NEW ICO PROJECT - SOUP TOKEN -- Thoughts comments and suggestions welcome :)

website - souptoken.io
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Contact = [email protected]

Soup Token White Paper and Business Outline

Tables of Contents
Charity the old way and charity the blockchain way
The Soup Token Concept
Feed the hungry
Users / Donators / Holders
Smart Donation
The Soup Token
How to acquire Soup Token
Project Community
Team
Soup Token ICO
Conclusion

Charity the old way and charity the blockchain way
In our current regulated society charities have to jump through hoops, get past red tape and meet certain criteria to even be able to call themselves a charity, now this may have been initially set up to protect the genuine charities out there and to ensure no one is taking advantage of a person’s kind nature by declaring themselves a charity but in essence are just defrauding people of their money. The blockchain can now change all of this.
Our regulators and the centralised organisations around us are no longer needed for trust or transparency, we now have the blockchain
With Soup Tokens blockchain we have 100% transparency and we can see all the donations coming in and we can even see where each donation actually ends up. There is no need for a third party to be involved to charge the charity fees and unnecessary costs.
The platform will be able to show what donations have been received and where those donations have been sent. All costs of the business will be handled via the blockchain to ensure complete openness.

The Soup Token concept
Giving money to good causes the traditional way leaves a lot to be desired. Handing over pounds, dollars, shillings and cents is costly due to fees that can be incurred during the transfer of money. Traditional charities have huge set up costs, rents, mortgages, insurances, fees, charges, salaries etc. Couple this with the new line of street charity canvassers who stop people in the street and convince them that if they donate £10 per month it will help a worthy cause when in fact that street canvasser typically works for a sales company and is on a minimum of around £10 per hour.
Furthermore, the sales company that instructs the street canvasser then proceeds to take anything from 50%-100% of the initial donation given by the kind natured person in the street who just wants to help and feel like they are helping solve a problem and alleviate someone’s suffering in the world via their donation. The truth is that only around 10% of the actual donations given are eventually spent on the problem they are trying to solve. It Is highly publicised that the CEO’s of some charities are on huge six figure salaries, as much as £400,000 in some cases. It is safe to say that the public’s trust in traditional charities is at an all time low.
The tokens will be eth tokens so will be tradeable on other exchanges. However, our platform and project will pledge to always keep a set percentage of tokens on the exchange at all times to maintain liquidity.
Traditional giving is a highly ineffective and even more so in respect of tackling the actual issue.
We intend to change that.

Feed the hungry
The first milestone on our road map is to feed the homeless and hungry people in our inner-city areas. In this day and age, it is unacceptable to learn people are still going hungry. We have a proactive no nonsense approach which will help tackle this problem.
The beautiful streets of our inner cities are littered with people with drug or alcohol dependency issues. Who then in turn beg to get by and kind natured passers-by tend to give what they can. It is widely accepted that giving money to an individual with dependency issues is probably not a good idea because the money is likely to be spent on their dependent substance. However, the people that give money to those less fortunate hold out hope that the money will perhaps be spent on a meal or at least something less harmful. We give and donate what change we have in our pockets to try and make a small difference to the life of someone less fortunate than us.
The problem is this is only fuelling a dependent cycle of people on the street who consciously or not can fuel whatever habit they have purely by being a generous person.
We aim to tackle this head one and disrupt this cycle. We will give people a way to give, a way to donate, a way to feed the hungry whilst having the peace of mind that they are not adding to that person’s habit or even putting that person’s life in danger by somehow giving them the resources to buy the substances that they may have issues with.
With our smart giving system, we have a world in which people can donate once a week, once a month or once every so often.

Users / Donators / holders

Users will be able to donate fiat currency, cryptocurrency, store vouchers, gift cards, even clothes and essentials via our worldwide local platform.
The problem with giving to a traditional charity is once your money is spent, it’s gone. So, a new donation is needed to replace the last one so a marketing and a sales drive is needed all costing money but producing enough donations (in theory) to enable the charity to keep giving. What if we could give once or every now and then but our investment kept giving?
With the dramatic rise of the cryptocurrency market we believe it could serve as a perfect donation engine which could be used to triple our donations meaning we could help up to 5 times as many people with the same amount of money.

Smart Donation

Soup Tokens can be purchased through the use of our mobile app platform or online for £1. Once the user has purchased the Soup Token it is then either stored on their wallet on their mobile phone or laptop so that the user can then print actual Soup Tokens (please see below) which can be handed to the homeless or hungry directly.
Or, the user can choose to have their Soup Token donation distributed on their behalf through one of our selected charity partners big issue, food bank one, food bank 2, who will distribute any amount of tokens to any amount of people you wish. The user can even choose to have the tokens distributed to a specific individual or maybe even a family with young children living below the poverty line.

The Soup Token
Soup Token will print small till receipt type voucher slips featuring our brand logo and a simple QR code with a line or two of texts specifying the amount on the voucher etc.
These tokens can be kept in a user wallet in their app or distributed between our network of charities and givers on the platform.

Using our relationships with such organisations as the Big Issue and (charities) these slips will be distributed to the people in need.

A person or a family can then exchange these vouchers for either a lunch meal deal at one of our participating retailers or for some canned food from one of our associated food banks around the country.

These will just need to be scanned in via the merchant’s wallet. Once the merchant has these coins they can then simply use our buy back system (or exchange) to get paid on the coins they took as payment for food.

How to acquire Soup Token

There are three ways to acquire Soup Tokens
Buy / donate
Via our exchange on our website where you can simply buy a Soup Token at the rate of £1 per token
Mine
You can mine Soup Tokens giving you the opportunity to feed the hungry and make a difference from the comfort of your own home, using your own computer.
How to get set up
Your Soup Kitchen wallet is how you store, send and receive Soup Tokens
Download your wallet
Set up your wallet
Sync your wallet to the Soup Token Network

We intend to integrate advertising space into the wallet to help produce revenue for the coin which will be used to fuel our crypto currency hedge fund making us even more effective. Only vetted advertisers aligned with our cause and mission will be allowed to promote on there.

Feeding the hungry of the world cannot be done alone, it needs a community, a community that pulls together and is close knit yet spans countries and continents helping all in its path. Your help and your involvement could mean the difference between someone less fortunate than you having a meal that day. Can you imagine going to sleep at night having not eaten?
Official charity partnerships:

FEED FRANK
JUST GIVING
BILLY BEANS?
Cloth the needy (NOTE TO EDITOR--- actually think it might be best to leave this out and focus just on feeding the hungry people of the world? But will leave it in there for the brainstorm)
Soup Token will strike up relationships with Primark and 2nd hand charity shops for homeless people to be able to buy suits and work wear for job interviews etc.

Soup Token is an Ethereum based decentralised ledger solely built to transfer donations from the donator directly to the hands of the hungry with as little procedure and bureaucracy as possible, streamlining the whole donation process and bring it in-line with the 21st century. We live in a world where we have the technology to help the needy right now. We just need to utilise it.

Soup Token is an ERC20 Ethereum based token that contains operational code that can help us to feed the hungry effectively. Revenue is to be generated from the commercials applications that sit on top of the protocol.
Project Community
Soup Token community project will be the steering group at the forefront of our project. We will have voting rights on what projects the coin takes on along with discussion forums and further community projects to be spun from this base.

Team

– Chief Coin Officer
– Media & Strategy lead
- Mobile Developer
-Product Development
-Full Stack Developer
– Online Media Team

Soup Token ICO
Starting on the xxx the Soup Token ICO will allow users to buy Soup Tokens. Soup is expecting to raise $10 Million from which we will distribute 50% of the total.

The remaining tokens will be divided as follows
Token Split 50%
20% Foundation
10 % Early adopters
10% Partners
10% Donation to charities
Use of proceeds
45% Soup R&D
5% legal
10% businesses development
Platform

The Soup Token ICO is an attractive buy because:
The tokens can be put on our exchange for public sale at Market Price
They can be traded on the open market knowing that Soup Token will have to buy them up at market price to maintain liquidity
Investors will know that a finite amount and increasing customer base will have a positive outcome
Donators can buy now and hold for as long as required, knowing that their investment will go up
The associated stores get to sell products, get themselves positive publicity and can even earn additional profit by holding onto the tokens for cashing out at a later date
The people who the tokens are designed for can hold onto them if they wish and cash them at a later date
Founding tokens are guaranteed to go up in value
We own the exchange and everything inside it
This is a simple concept that WILL go worldwide. The sky is the limit as to what value the tokens will reach

Conclusion
Soup Token will provide a modern solution to a very old problem. This is an all encompassing service that will serve to not only feed the hungry but also prevent further substance abuse as the donator is not giving physical cash to someone who might not spend it wisely. As Soup Token is a coin based charity, we will not suffer the traditional costs that charities do meaning that there is more to give to the needy. Couple this with our intention to invest donations into a crypto fund in order to multiply revenue and feed more people and we truly believe we will be able to make a difference.

The info graphic below relates to analysis taken from the homeless community in the UK and it basically says it all. The people we are trying to help truly do need our help. The problem stems much deeper than we see on the surface and there is a perception that if we can give the less fortunate some of their dignity back then the road to recovery becomes much easier. Something as simple as having a meal every day will go a long way to restoring a person’s dignity and will also give them faith in other people as a whole. As they will realise that people really do care.

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