ICO Analysis: Eloncity
Published on July 5, 2018
By Daniel Won
Proof
TokenEloncity will be powered by Eloncity Token (ECT), which will have a few key functions:
- Exchanging energy – ECT will be used as a medium of exchange for parties that wish to exchange energy with each other. Consumers provide extra energy to those on the network and earn ECT.
- Store of value – battery energy storage systems (BESS) need to reserve ECT equivalent to their electricity capacity value. Thus, ECT is backed by the value of electricity in the Eloncity ecosystem.
- “Mining” rewards – BESS, which can be thought of as mining nodes or proof of stake nodes in the Eloncity ecosystem, will be rewarded with ECT for storing renewable energy
The total amount of ECT is 1 billion ECT.
32% will be for the token sale, 32% for “mining” rewards, 7.5% for the team, 14.5% for ELONCITYLab, and 14% for marketing.
Of the 1 billion ECT, 320 million will be sold during the token sale (private and public phases combined).
Eloncity’s token sale will be handled by Tokeneed.
Soft cap is $10m and hard cap is $33m.
Team- Founder Andy Li – led Alibaba’s Cloud Computing Data Center Architecture Team in pioneering direct current power system application to mega data centers in Asia. Since 2014, he has been leading the company POMCube in developing intelligent networked battery energy storage systems.
- Advisors:
- Howard Choy – led Los Angeles County’s Office of Sustainability in developing both energy and environmental programs for the Los Angeles region. The Office of Sustainability manages the county’s $200m annual energy budget for energy efficiency programs, internal operations, and power generation facilities
- Enso Li – chief architect for Tencent Data Center with heavy experience in 240v high-voltage direct current, data center practices, modular data centers, lithium batteries, and rack servers.
- Michael Yuan – software development expert with multiple published books as well as code commits to high-profile open-source projects like Firefox, Fedora, and JBoss, to name a few.
- Partners include Krypital Group – a blockchain marketing services firm that worked on projects like Arcblock and CyberMiles, both of which did pretty well.
VerdictBelow is a breakdown of the risks and opportunities associated with the project.
Risks Private sale allocation a bit lopsided relative to public sale allocation ($19m vs. $8m) but 9 month vesting period for private investors helps balance this. (-0.5)
Maximum contribution for private sale investors unspecified. (-0.5)
Growth Potential- The team has a lot of relevant industry experience, which is probably even more important in a high barrier to entry industry, such as energy. (+3)
- Maximum contribution for public sale investors capped at 3 ETH. Combined with the fact that there seems to be no lockup or vesting for public investors, this can help prevent immediate dumps after exchange listing. (+0.5)
- The Telegram group has been seeing decent growth, signaling some form of investor interest (according to this tool). (+0.5)
- Similar ICOs like WePower and Power Ledger did well (Power Ledger did very well at one point). (+0.5)
- Partner Krypital Group has helped other ICOs like Arcblock and CyberMiles do well. (+0.5)
VerdictIt’s not easy finding great ICOs in the current market, but Eloncity could be worth keeping an eye on while public sale details are announced thanks to things like a decent team, long vesting period for private investors, reasonable maximum contribution for public investors, growing social media interest, similar ICOs that have good track records, and a good marketing team. Eloncity receives a 5/10.
Investment Details- Type: ERC20 – Utility
- Symbol: ECT
- Platform: Ethereum
- Crowdsale: TBA
- Minimum Investment: 0.1 ETH
- Price: Unspecified (Crowdsale)
- Hard Cap: $33 million
- Payments Accepted: ETH
- Restricted from
- Participating: USA, China, New Zealand, and anyone who is a citizen or resident in a geographic area sanctioned by the USA as well as anyone subject to USA and/or United Nations sanctions