Blockchain.io (BCIO) ICO Fast Facts

• ICO Public Crowdsale Dates: 27 September to 25 October 2018
• Maximum Discount: Public sale price: (€0.70 EUR = 1 BCIO). The public bonus will be 25% on the first day of the sale.
• Platform: Ethereum
• Amount Raised (Valuation): Total token supply: 100 million BCIO - Hard cap: €20 million - Tokens on sale: 55 million tokens (55% of all tokens)
• Pitchdeck: https://blockchain.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/BCIO_Pitchdeck.pdf

Blockchain.io (BCIO) Utility

The BCIO tokens are utility tokens used within the exchange with the 4 main use cases being:

• Fee Payments Users are granted the option to pay fees for trading, borrowing, transfers, listings, ICOs, and more with BCIO Tokens or in other approved cryptocurrencies. As a result, all the necessary service or transaction fees paid in BCIO tokens or cryptocurrencies will be automatically deducted from their wallets. All trades are subject to a trading fee except BCIO token “long” trades.

• Discounted Trading Any platform fees that are paid in BCIO tokens are subject to discounts. With an established discount token tier system, certain discounts will be in place according to the total amount of BCIO tokens the trader holds. Percentages for each tier will be decided after the token sale following a survey with the BCIO token holders; though a sample of the framework will be released soon by the team.

• Polls & Survey Participation Rights BCIO token holders will be granted participation rights such as the aforementioned survey to establish a vibrant and trustworthy community. Regular polls and surveys will be held for the platform such as features of new token listings, technological and functional features, buyback programs, token burns, and more. Voting weights will be valued based on its proportional number of tokens held in the users wallet.

• Loyalty & Rewards BCIO tokens will be used to incentivize loyalty through platform usage and also reward external developers for their contributions. Existing users on Paymium.com and early Blockchain.io adopters also benefit; as these users will have privileged access to ICO’s organized by Blockchain.io, airdrops for new listings, to competitions with prizes and other complimentary platform services. To summarize its features, the BCIO Token has several utilities on the Blockchain.io platform and takes a rather inclusive stance on its token holders. This is seen through its incentivised loyalty programmes and survey rights which gives the token more than just a discount on services.

Blockchain.io (BCIO) Team, Advisors, Partners, and Investors

• Pierre Noizat Founder & CEO - Pierre is the CEO of Paymium, one of the oldest and first Bitcoin Exchanges. With experience in Cryptography, he’s a recognized expert in the Cryptocurrency industry. He’s written several books and articles, and engaged in major conferences (ie. Bitcoin Conference, PayForum).

• Dominique Rodrigues CTO - Research Engineer with more than 15 years of experience in the French Atomic Energy Commission. Founded 2 startups, an expert in Cloud Computing with 2 patents in Distributed Cloud Computing and in Security. Holds a PhD in numerical simulation & high performance parallel computing.

• Pierre Tavernier CMO - A strategic planner with entrepreneurial experience in the financial sector. Pierre has worked in 7 countries over the past 10 years with a Masters in Management in Corporate Finance and Financial Markets.

• Laetitia Zito CFO - With more than 10 years experience in Financial Management and Control, she’s worked in Canada, the US, and France; and is an expert in International Business Management.

• With a strong team supporting them as well, including Anthony Grouselle Full-stack developer. Emmanuel Vaillant Dev Ops. Samuel Bezerra Mobile developer and Product Owner. Guillaume Berche Marketing & Business developer. Julien Lee Kien On Marketing & Business developer. Anne Bezet Communication Manager. Victor Labrusse Marketing Manager. Romain Villa Client Support Manager. Audric Delcourt Account Manager. Gary Benezat Product Owner. Based on an assessment of the team, it’s clear that each individual has relevant experience and technical knowledge within their respective fields.

Below is a list of some of their main advisors which displays the calibre of support behind Blockchain.io.

• Jean-Pascal Beaufret - Jean has fulfilled various official roles and was the former General Manager of the Tax Administration. Former Executive at French Ministry of Finance (1977-1999). CFO of Alcatel and Alcatel-Lucent, telecom equipment maker (1999-2007) and CFO of NBN Co. Currently he’s the Advisor for Goldman Sachs in France.

• François Véron - Founder & Managing Partner of NewFund

• Guillaume Arnaud - Managing Director of Tikehau Investment Management

• Xavier Faure - Partner at Spring Invest

• Cyril Moutran - Co-founder & CEO of Friendly & Co-founder of Feedly

• Julian Kaljuvee - Director at Founders Capital Ltd & Quantitative Analyst at HSBC Global Banking & Markets

• Muriel Goldberg-Darmon - Partner (Corporate Finance, Regulatory Compliance) at Cohen & Gresser LLP

BCIO clearly have significant backings from partners and advisors from multiple venture funds, a global strategy and communication consultancy firm, and an international law firm.

Paymium’s operations for over 7 years displays more than just a mere level of competence and represents a deeper knowledge of the industry. Blockchain.io appears to be a logical extension beyond their current operations, and it looks as if they have the right people in place to make things happen.

Blockchain.io (BCIO) Roadmap

When comparing the updated pitchdeck to their whitepaper, BCIO has slightly delayed the deployment of their exchange, which was scheduled for late Q3 2018, and has since been pushed back to Q4 2018.

This is nothing concerning since the team has released their MVP (Minimum Viable Product) to early investors, and are currently holding their private sale rounds for whitelisted members (Started 14 May 2018). Their Public Crowdsale will begin 17 September 2018.

Blockchain.io (BCIO) Tokenomics

Blockchain.io (BCIO) Value

The Public Sale will value 1 BCIO Token at 0.7 EUR. Blockchain.io is currently looking to raise a revised 20 Million Euros ($23 Million USD) as their hard cap. This was a rather large sum but thankfully has been reduced recently. The amount is still more than able to allow Paymium to grow as a large majority of the raise will be dedicated to marketing efforts and onboarding new users into their exchange.

Blockchain.io (BCIO) Transparency

Blockchain.io has been open and forward in communicating their efforts throughout several online communication channels such as on Telegram, BitcoinTalk, Twitter, Medium, etc. They have several posts on Youtube with interviews and updates given by the CEO. There is also an active Telegram group with responsive admins, but one area of concern is in the limited information surrounding the Private Sale.

Blockchain.io (BCIO) Distribution

A revised 55% of the 100 Million BCIO tokens will be sold in the token sale.

The remaining 45% will be distributed as follows:

• 16% for the Team
• 15% for their Inventory
• 10% for Airdrops & ecosystem Incentives.
• 4% for the Advisors

Blockchain.io (BCIO) Social Awareness and Interest

Blockchain.io has secured a highly sought after domain name and has an edge in driving significant traffic to its site solely from its name and search engines.

Their Bitcointalk forum has been filled with waves of positive comments and posts. Its Telegram group has amassed over 41,000 users partially due to its ongoing BCIO Bounty programme. Their Sub Reddit is actively buzzing with new posts and comments over the excitement and updates with over 22,000 readers.

Facebook almost has 13,000 Likes and 33,000 Followers on Twitter. People are well aware of this ICO and the public sentiment on BCIO appears to be highly positive.

Blockchain.io (BCIO) Summary

Blockchain.io aims to tackle security breaches, non-compliance issues, operational opacity, and outages by offering the highest security, reliability, and accountability standards.

Based on community awareness, it has managed to yield significant exposure through effective marketing and branding activities. People are aware of its offerings and the sentiment appears positive towards its efforts in becoming the gateway to the ‘Internet of Value’.

Their application of cross-chain settlement protocols to the traditional centralized exchange approach is an intriguing factor to consider, since it takes an innovative and contrasting approach to what other exchanges offer today. Time will only tell whether this will be a success as all the exchanges features are projected to be available only by early 2020, which is still a while a to go.

Ultimately, Blockchain.io is equipped with a high calibre team along with its advisors to execute the BCIO Initial Coin Offering. Token holders will benefit with discounted trading, fee settlement, survey participation rights, and loyalty & reward incentives within its ecosystem. This exchange comes as an extension to Paymiums existing platform which has a number of years of experience in the crypto industry with a careful approach to compliance and regulation. This is an interesting project many investors in the crypto-space should keep a lookout for as the space becomes more heavily regulated and secure.

EDIT: Additional Information provided by the Blockchain.io (BCIO) team 31 August 2018.

We already have an MVP running, and a beta version will be released soon. Our bounty program ended on July 31, rankings have been published.

Residents from the following countries are not allowed to participate in the Token Sale: American Samoa, Ethiopia, Guam, Iran, Namibia, North Korea, Pakistan, Palau, Samoa, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, US Virgin Island and Yemen.

The Token Sale collection platform will be launched 2 weeks before the Token Sale. People interested in the token sale will be able to sign-up and do the KYC process before the Token Sale opens.

Blockchain.io (BCIO) is a project of Paymium.com, one of the oldest bitcoin exchanges in the world, founded in 2011 and hack-free since the beginning of operations in 2013. Ultra-secure and profitable, Paymium is registered with the French regulation authority ACPR and accounting are certified by external auditors.

Based on its record and experienced team, Paymium is launching a new crypto-exchange: Blockchain.io. This platform will be fully dedicated to crypto-trading while Paymium will remain the privileged hub for fiat currencies. Paymium customers (currently at 170,000 + accounts) will automatically have a blockchain.io account and will obtain incentives for their loyalty.

Our new platform will offer:

- For users: centralized order books (maximum liquidity) and decentralized settlement (even more security), advanced trading orders with Maker & Taker fees at 0.1% with additional discounts, market-making and peer-to-peer lending

- For entrepreneurs & institutions: ICO planning & execution services (thanks to an extensive network of bankers, lawyers, marketers, technologists, etc) up to the Blockchain.io exchange listing and guaranteed liquidity for BCIO tokens.

What sets us apart is a concentrated effort in Europe, where the crypto market is largely still in its infancy and which as of today lacks a transparent and regulated crypto-exchange with a proprietary token enabling institutions to launch their ICOs. Our proprietary token will allow us to offer incentives to bootstrap the liquidity of the trading platform.

Xavier Niel’s fund Kima Ventures is advising the project and is a long-time investor with Paymium. Jean-Pascal Beaufret, Goldman Sachs advisor and former GM of the French tax administration, is also on board. Open to US Accredited Investors (the project is registered with the SEC). Submitted to AMF (French SEC equivalent) to ensure regulatory compliance.

Blockchain.io’s exchange will be launched in November, right after the Public Sale closure. BCIO tokens will be distributed a few weeks later in December, to ensure there is enough liquidity on the exchange platform before the tokens distribution. Meanwhile, a public beta version will be released before the Public Sale begins, for users who would like to test the exchange.

For more information about our token sale, visit: https://blockchain.io/

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