you swap you won't be able to participate in any other rounds. Even if you don’t swap and the round passes you still won't be able to participate in any other round.
5. If you haven’t made it into round 1, wait for the round 2 lottery. Avoid engaging with people who want to sell you a GA in our IDO as this is impossible without being scammed. Even if someone gives you access to their wallet you cannot change the mnemonic so they would also have access to that wallet. If you see people promoting this, please send us proof on telegram so we can remove them from the sale and give way to fair people.
6. The IDO takes place on CHAIN 1, please see this tutorial to understand how to move KDA between chains with the cross-chain function: Hypercent — Crosschain Tutorial — YouTube
7. All the other details regarding tokenomics, price, team or token usecase can be found on our platform.
8. Once the rounds start you will see a swap screen like the one in the article cover.

Schedule:
Round 1 :21.03.2022 (16:00 CET) -22.03.2022 (16:00 CET)
Round 2 Lottery winners: 23.03.2022 10:00 CET
Round 2: 24.03.2022 (16:00 CET) - 25.03.2022 (16:00 CET)
Round 3: TBA if necessary
TGE: 28.03.2022 you will see $HYPE in your wallet, untransferable until KADDEX Launch (Q1 2022 as per their roadmap)

Some stats about our IDO le so far:

We are Hypercent. This is our IDO. This is the way.

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Hypercent X KADDEXofficial

Teaming up on an epic Kadena Quest — to destroy gas fees forever

We are Kadenians

Our teams have been part of the Kadena community since the very early days and witnessed Kadena’s way of doing things. No matter how much people pushed for aggressive marketing tactics and PR, we saw Kadena doing what they do best: develop the core technology of a revolutionary blockchain that solves the scaling trilemma.

We’re no longer just members of the Kadena community, we are pioneers of its ecosystem. It's our duty to spread Kadena’s vision and values into what is being built on its blockchain, thus helping the growth of a healthy ecosystem.

To make Kadena the True Home of DeFI we need to build revolutionary tech on its blockchain. Projects that would be impossible to build on ETH due to the gas fees and on Solana due to Rust not being as powerful as Pact.

That’s why we will be working together with Kaddex to make Kadena the birthplace of DeFi 3.0, a place where users can enjoy Decentralised Finance without being hampered by the lack of UX caused by gas fees.

What does that mean for you if you have a project ready to launch?

It means that you now have access to an entire funnel that will kickstart your journey from inception starting with Hypercent all the way down to the incubation process as a joint venture with Kaddex right in the heart of Kadena in a seamless and frictionless experience.

Some of the partnership benefits that we will provide:

1. Incubation process

We know that Pact is a scarce resource, but luckily a co-team of experienced Pact developers are here to help you come home, on the true home of DeFi.

This will grant you access to our own network of highly experienced advisors as well as support from both Kaddex and Hypercent regarding technical implementation, code auditing, marketing strategy, planning and many more.

2. Favoured listing

Projects that have been vested and incubated by our joint ventured will benefit from favoured listing on Kaddex, which will guarantee a prime position for your tokens that will grant you the most visibility.

To kickstart out partnership the HYPE/KDA pair will benefit from favoured listing, thus being in the top pairs available on Kaddex.

3. Marketing promotion

Through our social channels, your projects will benefit from our social media support, which will grant your project visibility in the oldest and most experienced community of Kadena. Our communities are formed of true believers and exhibit true passion and technical understanding in supporting Kadena. Community support has been an instrumental part of Kadena’s success

It is time for our community to see the ecosystem they believe in come to fruition and unravel before their eyes.

4. Pair incentivization with strong rewards

When your project gets listed through Hypercent Launchpad, the Kaddex DAO will define parameters for KDX LP incentives and get its pool the notice that it deserves.

5. Staking & farming pools

This Kaddex/Hypercent feature will offer incentivized LPs for your project on KDX pairing and it will allow you the possibility of implementing Yield Farming for your project on Kaddex.

As a Kaddex & Hypercent exclusive we are also announcing the following:

a. Hypercent will provide $HYPE liquidity in specific pools coupled with KDX LP rewards.

b. HYPE pairs (HYPE/KDA) will be a featured listing at launch with a DAO determined reward structure.

c. X-Wallet will be integrated into the Hypercent Platform

We aim to create a world’s first DeFi Committee where DeFi can flourish

Our main focus is to make sure that Kadena gets the ecosystem we all have been waiting for. Our vision is to migrate everything into a DAO ecosystem where both Kaddex and Hypercent will be able to add governance to our own functionality and in each other’s platform as we move forward.

This will showcase one of our most ambitious plans yet, and most likely the world’s first DeFi Ecosystem Committee which would act as a Council for new projects.

Founding members of new projects will be invited to join the council and thus, we hope to create a unique mindset for the Kadena Ecosystem under which everyone can flourish and benefit together.

Our first act together as part of the Committee is building Pact Academy

Pact Academy will help ideas turn into projects

Both teams are aware that the Kadena ecosystem will only grow as fast as the number of Pact developers, this is why we have teamed up to take the Pact Academy to the next level.

How will we do this?

By refining a complete CI/CD pipeline of enterprise level for Pact & Typescript stack applications, developers will be able to focus on actual development.

With the help of our identified partners, we will be building a web 3.0 solution that will allow developers to deploy secure and verified PACT smart contracts and modules via JavaScript in minutes, thus speeding up the process of adoption for the Pact language.

In addition to public content, we will also create educational materials and applied lessons that will allow any developer to build their smart contracts with utmost knowledge.

Our vision for Kadena

An ecosystem is built by those who have the willingness to take responsibility, a vision that can push development forward with a clear goal in mind, and the resources to apply all of the above.

Hypercent and Kaddex have found this vision together and we will be working hard to achieve these goals for the benefit of the entire Kadena Community!

We are very excited to partner up with Kaddex and we are fully committed to bringing as many quality dApps on the True Home of DeFi!

With love,
Hypercent X Kaddex

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Where Verified Projects Launch on Kadena, The True Home of DeFi.

Started as Kadena ambassadors and now we’re here

Well that's not entirely true, we started in the crypto space in late 2016 so we’ve seen a lot of stuff blooming and booming while working both during the bull and the bear market.

We found out about Kadena in January 2021 and immediately saw it as a disruptive force, the only scalable POW blockchain and the only real competitor to all the POS chains. We knew our marketing experience could make Kadena more appealing to the blockchain community and as a result more projects would start building on it.

The fastest way to directly communicate with the Kadena team was to apply for the Ambassadors Program and we did so. After becoming ambassadors, we met the team and made numerous branding and website improvement suggestions. Our proposals were met with enthusiasm but everyone decided they were too radical for a big operation like Kadena.

We decided the best way to bring projects to Kadena is to build a launchpad and start bringing projects in, and this is how Hypercent was born.

Hypercent helps verified projects launch on Kadena

The opportunity to launch on a blockchain that recently gained traction is huge, but so are the challenges. Our job as a launchpad is to bring projects on Kadena by decreasing the challenge to build while increasing the opportunity to launch.

1. Helping projects build

Kadena is not only revolutionary because of its blockchain concept, but also because of its proprietary smart contract language: Pact. The biggest challenge in a revolution is getting people to join, and for that you need very good reasons and a clear way of communicating them.

For this reason, the number of Pact developers is still extremely scarce, moreover the total amount of open-source code available to piggyback from is also very scarce. So even after developers learn Pact, they become pioneers in almost anything they build.

We make no exception to this, so our job is to document everything and make it easier for everyone else. We will offer developers a blueprint project that makes it easy to build and deploy full-stack Typescript apps, using NextJS and NestJS, specifically crafted with Kadena interaction in mind. Our blueprint adheres to best practices and standards- like linting, formatting and testing — and has a focus on developer experience (DX), to make coding fun, while having the confidence that the codebase says organised, typed and sane. We are also developing an SDK that makes interacting with Kadena more friendly, and a CLI app that makes scaffolding, testing, managing and deploying common use-case contracts a breeze. Think of it like a build on pact academy.

When there are no Pact devs around, you make Pact devs

2. Helping projects launch

There are many projects that have good ideas and good developers but no capacity to sell their tokens because a good community is hard to grow. Our job is to put good projects in front of a good community and give them an easy and fair way to swap tokens.

A good community is built with organic growth in mind, as the secret lies in the quality more than quantity. People in a launchpad community should have a good understanding of the crypto space and the funds to buy tokens in IDOs. We’ve been asked why we don’t do an airdrop and the answer is pretty simple: people who join your community for free tokens don’t necessarily have the best interest at heart to invest in IDO’s. Besides that, we would rather have people joining us because they share our vision and goals.

Since our first public announcement one month ago we got approached by multiple communities from all over the crypto space: VC’s, Private Funds, Influencers, IDO groups and so on. They are part of our community and will help us move forward. Any project that launches on Hypercent will have access to them to gain the same advantage. Whatever we do, that will become a blueprint for projects we help launch.

An easy way to swap tokens
We believe Kadena is the only blockchain that can massively improve the UX and take crypto to mass adoption through gas stations, security and the most powerful programming language created to-date.

That is why our purpose is to take PACT’s core functionality to the next level and compete with the biggest players in the market today.

Through our upcoming Hypercent Wallet we will make the IDO process both fun and engaging with a seamless experience. We call it a one-click IDO. With Kadena’s security and modular design you can call on any contract with the gas already covered for you.

That means that if you want to participate in an IDO all you have to do is click Swap using our Wallet and without paying any gas you will be calling the IDO contract and receive your tokens instantly. The Hypercent Wallet will be part of our platform’s front-end and will also be released as a standalone chrome extension for the community to enjoy it.

A fair way to get allocation
Projects launching IDO’s on launchpads usually have low raise amounts so the supply is lower than the demand, meaning that a lot of people are fighting to get allocation.

After years of IDO’s going through different models, the best approach so far seems to be the lottery system. Unfortunately, this is not without flaws either. The trouble is that the prices for allocation tickets are controlled in a centralized manner and not through supply and demand. The ticket price has been set by the project very early when their token had a low price, and after the token appreciated in value, it no longer makes economic sense.

For instance, on one platform the guaranteed allocation cost is $10.000USDT worth of tokens while the maximul allocation is $500. This is problematic because it doesn’t make much sense to spend so much for such a little allocation. Although the price can be changed, in the crypto space this would not go unanswered.

To avoid this problem, we are creating an economy that is truly alive, where everything is controlled by supply and demand through DeFi protocols.

{HYPE} powers the first multi-token DeFi protocol of the Kadena ecosystem

With a fixed total supply of 10.000.000 tokens, {HYPE} is the engine that powers our economy. In short, we made an economic model that uses {HYPE} staking as a way to create a fair model of allocation in IDO’s.

In order to build a stable and healthy environment for projects to grow, you will be using a secondary token: {Stardust}. This is a non-tradable asset earned through staking {HYPE} on our platform. While {HYPE} is creating a healthy coin lock value for our ecosystem, {Stardust} is the key to unlocking platform rewards.

Use {Stardust} and bootstrap yourself to an economy that’s truly alive

You can burn Stardust {STRDST} to receive allocation tickets for IDOs launching on Hypercent or mine our IDO Vault to receive tokens from all projects launching on Hypercent. The cost for tickets and vault rewards are variable as they are handled by DeFi protocols based on supply and demand in relation to the variable supply of {STRDST}.

So imagine that a hot IDO comes on Hypercent and a lot of people start burning Stardust to get allocation tickets, the price of the ticket would increase but because a lot of people are burning Stardust to get tickets, the IDO vault rewards would also increase because they are calculated based on the supply of Stardust (which would be lower due to burning to getting tickets). So even if it wouldn’t make sense to get tickets because of the price, people would be incentivized to move their Stardust to mine the IDO vault due to the high rewards.

Regardless of Hype’s market price, the prices and rewards will always be adjusted by the market.

Most likely you are now wondering where the tokens from the IDO vault come from and that's alright. As a cost of launching on Hypercent, all projects submit a share of their token supply to our IDO Vault. A big percentage of the tokens are shared with the users who use their {STRDST} to mine the vault.

The IDO Vault is the easiest way to pipeline yourself to Kadena’s ecosystem

Lastly the time has come to talk about our third token. Cosmic Time {TIME} is the third token of our multi-token economy. {TIME} is generated when you use {STRDST}, be it for tickets or in the IDO vault. The {TIME} token shows your involvement in the platform and that helps us put the decision in the right hands when the governance is implemented.

We are Hypercent. This is our vision. This is the way.

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The Smart Business Card anyone can use

Communication is fundamental to business. Interactions can go sideways, mostly depending on how skilled you are at asserting yourself. But even if you’re a master at it, you still have to go through the process of exchanging contact information with the person you’re meeting with.

Have you ever encountered difficulties in exchanging that information? Chances are you did. Time is lost if you have to vocally transmit that information, and if you use paper backed business cards, making sure they don’t get lost is a constant source of worry.

We’ve decided to address uncomfortable situations like these by bridging the gap between digital and in-person networking. So, we’ve created Cardanti.

Cardanti is a business networking project part of the Zoid Ltd. Group. We develop blockchain based software solutions for payments, through our payments firm called ZoidPay. These solutions are made available to the general public through common micro-technologies like NFC, QR scanning and APIs (application programming interface).

Putting things into context, during the past two years of working on ZoidPay, we attended numerous tech events to present our blockchain products and meet potential partners. Our blockchain payments card uses your phone’s NFC antenna to authorize native blockchain transactions. There is also the option to use your camera’s QR scanning functionality if your smartphone lacks NFC.

While attending tech events, we kept running into the same situation of people offering us business cards. We offered explanations on why we don’t have business cards and asked them to add us on LinkedIn.

So, we realized that there are two types of people:

· those who prefer paper business cards

· those who prefer digital business cards

When the two types meet, friction results from explaining why we don’t carry business cards, and because both go out of their way to exchange information.

Then the idea dropped like a bomb. NFC and QR scanning can be used for anything, including contact details. We just needed to develop a platform where you can fill in your profile with all your information, attached one of our NFC-native cards to transfer that information and… it just worked. Thus, Cardanti Business Card was born.

We created Cardanti to eliminate the friction between digital and non-digital means of networking, and allow people to seamlessly switch between their offline and online business persona.

This means the user experience needs to be seamless on both ends, with zero learning curve. A simple and attractive user experience makes Cardanti organically viral. For this purpose, we created a product that you’re going to love showing off to your peers and friends. It’s also a great impression to transfer all your contact details in a nanosecond. But more on this below, we invite you to explore the elegant features of Cardanti.

Features

We talked to people from both camps, we looked at both types of business cards and we created a list of features that will satisfy both paper and digital business card users.

One tap, No app.

Handing out business cards is a habit many people have, and we know it is difficult to change.

We created Cardanti so that it’s easy and pleasant to use regardless of your age or experience using business cards and smartphones. Once you tap your business card to the back of a smartphone, the owner will get prompted by his browser to save your information directly into his contact list.

Furthermore, they can interact with any other information you’ve saved in your profile, such as following you on social media or watch a presentation video.

The process is identical by scanning the QR code on the back of the card.

Just like you don't need an app to give a paper business card, Cardanti doesn’t require you or the person you’re meeting to install anything. It just works using features native on any smartphone: NFC or QR scanning.

One Card, infinite networking

There are many clear advantages of having just one Cardanti card instead of giving paper business cards:

• No more stacking. You’re giving away your business information, not pieces of paper. This means that your pockets or handbag can breathe as you won't carry a brick of cards inside them at every event anymore.
• Your Cardanti business card lasts forever. This means that you stop buying business cards every quarter, which saves you money.
• Your business card doesn’t end up lost. The card stays with you while your info gets saved in your conversation partner’s contact list. Over 80% of business cards end up in a drawer, but not your Cardanti card.
• You protect nature. Paper is phased out for card production, thus avoiding cutting trees and instead we plant them. Soon for every card sold we will plant a tree.

One digital business profile for all your contact details.

People who use paper business cards prefer to call, while people who use digital business cards like to communicate through social media. With Cardanti we made sure people can do both and even more. More importantly as opposed to paper business cards, your profile can be edited at any time.

This is how your Cardanti Profile can look like:

Personal Cardanti Card

Every January dozens of new articles pop out about business card design trends of the year, so we understood that people love to flaunt their business cards.

We took a timeless approach for design, enabling you to use it forever, regardless of the changing trends.

You can choose between dark theme, light theme, and a total of 6 color options:

• Dark theme: Emerald Green, Sapphire Blue, Cardinal Red
• Light theme: Mint Whisper, Ice Blue, Crimson Red

All the information you share is in your profile, so you decide if you want a Timeless card or a Personalized card. If you chose to physically personalize your card, you can opt to have your Name, Role and Company printed on the card. The timeless card will be usable regardless of how many job titles or companies you change. The personalized card is better at showing your personal brand, while the timeless design is perfect if you are a professional hired by multiple brands or companies. This way you avoid getting a new one if something changes in your career.

Both choices are very rewarding, as using Cardanti creates a reaction from the person on the receiving end, a memorable moment that will make it more likely to connect again. From this perspective we know that using Cardanti is a great ice breaker:

Cardanti for Your Business.

Unsurprisingly Smart business cards haven’t caught on with businesses until now for particularly good reasons:

• First, companies have strict brand books, they can't have their employees present themselves with business cards that display another company’s logo and colors on it.
• Secondly, companies are later to the party when it comes to mass adoption, they don't invest in things that might not catch on, or things that won’t work on any device, or things that don't make sense from a business perspective.

You’re going to start seeing them because we take companies seriously by addressing those challenges, so we’ve prepared extra features:

• Custom Cards: Companies can choose to have their logo and company colors on the Cardanti card, or they can insert their own Custom Design.
• Custom Profiles: Company branding in the Cardanti business profile.
• Special prices. We have special prices for B2B orders. Considering there is only one Cardanti card per employee and larger lifecycle of our cards compared to paper business cards, companies will spend less while increasing their brand awareness.

Most importantly, Cardanti works for anyone

Timing was key in developing and releasing this product, so we decided to launch now as NFC usage becomes more widespread. Most new Android phones today are NFC-enabled out of the box. Furthermore, Apple has recently unlocked the NFC on IOS devices, so nobody is left behind. Until absolutely everyone will have an NFC enabled device, we’ll keep a QR code on the back of the Card just in case, and that works on any smartphone with a camera.

Get yours!

We bridged the gap between online and face-to-face networking by creating a product that works for everyone using a smartphone.

Click here to create your Cardanti and take your networking experience to the next level!

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Say hello to zoidpay.com

In highly dynamic environments like the blockchain industry, in order to thrive, you need to move faster than the industry. Considering how fast the blockchain industry goes, this is a difficult job.

It wasn’t our case though when we created the whole concept of the Zoidcoin Network. We envisioned that by that time our marketplace is in place the crypto industry would evolve to the point where people could easily spend crypto, where wallets aren’t just some high tech vaults and people don’t need to drag around pieces of paper just to say they are self banked.

How ZoidPay came to life.

Soon enough we realized we were building a product for an industry that wasn’t ready to take it. We moved faster than the industry so we decided to push the industry forward. We started by researching ways to make crypto usable by everyone. We experimented with contactless cards and crypto transactions and soon enough we had a breakthrough: our first crypto transaction through a contactless card.

After that, the rest is history, well-documented history as you can read more about what happened in these articles: Meet ZoidPay, the First Real Crypto Card and ZoidPay: Product Launch Features.

We didn't stop there though, we knew that crypto shopping wouldn't become a reality without crypto accounting so we teamed up with Gilded Finance. They are a New-York based company that created a blockchain accounting app that integrates with current accounting programs, allowing businesses to legally report crypto transactions. They have a vast experience in the field and also took part in the Techstars incubator program. You can read more about that here: ZoidPay X Gilded

The Zoidcoin Network concept is still part of our plans.

Moreover, we have actually built the first version called ZoidShop. All the features mentioned in the Zoidcoin Network whitepaper will be added to ZoidShop, it's just a matter of when.

The roadmap has been adapted to our current market reality, we first focus on creating a community of people who will make crypto purchases or sell their merch for crypto. Only after the community is large enough and the process is flawless, we will start adding game theory backed advertising with user-centric feedback.

Say hello to ZoidPay.com!

As the cover image suggests, we have launched a new website to reflect our current line of products and services.

Beyond the eye-candy design, our website is a centralization of all information about ZoidPay. Everything is neatly arranged so the users can easily understand who we are and why we’re doing what we’re doing.

We tackle industry problems early on:

We provide our solutions to the said problems:

We have a detailed presentation of our product:

These are just snippets of our website, obviously there is far greater amount of information on the website itself including Current Features vs Upcoming Features on both Users and Merchants sides, Upcoming Developments, Revenue Streams, Partners and Clients, Our Team, Press Articles, Blockchain Partners, Legal and Audit, ZoidPay Around the World, Demo Videos, Advisors, and our presentation in seven languages.

There’s also a surprise brand new section about our Founding Members Pre-Sale, which you can check here.

The whole point of this is for you to go to our website, click on this text, check it out and let us know what you think.

If you want to learn more about ZoidPay make sure to follow us on our social channels below. If you’re really curious and want a quick reply from our core team members, head down to our Telegram channel and just ask!

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Shaking hands, making friends and giving ZoidPay cards to industry giants and blockchain enthusiasts alike.

Eduard, Vasile, Vlad and I had the chance to participate at the biggest blockchain conference in Eastern Europe. There was no better place to host this event, than the second-largest building in the world: The Romanian Palace of the Parliament:

The speaker line-up was just as impressive as the venue, way too many people to list them all here, but we’d love to mention: Mihai Alisie (Ethereum Co-founder), Miko Matsumura (Founder of Evercoin), Brad Birkenfeld (Author of Lucifer’s Banker).

After the opening ceremony, the team had the opportunity to meet Mihai Alisie, give him a ZoidPay card and make a crypto payment demo. Needless to say, he was happy to see the Crypto Card transaction go live on the Ethereum Mainnet.

The place was packed with interesting people, so we had the opportunity to give cryptocards and make demos to other industry pioneers such as Miko Matsumura, Eric GU, Mike Costache and many others. We didn’t get blinded by the massively positive feedback and carefully listened to everything they suggested.

We also had a nice chat with the guys from BitPanda and Huobi, we presented our cryptocards and White Label solution and listened to their feedback.

Our mission was to give as many cards as possible not only to speakers and industry pioneers but to all the participants. We used a great app called Whova to make this happen. The event organizers took the wise decision to use this app for the community management of the event.

The app allows both the organizers and the participants to directly communicate among themselves. A feature of this app allowed us to announce we are giving free ZoidPay cards to event participants.

This had a huge impact and we had people coming for cards and demos from all directions. It was truly refreshing to make so many demos and hear so much feedback, we’re grateful for their support and curiosity alike.

Overall it was a great event and our team is looking forward to the next Romania Blockchain Summit .

If you want to learn more about ZoidPay make sure to follow us on our social channels below. If you’re really curious and want a quick reply from our core team members, head down to our Telegram channel and just ask!

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To be fair, the title is a bit erroneous. Truth be told, Billys has been with us since the very beginning. It was so early that we didn’t have the chance to announce it because our Medium publication didn't exist at that time.

He started working in the tech industry 16 years ago, firstly he started working in microcomputer maintenance, followed by computer networks and finally the early years of Webdesign. He fell for Bitcoin 5 years ago and since then he put in work to make it official by attending lectures such as the Bitcoin Backbone Model at the University of Piraeus. Followed by the Certification for the Understanding of Decentralized Digital Currencies, from the University of Cyprus.

Billys is an important member of the Greek Bitcoin community, and he made sure we are too. He is constantly helping us with the adoption by acting as the voice of ZoidPay in the Greek Crypto Community.

Moreover, he is the voice of the crypto community, as he spoke about Bitcoin on numerous occasions on local mainstream media, you can check the interviews here, here and here. You can also check his written interview from emea.gr here.

We’re very happy to have him on our side and even happier to finally announce his contribution to our project.

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Collaborating to facilitate mass adoption.

Blockchain Products can’t only rely on ideology for adoption.

In a world where eCommerce shops have reached a state of the art optimization for the whole shopping funnel, having a cheaper but harder to use payment method that results in dropouts during the check out process, is a serious liability. At the same time, an in-store payment method that is more difficult to use increases the average purchase time and it creates massive administrative problems for businesses (new cashiers, new check-out processes).

Enter the realm of Cryptocurrency, where there are other interesting challenges. In this video, Gilded tackles a very specific issue of accepting crypto: manual accounting. Businesses accepting crypto must also keep track of the payments for tax and reporting purposes, but traditional accounting software like Quickbooks or Xero do not support crypto. The only way to do this currently is via manual data entry.

Not only does it slow them down, but it also makes them more likely to commit errors. This is somehow ironic considering that one of the biggest benefits of crypto is the possibility of automation.

This very specific examples show that even though we all root for crypto for ideological reasons, there are still many areas that make crypto feel like a compromise where businesses trade-off ease of use for lower transaction fees and self banking.

Building Blockchain products people want to use.

Mass adoption of new technology rarely happens overnight and almost never happens abruptly. Usually the best mass adoption accelerators are the bridges between the old and the new.

Instead of waiting for users to learn how to use blockchain products, we build blockchain products they already know how to use.

For example, ZoidPay is a bridge between the user friendly FIAT payment methods and the technological innovation of blockchain, solving one of the major problems of blockchain products: ease of use. It helps businesses tap in to the crypto innovation without having to make compromises.

Instead of waiting for crypto specific regulations, build products that blend in current business processes so they can seamless integrate with current regulations.

Gilded has developed an easy to use crypto accounting app that easily integrates with the well known FIAT accounting software. This allows businesses to properly report their crypto transactions without having to perform time consuming and mistake prone manual input. There’s a lot more about their product, so here’s a snippet from their website:

Collaboration: the key to crypto mass adoption

Products like payment methods and accounting tools are widespread through all industries across the globe. As a result, they require market specific features to cope with different regulations and a different user behavior.
Usually these things are well known and development is planned ahead according to the market penetration strategy. The Blockchain Industry is very young, so experience is scarce, therefore most of the times projects discover these differences later and are forced to develop features on the fly.

In such a young industry, a project can only accumulate experience with time, but if the experience is shared between many projects, the whole industry leaps forward at a greater pace.

Our collaboration with Gilded Finance on the commercial side is very straightforward: both our users make crypto transactions, our users need a way to keep a record of their transactions in a manner that allows them to properly report them, while their users need a product to help them make transactions easier and a place where they can list their products. This complete offering makes crypto usage easier, thus accelerates the crypto mass adoption.

On the development side if we require some features that are strategically further down Gilded’s roadmap, we will develop them on our side or co-develop them with Gilded. We’ve done something similar with Origin Protocol where we have developed a feature that allows users to pay with ZCN on top of Origin Protocol (you can read more about that in our article or Origin’s article about the partnership)

Furthermore the teams will openly collaborate. For example we’ll share our experience to help Gilded develop accounting tools that fall within EU IFRS standards, whereas Gilded will help provide insights into U.S. regulations.

More about Gilded

Gilded is currently participating in the Techstars accelerator program in New York City.

We share the product first approach, meaning that we build the products and investment comes naturally.

Gil Hildebrand the CEO and Founder of Gilded is also one of the Co-founders of Squidoo, a revenue sharing content platform founded by Seth Godin. You can read more about Gil in his recent Blockleaders interview.

You can learn more about Gilded Finance here:

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We’re confident that our partnership with Gilded will result in products that will help accelerate crypto mass adoption.

Last but not least, shout-out to Mihai Herman for making this partnership possible.

If you want to learn more about Zoidcoin, ZoidPay or ZoidShop, make sure to follow us on our social channels below. If you’re really curious and want a quick reply from our core team members, head down to our Telegram channel and just ask!

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