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June 11 2018 - Etherical Half-Year Update


Payout, Split and New Token Complete

Our new token ZEA Etherical.io is on the blockchain.

Address: 0x95B933F6Fd4A14BCF985fbBCce7eF11779DA48A0
SYMBOL: ZEA
Decimals: 8

ZEA now sell for 0.00003 ETH per ZEA

We have completed our combined two payouts followed by 1000:1 token split. ZEA token holders should have all received your new tokens.

The new ZEA is actually a whole new token, the old one is being deprecated. The old ZEA are now transferrable. Send them to 0x48c53d7461bd0a3e968ef64cd85a7a0feb0c4d74 and we will replace them with the same amount of new ones.


Performance to date
Etherical’s first sale was November 10, 2017, so we are officially half a year old. Here are the numbers as of June 11, 2018

ZEA issued: 32,596,669
ZEA maximum (Hard Cap): 1,000,000,000

Investments made: 12
Current portfolio: Etherical Alpha: 11
Portfolio book value: $260,036.24
Funds raised in crowdsale: $176,955.81

Payouts made: 3
Payout total: $19,180.90
Payout return (ZEA): +21.89%
Token splits: 1
ROI (incl payout): 57.8%

Here’s what Etherical have raised so far from the crowdsale.

BTC       4.50     
ETH   259.17   
LTC     59.18   
EOS   342.54   
BCH       0.31   

The market value of this is the baseline benchmark of Etherical's portfolio. Etherical's goal is to grow the portfolio faster than the USD value of the original tokens contributed.

Adding the payout to book value, Etherical Alpha has outperformed the market by 57.8%. Factoring in the expenses, Etherical has increased portfolio value +90%. We think it is still early days for most of the tokens in our portfolio, and there is the potential for significantly more growth. For example Presearch just hit 125,000 users, we expect them to continue growing exponentially.

Payout # .    Token  Return on Trade  Total Payout  
Payout 1           PRE         266.82%        $12,030.56   
Payout 2           BFT           92.62%          $4,622.84   
Payout 3           BFT         111.33%          $2,527.50   

Total paid out: $19,180.90

Closing the Alpha Portfolio
We have spent 90% of the token sales on buying other tokens, and only 10% on expenses. We have come a long way on $17,000 but a high-profile ICO can cost millions.

Some people like to see a large team, famous advisors and a prestigious law firm attached to an ICO. All these things cost big money for dubious benefit. For what Etherical is doing, it is the performance over time that matters. We think we have built a solid portfolio with good medium term prospects, and we are happy with the way we have outperformed the market and generated returns from successful trades.

We are going to keep things lean, but no matter what there are going to be marketing, back office and exchange listing expenses. If we raise enough funds to do the next phase properly we will be able to promote ZEA at crypto conferences, as well as banner advertising and influencer marketing.

Right now we have 138 token holders, 32,596,669 tokens issued out of 1,000,000,000 maximum, and a portfolio worth US$260,000. In the public ICO we could add thousands of new ZEA holders. This could dilute the payouts from the current portfolio significantly.

To have the most successful ICO we should do an Airdrop and Bounty program, and aim to build a Telegram group of 5000+. A large community in theory means a healthy market for the ZEA token to trade in, so this is desirable. It would not be fair if people joined later for free and that meant those who spent their own money ended up with smaller payouts.

We would like to reward our earliest supporters the most. So how do we raise the money we need for a full ICO without substantially diluting payouts for everybody?

It has taken some time but we think we have found a solution that creates value for everyone. We are going to have multiple funds, early supporters get payouts from everything. New supporters will join each new portfolio.

We have now closed the Alpha portfolio. It will continue buying and selling tokens and making payouts, but it will only grow from profit. We have taken a final snapshot of all wallets and ZEA amounts. To earn payouts from this portfolio, you will need to keep your ZEA tokens in your registered wallet (Proof of Stake). The number of tokens in the wallet on the blockchain as of June 12, 2018 is the maximum possible payout share for that wallet from Etherical Alpha portfolio. The payout is per token, which means if you hold less than your maximum amount in your wallet, you will get less payout. If you have more ZEA than the maximum, you will not get any more payout than the maximum.

If you want to change your registered wallet address that will be possible. One wallet can be linked to multiple portfolios, or you can have a different registered wallet for each Etherical portfolio if you prefer.

This creates more value for everyone because now the wallet itself becomes valuable, even if you sold all the tokens. You could sell someone the private key to your wallet, they could purchase ZEA from our crowdsale or an exchange and transfer them to that wallet and earn payouts from its portfolio up to the maximum token level. Any time anyone with a registered wallet sells their ZEA, that means that the other Alpha participants will get a bigger share of future payouts.

The Etherical Alpha wallets will be whitelisted for Etherical’s new Bravo portfolio, so you will be eligible for payouts from both portfolios.

If we do not sell out all the ZEA during the ICO, we will do the same thing again: close the Bravo fund once a portfolio has been established, and raise other funds in future ICOs.

In summary, existing ZEA token holders will get payouts from every Etherical fund. Future participants will get payouts from any portfolio their wallet is registered to, but will not be able to register their wallet to portfolios that have closed before they joined.

We reserve the right to completely liquidate any portfolio at any time. When a portfolio is liquidated, all positions will be sold at market price and the total amount converted to ETH and shared amongst the token holders registered to that portfolio.

Our Next Portfolio: Etherical Bravo
We are going to make some changes to payouts and scope for Etherical Bravo.

The ICO market has changed substantially since we launched Etherical Alpha in Q4 2017. Institutional money has entered the crypto market and daily trading volumes have skyrocketed. A bearish market for Bitcoin and Ethereum has had a strongly negative affect on alt-coins. Many promising ICOs have seen their token plummet to a fraction of its value after listing on exchanges. This creates a great buying opportunity in line with Etherical’s philosophy of Buy Low, Sell High. Etherical Alpha was designed to invest in pre-ICOs, not tokens that are already public.

The market has changed from a savers market (HODL), to a speculators market (trade). The dynamic between Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, and alt-coins creates many interesting opportunities for traders. We remain extremely bullish on crypto and both trading volumes and daily transaction volumes on the blockchain are continuing to grow strongly. This is just the beginning.

Accordingly, Bravo will take a broader approach – considering both pre- and post-ICO opportunities. We are still looking for early stage tokens where market cap is small, there is a strong sense of community and the tokenomics suggest demand will rise over time. We will not always be investing before or during the ICO. Although the fund will trade its positions, it will not be high-frequency. Some of the funds raised in Etherical Bravo may go to tokens already held in Etherical Alpha, if buying opportunities seem good.

The fund will pay out quarterly, provided the position has increased more than 10% for the quarter. Payouts will be made in the first 15 days on each calendar quarter. The payout amount will be variable based on market conditions.

Registered wallet holders will be given the option to take their payouts in ETH, or ZEA at a bonus multiplier rate. The bonus multiplier will be available until all ZEA have been issued. After that payouts will be in ETH.

Know-Your-Customer (KYC) Compliance
We added code to our token for compliance with European Union KYC/AML laws. We will also be changing our website over the coming weeks to support individual logins. zMint Group OÜ will be handling Etherical’s token sale, they are licensed by the government of Estonia to operate cryptocurrency wallets and exchange tokens. Etherical’s web site is hosted in Estonia and our smart contracts and wallets are operated from Estonia via virtual private network.

KYC compliance means that we are introducing whitelisting. To participate in the ICO, the ERC20 wallet must first be approved. Participants are required to upload 2 forms of ID: a passport or drivers license, and something with proof of address such as a bank statement or utility bill. We require the full name, address, and email address of every ZEA purchaser.

At this time whitelisting is not possible for residents of the United States, New Zealand or Estonia. Exceptions can be made for corporations or experienced professional investors who wish to invest more than 10 ETH, subject to documentation. Please email [email protected] for details.

We thank you for your support of Etherical, and look forward to what the next half-year will bring.

Best regards,
    The Etherical Team

Please join us in our Telegram community group: t.me/joinchat/HP1Rcw-o2WG_ozR3q3aKQA

About Etherical.io
ZEA Etherical.io is a pre-ICO token trading pool, based on the time-tested strategy "Buy Low, Sell High". The ZEA token pays out to holders provided the pool creates a surplus from its trading. So far Etherical holds 11 tokens in its portfolio, and has made 3 payouts. 33 million ZEA issued, Hard Cap 1 billion.

Use this code to get +50% bonus tokens during Etherical's pre-sale: MA196

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Etherical Buys IHF Tokens: Invictus Capital Hyperion Fund
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Token: IHF

White Paper

Web Site

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9S24zzCrEk



Invictus Hyperion is a pre-ICO investment fund, as is Etherical ZEA. We are investing in this as a hedge for our token holders. If Hyperion's IHF outperforms ZEA, Etherical token holders are still exposed to that upside.

There are thousands of ICOs already underway in 2018 and our job is to pick winners out of those we evaluate. We cannot guarantee that we will find every good deal or that every token we buy will be successful or every trade at the best the price. There is always a chance that we miss out on a hit token that earns million % returns, like XVG did in 2017. Broadening our portfolio with Hyperion exposes ZEA holders to more opportunities for hyper-growth.

The team behind Hyperion are from South Africa, and have already had success with their Crypto20 fund - an index fund of the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap. The C20 token often trades at a premium to Net Asset Value and we are expecting that IHF and ZEA will be the same. The Hyperion fund is operating out of the Cayman Islands.

So far they have raised more than 10,000 ETH and 420 BTC, over US$11 million. They will now be embarking on a worldwide summer scouting tour looking for ICO investments.

The "Bodin burn" payout structure of Hyperion is different from ZEA. Instead of paying out directly to holders, they will spend 50% of profits every quarter to purchase tokens on the market then burn them. They see this as a way to deliver price stability and reduce potential tax issues with receiving payouts:

The team has made an important update to the structure of the Hyperion Fund. Rather than issuing dividends quarterly, 50% of profits realised in each quarter will be applied towards purchasing IHF on the open market, and burning those tokens. This effectively reduces the circulating supply - increasing the value of the remaining IHF tokens. This is simpler to manage from the fund's perspective, when compared to dividends, and it should also assist with liquidity. This further addresses concerns raised by many speculators about potential taxation issues related to issuing dividends frequently. It also effectively places constraints on the size of the fund.

There is some controversy over this. The payouts will only begin once the fund has hit $30 million in assets under management - right now, an increase of 170%. Based on the performance of the Top 30 cryptocurrencies in 2017, they could achieve this just buy holding onto their ETH and BTC and not making investments. However 2018 has been a more difficult year for crypto so far. It will probably take several consistent quarters of growth for the fund to be fully invested and become large enough to make its first payout.

Hyperion are also not employing the traditional "2 and 20" fund management and performance fee model. Effectively 37.5% of profits get invested back into the fund, compared with 40% for Etherical. We believe our model of paying out an additional 40% directly back to ZEA holders whenever we successfully exit a position is superior to theirs of buying back tokens once a quarter to destroy them. This is a philosophical difference similar to listed companies paying a dividend or conducting a share buy-back - both approaches are valid. We are purchasing IHF with the expectation of token price growth more so than profiting from payouts, so as short-to-medium term investors this suits Etherical. Existing ZEA holders may prefer Etherical's  payout model which shares returns more directly.

Etherical has taken a different tack from Hyperion. They have chosen to hire a big team and do the marketing first, and then raise money and find deals; whereas we have started small and lean with the intention of having a solid portfolio and track record of payouts when we launch our public ICO. We will be watching closely to learn how the market responds to this token post-ICO, and will be improving our own marketing before our public launch.


About Etherical.io
ZEA Etherical.io is a pre-ICO token trading pool, based on the proven investment philosophy of "Buy Low, Sell High". The ZEA token pays out to holders provided the pool creates a surplus from its trading. So far Etherical has 11 investments in its portfolio, and has made 3 payouts. 33 million ZEA issued, Hard Cap 1 billion.

Use this code to get +50% bonus tokens during Etherical's pre-sale: MA196

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Etherical Invests in Highly Sought-After Telegram ICO

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Token: GRAM

White Paper

Web Site

Telegram’s private sale is one of the most hotly demanded crypto offerings to date. Telegram has almost 200 million users, and is adding 500,000 per day, making it one of the fastest growing apps in Internet history.

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Etherical has 2 channels there, please join us:

Announcements: t.me/ethericalio

Community: t.me/joinchat/HP1Rcw-o2WG_ozR3q3aKQA

Telegram have raised $850 million so far from 81 investors in their private sale, including Silicon Valley venture capital heavyweights Sequoia Capital and Benchmark. They have extended their capital raising to a second private round, aiming to raise a total of $1.6 billion – which would make it the biggest ICO ever.

The funds will be used to expand Telegram’s platform beyond messaging to payments, storage, and identity management. They are creating TON – The Open Network, designed to host a new generation of cryptocurrencies and distributed applications.

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Once a customer has passed Know Your Customer identification checks on TON, they will not have to supply this information for every new ICO they want to participate in.

The total number of blockchain wallets worldwide was estimated at around 21 million at the end of 2017. Telegram’s gigantic user base offers the best opportunity we have seen yet to bring cryptocurrency to the mass market.

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So far Telegram’s sale is not open to the public, beware of scams claiming differently. Forbes just published an article Dear Crypto Enthusiasts, Forget The Telegram ICO, It’s Not For You.

Shelly Hod Moyal, co-CEO of Israeli-based venture capital firm iAngels, is part of the Telegram capital raise. “I really can’t predict the price of [GRAM] because there are so many variables at this point, but if they accomplish even half of what they set out to do I think it can be a top 10 coin,” she says.

[Source: Forbes, March 2018]

Etherical invested at a 35% discount to the planned public sale price. This is a great example of how Etherical Alpha provides ZEA holders with the opportunity to participate in deals that they couldn’t get into otherwise. You might not have a spare $20 million lying around to invest in the hottest new ICO, but with ZEA you can have similar investments in your portfolio as the biggest professional investment funds.

Use this code to get +25% bonus tokens during Etherical's pre-sale: MA095

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Yes the project is still active, in pre-sale. Etherical now has 9 investments in their portfolio

Follow Etherical on Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/HP1Rcw-o2WG_ozR3q3aKQA
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i hope this project keeps getting better and why is that theres no updated info. for this project,hope still active  .
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Etherical now accepts payments in Copytrack CPY, Envion EVN, and Presearch PRE


Some of the tokens in Etherical’s portfolio are now publicly traded. Etherical believes there is still significant upside in these tokens. Accordingly, we are pleased to announce that we have expanded the cryptocurrencies we accept for ZEA purchase to include these alt-coins.

For holders of these tokens, swapping them out to Etherical is a smart way to hedge your investment. You are still rewarded from upside moves of the token, because Etherical makes a payout when it exits a position profitably. You also get upside exposure to the other tokens in Etherical’s portfolio.

ZEA token holders benefit because purchases being made with these tokens will increase the size of Etherical’s position, leading to more potential gains in the future.

To purchase ZEA using PRE, CPY, or EVN just fill out Etherical's Token Sale form (pre-ICO bonus: +25%) and select the appropriate token from the Currency drop-down list. Send an amount equivalent to at least 5 ZEA to Etherical's ERC20 token wallet:

0x48c53d7461bd0a3e968ef64cd85a7a0feb0c4d74
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After an expected slowdown over the holidays, Etherical has started the new year with a bang. Our referral program is working well and many new token holders have joined us. We already paid out our first tokens from selling down a small amount of our position in Presearch. We have expanded our portfolio to six tokens, with at least 1 more to be announced in the next couple of weeks.
 
Portfolio

We are building up a portfolio of diverse and exciting projects. So far the common characteristics across all of them are strong teams and a real underlying business attached to their token, which will drive demand beyond just speculation. Things move fast in the alt-coin world. Presearch has gone public on 2 exchanges and is already showing a strong profit. Envion have completed the #6 largest ICO in history, raising more than $100 million. We expect strong demand for their token which should be public soon.

Please check [etherical.io/portfolio](https://etherical.io/portfolio) for updates.

3DT - [3d-token.com](https://3d-token.com) Nanotechnology, robotics, 3d printing
CPY - [copytrack.io](https://copytrack.io) Monetizing digital images
STQ - [storiqa.com](https://storiqa.com) Like Etsy or Shopify on the blockchain
SHLT - [sheltercoin.io](https://sheltercoin.io) Disrupting disaster relief
PRS - [presearch.io](presearch.io) Get paid cryptocurrency to search
EVN - [envion.org](envion.org) Mobile Crypto Mining

 
When is the next payout?

Almost all token holders elected to receive a premium return in ZEA tokens at an effective return of about 15%. Future payouts will be made in ZEA. If a stock paid a 15% dividend its shareholders would be amazed, but that would most likely be once per year. Etherical will pay out to token holders every time we exit a position profitably. Some of our recent purchases are in late stages of their ICOs now, so we expect there to be several more succesful exit events in the near future.

Do you plan to list on Exchanges?

Yes, definitely. Ideally we want to see ZEA trading on every major exchange, but for the first year this is not a realistic goal. During our pre-sale and main token generation event, only Etherical can sell tokens. After the Token Sale is over, we will seek listing on major exchanges such as Binance, HitBTC, Poloniex, Kraken, Bittrex, Coinexchange. The decision to list a token is up to the exchange, we cannot predict which ones will agree to list ZEA.
 
How do I get more bonus?
Anyone spending more than 2 ETH or 0.2 BTC, will get a +30% base bonus (the base is currently +20%)
If you use your own referral code to purchase more ZEA, you will get an extra +5% bonus for using a referral code AND a +5% referral bonus
If you purchase or refer more than 10 ETH or 1 BTC of sales with your code, you will be elevated to our Gold Star Referral level. This doubles the referral bonus to +10%
We will announce a Bounty marketing program in the coming weeks.

 
When will the Pre-Sale end and the Token Sale begin?

After we reach our Soft Cap of 100,000 ZEA, we will initiate plans for the main sale. Right now our expectation is we will hit this some time in Q2 2018. We will run the Token Sale for a month, or less if we reach our hard cap of 1 million ZEA.

 
How do BTC/ETH price drops affect Etherical?

We adjust our prices usually on a daily basis. The base price of a ZEA token is approximately US$15. You may be able to scoop up a bargain, depending on which cryptocurrency you choose at purchase time.

Etherical Alpha is a good hedge against fluctuations in the Bitcoin and Ethereum price, since we are buying at discounted rates at an early stage. New tokens are more likely to increase in price as awareness of their project spreads and demand grows, even if demand for "old coins" like BTC and ETH falls off. We are already seeing pre-ICOs adjusting their prices in favor of the purchaser if the ETH price drops, which is an added advantage for Etherical.

We believe this is just the beginning of the crypto revolution, and that the overall market cap of cryptocurrencies will exceed $1 trillion this year. Our strategy is not to bet everything on finding the "one coin" that will perform the best, but rather to invest in projects that we think are likely to see immediate success and only get stronger as the word about them spreads. One question we ask is "would we be OK with holding this token for 3 years if it does not perform immediately", and for all of our portfolio the answer is yes.
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Etherical's investment in Presearch (PRE) has been very successful, rising 269% in a month since their ICO ended.

Accordingly, Etherical has sold down 28.18% of its holding in Presearch. Half of the net gains are distributed back to token holders, and the other half remain in the fund for investment in new ICOs. Etherical still has a large position in Presearch, and we expect that to rise further in the future as the company goes from beta testing of their platform to launch and consumer adoption.

Most ZEA token holders elected to receive their payout in ZEA, at an effective return of about 15%.

Etherical's pre-ICO is still open, with a bonus of +25% on every purchase using code MA018
https://etherical.io/tokensale?bonus=MA018
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Investor update from Etherical for Dec 20, 2017.

ALL POSITIONS UP.

https://etherical.io/portfolio-update/


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#sweet Posted this yesterday, please you've posted this from the team! Smiley
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Give ZEA on Christmas Day with an e-card

What to get for the person who has everything? ZEA! Give the gift of participating in the best ICOs of 2018 with Etherical.

Tick the box “Christmas Gift” in our Token Sale and we will contact you to personalize gift arrangements. We can wait until Christmas Day and send an e-card with your message, and will wait until we receive a wallet address from the recipient before contacting them. If you want to send multiple gifts from one account, no problem – our team will work with you to make the gifts happen in the best way possible for you and your loved ones.

Double Referrals Through Holiday Period

For the rest of 2017, Etherical will be doubling the already generous referral program. Anyone using a referral code gets 10% extra tokens for their own purchase, and the referrer will also get 10% of the purchase amount in bonus tokens. This is in addition to the +20% bonus tokens offered during the Etherical Token pre-Sale.
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We have created a Sub-Reddit for discussion of ZEA

https://www.reddit.com/r/ZEA/


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This project keeps getting better and better. This is a huge marketing/signal boost.
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Hello everybody, I am pleased to announce the public launch of Etherical Alpha's pre-ICO investment fund.

https://etherical.io/whitepaper

The ZEA token is now on the blockchain at: 0xC9c75ED6B96aD27D1cAAbde41e1694aED5458D98

Etherical provides a way for anyone to participate in the ICO phenomenon, where gains above 1000% are commonplace and some tokens already show gains above 1 million %.

Based on the timeless investing premise of Buy Low, Sell High, Etherical:

- finds new token opportunities;
- conducts due diligence on the technology, team, and white paper;
- negotiates purchases at pre-ICO prices
- promotes its portfolio through its network and on social media

When Etherical exits a position profitably, it pays back half the net gains to token holders in ETH. The other half is re-invested through the fund in new offerings.

Etherical has had a soft launch in stealth mode, and has raised almost US$100,000 in the past few weeks. It has announced its first investments, in Presearch (PRE) and SHELTERCOIN (SHLT). Both investments are already showing a profit. Etherical has distributed its first ZEA tokens to purchasers. The token pre-sale is now open to the public. Minimum investment is US$100, this is a professional investment fund that anyone can participate in.

During the pre-ICO bonus tokens of 20% will be issued with each purchase (25% using a referral code). Each purchaser gets a referral code which gives them 5% of each purchase made with the code, and 5% extra tokens for whoever uses it.

A maximum of 1 million ZEA will be offered during the pre-ICO. Payments are accepted in ETH, BTC, LTC, EOS, and BCH.
https://etherical.io/tokensale

Medium Post: https://medium.com/@steveouttrim/etherical-alpha-pre-ico-fund-df4554f4dcdc
YouTube analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olB15VDScDE
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twitter.com/ethericalio

Please email any questions to [email protected]

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