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Our next listing is live! After winning our community voting contest, we’re excited to announce ETN as the latest currency to trade on our platform.
 
Read the full announcement here:
 https://blog.blockport.io/first-blockport-listing-of-2019-etn/

As the year winds down and the new year approaches, we’d like to acknowledge the progress made by our team over the past year, none of which would have been possible without our community of Blockport users and supporters!

At Blockport, we make sure to provide our community with regular, weekly updates on our team’s progress, and on the progress of our cryptocurrency trading platform (Sign up for our weekly update here).

Now, we’d like to zoom out for a change and provide you with a view of the bigger picture:



What have we achieved in 2018, and what’s coming next?

Cryptocurrency listings

When our platform first launched, we humbly began with the listings of a few leading cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash and Ripple.

Over the past few months, we’re happy to have added EOS, IOTA, NEO, Aelf, Tron, BPT and Zcash to our platform, which resulted from the integration with three leading exchanges.

Many of the teams from these currencies have been greatly supportive, and we’ve engaged in marketing partnerships, announcement collaborations and cross-community AMAs that have helped to grow our own ecosystem and community.

With 12 cryptocurrencies now live on the platform, we’re looking forward to continuously grow this list over the upcoming months.

If there are any specific currencies you’d like to see on our platform, be sure to let us know in Telegram!



The Blockport Token

Our very own Blockport Token, BPT, has recently also been listed on our trading platform. Users can buy and hold BPT in order to qualify for a discount on trading fees. Find out more.


Blockport’s Referral Program

Our Referral Program is live! Users can now earn 10 Euros for inviting friends and family to use Blockport. The Rewards Program is two-sided, meaning both the existing user (referrer) and the new user (referee) will receive a 10 Euro bonus in BPT. Find out more about the Referral Program.


FIAT Gateway Withdrawals

The current Blockport version allows users to make direct trades with Euro and other leading trading pairs.

This includes instant iDeal payments for Dutch users, SOFORT payments for other European citizens as well as bank wire transfers and Revolut payments for UK users. These different payment gateways enable fast access to the platform and immense ease of use.

Following this feature, it took time to ensure the converse functionality: Euro withdrawals. With security as a primary focus, we’ve been able to ensure that users can safely and smoothly withdraw the Euros in their Blockport accounts directly into their bank account.

This feature has now been finalised and activated, meaning users can now deposit and withdraw Euros in and out of their Blockport accounts.

Euro withdrawals also go hand in hand with the upcoming feature of BTC deposits, as it allows users to sell their crypto holdings in exchange for Euros directly on the Blockport platform.


Knowing our Customers

From the start, our team has been committed to building KYC and AML processes that not only adhere to the regulatory frameworks around cryptocurrencies, but that also provide our users with a frictionless and hassle-free signup experience.

Despite this making our product more complex (both for users and for our development team), we’re happy to have taken it upon ourselves. The outcome of this approach reflects in the ratio of users that go from signing up to actually trading - a metric which we’re pleased with.


The Blockport Academy

With the goal of facilitating a wider-spread understanding of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, the Blockport Academy is our own user-learning platform.

The Academy explores the history of cryptocurrencies, the meaning of ‘distributed ledger technology’, and a broad range of other interesting and informative learning materials about the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. It’s an ideal introductory platform for anyone looking to broaden their knowledge about blockchain and cryptocurrencies, or for someone looking to impress their friends at an upcoming dinner party.


The Blockport team

Acknowledging product development only makes sense if we also acknowledge the people development that goes along with it.

At Blockport, we’ve grown from a core team of 5 to a core team of over 25. All in all (freelancers and remote team members included) we’ve brought together a group of almost 40 talented developers, designers, data scientists, marketers, cryptocurrency experts and platform specialists. We are proud to see how well the team has developed itself in such a short and turbulent time!



The Blockport Community

At Blockport, we treat you, our community, as an extension of our team - including you where possible in product development, and making sure to always keep you updated with our latest news.

With an active Telegram channel and a dedicated team of community managers, we’re proud to be continuously sparking meaningful discussions amongst our growing community, despite the the market conditions - and we’re grateful for the role that our community plays in Blockport!

What can you expect from Blockport in 2019?

With the new year at our doorstep, we are preparing ourselves to further expand the Blockport platform with both small and large upcoming features that allow our users to take part in the new digital economy with even greater ease and safety.

In the short term, think of cryptocurrency deposits, additional fiat currency (USD, GBP) deposit methods and trading pairs, additional listings of crypto assets, social trading features and developing our own internal matching engine.

In the long-term, think ‘decentralising’ specific components of our trading platform to combine the best of both worlds - realising a hybrid-decentralised platform.

As part of our 2019 growth trajectory, we’ll be opening up the platform to users outside of the European Economic Area (EEA).

This will mean that users from around the globe (apart from certain countries) will be able to use Blockport and join our community of users.

Just like with our current users, we’ll continue to make our product roadmap as inclusive as possible - letting our users help determine which features they’d like to have built, or which currencies they’d like to have listed.

Having integrated our platform with multiple traditional banking partners since our inception, we’ve experienced first hand the many barriers that still exist between everyday people, the traditional world of finance and the new digital economy of cryptocurrencies. Therefore, our 2019 roadmap includes building additional solutions to better facilitate the move to cryptocurrencies across the board, starting with fiat-to-crypto transfers. More on this will be shared in the new year.

Next to our product roadmap, we are also in the process of raising our first round of equity investment to fuel our growth in the coming years. Expect an update on this in January.

All in all, Q1 of 2019 will be a very exciting time for Blockport, with many upcoming milestones in the pipeline to look out for.

To find out what else we’ll be getting up to, have a look at our live roadmap.


Product Hunt launch

Our full platform release is coming up, and we’ll be running a launch campaign on ProductHunt - a leading platform to discover new tech projects and products.

For now, please create an account on ProductHunt and follow us to get notified directly when we launch officially. We’d greatly appreciate it if you could help upvote our launch on ProductHunt.


A final reflection

Overall, 2018 has been a year of immense growth for us. Without trying to seem one-sided however, we have to acknowledge that this growth has been met constantly by immense complexity, sometimes chaos, and always a challenge. For helping us overcome the hurdles we constantly face, we’re grateful to the incredibly supportive Blockport team, the Blockport community, and everyone else that’s helped to get us to where we are today.

Wishing everyone a happy holiday and a successful 2019!


Until next year,

Zowie, Sebastiaan & Kai

We’ve made some meaningful progress over the past year, none of which would have been possible without our community of Blockport users and supporters.

As we now move rapidly towards the end of Beta-phase in our product development roadmap, we’re excited to share the launch of our platform’s Referral Program with the Blockport community.

Spread the word about Blockport with friends and family this festive season and get the most out of our Referral bonuses.

https://blog.blockport.io/a-crypto-christmas-the-launch-of-blockports-referral-program/

The Blockport Voting Contest is live!

Vote on which coin you want to see listed next and win up to 2k BPT. We will list the winner of the poll on our easy-to-use trading platform.

Vote here:
https://blog.blockport.io/community-voting-contest/

Hi Blockport Supporter,

As global cryptocurrency markets continue with bearish behaviours, we’ve been continuing to grow our community and platform.

Over the past week, we’ve:

- Launched the listing of ELF on our trading platform. Blockport users can now buy, sell, and store ELF in their portfolios. Read more about our latest listing https://bit.ly/2PpEC52.

- Develop more educational material for the Blockport Academy. Make sure to sign up https://bit.ly/2EnnHyK!

- Finalised the aftermovie of our community meetup, which took place last week. Watch the video here https://bit.ly/2UwqKJR.

- Onboarded the Blockfolio ‘Signal’ service. Our community can now use the Blockfolio app to keep track of our latest developments https://bit.ly/2RMJByw.

- Had a TV crew visit our office to shoot a feature video for a documentary about digital currencies.

- Begun improving transaction histories - users will be able to get more info from past trades and money transfers.

Next week, we’ll be focusing on:


- Organising a poll in which you, the community, can vote on what currency we are going to list next https://bit.ly/2zOOUGZ.
 
- Improvements for transaction histories in the user dashboard.
 
- Implementing multiple notification emails of key events on the platform.

As the crypto market remains in a state of uncertainty, it’s affirming to see the hard work being put in by exceptionally talented blockchain-and crypto-project teams around the world.

Until next week

Any questions that you would like to see being addressed during the panel sessions on the Blockport Community Meetup Vol. 2? Ask them here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Blockport/comments/9yu4gu/any_questions_that_you_would_like_to_see_being/

At Blockport we've been working hard to make blockchain and cryptocurrencies more accessible for everyone.


That's why we're providing a forum to discuss how the future cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem might look.


On the 23rd of November we will be hosting the second edition of the Blockport Community Meetup at our brand new office.


Like last time, we are very excited to show what we have been working on. We have come a long way since our previous meetup.


As an addition, this time we are also hosting several panel sessions to discuss trading cryptocurrencies, social trading, as well as the future of blockchain and investing.


Got questions on the current and future states of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology?


Our meetup will be host to industry-leading experts in both cryptocurrency trading, as well as blockchain technology.


Submit whatever relevant questions you may have below, and our team will select two relevant questions per panel discussion.


Please include in which panel session you would like to see your question addressed.

Panel session 1: Social trading and trading strategies

Panel session 2: Future of blockchain and investing

Summary of the aelf x Blockport live AMA with Sebastiaan Lichter (Founder Blockport) and Zowie Langdon (CTO Blockport).

https://www.reddit.com/r/Blockport/comments/9xv8mu/summary_aelf_x_blockport_live_ama/

You are welcome.

The social trading features are planned for q1/2019.

Yes, we will develop an advanced UI to attract professional traders too.


Staking is not planned at the moment. Reducing the trading fees is not the only use-case of our token. You can find more informations about the use-cases on our website:  https://blockport.io/token

I'm holding a few BPT and I'm hopping you'll go the same path as some other exchanges, allowing people to stake their holdings in order to receive rewards from the trading fees, if you do I'll increase my holding and put them in stake.
Reducing the trading fees by for BPT holders isn't that great, the fees are already low anyway.

Thank you for your answers.

When are you planing for social trading features to go live?

Atm, the exchange is very simple (which has it's pluses too), but to attract experienced traders which we could follow with our portfolio the exchange would need to have more complex trading tools. Good graphs, limit order, entry and 2 exits out of position (with stop-loss integrated)... Will you be developing exchange also in that direction?

We are already ramping up marketing efforts. A referral bonus programm will be added to the platform shortly. Further product marketing efforts will be integrated when the social trading features go live. And we are looking for experienced traders / influencers to attract them to the platform (can't tell you any names, sorry).

All the listings are great.

But what is your plan on marketing and when? Will marketing be pushed after the "social media" feature? After availability on the site to "follow" someone's portfolio?

There are millions of new exchanges and how will Blockport differentiate to have a successful marketing?

We’re happy to announce that FIAT withdrawals have been enabled on the Blockport platform!

Traders can now withdraw funds from their Euro wallet directly to their bank account.

With the upcoming BTC deposit implementation this will enable users to benefit from Blockport's fiat gateway both ways.

We've just added NEO to the Blockport platform!

Users can now trade NEO on Blockport, and can save 50% on all trades by holding 2500 or more Blockport Tokens.

Find out more about our latest listing here:

https://blog.blockport.io/neo-up-next-for-blockport-listing/



The listing fees are not carved in stone. We decide on a case-by-case basis about a listing and the listing fee.


Thanks for your feedback.

ARK is currently not on one of our connected exchanges. It will be added in the future when we've integrated other exchanges and/or our internal exchange is live.

Blockport listing is actually getting quite serious. First EOS, now NEO... I wasn't expecting so much good listings so quickly. I mean, what these are actual cross chain listings settlements are much harder than just some ethereum token listings.

I am waiting for that ARK listing. ARK/FIAT pair would be huge for the ARK community, which is quite big...

Dear Blockport team,
How elastic are you with the listing fees? For example say that there's a new project with low market cap which didn't run an ICO and the premine was equal to 1 week of mining. The team is getting 1% of the block-reward and is offering another 2% of the block-reward to charity.
Would you review this project and consider listing them for a very small fee?

The native iOS and Android app is in development, but the platform works seamlessly in a mobile browser right now.




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Hi Blockport Supporter,

Have you had a good week? We have!

Our team is happy to announce that EOS has officially been listed on Blockport for our users to buy and sell. Find out more about the EOS listing https://bit.ly/2Sq8Rvh.

Here are some other noteworthy things that our team has been busy with:


- Updated the complete onboarding flow based on first user-tests and validations. If you don’t have an account yet, test it for yourself and let us know what you think https://bit.ly/2CJ3RN0.

- Euro withdrawals: We’ve successfully tested the functionality of Euro withdrawals. We’ll be working to finalise this functionality over the coming weeks.

- Credit card deposits: Users will soon be able top up their Blockport accounts directly with their credit cards.

- Raising the monthly FIAT deposit limit. Verified users can now deposit up to EUR 10 000.

- From a design and user experience point of view, we’ve been working on our upcoming referral programme.

- Finalising a transactional email flow in which our support manager Adriaan guides new Blockport users through the process of making their first trade.[/li][/list]


In the coming week, we’ll be focusing on:

- Listing IOTA on Blockport. Expect an update this week!

- Launching the new website homepage. We have redesigned it to facilitate stimulation during user signups. As you scroll your way down the page, the content will gradually become more tailored towards Blockport investors. Keep a lookout!

- Finalising BTC deposits, so that everyone can trade their crypto funds on Blockport, too.

- Further testing the functionality and reliability of Euro withdrawals to prepare it for launch. The community feedback we’ve been receiving has been really positive, especially regarding our recent BPT launch. Remember that all users with more than 2500 BPT in their portfolios automatically receive a 50% discount on all trading fees https://bit.ly/2OcaE3Y. On top of that, our deposit fees are still at Zero https://bit.ly/2z94k7E.


Until next week!

This is a very nice addition...
Has anyone tested the platform yet? What about the mobile app? I am trying to do it for a while now, but can't seem to find the time...

We've added EOS to the Blockport trading platform! EOS is the first of many additional tokens to be added to Blockport.

Read more here:

https://blog.blockport.io/blockport-kicks-off-more-crypto-listings-starting-with-eos/