Topic: [ANN] [ICO September 1] ALIS - Japanese Social Media Network (Read 47132 times)

Here are some "updates" on this token.

It has been six years since the ICO, which raised no less than 11,666 ETH.

The website alis.to, doesn't seem to have evolved much over the years, except for some NFT badge awards. Some early Alis users are still making new posts.

Development was paused several years ago because for the team to work on some B2B projects to generate cash flow and present the company as legitimate in the eyes of Japanese regulators. It was supposedly a self-inflicted prerequisite for listing on Japanese exchanges.

The CEO, Masahiro Yasu, left the company last year for undisclosed reasons.

ALIS Co., the company, has been acquired by Minkabu, which operates, among other things, an internet portal about finance and the stock market. Later, Alis merged with Livedoor (also owned by Minkabu). Livedoor was once a popular Japanese portal; however, I am not sure of its current popularity.

Recently, Jimmy, the English speaker and the only representative on Discord, left the company, and the Discord channel has also been closed.

Communication has always been opaque (once they got the money), and even more over time. With the company behaving as if all matters were of the utmost confidential nature. In my opinion, they have been extremely disrespectful, to put it politely, towards investors.

The token has never been listed on a major exchange. (It was tradable on Cryptopia and Coinexchange.io, but both have been defunct for a long time.)

I think Japanese investors are hopeful that Livedoor will create a token that can be swapped with the old Alis tokens. I anticipate the website alis.to will close at some point.

~3m alis tokens got stolen from cryptopia (if i understand correctly) and i suppose got dumped today on yobit/coinexchange.

If your tokens were on cryptopia you can say good bye.
If you are accumulating, just keep them on an eth address (MEW, etc), don't let them on exchanges.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll run it by the rest of the team.

In the meantime, here is an article that will explain the development process of the whole platform up until now:
https://alis.to/ALIS-official/articles/3ldQQnBrlqXQ

Your welcome Jimmy,

Of course and rightly so, you are one of the dedicated members as far as I remember, although I didn't participate in ICO, I came to know about this project later.

Will join you there as well and Speaking of awareness, did you guys thought about running a bounty? could be a good move, it's just a suggestion.

Thanks man! I’m really happy to hear me getting hired sits well with the community.

Today we opened a new Reddit page - the other one was setup and managed by a volunteer in the ICO period. All English content will be shared there. I eventually hope to, together with the rest of the community, use mostly Reddit  to come up with ideas regarding what kind of info/content we should produce to raise awareness for the project.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ALIS_Official/?st=JT5WTQMV&sh=6e247ed4

Congrats @Jimmy,

I heard that you recently joined Alis's team, happy for you bro and I think it's a very good move from Alis and good for the project as well. You can fill the language Gap between Japanese (Alis's team) and the English community.

Which was somehow lacking in terms of Project's update in all social media and community discussions. I wish you luck on your new journey. Cheers Brother!

even though it's still alive if ALIS doesn't enter new markets like, Hitbtc, Kucoin, Hotbit,
of course ALIS will die, but seeing prices rise 30% and volume going up, this gives hope

I’ll look out for your message on Discord! 

About the Cryptopia hack, what I have been told is that the team has received a general notice from Cryptopia about a security breach, but have not heard anything specific about the ALIS that were stored on the platform by traders. I also read somewhere that the Cryptopia office was put on lockdown by the police and that staff was not allowed to enter. Whatever the case, I think this issue will take quite some time to be resolved.

Great @Jimmy, will drop you text there or say hi sometime. One of the exchange got hacked recently (cryptopia) it was the first exchange which listed the Alis. do you guys are still in contact with them by any chance or any sort of communication?

There is a high chance that a significant amount of investor lost their token including me. was in accumulating mode 

Thanks for posting this! To elaborate a bit more on this, the team has indeed announced the platform is now officially in Open Beta.
There is no full length official article in English about what this entails, so here is a brief explanation from me:
In the open beta period, a total of 12 new features will be added to the platform in order to expand the test scope. The underlying motive for these functions
are to make the platform more open to everyone, instead of catering to the community that has been around since the ICO and consists of crypto/blockchain enthusiasts (this last part is an assumption made by me personally).


That's me!


As ambassador I feel inclined to thank you for your support   

I bought this little-known token on etherdelta year ago, I'm just glad that it's still alive

Thanks Jimmy, appreciate that. I found that article via Discord channel. maybe you posted in Discord channel. are you the same guy who go by the name of Jimmy in discord group?

The article might take a little longer to write since I have some other stuff I have to do, but I'll be sure to spend some time on this matter as well. However, since, even though I am an 'official ambassador', the team does not share specific information about their plans regarding sensitive stuff like this, I won't be able to answer this question with the assurance it is actually correct. However, I can provide educated guesses, which is what I'll do in the article.

Here it is:
https://alis.to/JimiVD/articles/2vAbwrG8qboP

Hey Jimmy, if you can tackle the exchange listing issue in your article then it would be great IMHO. like i already mentioned in my above post that they are not very interested in it and am just wondering what's the actual reason behind this step.

Hey all,

I am sure you were already aware of the cooperation of Microsoft Japan and ALiS (https://alis.to/ALIS-official/articles/KmQ0nYMX1pog). Today new info about the next steps in the production was released at the Microsoft Tech Summit 2018 (https://www.microsoft.com/ja-jp/events/techsummit/2018/) (https://twitter.com/ALIS_media/status/1060100514472374273)

I am planning to write an article on this and was wondering if there were specific things you guys would like to know.

I don't want to jump into the speculation game, and with due respect we shouldn't be much excited about collaborating things either yet, every other project coming out on a daily basis with these kinds of collaboration. its long journey for Alis.

Binanace, bitterx is a long shot. and i guess Masahiro Yasu(CEO) clearly understand that. That's why they are focusing on Japanese exchange/market and if we get lucky then during the bull market, chances are its price can skyrocket for a limited period just like Monacoin.

I am very confident that ALIS will become a successful ICO by the end of 2018. ALIS collaborating with Microsoft is a big thing in my opinion, I'm sure Binnace, bittrex or bithumb will be the home of ALIS later

Big update today:

They are not very keen to listed in big exchange right now. Guess they are trying to list on regulated Japanese exchange first, but the team keeps working on the platform and they are kind of active in their Discord and twitter regarding development.

Hey everyone, as a first step in an attempt to help the team provide info about ALIS to people outside of japan and don't know Japanese, I am working on a twitter bot that tweets data about the platform. For now all it does is tweet the no. of new and total articles on the platform. I am looking into adding the amount of likes and other data as well.

Link to the bot account:
https://twitter.com/ALISDataBot