AirPod to Revolutionize Travel & Napping Industry, Gets Four Mainstream Industry Advisors on Board

AirPod, a blockchain startup based on the idea of installing private, capsule style units in public spaces like airports, railways and bus stations, hotels, offices and shopping centers, has acquired four industry-best advisors as it enters the main phase of the project. Taking Amar Singh, Nikolay Shkilev, Vladamir Nikitin and Nathan Christian as part of the Advisory Board, the AirPod team is getting bigger and stronger to achieve its milestones.

About AirPod

AirPod unit is a novel idea and an ideal solution for the people who seek a spot to relax, work, sleep or spend their spare time in the public places, but in private. AirPod offers an opportunity for investors to take part in its ICO, which is backed by a real business. The APOD utility tokens will be used in the AirPods initially placed to be installed at the airports worldwide. With time, the team has projected to expand the AirPod’s distribution to other public places where people look for such product or service.

The Well-Known Names Included in the AirPod’s Advisory Board

The company has recently announced the four advisors who have joined the AirPod project and team. These include:

Nathan Christian

Nathan Christian joins the AirPod team as an ICO Advisor. He is an expert for Blockchain-based accounting and financial applications. With more than 35 start-ups on his credit, he holds immense expertise in the blockchain space. Some of his existing ICO advisory projects include TraDove, Friendz, Omnitude, Moonlite, VeriMe, BitRewards, and TraXion

He is an accomplished Blockchain and Fintech international speaker and is among the Top 5 ranked members of the ‘People of Blockchain’. His core areas of expertise include Ethereum and bitcoin Blockchains, writing Smart Contracts and launching ERC20 tokens, ICO strategy, development, venture capital investment, consulting and advising for various sectors.

Vladimir Nikitin

Vladimir Nikitin has joined the AirPod team as Strategic ICO Advisor. He is the Co-founder of Top ICO Advisor, an accomplished legal consultant, ICO advisor, Blockchain cryptocurrency specialist and a member of several Board of Directors. ICOBench has listed him among Top 30 Blockchain Experts. He is associated with more than 15 successfull ICOs as an Active Advisor.

Nikolay Shkilev

Nikolay Shkilev, a globally-recognized, influential ICO Advisor also joins the AirPod team. By profession, he is an entreprenuer, with many successful startups as the owner and co-owner, an ICO Advisor, a blockchain enthusiast and ICOBench expert. He is the founder and the CEO of the Private Business Club, a project for successful entrepreneurs, which also won the Award of Enterprise of the Year in Kremlin.

He is an award-winning Tech & IT entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience working with large-scale projects belonging to Logistics, FMCG, HoReCa and other sectors. Some of the awards he won include Self-Made Russia Award, Tech Guru, and Super Top Award.

Amar Singh

AirPod warmly welcomes Amar Singh as its Senior ICO Strategy advisor. He is one of the leading and contributing members of the Global Blockchain community. Having rich industry experience and being a blockchain enthusiast, he has also been advising the Global Blockchain Foundation. ICOBench has rated Amar Singh as a the Top Expert due to his profound knowldge and experience in the field. He is the part of the Advisory Board Member of a number of global blockchain projects.

Being a Technology & Digital enthusiast and having years of experience in operations, consultation and innovation in the Tech-world, Amar has worked with Tier-1 companies including Microsoft as APOC Operation Manager, the World Bank (as Senior Infrastructure Consultant & Economic Advisor), Airbus etc. His academic background includes B.E. in Computer Science and three Masters degrees from international universities, with MBA from National University of Singapore.

More information about the AirPod project and the token sale is available at – https://air-pod.io/

Published at Thu, 12 Apr 2018 05:44:18 +0000

Investors Should be More Careful in Which ICOs They Invest

As Initial Coin Offerings are rising in popularity, experts are advising investors to be careful about fraudulent token sales.

Fraudulent ICOs

Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs, have become increasingly popular over the past year. Many interesting projects and startups have decided to raise funds through ICOs instead of through venture capitalists. According to the cryptocurrency statistics website CoinSchedule, over $3 billion was invested in many different token sales this year alone. The reason why so many individuals and hedge funds are heavily investing in ICOs is the potential high return on their investments.

Most ICOs have returned very impressive returns for the early investors, and thus they manage to catch the attention of more new investors. But some experts warn that potential fraudulent ICOs might try to abuse the current market trend in order to raise funds without delivering any products. In a recent CNBC interview, co-founder of Ethereum Joseph Lubin and CEO of Ripple Brad Garlinghouse, they gave statements regarding the current token sale trend. The Ethereum co-founder stated following:

High-quality projects, but there have been a lot of copycat projects where people copy all the same materials (and) don’t intend to deliver any value to the people buying the tokens

These fraudulent token sales have also caught the attention of the Chinese government. In a quick response, Chinese regulators decided to effectively ban any ICOs and token sales in China until the government implements proper regulations. Lubin stated following regarding the Chinese ICO ban:

With China’s political approach to things, and with the fraud that was rampant there, it made a lot of sense for them to pause things a little bit and get a better, deeper understanding of the ecosystem, and scare potential fraud perpetrators

Token sales are also a very important component in order to drive innovation in the cryptocurrency and tech community according to analysts. Garlinghouse stated following:

There are a lot of really fabulous things that get done with digital assets and blockchain technologies to reduce friction, to reduce costs, and enable things that weren’t possible before. I think instead of focusing on those, we’re distracted by what’s going on in this gray area

More Regulations?

China isn’t the only government that took a stance on ICOs. The South Korean government has also moved on banning token sales until further notice. Experts believe that more governments worldwide are going to implement and enforce regulations for token sales, in order to protect consumers and investors from scams. US and UK regulators are currently observing the ICOs markets before they decide to implement regulations. Many cryptocurrency community members believe that more regulations might hinder and potentially even damage the progress of bitcoin and blockchain technology development in the future.

What are your thoughts on fraudulent token sales? Do you think that governments should implement more regulations in order to protect investors from ICO scams? Let us know in the comments below!

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