As some of you may know I'm working on a distributed cryptocurrency-exchange for Horizon, similar to NXT's MGW.
I found some potential partners for the technical side, now it's time to resolve the funding issue.
No single investor stepped up, but this shouldn't be a problem regarding that's one of the exact things HZ was designed for. Therefore, I decided to create an asset to give the whole community the opportunity to be a part of the venture.
HZxchange was issued with 1'000'000.0000 shares on the HZ Asset Exchange.
20% of that is my own share, 30% will be reserved for the partners of the multisig wallets (for coins which don't support multisig, all of that is mine). The remaining 50% will be sold to the community.
My target is to collect about 5M HZ. Partly as a reimbursement for the work which still needs to be done to have a great product in the end, the rest for hosting while the whole thing is not yet profitable (more about that later on). This results in an average price of 10 HZ per asset.
Sale will start on 1st of March, around 12:00 UTC. The initial prices will be staggered like this:
- 50.000 for 5 HZ
- 75.000 for 7.5 HZ
- 75.000 for 10 HZ
- 75.000 for 12.5 HZ
- 75.000 for 15 HZ
- 75.000 for 17.5 HZ
- 75.000 for 20 HZ
That's a total of ~6.4M HZ for 500k shares. After two weeks, the open orders will be removed and the remaining shares will be offered for 10 HZ each. When the exchange goes live, probably in early April, any remaining orders will be cancelled again and I take the rest of the shares for myself smile emoticon
The code which will be used was already running at dacx. It supports BTC, BTS and NXT (and of course most, if not all, of their clones). I still need to implement the multisig part for BTC, as well as some changes in the internal design of the service. There won't be a public website any more, everything will be handeled via blockchains. This further enhances the security of deposits as well as ease-of-use.
Initially the exchange will offer trading of BTC, LTC, DRK, BTS and NXT.
Profits will be taken from fees on deposits (0.5%) and withdrawals (1%). Those profits will be sold weekly, exchanged to HZ, and distributed to the shareholders.
If we manage to reach a weekly flow of 20 BTC (10 in, 10 out. Completely ficitional and only to give you an idea, I can not guarantee anything. Of course, the final numbers will always be 100% transparent to everyone.) this results in a total of 0.15 BTC/week in fees. 50% going back to the investors means 12 months for ROI. To be profitable for the multisig partners and myself the number would need to be slightly higher, but when the sale goes as expected we can cover the time until then with the collected funds.
When the exchange is running, important decisions like which coins should be added, a change of fees, or (in case it's still not profitable to host when the funds are dry) a change of profit-distribution will be discussed with the asset holders. But let's not expect that, distributed exchanges are badly needed out there!
Thanks for your attention, let's get it rolling!
Taken from:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/NHZOfficial/The asset will be ran by Michael Wolf (Pharesim), one of our developers for Horizon.
Update:
HZxchange asset ID: 17828408937649813496
Issuer: NHZ-UK8Z-XNTJ-HFWG-DAXC9
Information / dedicated Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/426916067474694