Interview with Holdvest ICO

website: https://holdvest.com/

Holdvest Exchange is a all in one platform that provides user friendly platform of cryptocurrency exchange with building liquidity aggregator, which automatically connects the user with many other major exchanges in order to obtain the best spot price for any supported cryptocurrency.

Beta versions has very user friendly interface already listed major cryptocurrency Bitcoin, ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, Steller, Waves and many more, Holdvest is implemented on Waves Platform.

I Interview Alexey Koloskov (Blockchain and Technology Director) of Holdvest, below is the detail.

Explain projects in 5 words / one line:- A universal gateway to the crypto markets. Build and manage your blockchain portfolio with secure access to every exchange from a single portal
Token economics.:- HDL is a utility token, HDL token holders will get benefits, (a)discount on trading fee (b)Buyback program
©Decreasing supply; 50% of tokens submitted as fees (d)ICO listing and voting (e)Advertising
Value proposition of the project:- (a)investment platform that combines the best features of exchanges, brokerages and instant trading apps.
(b)The platform is built around a liquidity aggregator connected to all major crypto exchanges,
(b)own internal decentralised exchange Holdvest DEX, ©enables users to gain the best price for their trades from a single portal
Who are the Closest competitors? :- Kyber.network, Airswap, Liquid these exchanges are addressing differnt issues,
Holdvest is already talk with biggest exchanges for API access.
What is the Unique feature? :- True market cap, ICO investment, trading, connecting to major exchanges for liquidity, launch new ICO, crypto index fund, buyback of HDL.
Explain about Monetization. :- exchange comission, advertisement in the platform, ICO listing, margin trading with AI.
Explain Buyback program: ​​When an order is fulfilled on a trade and the user does not pay fees with HDL, a standard commission is charged as a percentage of the total order amount. When the HDL buyback program is started, every such operation on the HOLDVEST platform is immediately converted to a market BUY order for HDL tokens across supported exchanges. Therefore every trade represents demand for HDL.
What is the Total number of team member including Advisors? :- 6 team members & 2 advisors, total 8 members
How team members are getting paid / Salary? How much? :- salary + token reserve, 1 year vesting for team members.
Lead developer / Risk of losing Lead developer and backup plan. :- 2 experienced lead developer and 3 supporting developers, I any risk supporting developers will take the lead.
Vesting of token / Token economics / tokonomics :- 1 year vesting for team members, partners and investors.
Intended risk in future / Plans to address the risk. :- Stratigic partnership with high volume trade exchanges for liquidity through API, this will be resolved though dialog and stratigic partnerships.
Proof Of Concept & Minimum Viable Product. (POC & MVP) :- Team worked hard and successfuly built MVP befor ICO sale integrated with WAVES platform, try the Beta verson Here https://beta.holdvest.com/
What is the Marketing strategy?:- advertisement, ICO listing, listing high volume tokens silos.
Plans to Listing in Exchanges. :- Binance will be the first, discussions with other Exchanges with stratigy listing.
Business Development Plan. :-
Q2 2018:​​Platform improvements and optimization :-
○ Optimization of trading engine
○ Price signals
○ Stop loss and limit orders
○ Multi-portfolio strategies
● Q2 2018:​​Mobile app release. iOS and Android version of HOLDVEST portal
● Q3 2018:​​Start of HDL token buyback programme
● Q3 2018:​​Crypto Index Funds launch
○ Open market of integrated crypto index funds
○ Asset management
○ Index fund managers’ rating
○ User investment in crypto index funds
● Q4 2018:​​Fiat gateways
○ Support for fiat currencies integrated (USD, EUR, etc)
○ Deposit/withdrawal via Visa/MasterCard
● Q1 2019:​​Decentralised exchange
○ Fully functional exchange with fast trading, cold wallets and low fees

1. White paper link: https://holdvest.com/Whitepaper0.1.pdf