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Brief Overview

Our platform will help users to get quick and high-quality risk and profitability assessment of crypto asset investments. It combines evaluation using machine learning and evaluation by experts. The platform utilizes a smart contract to transparently distribute reward among experts based on their reputation and contribution. Reputation of an expert is based on investors' voting and automatic evaluations of expert’s forecasts. We will also promote third-party developers to create and sell their own applications build on top of the platform. Revenue will be distributed to application’s author according to application usage.

Our mission is to become the first crypto asset investment analysis marketplace and number one data source for ICO market analytics. Thanks to our platform the analysis of ICOs will become much faster and more efficient and experts will be able to build up their reputation and monetize their expertise. We are also establishing partnerships with crypto asset funds to provide them with ICO scoring functionality and private access to the best experts.


Key features
Enhanced Analysis Speed
The platform combines speed of machine learning algorithms with versatility and depth of expert evaluation to provide subscribers with tools for a swifter and more flexible decision-making process.

Collaboration
The platform enables collaboration and knowledge sharing between participants, allowing for opinion variety and broadening the scope of analysis.

Expert rating system
A transparent and attack-proof rating system allows the experts to make a profit out of their contributions

Smart Contract Core
The rating system, revenue distribution and access to widgets are handled by a set of smart contracts, which provide objectivity and transparency

Community-driven development
All update proposals to rating or revenue distribution system are voted on by the community and the platform evolves according to needs of users

Custom widgets
Independent authors can create their own widgets and deploy them on the platform, enriching it with new features and simultaneously making profit


Economics
Please check with our whitepaper (https://goo.gl/Zz8Eiy) chapter 4 where you can see our economic description, there you can find token allocation, our 3 business models and caps, and our 3 "secret sauces".


Demo
We have already released a Demo (http://beta.dolphin.bi) with open-source code and implementation of
- a dashboard prototype (https://beta.dolphin.bi/dashboard/#/) with widgets implemented as docker containers
- sentiment analysis (https://beta.dolphin.bi/dashboard/#/sentiments) for bitcointalk topics
- an ICOface service (https://beta.dolphin.bi/dashboard/#/page/icofaces) prototype to search ICO team member by photo


Bounty program
Conditions of bounty program will be published after presale completion.


Token generation event conditions
There will be two token generation events (TGE):
   •   presale TGE (DBIP token)
   •   main TGE (DOBI token + conversion of DBIP tokens to DOBI tokens)

At the presale TGE there’s two stages: private and then public. The cap for private TGE is set at 400’000 USD. If the milestone is not reached, the remainder will be open for public buyout at public stage. Otherwise the cap will be raised to 600’000 USD for the public stage so that investors without preliminary agreements can invest as well. During the presale the DBIP (Dolphin BI Presale) ERC20 token will be generated.

There is a 25% bonus during the preliminary TGE, i.e. DBIP tokens will be provided at 1 token per 0.8 USD. During the main TGE there will be no bonus and the primary DOBI token will be provided at 1 DOBI per 1 USD. We will perform a 1:1 conversion DBIP tokens to DOBI tokens before the main TGE.

DBIP tokens will be delivered to subscriber’s Ethereum account. The conversion rate will be calculated according to the ETH/USD rate at 9:00 UTC (GMT+0) with rate from https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/ethereum/.

We will accept BTC and other digital tokens from the subscribed subscribers during the private stage. In that case, the conversion rate is agreed upon by parties individually and DBIP tokens will be sent manually. The conversion rate will be calculated according to value of the provided tokens in USD at the end of previous day (per http://coinmarketcap.com).

Dolphin BI presale TGE will take place by two stages:
   •   private token generation event from August 31th 13:00 - September 18th 2017 15:59 (GMT)
   •   public token generation event from September 18th 16:00 - September 30th 2017 23:59 (GMT)

At the second stage, the participation is only possible through the Ethereum smart contract.

The volatility risk should be also considered. For example, if during the preliminary TGE 1 ETH is 200 USD, then the subscriber can receive 250 DBIP for 1 ETH (200/0.8). If 1 ETH is 300 USD at the moment of the main TGE then subscribers can receive 300 DOBI for 1 ETH, while preliminary subscribers will only receive 250 DOBI through the conversion. This is a common occurrence during ICOs. Therefore, we are ready to carry 50% of the volatility risk. We will compensate 50% of preliminary subscribers’ loss due to rate growth from the “team reward” part of the token distribution. In the aforementioned case, the preliminary subscriber will gain 275 DOBI, which will mitigate half of their losses. Automatic DBIP to DOBI conversion will be performed at the beginning of the TGE. This insurance bonus will be calculated according to the ETH/USD rate at the beginning of main TGE (per http://coinmarketcap.com).
One should also consider that if during the main TGE 1 ETH is 50 USD, then the preliminary subscriber increases their number of DOBI fivefold.


The team
Our team will put a lot of effort and money raised during TGE into building an engaged community around our platform and marketplace and to develop ICO/TGE standards.

Pavel Sidorov (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavelsidorov/) - CEO and project manager
An experienced IT architect with a background in development and implementing of large scale information systems (BI, ERP, EPM)
Computer Science at State University of Management

Andy Varns (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-varns-bab0b622/) - Blockchain researcher
PhD, associate professor of Finance University (Russia)
Entrepreneur
Financial consultant

Ivan Kamakin (https://www.facebook.com/ivan.kamakin) - Chief data scientist
Machine learning guru
R & Python developer
Smart-contract developer
Business Informatics at Higher School of Economics

Ilya Petrusenko (https://www.facebook.com/ilyapetrusenko) - Backend Lead & DevOps
Smart-contract developer (Solidity)
Experienced Backend developer (Node.js)
Lead of ICOface project
DevOps

Eugene Soloviev (http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugen-soloviov-819b0638/) - Frontend Lead
Blockchain Enthusiast
Lead Frontend Developer

Polina Medianina (https://www.facebook.com/polinamedian) - Community manager
International communications specialist
Interpreter
Faculty of Business and Management at Higher School of Economics

Olesya Sinitsina (https://www.linkedin.com/in/olesya-sinitsina-81635479) - Community manager
Blockchain enthusiast
Computer Science at Kazan National Research Technological University

presale TGE (DBIP token)
main TGE (DOBI token + conversion of DBIP tokens to DOBI tokens)  ::)
total coin ?
Bounty program soon ??

Thanks to SEC and our lawyers we need to use new abbreviation  ;D

11'500'000 to 61'500'000 (see chapter 4.3 of whitepaper (https://goo.gl/Zz8Eiy))
Total token supply depends on backed amount.
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UPD: special funds tokens will be burned when they will return as payment for the service back to the platform. So total supply is a supply without special funds. See chapter 4 in the Whitepaper.

Right after presale is finished so it's 1st of October.

For what do you want to use machine learning?

Is there video tutorial how to customize the beta platform I tried so many times but it remain unchanged. I hope if there will be instructions available than it will become interesting anyway this is interesting concept so that I will follow this.

It's easy: just click a 'Customize' button in right upper corner (it will change to 'Cancel') and you can move widgets by clicking inside and dragging it and resize by clicking and dragging right bottom corner.

We will add new widgets and "widget market" soon. Please subscribe for updates (https://presale.dolphin.bi/#sociallinks) and follow us! Thanks!

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For start:

Whitepaper Clustering. A tool to quickly find similar whitepapers in the database and pinpoint keywords. It allows the user to quickly understand the main idea and to assess the market in which the crypto-asset operates, as well as its main competitors. It also allows user to be automatically notificated if a new ICO in user's fileds of interests is published on the platform.

Social Networks Sentiment Analysis. After gathering text data from several social media outlets (Twitter, Facebook, Bitcointalk, Reddit, etc.) and running it through the algorithm, this widget provides the user with opinions of public and some key persona in the blockchain world on the crypto-asset. The widget also displays the keywords which often appear in media mentions and statistics on the activity of the crypto-asset team in its social media channels.

Build consensus forecast based on expert’s evaluations.

Funding transactions analysis to detect churning.

Sybil detection in Rating system (it's internal platform tool to fight with fraud).

So the machine learning is fast and automatic searching in data. But is it also making valuations?

Hello, Diego!
What do you mean by valuation?

My name is Ivan, by the way, I'm handling data science in the project, so you can ask me about ML and stuff :)

You ask we do! We appreciate demands of community!
Here's a video of beta.dolphin.bi (http://beta.dolphin.bi)

https://i.imgur.com/d5MYKiw.png (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS2QCivN3tU)

As far as I understand, Dolphin BI will be a web-based platform with connection to Ethereum and Waves platforms in order to enable transfers of tokens. Is that correct? I did not fully understand, in your whitepaper, what do you call a set of smart-contracts that Dolphin platform is based on? Are those the Ethereum-based smart-contracts? Or these will be smart-contracts programmed from zero for the Dolphin BI purposes? What is the functional core and principles of these smart contracts from programming point of view?   

Thanks for a good question!

We plan to use Ethereum smart-contract as a platfrom core which implement the following functions:
- update Experts’ ratings
- distribute reward among Experts and Authors (in DOBI tokens)
- accept monthly subscription fees (in DOBI tokens) and assign widget access rights for Subscribers (e.g. on pay-per-month basis)
- voting on platform rules updates

This contract will use ERC20 tokens named DOBI. A gateway with Waves Platfrom is planned to be implemented to allow a user to buy and sell DOBI tokens through the Waves Platfrom wallet and DEX.

Frontend is planned to be implemented as a webservice initially and then also a mobile apps will be developed (as descibed in our roadmap). If DApps become widely adopted we will think to implement our Frontend as DApp.

Widgets and Data Providers are to be implemented as Docker containers (we already have this architecture in beta.dolphin.bi). If a decentralized computing becomes widely adopted (Golem, SONM, iExec etc) we will think on moving to a decentralized architecture in this part.

Thank you for your answer! I have couple of other questions: you have already mentioned some resources that you are collecting the data from, like social networks. Could you please name some other sources of the data you are using or want to use for analytics? In your opinion, what would be the most crucial criteria (one or several) in order to identify fraud/suspicious project, and would it be possible to do it based on automated analytics only, without expert involved? Speaking about investment analytics, in which form the final automated investment recommendations/fraud warnings will be given? Will it be some sort of ranking?   

And perhaps could you please give more insights into the "bug-bounty" program? How it will be implemented, and what would be the main purpose of it? 

Hello Elementique!
Actually, the project itself started from analyzing distribution curves of ICO payments. We have found that for all solid ICOs the distributions after logarithmic transformation looked very similar (bell-shaped, so the underlying distribution could be considered Gaussian or Student's). This allowed us to detect tampering in payments - for example, the project investing big in the start of its own ICO to simulate high demand. However, the main problem here is that this analysis can be only performed after the ICO, so we decided to instead concentrate on something more useful at all stages, like sentiments or ICOface (a database of all people who did an ICO, where you can look them up by their photo).

So what you can surely expect in the future is payment curve and payment distribution analysis, and we also had a cool idea floating around about clustering addresses to find out whether, for example, exchanges were involved. But this is not our focus right now.

As for detecting whether the ICO is fraudulent or not directly, several problems arise - first, the data on fraudulent projects is scarce, not nearly enough to train a decent model; second, people seem to distrust even an amazing model, when the task is formulated as predicting fraud/not fraud. And if you make even a single mistake, you can really upset either investors or the project team that you called fraudsters. After interviewing some investors we found out that they would prefer to see indicators of possible fraudulency themselves and pass judgements on their own.

In the meantime, we will concentrate on some basic widgets like exchange rate curves, number of token holders, token balances distribution and so on.


This is going to be an automated bug hunt after the initial version of Dolphin BI smart-contract will be deployed. The idea is that we set the contract's invariants, and people who manage to break them will automatically be rewarded.
Here's an article where you can learn more: https://blog.zeppelin.solutions/setting-up-a-bug-bounty-smart-contract-with-openzeppelin-a0e56434ad0e

waiting for bounty time.  ;D ;D

It will be soon, if you maintain the Dolphin project))

Of course the bug-bounty program will be available for each part of our service. Because the smart-contract core is what operates with tokens it should be protected with highest priority. Other part of the platfrom as frontend or data providers could also contain security flaws so bug-bounty program will be definitely available for them too.

What skill set or backgorund do the team possess to provide a very good analytical intelligent investment advise for me. I don't think their is need to have a token for this because is more of service subscription for me

Hey, where can we publicly track the amount of presale contribution? Is it even public?

reserved.I am more interesting about the bounty thread

Thank you guys for the clarifications! Another thing in your project I am curious about is the authors and experts. What are the benefits for them and what would be the ways to attract them? As I understand from the whitepaper, they have to create widgets, does that mean also the technical part (programming), or authors and experts provide analytics and content only?

Yes, a ticker and a smart contract address will become visible for all on presale site (https://presale.dolphin.bi) when public TGE will start (on Monday, 18 September 16:00 UTC).

Thanks for a good question!

Our team members have a background in OLAP technology and in Machine Learning to bring automatable analytics whe possible.
Also we implement Experts' evaluation method to assess characteristics as market size, team skills and experience, competitors which cannot be evaluated by machine right now. We already have preliminary agreements with some ICO experts to become the first users of our platform.

It's our inportant statement: we as a platfrom developers don't evaluate ICOs by ourselfs so we avoid a conflict of interests. It differenciates our service from any other rating agencies and ICO listings.

We use a token as an utility token:
1) users pay for the service with token
2) Experts and Authors receive a reward for ICO analysis contribution with this token
3) token spendings and daily average balance is used to prevent rating system attacks

So we sure a token is a crucial part of our system.

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In your opinion, wouldn't the Expert's financial reward dependency on Expert's grade cause many controversial situations? I am also curious why you preferred this way of analysts monetizing their expertise instead of e.g. just hiring couple or team of experts.    

With independent Experts we target the following:
1) make Experts independent from the platform and allow anybody in the world to monetize their analytics skills in part of ICO analysis
2) create a modest competition between Experts

We expect to fight controversial situations by fine tuning rating system.

The authors are people responsible for widget creation. They are usually developers (they have to create a widget using an SDK, connect it to a data source and register it on the platform. After they register a widget, they get a set percentage of the widget's revenue (or all of it, if it's automatic).

The experts, on the other hand, provide actual content, if the widget is not automatic. They can write business plan overviews, technical audit reports, etc. in appropriate widgets. The part of the widget's revenue not going to authors is split among them according to their reputation.

this concept is very interesting and very smart idea, I am very interested to join this project, I will continue to see the progress of this thread, hopefully run very well

Thanks a lot for warm words!  :)
We would be very greateful if you could recommend our project to someone else who could also be interested in.
We also hope to see you as early backer and contributor!  ;)

Can anyone become an Expert or an Author on your platfrom? Or do they have to be tested and will you ask them for qualification proof?

Yes, openness is a core principle of our platform.

Anybody can become an Expert but the rating system will help to choose best of them by the community voting.

Also anybody can become an Author (thanks to widget container's isolation) and will get access to basic resoures of the platform. With the rise of popularity of Author's widget it will get more computing resources automatically.

Man, there are so much investment platforms already. How is this different from the rest? And a lot of them are under ICO prices right now. But I'm willing to consider if the devs explain more in detail yet simple to understand.

This, there are so many of ICO nowadays. Could devs explain it more in detail about Dolphin BI?

cool graphics though 8)

Could you please clarify, what do you mean by "investment platforms"? There are crypto investment funds, ICO listings, ICO ratings, ICO marketing agencies, "ICO turnkey" agencies, ICO incubators are on the way. Does it all fall into your "investment platforms" definition?

Our current vision of Dolphin BI is more close but not equal to ICO listings and ICO ratings but with significant differences:
1) we don't select ICO which to list or which do not list. So anybody can put their ICO info on our site to receive a feedback from community. Our community of experts will do a moderation while we only provide a plarform. We also don't get paid for ICO to be listed.
2) any Expert can work for his/her own and build their own reputation in community and receive a reward for contribution.
3) any Author (e.g. third-party developer) can build their own analytical application on to of the platform, to provide some useful analytics to community and also to receive a reward which depends on application popularity.

We think that this way of ICO analysis is more close to principles of reaching a consensus in a decentralized manner.

Agree. See my previous post with some explanation:
And also the first post in this topic is also about our proposals and our key features.
Do you have any particular questions regarding our proposed product, team, terms etc?

Ok, got it.
Also, who is going to be Curators-Subscribers to take care of rating system? Are you going to do this? How are you going to ensure inpartiality?

The entire rating system is handled by a smart-contract. The ratings are calculated strictly according to formulae described in the whitepaper. We are also planning to create a separate contract for upgrade proposition voting that would allow the community to change the rules if required.

ICO list curation is a bit more complicated - we will probably have to oversee the curation process ourselves in the beginning, before the critical mass of trustworthy users is gathered. Then is should become self-regulating - think Wikipedia.

The magnificent image of DOLPHIN cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world

Exactly! And I would like to add that initially Curators-Subscribers will be that users who hold a huge part of tokens. We expect it would be a dev team and early backers.
These tokenholders are motivated (because of their tokens, furthermore dev team has vesting period) that platform will develop constantly and community of Experts and Authors will grow and bring values to Subscribers as expected.

Later when desired culture will be developed we will propose to change voting function so huge tokenholders won't have significantly more voting influence as regular tokenholders. So community becomes self-governed. So it becomes a DAO.

Bounty program will be announced soon. Stay tuned!

Finally! Presale is now officially open! Be among the first to buy DBIP and get 25% bonus!

https://presale.dolphin.bi/ (https://presale.dolphin.bi/)

There were some questions regarding our product demo which consists of three parts. We wanted to clarify these things for everybody.

You can already use Bitcointalk Sentiment Analysis – it is an MVP. We take the first 100 pages from altcoin announcement topics, and grade each post as “negative”, “neutral” and “positive” using machine learning algorithms; the grading updates each 10-20 minutes. The graph shows the number of posts and their polarity chronologically.

ICOFaces is a prototype, its value is proportional to the database size – it is now small, but we are expanding it each day.

The dashboard is a prototype as well and it displays basic functionality the widgets will have – the user can freely move them around the dashboard. The widget contains visualization for some data from a Docker container, so the dashboard prototype follows the general architecture the platform will have – the widgets and data sources are isolated inside Docker containers, while the dashboard provides a user interface where one can freely manipulate widget sizes and locations.

Here's a video demonstration of how to use these three modules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS2QCivN3tU
We hope that this demo will give you some initial understanding of our platform's design.

how to join your bounty?

i am intereting this project, and I am sure this project will be successful soon on the opening day of the first sale

In my opinion, this project has a special attraction for investors to invest in this project and I can only hope there is bounty for the project.

i hope can wait after presale completion

this is good project with best dev team , good luck . hope pre sale will success

Many thanks!  :)

There will be no trial versions directly, I'm afraid. It is made so intentionally, because otherwise a Sybil Attack would be immediately possible with next to no cost. However, there is a mechanism that allows investors to return funds spent on DoBI, at least, during the first year (read more about that in Section 4.2 of whitepaper).

In the end, we could make a special demo separated from the main platform's economy, if it's what the community would really want.

So, the question is who will be rating the automatic systems of evaluating (how they will get access to blockchain projects if they are not trustworthy) and will the author of them get paid for it?

Thanks for a good question!

We plan to use Ethereum smart-contract as a platfrom core which implement the following functions:
- update Experts’ ratings
- distribute reward among Experts and Authors (in DOBI tokens)
- accept monthly subscription fees (in DOBI tokens) and assign widget access rights for Subscribers (e.g. on pay-per-month basis)
- voting on platform rules updates

This contract will use ERC20 tokens named DOBI. A gateway with Waves Platfrom is planned to be implemented to allow a user to buy and sell DOBI tokens through the Waves Platfrom wallet and DEX.

Frontend is planned to be implemented as a webservice initially and then also a mobile apps will be developed (as descibed in our roadmap). If DApps become widely adopted we will think to implement our Frontend as DApp.

Widgets and Data Providers are to be implemented as Docker containers (we already have this architecture in beta.dolphin.bi). If a decentralized computing becomes widely adopted (Golem, SONM, iExec etc) we will think on moving to a decentralized architecture in this part.

So, I`ve gone trhough your Whitepaper and now there is a question. Who will add and remove Experts to the system and what a person should do to become one? Won`t it be used by some unhonest subscriber in order to get free access to widgets?

There will be a rating system in the marketplace - it will not be used to distribute funds, as with experts, but the Subscriber can use it to define if the widget is worth its cost. The author gets the entirety of widget's revenue (in case of automated widgets).

The widget accesses some external data provider through its Docker backend, so it is up to author to make sure that their data is relevant. There will also be some basic data providers from Dolphin BI that custom widgets can query, for example, clients for different blockchains.


Anybody can become an expert! The expert cannot see the content of widgets if they are not subscribed (or haven't purchased the paid widget) - they will only see a separate expert's interface where they can post their evaluation.

To become an expert the user will have to register as an expert. Although it is not required, we will strongly encourage experts to reveal their identities; after all, it will benefit them, because they will increase their trustworthiness and popularity, and, therefore, revenue. It is even likely that new experts that pass identity verification will get a small "starter" rating boost (though we are still discussing how to best handle that). Otherwise, an expert is only required to register their ETH address, and they are good to go!

A reference to Johnny Mnemonic) Watch it if you haven't, it's a pretty cool movie!

If I understand you right, you are asking about how automatic widgets will be rated?
We utilize 'usage statistics' for that: if more Subscribers use a widget then more reward will receive widget's Author.

What if volatility made connecting tokens with ETH become loss making? And if that way, may be there a possible ways to choose other one?

The presale tokens (DBIP) will be converted to DoBI at 1:1 rate before the main TGE. We recognise that if ETH price will rise, one can buy more DoBI per ETH during the main TGE (remember, that we price DoBI in USD and not in ETH), so the volatility risk may actually exist. We decided to split the volatility risk with our investors 50:50. If the ETH price rises, then we will cover 50% of early investor's loss from the founder reward fund. You can read more in Section 5 of our WP.

Are mobile apps for Android and iOS, which you are willing to release later on, going to lack some functions, which the platform itself can provide? Or is it going to be the same thing just in more convenient form for the smartphones?

The apps are planned as an adaptation of desktop frontend, so the final version should indeed have the same functionality. There may be some troubles with custom widget sizes - the authors may set them arbitrarily, so not all widgets will fit on the smartphone screen. We are considering several possible solutions - we'll tell you more about that when the desktop version is done and we're closer to mobile release.

In general, the smartphone screen can hold less information, so, while the functionality is the same, the use cases are different: you may use the smartphone app to quickly check some figures on the go, while the website is your main workplace.

What is the maximum amount of investment from 1 address? For example, if there is no cap for 1 address then there will ne so called "whales" and manipulators who can whatever they what with the price of token on exchange, it will lead to the centralization

 I read your whitepaper and saw interesting point - self-promoting attack. Lets imagine the situation, for example, i am smart enough to create absolutely real fake accounts, and I will not only rate myself, but other amazing experts. If you think  that people lazy enough do not do this, believe me some are not. So, how you will protect honest and smart experts, who deserve big rating from this totally the same smart guys, which are a bit trickier and have a lot of free time ?

There is no maximum amount, I'm afraid. And setting a maximum amount wouldn't help either - the "whale" can quite easily create another address and invest from it. It's not possible to prevent this without introducing complicated (and potentially game-theoretically faulty) designs into the crowdsale model.

If you're worried that these "whales" could undermine the platform's economy - don't worry! First, the individual Subscriber's influence scales logarithmically with their wealth, so a crowd of well-behaving subscribers will overwhelm a malicious subscriber with ease. Also, there will be a voting mechanism that will allow Subscribers to rescale the platform's prices if the DoBI/USD rate changes significantly. So the capabilities of "whales" in manipulating the platform are very limited.

                   

It is practically impossible to completely block such an attack - a person crazy enough to spend troves of money on an attack would probably succeed. However, observe Bitcoin - its total cap is $66 billion, so a wealthy enough entity (some banks could probably do that with ease) could buyout all Bitcoin for $100 billion (considering the price will start to grow) and completely crash the system. But nobody does that, because crazy people rarely have enough money to blast everything to bits :)

The idea here is to create the system where such attack is not practically impossible, but economically infeasible. The potential profit from an attack must not be greater than its cost. So we introduce the aforementioned logarithmic scaling to cripple a wealthy malicious subscriber and force them to buy new accounts if they want to perform an attack. And so we try to design the system in such a way that buying Sybil accounts will cost more than the revenue from the possible reputation gain. To evade automatic detection an attacker will have to rate other experts both positively and negatively; but when you rate others positively, you increase their revenue and decrease yours! There is also a number of votes threshold and other counter-measures that will make the attacker spend more than they gain.

What problems  have you already faced while preparing your project in terms of legalization of the project and the legalization of ICO?

I've added a response to your last question into my previous post. As for this one, I'm ill-equipped to answer it, but Pavel (zidorov) will come and answer it a bit later.

So, you've described your costs in a table. Don't you think that there could arise additional spendings and how would they be covered with low initial investment prediction?

I'm curious about the work of the Authors. Will they be able to collaborate on the same widget within the platform? If so, how will they divide the income?

We are not planning such functionality in the platform, but it can actually be done in Ethereum itself. These Authors can create a single Ethereum address, create a new widget linked to this address and the widget's revenue will be sent to it. And this address may be a contract that automatically splits the earnings in any way the participating Authors want.

And what if the widget gets poor rating from an Expert? Is it going to be deleted? Or maybe the author will have to update the widget to satisfy the needs of Experts and Subscribers?

Only Subscribers can rate widgets. The widget's rating in the marketplace (unlike Expert's rating) does not affect revenue distribution, but the Subscriber can use it to decide whether the widget is worth buying. Even if some widget has bad rating, it will not necessarily be deleted as long as people use it. It makes sense to delete inactive widgets, though.

OK, The subscriber will pay his fee and 80% goes to the authors and experts and 20% goes to the system. But will the user (simple subscriber) know exactly to whom his money got via using free widget? Maybe he wants to control the percentage of money going to experts or authors? Cause he may distrust widget fund in somewhat way.

I mean, if using ETH as a currency/platform became ineffective, what could be substitute? ( taking into account that Waves remain the one which left)

The author sets a static fee at widget creation (e.g. if they set a 20% fee, then experts get 100-20-20=60%). Now, calculating how much money each expert gets is a bit trickier, because the final distribution is resolved at the end of the month, but it can be approximated using the expert's historical (3 months average) rating, which is known at all times.

It is a valid concern - it may become too costly to maintain the platform if the ETH price or gas price keeps going up. In a case where it becomes impossible for the platform to continue functioning, there may be some alternatives:

• Running everything on our own brand new blockchain.
• Switching to an alternative EVM-based smart-contract platform (e.g. Qtum, Rootstock).
• Switching to Plasma (probably the ideal solution, but it is not implemented yet).
• Switching to non-EVM-based smart-contract platform (e.g. EOS)

Of course, such measures are drastic and it only makes sense to resort to them if all possible cost optimization techniques are exhausted.

First of all it was a SEC investigative report on the DAO.
Second was a decision of People’s Bank of China to ban ICOs.
Both causes us to rewrite the whitepaper so that our Token will be an utility token for 100% and rewrite token generation event terms.

To say the truth, it's a very interesting and ambitious project. It unites consumers and sellers in efficient way. But it's intersting for me personally, are there any limitations on or max level of price/fee which is set on widget by authors themselves? I mean that if the author sees his widget is becoming more and more popular, won't he establish too high price, so that the widget will be affordable only for small percentage of users? Does your company consider it's as aproblem?

We are sure that planned product development fund is huge enough to cover all development costs until the platfrom starts earning money.
And yeah, our platfrom is more like a traditional business: we plan not only to create a product with crypto tokens but to earn this tokens by ourselfs to develop further the platfrom.

As for the interactions inside the platform, will the Subscriber be able to somehow contact the Author in case he/she has any questions or suggestions about the widget?

Thanks for warm words!  :)

We think that it should be a fair marketplace: if there's a great widget then rivals are also here and can work hard to take their own piece. So competition should bring the best value/cost to the subscribers.

Again, not by default, but it is possible: the Author can provide information about themselves, including contact data, and, considering the widgets basically can contain any HTML, it is possible to attach a feedback link.

I didn't get a point from rewards system. I mean in case of experts ( as I understood, experts show their reports and that reports are estimated by subscribers and "automatically".) I didn't get, how reports could be estimated automatically?? Which methods are used?(may be the amount of words in report? Or what?)

We plan to initially set the cap at 80% (so it will be basically uncapped), but this is one of the platform's parameters that can be voted on by the community. So it can be collectively changed at a later time.

Even if there is no cap, though, a smart Author will not set their fee too high - the experts will get less tokens, so fewer of them will bother posting in the widget, which means the Subscribers will not buy it due to lack of content, which means Author does not earn anything.

Thank you for pointing that out - we will clarify that point in a later revision of WP. Here it mostly means that the report will pass some basic checks - spam filters, copy-paste filters, etc.

We mean that reports of Experts will be estimated by Subscribers. But Experts could also supply a structured information in the same or in another widget: some characteristics estimation (e.g. how much an ICO will collect, how fast an ICO collect softcap etc) which can be estimated automatically by the system.

In our smart-contract core there will be a voting system. Some number of users can set a question on voting and the community could change the rules of the system.

One more question. Compensation for  prepaid, who pays in advance, gets bonuses. If we imagine that business model will go with "Standard scenario", from which fund you are going to compensate subscribers?

Are there any projects which are similar to Dolphin BI so far? If yes, what is Dolphin's comparative advantage?

During the preliminary  TGE the  DBIP ( Dolphin  BI  Preliminary)  ERC20 token  will  be  generated. Where and how ERC20 token can be used?

Prepaid bounus don't use a compenstaion fund which is zero in standard scenario. It works if prices for services changes:
- if price is go up then user will use prepaid services without additiona charge (=get bonus)
- e.g. if user has paid for three month and starting from the third month the price has gone down then we need to return some DOBI.
We will reserve some DOBI received in such way to be able to compensate possible price changes. But also the maybe need for some reserve fund for long prepaids. So thanks for a good question and we will thinks and make it clear new WP revision.

50% will be put into Escrow service and withdrawal will be allowed on successful accomplishment of roadmap milestones. As I understood from Whitepaper, there are 8 milestones. After the end of which milestone withdrawal from Escrowal account would be possible?

It's a far enough plans so there's not a lot of details.

An escrow service will allow to lock funds gathered by ICO and allow some Experts with a high reputation to make a consensus decision that a given milestone of the project has been reached and funds should be unlocked.

Incubation means that a project who is preparing for pre-ICO or ICO to receive from Experts with a high reputation a private esimation of project readiness and some suggetions.

Some countries in near future will definitely require to identify project founders and/or project backers. So we could also provide such services to our users.

We will set amount for each milestone. It will be done by the main TGE (~ICO).

The main purpose of DBIP is to distinguish it from main DOBI token which will be generated during main TGE.
During the presale transfers of DBIP tokens is locked inside a ERC20. After presale finishes and before we start migrating DBIP into DOBI (before main TGE) these tokens can be transfered between accounts by tokenholders with standards ERC20 methods.

Hello, everyone!
I really liked the developers’ idea and the way they are turning in to the reality, but I’d like you to clarify some points. You stated that there will be consensus forecast, so in what form is it going to be? As I understood, experts will create their own opinion with their own arguments, but how is it going to be consensus? Is it only about statistical representation of your platform’s experts’ suggestion whether invest in some particular ICO or not?
Buy the way, I am very interested in your evaluation using machine learning. Well, it is useful, when you get information about market’ moods in a form as your widget provides, however, would it be effective? I mean it is not hard to find comments that are not really referred to some ICO’s theme or are not going with definitions «positive» or «negative», moreover there are only comments from bitcointalk. Please, tell more about how machine learning will be adopted.
Besides, I am concerned about experts’ rating system. As it is written in whitepaper, experts have their payment based on 3 months result activity. Then how do you see the process of rating experts by subscribers? For example, some expert writes a review on some ICO with may be suggestion that its coins price is going to grow for 4 month, then a subscriber make an investing decision and after 4 month he or she goes to the review and rates the expert. In that particular case how would the expert be rated and payed? It happens that 4 months ago the expert could have different effectiveness than now, so his or her rating (and payment) is calculated by ratings given for present activity or by «marks» given in present? Also would it be possible to see at an expert’s previous activity and ratings?
Additionally, as a potential investor I’d like to know more about allocation of funds, specially community development fund which includes education programs and learning materials. You are going to spend $2 300 000 on it, so It’d be great if you’ll be more concrete about it.
And the last question is would Dolphin provide some roughly speaking criteria or benchmark about how experts should work and how to rate them? Just to make sure that the paid platform will not become a usual forum with tons of unorganized and vaguely useful information.
Thank you very much in advance for paying attention to my personal concerns :)

Thank you for the answers!

But this means that the Expert will have to earn more than he paid for subscribtion. The first month or two there could be a big amount of such people but later on their number would plunge drastically, don`t you think so?

Of course the initial boost rating is good (according with compensation fund), but the system may face the position where it has only few Experts just a half year from start. This people would accumulate all the profits from widgets and their ratings will obviously be pretty high.

Thank you for the answers! They've been really useful. And one more question. Are you planning to release something like "DoBI back" for the rest of the users to refund some percentage of their expenses?

One more question. If there is no preliminary test for experts, how will first subscribers choose among them someone to rely on? Taking into consideration that during the short time after Dolphing start working there will be not so much marks made by your team.
And will portfolio data of experts be somehow verified or proved?

I have the same  but my balance is showing fine.

Will be all tokens sold on the ICO, if not, what about the rest? (Of the total number of emission)

I like your LOGO, like a elegant dolphins, the copyright and content platform and the combination of the chain is to produce a decentralized, to protect the author's patent rights role?

Did I understand correctly, that final user of information, provided by experts will be at the same time moderator? Or, how to deal with information that is mistakenly wrong, for example.

Wow, thanks for looking at the project so thoroughly!

The part about the consensus is really interesting. It is not the consensus on whether this or that particular ICO is good, but rather a consensus on how ICO analysis must be structured. We hope that as people will analyze ICOs they will collectively agree on a framework of ICO analysis that can answer questions like: "What aspects are the most important in defining whether the ICO is trustowrthy or not?" or "How does a "perfect", in terms of trustworthiness and completeness of information, ICO look like?". If such framework comes to existence, it will also enforce restrictions on the ICOs - they will have to adher to a "code of conduct" described in the framework to be taken seriously.

This is a big dream, but we hope that our platform will if not bring it about, then at least bring it closer to reality. Such framework will bring structure to the ICO market, which will benefit all.


Now, let's talk sentiment analysis. It is now susceptible to the problems you've described, but I'm actively working on overcoming them. Right now I'm finalizing a new implementation of the model that is based on Recurrent Neural Networks, which should improve overall quality of sentiment detection. I've included some tweaks that will help the model to recognize posts unrelated to the ICO itself as neutral, thus decreasing the extent of the problem you've described. There is also a problem with answers to posts - for example, if some poster says something negative about the project and the answer calls them "an uneducated dummy", the algorithm will label the answer as negative (because of negative lexicon), though it is clearly positive towards the project. I have an idea on how to overcome this, but I'll need some time for implementation. As for other social media besides BTT, don't worry - we are working on it!



It is indeed possible to see the expert's previous activity (though it depends on the widget design, we will include this in our basic expert widget). The 3 months aggregation period was decided with the following logic - the expert should be able to go on a vacation without losing their reputation, but prolonged inactivity should be punished. As for rating the expert's previous posts - we decided that the expert should only be rated in the current month, because it simplifies the rating system and makes it more robust to attacks. However, the situation that you've described can arise. One way to solve it for the Subscriber is to rate the expert in the current month for their previous activity. Though it is inelegant, and we will think of a better solution. Thank you for raising a point.



The main purpose of the community development fund is to attract early Experts and Authors and to fill the platform with content. The money will be used to subsidize new Experts and Authors, as well as attract well-known and respectable industry Experts to post on the platform. I think may peers will be able to tell you more about precise sums, but this is the general idea.


As for review structure - it depends on the widget design. The way we see our basic Expert widget is such - the Expert scores the main aspects of the project (i.e. idea, team, etc.) from 1 to 5 and will give a brief summary on each criteria, explaining why they have given this or that score. But anybody may create another Expert widget with entirely different review structure.

Well, some Experts that are not very good will be filtered out after a while - such is competition. But we tried to design the system in such a way that not too many Experts drop out and there will still be some variety of opinions. And the Experts do not necessarily have to pay for subscription - only if they want to see other Experts' posts.

We are now thinking on how to best handle new Experts after the platform exists for a while. These new Experts' ratings will be lower than ratings of older Experts, so we are trying to design an indiscriminate way to make them seen to Subscribers. We will have more info on it later.

Any Subscriber's expenses during the first n months are eligible for "DoBI back", so even if you purchased the tokens on the exchange and not during the TGE, you will still be recompensated, as long as you spend your DoBI on the platform. The value of n depends on how much we raise during the TGE.

This is what the Community Development Fund is for - we will attract well known industry experts onto the platform to provide some quality content from the start. Of course, the beginners will not be left behind - if we see some beginner making rounds, we will subsidize them from the fund and endorse them (there will probably be some kind of Beginner Expert of the Week spotlight).

They will be burned. So the individual investor's share in total distribution of tokens cannot decrease by the ICO end, it will remain the same or increase.

We will use some automatic means of filtering out copy-pasted and copyrighted materials, if that's what you mean.

During the earlier days, we will have to moderate content by ourselves. After a while, we will gradually transfer these responsibilities to Experts with high enough rating, so the moderation will become self-regulated (like in Wikipedia).

Question to the team. Have you done any ICOs before in other projects? Any start-ups? Were they successful?

Will there be any free content on your platform?

Did I understand it right that with this system the possibility of posting deliberately wrong information (for promotion of particular ICO) is excluded?
And what about about authors? Is it possible for them to publish false information through their channels of information

I have question about Waves Platform. Why you chose it? Yes, I know that MobileGo is largest blockchain crowdsale, however there are only 4972 registered tokens at the moment, thats small.
Why didn't you choose, for example, OmiseGO (OMG)?

We haven't done any ICOs, but Andrey Varnavskiy is an entrepreneur and has successfully launched businesses before.

With moderation, it is more or less excluded (also see our WP or previous answers to learn about attack protection). Even if somebody posts wrong information, they wouldn't gain a high enough rating easily to propagate that information.

As for the Authors, it is possible for them to post wrong information, but we encourage the Authors to make their widgets open-source and as transparent as possible. After all, it will increase popularity of their widget and increase their revenue so they are incentivized to do that.

There may be a free demo separated from the main economy to showcase what the platform can do. However, the subscription on the main platform is a must, because it defends against Sybil attacks.

We only plan to peg ERC20 tokens to Waves tokens because of fiat gates and Waves DEX, so that the Subscribers would be able to get new DoBI tokens quickly.

Hey, guys, check out our Telegram channel: https://telegram.me/dolphin_bi_en
I can only answer on BTT when I'm on the computer, but on Telegram I will be able to answer more frequently from my phone!

I've look through the demo. Is it final version or you are going to update it? Will it be possible to see all functions in it? When?

Thanks a lot for extensive answers.
And what fee size for subscribers do you plan to establish? It seems that there was not such information in WP and forum

As I understood, quality of Experts' evaluations and reviews in manual Widgets is evaluated by Subscribers and automatically. Will these two types (manual by Subcribers and automated) be evaluated separately with own rate or will it be an aggregate estimate (if so, what is the "weight" prescribed to each of this type of evaluation?)? What will be the algorithm of automated evaluation of Experts' evaluations be based on (formula 3 from Appendix 1 or some special machine algorithm)?
Thanks in advance.

By the way, how are you going to eradicate the plagiarism in widgets and Experts' evaluations? It seems there going to be lots of widgets and evaluations placed by rating, so what will stop people from copying (even partly) the ideas of those not yet rated highly newbies' ideas?

The current demo is a reference of what kind of interface could be expected from the platform. We will update it during the presale and in the following days. Subscribe to our TG channel to get the latest on updates!

Thank you for your answers.
Also have a question concerning promotion schemes, is it perspective enough to promote it in social media? Of course, those who are interested may find it anyway.

And will be there any entry requirements, for example providing user's private information or verifying is an optional procedure?

The subscription fee for basic widgets is rescaled each month through the voting contract to adjust to the market price. Prices for widgets in the marketplace are set by the Authors themselves, but will be rescaled with the subscription fee.

What exchanges did you choose for your crypto-assets?

The Subscribers rate Experts' evaluation on a 1 to 5 scale. Then the Experts' distribution bases are calculated based on their average rating (you can see the formulae in Appendix 1 of WP).
As for the aggregation - the experts rate projects' aspects on a 1 to 5 scale. These scores can be aggregated and the distribution may be shown in a separate widget.


There will be automatic plagiarism detection and moderators - pretty hard to bypass all those measures)

Right now we have a pretty restrained promotion budget (it's one of the reasons we're doing a presale in the first place), so social networks are among the best instruments to get coverage, considering our resources.

Although it is encouraged for Experts and Authors, identity verification is entirely optional.

I think it's a bit early for that, we will have more concrete answers closer to the main TGE. But ERC20 tokens can be transfered freely, so if an exchange wants to list us, it can.

How are you going to involve experts? Why should they choose Dolphin instead of their own blogs or stuff like this? Any special offers at the beginning? Bonuses?

How a validity and accuracy of data from Data Provider will be controlled?

Is there a maximum of reward to be gained, or the sum might tend to infinity?

We will subsidize newcomer Experts and make special deals with respected experts from industry using the Community Development Funds. As for blogs and chats - they cannot be monetized directly, while on our platform the Experts will be rewarded, as long as they pass the number of votes threshold.

Data Providers are external to the platform, so their validity can only be derived from the reputation of their Authors (that is why we encourage them to reveal their identities). However, if you are extemely untrusting of custom data providers, there will be open source Data Providers from Dolphin BI team that you can consider trustworthy.

Are there any measures (and if yes which ones) of verification of ico investors? Thanks in advance

Well, it is upper-bounded by the total widget revenue from the Subscribers, but it can be any sum in these boundaries, depending on the Experts' ratings.

We will keep this community informed over the next weeks.

We haven't thought about it yet, because we do not see any groups of investors that may harm the community. However, we may reconsider by the time of the main TGE.

How do you evaluate Potential Available Market with current trends?

Is it full team shown on the landing page? If it does, are 7 guys enough to achieve all the goals in the roadmap? Will you expand the team after pre-sale or mb later?

Will Authors have full rights for their workings? For example, if they decide to place exactly the same one on another platform(s) to gain more money or just copy someone’s code. Sorry, I’m not enough knowledgeable in copyright rules in this sphere, just curious about preventing leakages.

How collection of information from social media will be automated?

Right now there are about 600k unique addresses that invested in ICOs. It is estimated that by 2018 this value will rise to 1.5 mil unique addresses. You must consider, of course, that there are less investors than addresses, so let's say the actual value will be closer to 1 mil. Those are the people that could be potentially interested in the platform, although, of course, not all of them will.

Although there are a few more people that help us here and there, this is the main team. We plan to hire some people after the presale, especially developers, because, as of now, me, Pavel, Ilya and Eugeny can do only so much in 24 hours of a day and we need some people that handle the minutae of development. Also, we'll need more community managers, PR and marketing staff and so on.

But the core of the team is already here - we want to hire new people to unload some secondary responsibilities from them and leave more time for cool stuff :)

Of course, both Experts and Authors have full rights to their work. They will be able to use their materials on other resources, if they so desire.

Right now we have made a custom parser for Bitcointalk that checks the announcement threads for new posts and downloads them into our database. The idea for other social media is similar - we make a crawler that searches for posts mentioning the project and sends them our way.

Is it possible for the Author or an Expert to ask to delete their work from the platform (either analysis or widget)?
And also- if it has been concluded that someone's widget is a plagiarism and there are Subscribers who paid for its usage and would like to continue using it, would the moderators delete the widget and return the money or would they simply rechannel the money to the original inventor leaving the widget in the system?

How much will it cost to access the project for the user? (not for first 15000-50000 users)
Will free information be sufficient to understand all the possibilities of the project?

Are there any certain criteria for forming an ICO rating for the first time?

It was stated that a Social Networks Sentiment Analysis widget is going to be realised, which will gather the opinions of public and key persona in it. I wonder whether it is legal to use their names in a widget without a consent to the processing of personal dataa and also using their intellectual property (posts written by them) without some other kind of legal consent, especially with commercial purposes. How this process is going to be organised?

Yes, with moderators, it is possible!
If a widget is proven to be plagiarism, the money will simply be refunded to the users that have purchased it in the current month.

Huh, cool stuff! Which one?  😏

The basic subscription fee can be adjusted by the community through a voting contract, but we estimate that it should be kept at around 5$ per month.

There will be criteria like quality of business plan, code etc. in the basic Expert widget, but in a custom widget the structure of analytic report may be arbitrary.

It is legal - the data we gather is from public posts (we wouldn't be able to gather it otherwise), so it isn't much different from, for example, taking a screenshot. Even if such problem arises, we can easily disable displaying the posts themselves, and only show aggregation. But it shouldn't come that.

Looking out for more information about this on the blogs!

Like new ML widgets, data providers and so on)

Yep, we're working on it.

One of your competitors is "ICO-Rating". They provide not only an assessment of upcoming and ongoing ISO, but also a detailed past audit of the project to predict success. Do you plan to provide the same services?

We won't provide such services by ourselves, but it is totally possible for somebody to create an "audit" widget and have Experts post their detailed overviews in it (although it depends on how detailed you want it to be - the vanilla Expert widget can have pretty detailed analysis as well).

More than that, ICORating can actually create their trademark widget and post their analysis on our platform to increase coverage!

Hi! There is a project called "Starbase" and along with crowdfunding and supporting of new ICO, they also provide legislation and tax advising for their newcomers. Are you planning to implement such feature in DoBI?

On the CrushCrypto channel you can find a video about startups, ICO. This is an interesting idea of presenting the results of analysis. Will it be implemented by DolphinBI something like this in the future?

We do not promote new ICOs - we think that a key flaw of traditional ICO rating agencies is that they invest in the ICOs they rate, which results in a conflict of interest. So we will not do that.

As for consulting services, it's not exactly the aim of the platform, as data is available to all Subscribers that pay, which means there cannot be private consultations by design. If there's going to be a consulting project with relations to Dolphin, it's going to be separate.

Thank you for reply! But what about including some advertising system for widgets, like it is expected in FinShi? (they are advertising their ICO start-ups with Bounty Campaign of course, but still)

ICOAlert makes their reports Q&A-styled - they ask the founders or developers about their project and it's perspectives. Are you going to do something like this to make information more detailed? Any other cooperation with developers and founders? Or it depends on the experts?

I've read a bit about Santiment. It's a financial market data and content platform of choice for cryptocurrency and block chain space. Santiment provides aggregated newswires regularly. Are you planning to do something similar?

Indoorse project provide an ability for all their community to choose experts from ordinary users. You said, that you are going to moderate them more or less manually, but what do you think about this possibility? Assuming you`ve got all this security protocols against bots.

What do you think about Red Pulse project? It’s  a platform covering China's financial markets, also they provide their users  with the knowledge and helpful information to make investment and business decisions

I have a question about Ties Network. They said that they have first  realization of public decentralized database and interesting cases for crypto community: real deals based raitings, projects, cases foe ico due diligence with expert community etc. As I understand you have something the same. What can you say about that?

Do you consider the news resource DeCenter a serious competitor in the publication of analytical reviews? Will the Dolphin gain such trust?

As HTML in widgets is arbitrary, it it totally possible to put a video player inside a widget and patch it up to a CDN data provider. So if an Author wants to create a widget with video analysis, they can certainly do that.

In the beginning the Dolphin BI team will probably have to publish some widget spotlights to accelerate platform development, but after the platform gains critical mass of Subscribers, we will stop doing that to remain impartial.

As for widget advertising, the Authors can create free widgets with advertisements or advertise on external resources (official Dolphin forums, for example). Popular new widgets will be highlighted in the marketplace as well.

We ourselves are not going to do that (Dolphin BI team's main activity is developing the platform and the community). The ICO list is curated by the moderators and will contain all necessary attributes for basic ICO description. If additional attributes (like Q&A answers) are required, they can be added by the Dolphin BI team (during earlier times) or voted for by the community (when it is sufficiently developed).

We will provide a sentiment analysis widget (actually, it is already available in our demo!), that in its final version will aggregate opinions on the project from different social networks (although right now only BTT is available, other social media is planned as well).

As for Santiment, they aim to build decentralized prediction models, but it is unclear how they are going to decentralize such massive computations (and it is not covered in depth in their WP). The key principle of Dolphin platform is that widgets may be centralized (as they often need a lot of computational power), but the economics around these widgets are decentralized, which allows to create a truly honest and transparent marketplace of analytics.

As long as they have a verified identity, it is possible to easily contact them in their social accounts. As for anonymous investors, it might be a bit trickier. As of now we do not plan to integrate a messenger system into the platform, but we can do that if the community requires it. Be warned, though, that it is probably going to be a centralized system - it is not possible to send messages in Ethereum directly and conveniently right now.

That means that any competitor can use DolphinBI?
Won't it harm the project if ICORating would make their own widget? I ask this because ICOR is free of charge and DBI is not.
And what if Picolo Research, for instance, will make their own widget too? Is it ok?

On a platform called ICO Tracker there is a "role" of curator, who rates ICO's and must invest in the one he's rating. In Dolphin BI, when rating anything, users don't have to invest in it, do they? And I don't undertand one small detail. In Dolpnih BI do users rate widgets or ICOs?

We are not exactly going to moderate who can become an Expert - we will just invite famous Expert onto the platform at its start.

As for the bots - it is actually a pretty sophisticated problem. We will utilize a combination of automated detection measures and curation from high-rating Expert to filter them out.

We haven't really heard about them. But from what we've gathered, they can actually post their analysis on our platform and benefit from it!

We are aiming to create in international platform that caters to audiences from all around the world, so this project would fit right in.

The idea behind dophin bi is really cool. Analytical tool can only be useful where there is transparency and there is level playing field. Spectre is brokeless trading platform. The liquidity of the platform is tokenized and all profit is share by the investor, holder of the token. The financial sector is about to withess transparency like never before. Get Spectre for broker less transaction and dolphin could be predictive tool on it. What a dynamo!

On ICOrating there is a Risk score by which the projects are evaluated. What's rating in Dolphin BI is based on?

Our design is not exactly the same (as data providers are more or less centralized), but Ties.DB can actually be used as a data provider for our widgets.

We do not consider such platforms as direct competitors - in fact, we can easily cooperate, as they can create their signature widget with their content to spread their coverage to Dolphin's audience.

Yes, you can! The Expert's history is saved and can be accessed at any time.

You know, I like how you run the project, but what is the difference between you and Cindicator?

I, actually, like your project, but searching for similar ones, found one called TokenLab. Do you know about it and how Dolphin BI is better than it? What makes analysis by Dolphin BI more reliable or convenient?

It wouldn't really harm the project - in fact, it is a mutually beneficial synergy: ICORating increases their coverage, while we attract ICORating's audience to try our widgets.

Well, the Expert can rate an ICO negatively - it is not really logical to ask them to invest then, is it? :) We do not make our experts invest into anything (it is their own business whether they do that or not), because otherwise they wouldn't be really objective or impartial.

Oh, and I also wanted to ask you about the ICO Rating. Their product seems alike and also convenient. Will you have the same project cards and rating system divided by categories- upcoming, ongoing, past, scam. It's actually very useful.

What do you think about independent research groups, such as CrushCrypto, providing fundamental analysis for chosen projects. They state that "We are not paid or mandated to do any of our reviews and our content is based on our own research and analysis and personal opinion."

What do you think about ICO Stats? Very useful platform with constantly updating information. Will you have the same widgets?

Cryptics, crypto-analytical platform based upon artificial intelligence with self-learning potential, have quite strong plan. Do you know about them and consider them as a potential competitor? As they developed by Russian team

By the way, what do you think about KoCurrency? They are creating kinda crypto investment and prediction platform, seems like the same mission as you have.

Moreover, guys, i just thought there are a lot of banks and and investment companies, which provide tons of information about markets for free. I agree, they do not give info about ICO's, but is not it a question of time? With all their resources it will be much easier for them to enter your sphere and to compete with you in future.

Although we aim more at ICO investment than at trading, we are open to cooperation - only through cooperation we can create the economy of the future  ;)

The answer is simple - whatever the community wants. Through custom widgets the Authors can implement any rating system they wish, and if the Experts choose to analyze project in this system, then it is good to go!

So you creating an ICO for a platform that will perform analysis of another ICOS is that right?

Good evening! Looking for another project, which will be close to DolphinBI's idea and mission, I've found a platform named ICO Tracker. There is an idea to make an alert system for important events. Will it be useful to implement such a tool on DolphinBI platform? In order not to skip X hour or pay attention to significant changes in indicators in time, for instance

There are many free open source databases, for example TokenMarket, they don't have they own analytics, but contain links for other's articles, overview of the ICO, tokens and cryptocurrencies. May it affect users to use information that is easier to get?

The last question I've got is about ICOrating platform. They have a special rubric 'scam'. How do you think, is there any use from this rubric? If yes, whether will it be somehow implemented in your project?

While there are a lot of similarities, there are some key differencies. Cindicator is more trading-oriented, and their forecasters only predict some binary or numeric targets; while our platform is investment-oriented and the Experts give a more detailed overview on each project. Cindicator does not really provide anything in terms of visualization, while Dolphin has all kinds of analytical tools. Cindicator is very automated, while Dolphin will require some curation from the community itself.

All in all, the two approaches can co-exist easily, and Cindicator predictions would actually make a good Dolphin widget.

TokenLab's premise is entirely different - it is a platform for token issuance and not for analytics.

Anybody can implement a widget with same project cards and categories - so it's not really the question of whether we will do, but rather the question of whether the community will.

We think that emergence of such groups is an excellent sign - these are the Experts we are creating our platform for. Through collaboration of such groups the most objective and complete picture of the market will be created.

If the community Authors want to have the same widgets on the platform, they can develop those widgets. More than that, ICO Stats themselves can deploy their widgets on our platform.

We believe that they are not exactly our competitors, because they do not provide the marketplace. We want to create, first and foremost, a marketplace, where all such projects can post their analysis and bring it to the people.

The key difference from us is that they do not provide a marketplace, but they can bring their analytical tools to our platform to increase coverage!

The key idea is that they have one analyst or team of analysts, and we have collaboration of experts all over the world, which gives a more objective and complete picture. We think that banks and investment companies can benefit from participating in this collaboration as well.

Yes, exactly - we need a lot of funds to build an engaged community (marketing, subsidies for new Experts, etc. - see out WP for more detail), without which such analytics marketplace cannot exist.

It can be indeed very useful - such a widget may be actually developed by the core team itself, but even if we don't get to that, third-party developers can always fill the gap.

The problem with these free sources of information, is that to get the full picture the user has to find and review all of them - which takes great amounts of time. Our advantage is that there are a lot of different points of view in one place, so the analysis that the user gets is objective and can be processed much faster. And sources like TokenMarket can increase their outreach by creating a widget for our platform.

Actually, the first concept of our project were to detect scam among ICOs using a neural network. We have made a pivot after talking to the investors, because they want not to only see the final decision, but to see the data it was inferred from and make the decision themselves.

Although, if the community wants it, the Authors can make a widget with scam ICOs.

This is a one of a kind crypto project. It has a unique niche in crypto space making it a cool project for every crypto enthusiasts.

Thank you! Our target is to get the community working together making the ICO market more objective and transparent.

Interested in the project.
I will follow.
I wish you success!

https://beta.dolphin.bi/dashboard/#/page/icofaces

Cool!..
 8)

Thanks a lot! Nice to hear warm wishes!
We have good news and that's why we has update presale dates: Dolphin BI presale good news & update on dates (https://goo.gl/QSx4Ua)

Thanks! =)

Do have bounty?

Do you intend to provide the same services?
Corating can really create their own brand and post their analysis on our platform to increase coverage!

not yet
but we are thinking about it for presale
and of course will do it on the main token sale

Thanks a lot! =)

When will be the presale and main token sale?

presale are coming now))
you can find all information here https://presale.dolphin.bi
The main token sale we are planning to do at february 2018. We hope for Netherland's indulgence ;) by this date

We will really happy, if any rating agency will create their own brand and will post their analysis on our platform to increase coverage  ;D

Hello!
Correct at the beginning of the date.
There, as I understand it - a mistake.
Dolphin BI presale TGE will take place by two stages:
    • private token generation event from August 31th 13:00 - September 18th 2017 15:59 (GMT)
    • public token generation event from September 18th 16:00 - September 30th 2017 23:59 (GMT)
The site https://presale.dolphin.bi/ indicates that funds are already being collected: September 18th 16:00 - October 26th 2017 23:59 (GMT) - public token generation event

I read it from you ..


Bounty program
Conditions of bounty program will be published after presale completion.

If there is a bounty, when?
Thank you so much! And - successes to the project!  :)

"The main token sale we are planning to do at february 2018. We hope for Netherland's indulgence Wink by this date"

Got an answer to my question.
Thank you so much!
Are there any restrictions on the purchase on the presale?

Hello, Dolphin!

Haven't seen any onformation from you for ages! Can you provide me any digest to know what are you working at now?

Hey, Adam!

We are now pretty occupied in Startupbootcamp, don't even have time on any community updates)

In terms of development, we are working on a new version of MVP, which will have more widgets, a giant fully-functional ICO list and an expert widget. We should be able to finish it in a couple of weeks.

As for the business side, we are working with partners of Startupbootcamp to revise our vision and establish connections: new experts for the platform, partnerships with blockchain startups and even banks (who honestly can't wait to get into the ICO market). We are also working with the Dutch regulator AFM, to smooth out the legal aspects of our future ICO.

In the meantime we are running our problem survey, to indicate the issues of ICO investors which we should concentrate on solving. If you are an ICO investor, we would be really grateful if you filled in our form and shared it with your friends:
https://goo.gl/forms/Wg4nCoW2r6ROMaY82

Thank you for staying with us and stay tuned: a lot of cool stuff ahead!

Is there an airport?

 this project has a special attraction for investors to invest in this project and i can only hope there is bounty for the project.ill follow this

Hi all,

I have already invested in Celcius network, Salt lending, eth lend ICO's and want to invest in Welltrado.
What do you think guys? Is it an interesting project?

Thank you for your answers!