MISSION

The mission of Safinus is to make highly profitable investments in cryptoassets available to a broad audience of new entrants while allowing professional market participants to significantly increase their amount of managed assets and profits.

One of the main components of the Safinus platform is the unique portfolio joining mechanism. Which allows experienced investors and cryptofunds to create a cryptocurrency and ICO token portfolio on the internal Safinus exchange, which new investors can join in just a few clicks. The platform will provide a portfolio rating and provide a transparent reports on each portfolio. 

Problems & Solutions

There are exist large professional players within the market - cryptofunds. They demonstrate colossal profits in comparison to common traditional market metrics, but they run into a row of problems that stump their development:

1.First off, an absence of a regulatory framework in most countries leads to additional difficulty for cryptofunds to assure investors, especially outside the bounds of their regions, that their funds will remain secure. This seriously localizes their operations and limits the amount of new clients, especially from other countries. As a result, professional market participants are commonly restricted to working with local clients and experience difficulties in attracting new funds to manage.

2.Secondly, it's challenging for professionals to work with small investors, since communication costs with such clients frequently exceed profits. In order to avoid spending a mass of time on communicating with clients that invest small sums, they are forced to establish high entry barriers, which in turn decrease the amount of funds they manage, and as a result, profits. 

The recipe for a solution to these problems is the Safinus platform. The platform connects new investors and portfolio managers (experienced private investors and cryptofunds), erasing all barriers standing in the way of receiving high profits while providing all of the necessary conditions for a mutually beneficial cooperation. 

The Safinus Platform

-Allows experienced private investors and cryptofunds to significantly increase their amount of managed capital and profits thanks to the unique portfolio joining mechanism for new entrants. 

-Erases geographical borders, allowing cryptofunds to attract new clients from any corner of the world.

-Eliminates communication costs. 

-Allows new crypto market entrants to gain high profits with minimal risks and spent time.

-Creates a well knit community, which helps make the market more honest and transparent, while helping fight scams. 

-Gives participants the opportunity to develop, share knowledge and experience. 

The Safinus platform will bring cryptoinvestments to a new level!

The appearance of Safinus

Significantly raises profits of experienced investors and cryptofunds.

Helps globalization and the cryptomarket growth by making it easier for new entrants to get into the market.

The Safinus platform will not only grow together with the market but will become a catalyst for its development. 

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EQUI

ABOUT EQUI

EQUI is the exciting unification of a new cryptocurrency with an innovative investment platform. Built on Ethereum Blockchain technology, EQUI is set to disrupt the traditional venture investment market empowering the crypto community to join the next generation of venture capital investors.
EQUI will source high-calibre investment opportunities in real world assets, next generation technology companies, and ventures with the capability of revolutionising markets. EQUI will champion innovators and support them by providing extensive business knowledge, guidance and insight to enable their venture to flourish.

On launch, EQUI participants will own tokens that can be traded on exchanges akin to any cryptocurrency. The ICO will enable the development of our EQUI platform, which will showcase the investment opportunities. EQUItoken owners will have the option to transfer their tokens to the EQUI platiform, allowing them to back emerging entrepreneurial companies, and potentially benefit from great investment returns and rewards.

VISION

EQUI is an innovative offering that will disrupt conventional thinking in this space. Backed by a board of successful and visionary entrepreneurs, EQUI harnesses a vast global network to identify exciting ventures that will excel from the injection of not just finance but also operational and strategic expertise.  EQUI is supported by a team of established and proven individuals who have experienced success in their field of expertise. This team of individuals will evaluate all investment opportunities to offer a carefully selected portfolio for our investors to consider. 

The focus for selection places an emphasis on technological advances and early stage ventures that address a significant market opportunity and offer the potential to grow into market leaders. Consideration will also be given to ventures that would benefit from the involvement of an expanded team, as well as a capital injection, in order to achieve accelerated growth. In time, a meaningful allocation of the investment portfolio will be deployed into ventures that have scalable ideas through utilising blockchain technology. The EQUI team will provide ongoing mentorship, resources, operational support and strategic advice to enable these ambitious companies to grow and succeed. This invaluable input will help to transform great ideas into reality, with the potential of generating high investment returns.

Our vision will be delivered through the EQUI investment platform, which will showcase evaluated opportunities. EQUItoken owners will have the ability to transfer their tokens onto the EQUI platform. Once on the platform, participants can use their EQUItokens to back projects and receive 75% of net profits realised on exit.

PROPOSITION 

EQUI is a utility token that will enable access to the EQUI investment platform once developed. All qualifying participants will be able to transfer their tokens to the platform and access an evolving selection of investment projects. EQUI’s unique reward structure is weighted towards providing enhanced returns to those who share our vision and objectives in supporting the next generation of entrepreneurial success. 

SUMMARY OF INVESTMENT STRATEGIES & RETURNS

INVESTOR RETURNS

Investors who transfer their EQUItokens to the EQUI platform and commit to investment opportunities will benefit from 75% (pro-rata) of the net profits* generated from that invested project. There is no limit as to how many projects a participant can invest in - they can choose to invest in all projects showcased on the platform, or a selection that are of particular interest. Participants will have flexibility in the projects that they invest in and also with regards to the value they choose to invest, enabling complete control over investment decisions. This approach provides Investors with an ability to create a diversified portfolio of investment stakes representative of their interests and views. 

As an added reward for Investors, they may receive additional EQUItokens through the EQUI loyalty program. In the below example Simon receives a reward of 20,000 EQUItokens, 5% of the 400,000 EQUItokens invested. The token rewards are sourced from the yearly 5% increase in the EQUItoken supply. Upon issue, EQUItokens are stored in the EQUI Capital treasury account. The EQUI Capital team may distribute these tokens at their discretion for loyalty promotion purposes.

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EQUI Platform & RoadMap

EQUItokens

1.(POST-ICO – PRE-PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT)

Following the ICO, acquired EQUItokens will be distributed to participants into their EQUI wallets. Until the EQUI platform is fully developed and projects selected, participants will only have the option to remove the tokens from their wallets and trade on independent exchanges, akin to any cryptocurrency

2.(PLATFORM LAUNCHED - INVESTORS)

Once the EQUI platform has been completed and projects have been selected, if participants want to use some or all of their tokens on the platform to invest, they will enter into a smart contract which will dedicate EQUItokens to a project. The EQUItokens applied to projects will be sold to raise fiat currency at the prevailing market rate, which will be invested in a project. Participants will not acquire a share or similar security in the project. Rights will be contractual. Participants will not be able to transfer those rights; the contract will lock participants into the investment until maturity. When the project realises value on sale or exit, 75% of the net profit will be returned to EQUI wallets in ETH.

3.(PLATFORM LAUNCHED - HOLDERS)

If participants choose to hold EQUItokens on the EQUI platform, they will have access to the EQUI loyalty program. Participants may not transfer those EQUItokens to a third party but they may withdraw them from the platform and use them to trade on third party exchanges, relinquishing all rights to the EQUI loyalty program. For the avoidance of doubt, no trading can take place from the EQUI platform.

4.(PLATFORM LAUNCHED - TRADERS)

Subject to continued KYC compliance, owners of EQUItokens may at any point place them on the EQUI platform on the same basis as described above.

5.(SUMMARY)

None of the EQUItokens on independent exchanges are in any way related to the investments on the EQUI platform. EQUI is not a security token itself; it is merely a blockchain facilitator. Uninvested EQUItokens can be freely taken off the EQUI platform. EQUItokens on the EQUI platform will be subject to the terms and conditions of the platform.  

Platform Overview

EQUI will utilise the established Ethereum blockchain to process and store credentials, information and transactions, including the acquisition of project stakes, distribution of profits, deployment of investment returns and investor rewards. The use of Smart Contracts, written in Solidity and compiled for Ethereum Virtual Machine, ensures security, reliability and transparency for all EQUI participants. 

The EQUItoken is a standard ERC20 token that is designed solely for use on the EQUI platform. It enables users to participate in EQUI investment projects. If the participant wishes to hold on to the token it can be stored securely on the EQUI platform for future investments or traded through public exchanges.

EQUI is a web based application that is accessed through any compatible web browser. Following the ICO, the platform will be fully developed using the funds raised. It will be user friendly, aesthetically pleasing and provide all relevant information for an investor to plan their investments and review their portfolio.

1.(REGISTRATION)

The participant will complete the Know Your Customer (KYC) process to validate their eligibility to use the platform. Once this is successfully completed an EQUI profile is created with a unique Ethereum wallet, which provides the facility to deposit EQUItokens acquired.

2.(PROJECT INVESTMENT)

Each project showcased on the Platform will be stored using a set of Smart Contracts that holds all information relating to the project, including estimated project maturity, targets and caps. Participants use their EQUItokens to acquire a stake in a project(s).

3.(DASHBOARD)

EQUItoken holders will be able to access a personalised dashboard that will provide details of EQUItoken reserves and invested projects.

4.(INVESTMENT RETURNS)

Upon maturity of a project, returns are distributed in the relevant proportions as an Ether deposit into the EQUI wallet. Ether can be stored within the EQUI wallet, transferred out, or used for further investments within the EQUI platform.

5.(PLATFORM REWARDS - EQUITOKEN LOYALTY PROGRAM)

Each year the EQUItoken supply will increase by 5%. These tokens will be sent to the EQUI Capital treasury account. At the EQUI Capital team's discretion, these tokens can be distributed to users as a loyalty promotion program. Only those token holders who have invested in a project or hold EQUItokens in their EQUI Capital wallet are eligible to receive loyalty tokens.

6.(REGULATION)

We anticipate that the EQUI platform itself will be considered an Unregulated Collective Investment Scheme (UCIS) as per UK statutory regulation and FCA guidance, which is the opinion shared by our legal counsel. This means the scheme will be operated by an FCA authorised individual, which will give comfort to investors that their rights under the smart contracts to which they commit to investments are being managed correctly.

However, we would like to emphasise that the issue of tokens theselves in the ICO is not a regulated activity in the UK, and the EQUItoken is not considered a security, which is again the opinion shared by our legal counsel. The token's utility is in providing a means of access to the future EQUI platform and does not directly or indirectly provide any return. The tokens may, of course, be traded and such trading remains an unregulated activity.

The EQUI platform and token acquisition process has been audited by an independent expert. 

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Blockchain & VentureCapital

Blockchain Technology

Blockchain technology is a transparent digital ledger of transactions and records that are immune to change or deletion. Offering additional traits of increased security, lower costs, time efficiency, and error resistance, blockchain has seen a rapid rise in interest during 2017. The utility of blockchain technology is limitless, sparking the growing list of companies, industries, and governments exploring its potential adoption. Cryptocurrency, otherwise known as digital currency or digital money, has played a significant part in the scaling knowledge of blockchain. Cryptocurrencies are virtual currencies which use blockchain technology – they hold no physical attributes and exist solely in digital form.

Bitcoin is widely regarded as the public face of blockchain and virtual currencies, seeing a rise in value of over 39,500% in the last 5 years. Bitcoin has grown as a tradeable asset and it is estimated that over 6 million people hold Bitcoin as a digital asset and over 100,000 vendors worldwide now accept Bitcoin as payment for goods and services. Other digital currencies have followed Bitcoin with over 1,500 cryptocurrencies in circulation – some are designed to further the advances in blockchain technology and others to provide financing for individual objectives. Bitcoin and Ethereum are leaders in terms of market share, and account for almost 60% of a $486 billion market.

This increased understanding and awareness of blockchain technology, the rise of Bitcoin as a tradable asset, and the growth of the network and the advancement of the technological infrastructure have all contributed to an escalating number of financial institutions announcing plans to invest and develop in this sector.

Recent years have seen the rise of the Initial Coin Offering (ICO), where a company creates a unique cryptocurrency that is tethered to their product, service or blockchain venture and offers their currency for sale to the public. During 2017, this meteoric rise of the ICO has grown to surpass the volume of funds generated by the traditional fund raising process of Initial Public Offerings (IPO). This increasing trend not only makes ICOs a challenger to IPOs, but quite possibly a successor. 

The current commerce and finance market is evolving, technology is advancing, and minds are opening to new opportunities. Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and ICOs have demonstrated that they very much intend to revolutionise the world as it is today.

Venture Capital 

Venture capital is a form of financing that is provided by individuals, firms, or institutions to small, early-stage, emerging companies that are deemed to have high growth potential but don’t have access to equity markets. Such investments are generally classified as higher risk as the companies are less developed, and capital invested is often illiquid. However, when the right ventures are selected, these companies are capable of providing impressive returns.

-SeadStage:The first external investment that helps get a company off the ground.

-EarlyStage:Investment provided to a company that has successfully proven its concept, in order to accelerate their sales and marketing efforts.

-GrowthStage/SeriesA&B:Further rounds to provide additional financial support to grow the venture to its next stage of development usually through an enhanced sales and marketing strategy.

Within the venture capital space, the two most typically used structures are equity and convertible debt. Equity is the issuing of common stock or preferred stock. Once invested, equity is owned outright until some type of sale or liquidity event of the company. Unlike debt, equity does not require repayment but is invested in return for a percentage stake in the company.

Convertible debt is a loan which gives the holder an option to convert into equity. In the event this option is not exercised, the loan will become repayable at some stage. However, it is common practice for sophisticated investors to treat their loan investment akin to an equity stake. EQUI will be the gateway for a wider audience to participate in venture capital investment opportunities.

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Token Distribution And ICO

Tokens & ICO

EQUI is launching an ICO for early adopters who wish to support our vision. Our token sale will enable the acceleration of technical development and all other aspects of the business, including infrastructure and additional personnel. A pre-sale will run from 1 March to 15 March 2018. A minimum investment level of $100,000 is required to participate in the pre-sale.

The public ICO will run from 15 March to 12 April 2018. A minimum investment level of $100 will apply to the public ICO, subject to participants complying with regulatory guidelines outlined on our website.

TOKEN DISTRIBUTION

The distribution of EQUItokens focuses on creating long term value for investors:

-65% of the tokens will be made available to the public via the pre-sale and ICO process.

-12% will be distributed to the EQUI Founders, subject to a six month lock-in period.

-15% will be distributed to the EQUI Team, quarterly, over a two year period, subject to a six month lock-in period.

-6% will be distributed to the Advisory Board quarterly, over a two year period, subject to a six month lock-in period.

-2% will be available for Bounty Rewards.

ACCEPTED PAYMENTS

Accepted payments for the presale are USD, GBP, EUR and Bitcoins. In the public ICO, EQUI can be purchased only with Bitcoins (BTC), Ether (ETH), Litecoins (LTC), and Ripple (XRP). The base cryptocurrency will be Ether. Other cryptocurrencies will be exchanged via the Shapeshift API. 

UNSOLD TOKEN

Should any of the tokens allocated for public sale remain unsold at the end of the ICO, 50% will be distributed to the ICO participants on a pro-rata basis. The remaining 50% will be distributed back to EQUI and will be used to support future investment projects. This structure protects the investor by allowing only those who participate in the ICO to receive the upside of free tokens, helping control price speculation.

FUTURE TOKEN SUPPLY

Each year the token supply will increase by 5%. This is to facilitate the EQUItoken loyalty program. 

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VISION IAGON

VISION

Our vision is to create a global supercomputer poweredby Arttificial Intelligence&BlockChain Technology. This is accomplished by integration across all smart devices, thus creating a seamless experience that effectively and efficiently serves the needs of its users

Powered by Artificial Intelligence to connect users to services and decentralized applications

Easy to use features and functionalities synced across all smart devices

Whether you’re a single user or a full blown enterprise… We’ve got you covered

IAGON’S SMART COMPUTING GRID PLATFORM AND AI-TRACKER TECHNOLOGY

The increasing demand for processing poweris evident for example by the growing sales ofNVIDIA systems for Machine Learning andDeep Learning operations , aswell as other advanced operations ofArtificial Intelligence that require vast volumes of computing and processing capabilities . The technology domain of AI based innovations thatrequire large capacities ofprocessing power(mostly supplied by batteries of serverswith large amount of CPUs and GPUs) include face recognition , video processing , voice analysis ,text analysis , pattern recognition in Big Data databases and digital document repositories , autonomous cars, IoT based decision support systems and many more.AItechnologies and applications are expected to exponentially grow overthe next years ,thereby increasing the demand for processing powerto support both research and their day-to-day operations.

IAGON’s Smart Computing Grid is equivalent to any other power grid (such as solar production of electricity):

1. It connects multiple producers to customers.

2. Smart Computing Grid fulfils the demand for the necessary resource.

3. It transfers unused resources to customers in need (CPU and GPU processing power and storage space), and

4. It benefits the miners providing processing power and storage space to the grid without requiring efforts when their servers and computers are not used by them.

The Smart Computing Grid is based on advanced Artificial Intelligence components thatinclude more than 100 MachineLearning algorithms ,methods and techniques thatintegrate toformourAI-Tracker system.AI-Tracker is the “brain ” behind IAGON ’s Smart Computing Grid . It optimally allocates encrypted file slices to the miners ’ free storage spaces and computational tasks to the miners ’free (idle)CPUs and GPUs that compose the Smart Computing Grid. AI-Tracker is a dynamically learning system that continuously analyzes past and current data streams that reflectthe availability of storage space and processing capacities ofminers.AI-Tracker carries outthe tasks of optimally allocating and transmitting encrypted file slices to designated storage spaces , allocation for processing tasks for rapid , optimal performance ofthe grid and identification ofrogue nodes that should be blocked and removed from the grid and continuously fine tuning the grid ’s attributes to optimize its performanceat any time. 

ARCHITECTURE

The architecture of IAGON’s platform can be broken down into three unique sections . The sections are the machine learning algorithm , the Blockchain and miners , and the encryption /decryption protocol . When a request is sent to IAGON, the machine learning algorithm sends blocks of data over to the miners to process and find for matching signatures . These blocks of data are then sent back to be validated over the block - chain along with an output which the machine learning algorithm will use to identify a node. It will be impossible to identify a node without processing the data in multiple blocks and to identify a correlation thus this provides a level of anonymity and privacy to the users utilizing IAGON’s platform. Individual miners will not be able to identify a certain request or node unless they have access to enough blocks. Blocks are distributed evenly to miners by utilizing proof of variance and does not store any of the data within their local systems . This allows data to be process anonymously without being able to identify any single node individually ex- cept through the machine learning algorithm . In addition , Miners are incentivized to process the data quickly to earn rewards, as such it would not be ideal for miners to actually spend time, energy and money to try to store or process the data.

The Blockchain allows data to be broken down into blocks and sent across nodes. The hashing algorithm utilizes SHA256 and hashes each block with its previous hash to create a chain. When data isreceived back from an individual node, the data output will be matched against the hash of its corresponding block and validated against its header to determine if the output data is valid. This way of processing provides a unique method towards distributed processing as it provides a layer of integrity to the data being processed and to determine if the output has been tempered in any way. In the event any of the miners have manipulat- ed the data in anyway, the returning block will be rejected and the block will be sent over to a different node to be reprocessed . Miners receive incentives based upon the number of processes they perform – in simple speak, the more data they process the bigger the incentives. The encryption and decryption protocol allows for secure storage of data within any external or internal platforms. This provides a unique approach towards decentralization as any external platform with an API can simply be intergrated to IAGON’s platform to utilize its services. What makes IAGON unique is the fact that IAGON is able to integrate seamlessly with current database architecture including SQL, NoSQL, Big data databases, private Blockchain, hyperledger, or any public Blockchain or decentralized network.

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IAGON’S SECURE LAKE TECHNOLOGY

The Big Data market is characterized by the recent adoption of Data Lake architectures, such as information systems that are based on the Hadoop framework, by large companies. The Data Lake architecture is based on implementation of a NoSQL central database (such as MongoDB, HBase or Cassandra) in which files of any sort can be stored and be retrieved from.Companies can virtually define a central depository for theirinformation and data files that does not depend on the contents oron the file types and provides a user -friendly and accessible source for allthe files managed either in SMEs, middle sized companies orlarge corporations.Nonetheless, the data lake architecture suggests that once it is hacked, an intruder can “swim” in the database system, explore the files and gain access to valuable data describing every aspect of the operations of an organization that is hacked. One of the major uses of IAGON’s Secure Lake technology in encrypting, slicing and distributing the data lake files is “freezing” the lake, that is prohibiting by means of encryption and decentralization of files any party from navigating within the data lake after gaining access to it (see Figure 3.)

Hacking a Data Lake of any organization exposes it to unlimited number of security, privacy and financial risks, from online publication of private information of clients, through use and sale of suppliers and commercially sensitive data to trading trade secrets, internal correspondence and digital goods (such as source code and designs of new products). The vulnerabilities as well as the hacking possibilities of databases of Big Data and Data Lake infrastructure are publicly posted online, mainly warning organizations against security breaches that may rise due to use of these platforms.

Few examples from the recent years illustrate the broad scope of threats and risks to organizations (as well as to their customers and suppliers) that result from hacking their IT systems and databases:

1. InJanuary2017,Camarda (2017)reportedthat"Hadoopattacks followedongoingattacks on MongoDB, ElasticSearch, and Apache CouchDB. In some cases, criminals have been know to clone and wipe databases, claiming to hold the originals for ransom. In other attacks, they have simplydeleteddatabaseswithoutdemandingpayment".

2. Atthe same period,Constantin (2017 )reported that “It was only a matter oftime until ransomware groups that wiped data from thousands of MongoDB databases and Elasticsearch clusters start ed targeting other data storage technologies ... 126 Hadoop instances have been wiped so far. The number of victims is likely to increase because there are thousands of Hadoop deployments ac cessible from the internet although it’s hard to say how many are vulnerable . The attacks against MongoDB and Elasticsearch followed a similar pattern . The number of MongoDB victims jumped from hundreds to thousands in a matter of hours and to tens ofthousands within a week . The latest count puts the number of wiped MongoDB databases at more than 34,000 and that of deleted Elasticsearchclusters atmorethan4,600.”

3. Claburn (2017) indicates that the actions of the attackers on Hadoop based systems “may include destroyingdatanodes,data volumes,or snapshotswithterabytesof data inseconds”.

4. Earlier reports explain how to hack into Hadoop systems and to exploit their vulnerabilities to destroy of copy large volumes of data (see for example Gothard, 2015). Given the nature ofthe vulnerabilities exposed , and those that have not yet been exploited by attackers , but may exist in the systems , as well as the lack of policies of ongoing cyber security auditing in many organizations , databases at large are exposed to other parties , should they decide to apply these intrusion techniques The results for any organization can be catastrophic and have a large magnitude of impact on its operations . To illustrate ,the Equifax hack ,reported in September 2017, exposed the personal data of143 million customers, causing a daily fall of19% inEquifax’smarket value.

IAGON’s Secure Lake is based on theBlockchain unbreakable encryption technology, on file slicing and storage of small, anonymous and strongly encrypted slices ofthe originalfiles ensures the complete protection of data files, other types offiles (such as scans, photos and videos) and databases of any size and ensures the rapid retrieval and update of any stored file. Except from the user who securely uploads a file and has the password (key)to retrieve and encrypt it, no one can read the contents ofthe smallfile slices, encrypt, delete, change ,retrieve them, identify their source or even associate them with other file slices that are generated from the original , uploaded file . IAGON ’s technology ensures that even when information systems are breachedinanyway,thedata andfiles thattheyusecannotbeaccessed,deletedormodifiedinanyway. 

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