We are the team behind the CryptoAlias project.
We have almost finished our project. We will launch more information about it and the ICO in the coming days but we need the community’s feedback first.
Our first goal is to eliminate the need of using blockchain addresses, similarly to how domain names eliminated the need of using IPs.
How does it work? You get a unique alias and associate your blockchain address with it. Instead of using your blockchain address, your clients can start using your simple and personalized alias. Alternatively, your clients can continue to use your blockchain address. However, when they input it in a wallet, your alias will appear and will give them the confidence of having introduced the right characters. You can test this in our demo page.
Please take a look at our project and tell us your questions or your feedback.
Your opinion will be highly appreciated!
With respect,
CryptoAlias team.
P.S. Whitepaper will be posted soon. The team members will be revealed soon. We are currently negotiating with some highly appreciated advisors from the community.

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Thank you for your input.

Initially, we will only allow aliases comprised of numbers and letters. Security is our priority, as a result mechanisms to prevent malicious behavior (including usage of ambiguous characters) will be set up.

Using other services for identification comes with some challenges to be considered:

• Since each alias is unique, what happens when 2 different users from 2 different services (i.e. Facebook and Twitter) try to register with the same username?
• What happens if somebody's facebook username is already taken before they get the chance to claim it? How do we prevent users from acquiring other people's usernames from facebook/twitter?

Considering the above, we decided to keep things simple in the start and to not use other services for identification.
However, this option is still on the table for the future. We may introduce prefixes, like "fb:" and "tw:", and only users who authenticate through those services will be able to claim those aliases.
There can be no name conflicts in this scenario, since ":" is a special character and won't be used in existing aliases.

A killswitch will undoubtedly be a useful feature. We are considering a mechanism that will allow to disable an account in a decentralized manner (by community consensus).

Thank you again for your input, we appreciate it a lot!
Please feel free to comment on the above and give any additional suggestions/feedback.

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I actually meant a different type of killswitch, not by the community, but by the user themselves. This is my thinking: If a hacker gets a hold of my account, they can do a lot of bad things, from pretending to be me to stealing my funds and so on. They'd likely change my password, denying me access.

Thus, I set a killswitch in place. This is  an unchangeable* passphrase I set up when creating my account. Should an attacker gain access to my account, I can disable it by signing a "HACKED/DISABLED" message with the killswitch private key. This kills the account completely**.

Obviously, hackers could disable accounts by using killswitch passphrases, but in the very most cases, this would be the lesser of two evils.

*unchangeable is obviously important to prevent the hacker from disabling the killswitch.

**since I have to suspect, that a once breached account is vulnerable in the future, this may be the best way to go. You could have a system in plece, in which a number of trusted users can, if they collude, reactivate an account. A system like this is in place or planned at steem, afaik.

This is a really good suggestion. Thank you for the feedback.

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Looks like a nice project. When will you release the the whitepaper?

Me too. I have sent them a message and they told me that a beta version will be released within a week!

Hello!
I saw on the site http://cryptoalias.io/   that the unsold tokens will be burnt and that ICO starts on 15th of November and ends on 15th of December. But now the PRE-Sale is open where you get a double number of coins if you support the project.

1 ETH = 2000 ALS during the PRE-sale

The cost of the tokens after the ICO starts is:

TIME SINCE ICO START   EXCHANGE RATE
< 1 day   1 ETH = 1250 ALS
< 3 days   1 ETH = 1200 ALS
< 6 days   1 ETH = 1150 ALS
< 10 day   1 ETH = 1100 ALS
< 15 days   1 ETH = 1050 ALS
after 15 days   1 ETH = 1000 ALS

Very interesting project, I'm seriously planning to buy some tokens