OverviewWoter Technologies is a fin-tech startup focusing on blockchain technologies, The Woter team is building the next generation hybrid decentralized exchange where you can trade cryptocurrencies & fiat in a secure model. Your money stays in your wallet until you trade.
The ChallengeCryptocurrency markets have grown enormously in recent years, from a daily trade volume of $60 million in January of 2015 to more than $8 billion in November of 2017. Despite the fact that most cryptocurrencies are secured by decentralized architectures, almost all trades between currencies take place on centralized exchanges, where funds must be deposited under the control of the entity facilitating exchange. This layer of centralization puts user funds at risk to hackers and platform managers. Most famously, millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin were stolen from Mt. Gox in 2011, and again from Bitfinex in 2016. Recently, decentralized exchanges have emerged to allow users to trade without giving up control of their funds.
Under these systems, trades are executed by smart contracts on a blockchain, removing the need for a centralized third-party to control user accounts. While these exchanges succeed at their primary goal of decreasing third-party risk, their success comes at the cost of a huge loss of trading performance. Smart contracts are far too slow to execute the complex matching logic of order books on high-volume, centralized exchanges. In practice, this means that users cannot execute complex trades, and presents opportunities for arbitrage on stale orders.
The SolutionIf centralized exchanges provide speed, and decentralized exchanges provide security, then it seems natural to ask: can a hybrid system provide the best of both worlds? In this paper, we propose that.
WOTER exchange is secure and works within ethereum blockchain, smart contracts allow us to pay every WOT holder automatically, cannot be modified and it’s there for life, WOTER exchange will be accessible even if the main site goes offline, anyone can upload and launch it back, it’s an exchange system nobody owns, but to make it possible we are distributing WOT coins or tokens, it’s an ERC20 token, by holding it in your eth address you are earning ether for every exchange that takes place, 25% of the exchange revenue goes back to investors for life.
We are creating an earning opportunity for everyone – we are building a fiat/crypto exchange that is low in fees, and shares the revenue with holders of WOT token.
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whitepaperICO DetailsThe WOT token is ERC-20 standard based Ethereum token. WOT tokens grant the holders the right to:
- Receive 25% of profits generated from the WOTER Exchange operations for life which shall be distributed based on the WOT token holdings
- WOTER might have to take business decisions that might require voting. WOT token holders can vote on such decisions that come up for voting.
WOT tokens shall be offered for crowd sale for 45 days from 28 Apr 2018.
ICO Summary- Token Symbol:WOT
- Token Standard: ERC20 (Ethereum)
- Token Issue Volume: 100,000,000
- Price Per Token:1 WOT = 0.25 USD
- Soft Cap: $1,000,000.00 USD
- Hard Cap: $15,475,000.00 USD
- Pre-ICO Start Date: 1 Mar 2018
- ICO Start Date:28 Apr 2018
Token Distribution
The tokens shall be distributed as per the below ratio:
- 70% - Crowd sale
- 10% - Founders
- 2% - Bounty program
- 8% - Partners & Advisors
- 10% - Reserve
Funds DistributionThe funds from the ICO proceeds shall be used as follows:
- 40% - Development
- 20% - Marketing
- 20% - Operations
- 5% - Legal
- 5% - Security
- 10% - Reserve
Woter RoadmapThe current Woter roadmap is as given below:
Jan 2018WOT Token Creation:
- 100,000,000 WOT Tokens created
1 Mar 2018Pre-ICO:
- WOT Tokens will be sold at discounted price and held on web wallet.
28 Apr 2018ICO:
- WOT tokens ICO will take place for 45 days or till the allocated tokens are sold in full.
Q3 2018WOT Wallet Creation & WOT on Exchanges:
- WOT wallet will be available for the public, WOT shall be also added to exchanges.
Q4 2018WOT Exchange Launch:
- WOTER Exchange will be launched supporting all major crypto and fiat currencies.
Jan 2019Income Distribution Starts:
- 25% income from WOTER Exchange shall be distributed proportionately with WOT token holders via smart contracts.
Beyond 2019Dynamic Future:
- More projects will be built, and investors will be able to earn from all of those simply by holding WOT tokens.
- Future projects will be decided by top WOT holders and votes will be cast by all WOT holders.