EDIT: I DID NOT REALIZE NEW ACCOUNTS COULDN'T POST IMAGES. THE IMAGES ARE VARIOUS INFOGRAPHICS FOR ALIS
Introducing ALIS - Japan's First Social Media Platform Using Blockchain Technology
ICO 9/1 - 9/29
FIRST WEEK: 1 ETH = 2900 ALIS
SECOND WEEK: 1 ETH = 2600 ALIS
THIRD WEEK: 1 ETH = 2300 ALIS
FINAL WEEK: 1 ETH = 2000 ALIS
ALIS is Japan's first social media platform that directly incentivizes content curation and content deployment while utilizing trust, both in articles and individuals. ALIS incentivizes this behavior (detailed in the Whitepaper linked below) in an easy-to-understand way.
Japan has a highly interconnected culture that is difficult to commercially penetrate. Japan has seen a 130% market growth for social media since 2014, and is also home to the highest volume of Bitcoin transactions in the world, making it an ideal market for a social network like ALIS. Japan is also a unique market, and requires specific solutions to its social media needs. ALIS aims to address those needs.
While the ALIS team was inspired by some elements of STEEM - ALIS is not a clone and is fundamentally different. These are detailed in two Medium posts.
Part 1 and
Part 2 
ALIS rewards both the poster and the first few people to notice and evaluate the content, this will help create a situation where the best iteration of a given piece of content rises to surface, and raises the user who posted it's User Reliability Score, while also rewarding those first few to discover the content and who help raise its visibility.
To help mitigate the possibilities for brigading as well as astro-turf campaigns, ALIS will value interactions in part by how long the interacting parties have individually held ALIS tokens
ALIS seeks to utilize the best of social networking - sharing content across diverse groups of people, rewarding interactions with more people above multiple interactions with the same person.
YouTube Video of the three founders briefly discussing their vision for ALISLINK ALIS has a three step plan for growth of the platform in Japan
* Establishing market share in niche areas (cryptocurrency, blockchain, little known anime and manga, etc)
* Expand to areas dominated in Japan by word-of-mouth and other reputation websites (restaurants, travel, diet, life events such as school admission, marriage, and purchase of homes)
* Based on accumulated trust and a growing user base, begin expanding out into more diverse markets. Deploy new services targeted at those markets and continuing to leverage ALIS' unique system of encouraging authenticity and accuracy.
ICO INFORMATION
(NOTE: ETH ESTIMATES MAY BE REVISED BETWEEN NOW AND ICO IF ETH'S VALUE SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGES)
DATES: SEPTEMBER 1-29
ACCEPTED TOKEN: ETH
WEEK 1: 1 ETH =2900 ALIS
WEEK 2: 1 ETH =2600 ALIS
WEEK 3: 1 ETH =2300 ALIS
WEEK 4: 1 ETH =2000 ALIS
MINIMUM FUNDING REQUIRED: $3.5 million USD
HARD FUNDING CAP: 120,000 ETH
***FUNDS WILL BE REFUNDED IF $3.5 million USD NOT REACHED***
MAXIMUM ICO DISTRIBUTION - 250,000,000 ALIS
MAXIMUM ALIS SUPPLY YEAR 1 - 500,000,000 ALIS
TOKEN ALLOCATION
WE ARE PLANNING TO USE THE PROCEEDS FROM THE ICO FOR THESE PURPOSES
(Assuming we raise the minimum amount of 350 million yen during ICO)
1. 25%: DEVELOPMENT MEMBERS (UI/UX DESIGNER X 1, WEB DESIGNER X 1 AND FULL-STACK ENGINEER X 4)
2. 25%: MARKETING COST FOR ATTRACTING USERS
3. 25%: THE COST OF APPLICATION TO BE APPROVED AS DOMESTIC OPERATOR
4. 25%: COST FOR MEMBERS WHO SUPPORTED US IN INITIAL STAGE AND PARTNERS WHO WILL SUPPORT US
THE AMOUNT EXCEEDING 350 MILLION YEN MAY BE USED FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES:
BUILDING MORE SOLID BACK OFFICE (ACCOUNTING AND LEGAL)
MARKETING FOR USERS
STRENGTHENING USER SUPPORT
THE FOUNDERS
Masahiro Yasu
Founder
Yasu is a graduate from Kyoto University, in Japan. He majored in nuclear fusion and analyzed alfven eigenmode raised in helical plasma by Fortran. After graduation, he joined Recruit Co., Ltd. (the parent company of Indeed and the 2nd largest HR company in the world). Yasu is experienced in business development, business strategy and systems development of social media and referral tools. He also actively works on machine learning and natural language analysis, and received the GROWTH FORUM Award which is the highest prize in the Recruit Corporation. Currently he is serving as a project leader of a joint project with Microsoft Japan.
Takashi Mizusawa
Co-Founder / Marketing
Takashi started a venture company as a university student. After graduation he started his career at the famous Benesse Corporation. After winning Benesse's annual MVP in his first year, he worked mainly in business development such as student social media. After working at Benesse for 6 years, he joined Recruit Career Co., Ltd., known for connecting "learning" and "working". There he gained experience in business development of MOOC and referral tools. He is interested in using social networks in HR. He envisions a world where individuals can earn success through their own unique abilities.
Sota Ishii
Co-Founder / Engineering
Sota has over 13 years of experience as a systems engineer. He strongly believes that blockchain technology will be a widespread standard within in a few years. Recognizing the rise of cryptocurrency, he has committed himself to the ALIS project. In his career he has taken on the role as a development leader of a famous Japanese HR company. During his time there, he created an award-winning HR system that contributed to the company's service growth. He is always interested in new technologies and businesses.
THE TEAM
Bato Erichin
Communications / Engineering
Erichin is a graduate from Tsinghua University, where he majored in Thermal Engineering. He received Master's degree in the Chinese Academy of Science, focus on supercomputing base large-scale parallel CFD. After graduation in 2014, he joined Recruit Co., Ltd., and now is a full stack engineer. He has skills such as iOS, Android, front-end, back-end and UI/UX design. He also has a role as a bridge of communication for our Chinese users on Weibo, Wechat, and other social media in China.
Kenta Nakamura
Mass / Media Communications
Nakamura is the President of the Japan Direction Association. He has been involved in projects such as the production of BITA DIGIMA Lab and the development of natural-language engines. He is also a Growth Consultant for the Kaizen Platform. His publications include "Web Director's Textbook", "Latest Practice for Web Direction".
Tatsuhiko Kamei
Legal Department
Kamei graduated University of Tokyo, one of the best universities in Japan. After joining Recruit Career Co., Ltd. as part of the legal staff, he handled fields such as IT and web services, marketing, and human resources. He has a specialization in legal affairs relating to new business development.
