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Skraps has come a long way since founder and CEO Kal Mokhtar envisioned the concept in 2016. We’ve started a movement, built a community and changed the way people see cryptocurrency investing.
Here’s a round-up of our token sale — the ups and downs, the highlights and the lowlights. It’s been an incredible journey — and it’s only just beginning!
The much anticipated Skraps token sale began on January 15, 2018. With cryptocurrency enthusiasts all over the world excited about the concept, we hit our $1 million soft cap target in an incredible 10 hours. From that point onwards, the wheels were in motion and the development of the Skraps application was underway.
It wasn’t all smooth sailing, though, as we faced a horrible bump in the road not long thereafter. A technical glitch with the payments processor caused a flurry of concern among contributors. Some called us a scam, some urged others not to invest — while the team worked around the clock to address members’ concerns and to resolve the issue.
With a breath of relief and a heavy weight off our shoulders, the issue was smoothed out and we were back in our community’s good books. We learnt a great deal from the experience, and the faithful members of our community that stayed positive earned a special place in our hearts.
Our worries were not over yet, however. As the sale progressed, the cryptocurrency market began a downward spiral that sent widespread FUD throughout the industry. People began pulling out of bitcoin and Ethereum, and there was a dark cloud of fear that the ostensible bitcoin Bubble had burst.
Faced with that ever-steepening hurdle, the team put their heads together once again and spent hours discussing the way forward. In the background, our developers worked tirelessly on the minimum viable product (MVP), the prototype version of the Skraps application that would share our vision with our community.
Throughout the time that we spent deliberating on the best action to take — one that would be in the interest of our community as well as Skraps — we kept a careful ear to the ground for the feedback that we were given and the suggestions and requests that we received.
A common thread of conversation was an extension of the token sale. Many people expressed that although they wished to contribute to the sale, they’d prefer to wait until such a time as the market had recovered.
Others agreed from a slightly different perspective. Carrying out their much-respected due diligence, several community members wanted to see the MVP before purchasing tokens, in order to be confident of the product they were supporting.
We found ourselves at a crossroads. While we understood our community’s position, we didn’t want to be too hasty in extending the token sale. It is a common tactic employed by several ICOs simply looking to increase their funds raised, which was not the reason in our case. Moreover, we wanted to be exceptionally careful about our image as a legitimate company following the necessary steps to develop a revolutionary product in an industry which didn’t even exist ten years ago.
We settled on creating a second phase of the token sale, ending the first phase as initially planned on February 15, 2018. Allowing a ten-day break for the market to recover and the MVP to be released the second phase began on February 25, 2018.
Phase two was an exciting time for us as we made some enormous developmental leaps behind the scenes. One of the key differences was that we switched from the initial payment processor utilized and instead employed a smart contract. This allowed our token buyers to receive their tokens almost immediately after purchase, enhancing user experience and cutting out an incredible amount of admin from the team’s side.
Internet security expert, John McAfee, also came on board as our security advisor, and began working with us to integrate the most advanced safety features with the Skraps platform.
Our MVP was very well received by the community, with it sparking a buzz on social media and generating a flood of additional token buyers. For the first time, our community could see what we had been seeing in our minds all along, and the excitement was contagious.
On March 17, our bounty program ended, having had a large number of members whose incredible collective effort played a major part in building the Skraps brand and image. We began compiling all the data from the bounty at this point, which involved manually checking each social media post, blog article and YouTube video that was contributed by our members. We were in awe of the work that had been done!
The gates of our token sale were closed for good on March 18, 2018, having sold over 16 million SKRP tokens. An incredible feat indeed, as our sale coincided with the worst market-wide dip in cryptocurrency’s brief history.
Right at the start of our venture, we calculated an optimal number of tokens we wished to have in circulation for the smooth running of the Skraps platform. This number allowed sufficient tokens to make the platform accessible to users across the globe, giving the Skraps app capacity to scale and grow with its adoption.
As a result, we opted not to burn the unsold tokens from our sale, but instead distributed them proportionately among all token buyers in the form of an airdrop at the end of our sale. Not only did this encourage people to buy during the sale and not only once they hit exchanges, but we were able to maintain the number of tokens we had envisioned having throughout the Skraps network.
As of April 12, 2018, Skraps tokens can be traded on IDEX, BTC-Alpha, ForkDelta, and Yobit. We have several more, larger exchanges on the horizon where we are soon to be listed, and the future is looking bright for the SKRP token and the Skraps platform.
It is only a matter of time before the fully-functional beta version of the app is due to be released, and we are all holding our breaths. With the token sale just the beginning, the team has not stopped working on creating an amazing cryptocurrency investing application that we expect will take the world by storm.
The second quarter of 2018 as expected by various analysts and experts did bring very welcoming days in the crypto-market as almost all coins are in the green on double digit gains. Out of the leading cryptocurrencies standing out strongly are EOS and IOTA as the latter one is on 22.95% increase in the last 24-hours reaching the $1.25 mark.
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For the time being, the daily declining trend was cleared and the pair MIOTA/USD made it past the major $1.20 again since mid-March. As long as the price stays above the mentioned level, IOTA could test the big $1.50 in the upcoming days if everything moves like the market is doing right now.
The IOTA team received a mighty boost as the news of Dr. Rolf Werner, the head of Central Europe business at Fujitsu’s connection with the cryptocurrency surfaced.
Werner before joining IOTA foundation was part of Fujitsu’s business development in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. He is today the in the chairman, Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmBH Board where he’s depended solely on. He is seen as the go-to business developer.
“We are thrilled to have Dr. Rolf Werner join the IOTA Foundation. Rolf’s unmatched enthusiasm and drive will be of great value for the IOTA project as it continues to cement it’s leading role in the DLT space. With his wide network and knowledge we are confident that our collaboration will bear plenty of fruits. Give him a warm welcome!”
On joining the IOTA Foundation, Dr. Werner re-emphasized the many possibilities that DLT and Tangle bring to the world. He stated that the use cases of this platform go beyond being used in securing machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and payments.
For instance, we could see the use of this technology in supply chain management where it could provide a tamper-proof mechanism to monitor the movement of goods.
If you are looking for a well-cemented long term choice, the project that has a crystal clear vision of the future would be wise to go as it will turn out just good. So, cryptocurrencies should not just be cared about their price per unit but more of a solution/product/service that it offers.
For starters, IOTA is supported on a platform that flies past the present blockchain technology of other competing coins and their existing issues/problems that they do face. Designed by the well-respected mathematician Serguei Popov – the system Tangle is the introduction of a very unique distributed ledger tech to the community.
For the system to function properly, there is no need for miners to complete transactions as the network is planned in that way that every time a new transaction is issued, it is confirmed by the next one as the present one confirms two prior itself being requested. The more users, the better the system-network with no problem of overpopulation.
Now you can apply the IOTA technology to the fields of education, health, innovation, and collaboration. All these fields are beginning to diversify into the use of DLT. And it seems that companies, governments, and cities will continue to gravitate towards it.
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