The Liquid platform seems like a very risky investment.
The pictures on the websites alone seem to be an indication of poor or lack of a business development plan. Why would you want to show people that your team is made up of kids as developers? The pictures of the team are so candidly staged in an attempt to establish it is a real company but it is so transparent. Why waste space on establishing this is real when a real platform would have instead focused on, professionalism and security.
Also, why would the "17 other exchanges" agree to connect to this platform? Aside from security being a big concern, exchanges would want to keep trading fees to themselves. This would end up costing the user more because Liquid will charge a trading fee, and other platforms would charge a trading fee, DOUBLE the cost to trade here.
I smell hype/pump/dump. Caveat.
DESIGNI do agree with you that the website NOW is very poor. It seems made on wix.com
However,
they hired a designer few weeks ago. On the official launch of the LIQUID, there will be a new website. The trading area is already getting very good improvement in term of UI/UX based on the feedback of the community.
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@quoineliquid/quoinex-ui-kaizen-continuous-improvement-to-deliver-a-customer-driven-exchange-experienceActually, they hired 220 employees since the ICO in nov/2017 (do you think this can be a pump and dump scheme??): https://www.facebook.com/QUOINE.SG/videos/1487544144690830/TEAMDid you have a look the experience?
Former executives from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, KPMG, Softbank, etc.
DYOR...Linkedin, Google, etc. It's not fake experience like Centra (LOL).
17 EXCHANGES CONNECTED . With LIQUID, the exchanges will have more matches, so they will increase the trading volume. LIQUID will have discount in trading fees with exchanges partners.
. The money raised (USD 105 million) wasn't to build a platform (You don't need that money to build a platform), but the money will be used basically (not only) to deposit in each exchange to settlement.
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Quoine (the company) is regulated in Japan (Japanese Financial Services Agency), they use 100% cold storage, withdrawals are more slow (manually), but you will never see "Quoine got hacked. Your money was stolen". They had a huge problem because delays with withdrawals, but they hired a lof of people and the operation improvement is one of the priority now. The exchange partners have to achieve some level of security to be able to join to LIQUID.
JFSA License (2nd row of the table): https://www.fsa.go.jp/menkyo/menkyoj/kasoutuka.pdf.
Have a look this video AMA with Andre Pemmelaar (His FX pricing algorithms are used to trade 20-30% of all retail FX traded in Japan):
https://www.facebook.com/QUOINE.SG/videos/1461327073979204/More videos:https://www.facebook.com/pg/QUOINE.SG/videos/?ref=page_internalhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOR2GJnFoOgTazC5v6mBTSA/videos?disable_polymer=1