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Welcome to the official Tryvium Announcement thread.
Herein you will find all the information and news about the TYM token and the Tryvium Company LTD.
We hope you will enjoy reading it.
Tryvium is a blockchain platform for booking hotels, apartments, B&B, and other accommodations through smart contracts.
Its foremost appeal over conventional systems are lower costs for businesses and clients alike, as well as ease of use and reliability due to immutability.
Get in Touch with us:Specifications- Company: Tryvium Company LTD
- Token name: Tryvium
- Token ticker: TYM
- Token parent chain: Ethereum (ERC20) during ICO stage; after ICO the tokens will be migrated to SysCoin asset
- Number of tokens issued: 900 000 000 (nine hundred million)
- Block time: 1 minute
- Distribution process: ICO
- Emission: none (fully minted at genesis)
WhitepaperAt Tryvium we have prepared a concise whitepaper, detailing our goals, roadmap, ICO plans, terms and conditions, and much more. We hope you will enjoy it:
Whitepaper: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/c118a6_b3c71a5b350c481c878c95ce15ebd665.pdfShort video explainerAnd if you prefer a short video explainer, we also have you covered:
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Executive summaryFor all who do not want to read the Whitepaper, yet want a little more information than the video provides, consider the following as a TLDR:
Who we serveWe serve hotel owners and other hospitality services providers by:- Attracting customers to their listings
- Giving them a cheap, simple and reliable payment system
- Giving them a simple all-in-one platform for managing their business
We serve travelers, be they on a vacation or business trip, by:- Offering them up to 25% cheaper booking
- Giving them a safe, trustless way for booking
- Providing them with more information about listings, so they can make a better, more informed decision
Sector overviewThe hospitality industry generates $550 billion annually in direct revenue alone and at least another 150% in adjacent sectors (restaurants, bars, transportation). Approximately 20% of the sector's revenue is raked by middlemen (OTAs) between hotels (and other hospitality services providers) and end clients (tourists and other travelers). Large part of this is pure profit due to the nature of the OTAs' operation.
Another ~10% is lost on the account of OTA taxes and transaction fees.
Despite the middlemen’s split the sector has been consistently growing throughout the past 10 years at an average rate of 5-6%. It is projected to grow further at an average rate of ~5%.
Problem statementThe booking industry is dominated by 2 massive corporations (booking.com and Expedia) who:
- dictate 15-20% fees to the entire industry
- offer unfair preferential treatment
- stifle competition and innovation to keep the monopoly
- Taxes are applied on top of the OTA's commissions and transaction costs, raising total fees up to 33%.
- When booking for a foreign country the clients also carry currency exchange costs.
- When entering a foreign country with foreign currency the traveler must carry a lot of cash, which is dangerous, and if the traveler runs out of cash there are lengthy and costly procedures for obtaining more.
- If a booking is lost or misplaced (given to the wrong client) the client's entire travel arrangement may be jeopardized. This does not only present a potential financial loss for the client but also a massive schedule setback which may be unrecoverable.
When customers have difficulty negotiating a 14 day leave with their boss, the last thing they want is to see it go to waste due to a clerical error.
The above problems sum up into $100s of billions in losses for customers, and $100s of billions more in unrealized profits for hospitality providers.Problem solutions- As the above problems mostly stem from greedy OTAs, Tryvium is a direct competitor to the current dominant OTAs and has vowed to keep its commission at 8%.
- Since Tryvium will carry out transactions with TYM, thus avoiding bank fees, saving up to further 3%.
- And most importantly, Tryvium is a licensed business registered in Malta, the hefty taxes which apply to conventional OTA's fees are also void.
This means that all bookings done through Tryvium Platform will carry a flat 8% commission with no hidden costs. The traveler and the hospitality provider thus save 20-25%.- TYM is permissionless and global, there is no need to worry about exchanging currencies, paying exchange fees or running out of the local currency.
- Tryvium Platform functions on the blockchain, bookings cannot be lost nor misplaced. They are verifiable at all times and can only be activated with the customers' private keys. The latter are within the customers' respective mobile app.
- Above also applies to all the TYM funds the customer carries on the trip, which makes them far harder to steal than conventional currency. Especially when clients use our built-in cold wallet and biometric locking.
Why we are differentMost new innovations, especially in the blockchain space, focus on serving either businesses or end-clients, and by this create a rift between the two - the side which the innovation was not tailored for has no incentive to adopt it. Due to this, many seemingly great innovations are now struggling to gain real-world traction as they cannot attract one of the two sides. It is a catch-22 - clients bring providers, providers bring clients.
At Tryvium we are building a bridge between clients and providers, giving both high incentives to adopt our system. This will ensure our products have a sufficiently large group of users right from the start. Additionally we have onboarding bonuses for early adopters, for travelers and hospitality services providers alike.
Often startups come up with an idea, build it and in the end realize there is insufficient client base for it. At which point they either need to hard-pivot or shut down the business.
Tryvium's business model is similar enough to classical OTAs that we know end-clients will adopt our services, and while our B2B model is more novel, we know businesses will adopt our services because several have already onboarded.
Many if not most ICOs were started for products which were not intended as monetarily self-sufficient. They had no foreseeable cashflow that could generate revenue.
Tryvium is designed exclusively with cashflow in mind, as revenues generated by the Tryvium Platform will be the sole income stream of Tryvium Company LTD and its owners. As such, Tryvium Company LTD will not play speculative games regarding the ETH prices with the ETH raised during the Tryvium's ICO.
Team-
Roberto Lista - CEO-
Alessandro Sanino - CTO Blockchain Architect-
Luca Pagliaro - COO Marketing-
Lidia Velichkyna - Russian Market specialist-
Roberto Battenti - UX-UI Developer-
Pawel Sas - Hotel support specialist-
Marco Ottina - Fullstack Developer-
Ermanno Fissore - Frontend Designer and Developer-
Gilbert Gain - Community managerAdvisory Board-
Giacomo Arcaro-
Giovanni Casagrande-
Hugo Jacques-
Eloisa Marchesoni - Tokenomics Strategist-
Timo Trippler - FundraisingRoadmap2018- 2018 Q1 - Inception of the Tryvium project
- 2018 Q2 - The project implementation team was finalized and network development phase was initiated.
- 2018 Q3 - Company Formation and private sale. Tryvium website was created.
- 2018 Q4 - Creation of Physical office and onset of personalized loyalty program for Tryvium’s clients.
2019- 2019 Q1 - Official start of the Tryvium Platform Alpha version development.
- 2019 Q2 - We will research hotels throughout all EU to expand across multiple markets. In this quarter we will also start the alpha version of the mobile application for Android and iOS.
- 2019 Q3 - Alpha version of the Tryvium Platform will be released. And selected hotels will start the closed beta test period and give feedback for potential improvements.
- 2019 Q4 - Open beta test of the Mobile Apps and of Tryvium Platform: every user will be able to try them out and give feedback about the future of travel, for free.
2020- 2020 Q1 - The Tryvium Platform will be officially released and tuning will start. Meanwhile development of the Tryvium’s All-in-one solution will start.
- 2020 Q2 - The Mobile Apps will be officially released for both Android and iOS; also, mobile apps tuning will start.
- 2020 Q3 - Development of the Tryvium Gift Experience Alpha will start. Meanwhile there will be a massive push to affiliate a larger number of hotels to the platform.
- 2020 Q4 - The Tryvium Platform will be fully released. The All-in-one software closed beta test will start.
Our visionMost Business Plans start with a vision and mission statement, Tryvium decided to start with facts first.
We consider our vision as a guide to the final milestone on our path, not as the starting inspiration for beginning the journey.
Our end goal is to onboard to the Tryvium Platform not just hotels, but also bars, restaurants, beaches, pools, boutique shops and all other providers surrounding the travel destinations we cover.
By this users will be able to travel completely cash free, using nothing but their smartphone for their payments, reservations, etc.
The 'all-inclusive' offers will get a whole new meaning and vacations will be truly hassle free.
Just imagine:You come to a hotel, register and just walk in your room - without any additional payments and complications. You walk out and head to the beach, a spot is already reserved for you and a cocktail is on the way.
No need to get out of the sun lounger to pay for the cocktail, your smartphone already took care of it.
As you are lying on the exotic beach, cocktail in hand and a nice breeze in your hair, your thoughts turn to a nice juicy dinner. Pizza, something exotic, something local, all orderable with a flick of your finger.
Too many options and can't decide? Let the Tryvium app choose for you.
Perfect, hassle free vacations, like you had a dozen servants.
Too expensive?
not anymore!
Made affordable for you by Tryvium