Lykke es mencionada como una de las startups suizas más destacadas del 2017.

http://fintechnews.ch/fintech/swiss-fintech-highlights-2017/10883/

Bitcoin dominance is at ATL too, I don't know where BTC is going but I wouldn't buy at these prices in a million years, I don't care if it goes to 2-3k so what, there are a lot of alts that went or are going to go 10x. I'm just not comfortable about Bitcoin future and infighting, too much uncertainty, chaos and arrogance for me to invest my money.

Yes it can be considered an early founder and could receive a good share of the tokens, we don't know if there's such deal. Either way I'm sure they got equity in the company too, that's the appeal of this project. Anyone can get tokens or buy an crypto ETF or Index in the future, but true equity in business is very different. You don't hold just a token or a piece of software (that could still be very valuable indeed), you hold revenue, offices, computers, land, whatever the company owns.

I don't think this deal is about tokens, Parity is a software studio/company, they get revenue when they are hired for consultancy, maintenance, development, etc. Considering blockchain is expanding at a rapid pace and will be everywhere in the next coming years (at least we hope so) these are the investments we want them to do, in actual blockchain business. Not everything will have a token, blockchain is and will be a major business like everything else.

I'm sure there would be a lot of "Blockchain Banks" too for example. Coinbase, Xapo and the like will be used by the average person most likely. Again, these companies could become huge or just get acquired by current giants if blockchain keeps growing. It's the logical thing to do since they are already industry leaders and had been doing this since inception.

That chart just looks beatiful and perfectly bullish.

There's just too much happening on Ethereum right now, Spotify just acquired Mediachain which uses Ethereum blockchain, Google did a test on it, something to do with book ownership (don't know much about it sorry!), Bank of America presented a demo. The EEA is for real guys, this is the only time we've seen such companies actually interested in blockchain projects. I won't even mention things like the Raiden Network, Ethereum Naming System and some very exciting dapps development.

Yes, most "bitcoiners" and skeptics will just say companies will steal the tech to create private chains. Sure, that's what's happening, private chains that communicate with the public so they can all build on the same infrastructure and have mutual trust. There's no point on building a completely private blockchain, it's just a regular old database.

Ethereum could still crash and burn but unless something very bad happen in the next months, the trend is most definitely up and depending on Metropolis hype (next release) and POS hybrid implementation a huge rally/bubble could start (+$100-200 prices).

The question you ask is basically what enforces that 100 LKK = 1 Lykke Corp share.

The answer is legally nothing, at least right now and that's because of current regulations.

You will have to trust Lykke that they will abide to this agreement. As its site mentions, they could release these shares the old way as regular companies do to make it "official" but the whole philosophy of Lykke is that regulators and companies should meet halfway. I'm sure being located at Switzerland definitely helps and if you've been following some news lately there's a strong momentum going in terms of recognizing digital companies and organizations.

Here is a lot more info if you want to dig in: https://www.lykke.com/Lykke_Corp_Placement_Memorandum.pdf

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As a Cavs fan, I'm not seeing any sort of threat in Toronto, I think the Wizards could give them more problems, or the Bulls/Celtics. Toronto looked so fragile against Milwaukee that I still don't know how they got through in 6 games. As for the Spurs and Rockets, another series that I think it's a given for San Antonio, Popovich will tear D'Antoni apart just on the strategy side. The only thing Houston can do is hit all time records for threes and run like hell to tire San Antonio down. The latter could actually be a very powerful weapon if used right but I'm sure San Antonio knows how to minimize it (similar strategy they will use for the Warriors).

As tempus explained Lykke current focus is a little different to Melonport. As far as I understand Melonport is creating a protocol that can be used to build tools for managing funds and tradeable assets. Kinda like Gnosis would be the base layer of prediction markets from where a company/site like Bet365 could be built on top on.

Lykke does not aim to be only "just an exchange" though, there are many plans for the future, including offering your own company stocks, create custom trading instruments and many other exciting ideas.

You may check out this Lykke Accelerator overview where more info about turn-key services are discussed:

https://www.lykke.com/company/news/lykke_accelerator

A "scam" with Tim Draper onboard, plenty of big names managing it and investing 500k into ETHCore/Parity. I appreciate the efforts to investigate and do due diligence with any crypto projects but let's not get carried away with those tin foil hats folks. No ICO guarantees profits or that it will be a good investment, it's at your own discretion where to invest, there's plenty of other ICOs or opportunities right now, but calling everything a scam is ridiculous like it usually happens at this forum and is turning it into a cesspool.

It also reminds of the boy who cried wolf tale, all this noise and I've seen a lot of minor projects literally scam 50-200 BTC on this forum while no one paid any attention.

Of course, there are plenty at the moment, many big ones are already finished though.

You can keep an eye of current and upcoming ones with sites such as:

https://icotracker.net/
https://www.smithandcrown.com/icos/
http://www.icocountdown.com/

Les dejo el nuevo enlace permanente para el Slack de la comunidad Lykke (ya no caducará): https://lykkecommunity.herokuapp.com/

That's fair, ETH actually has a purpose other than being a currency, but I'm sure it can also be used as a currency just fine too if you want to. I remember to have "bought" at lot of ICO tokens for example. What's the point of buying things with a "currency" like BTC (or ETH) for example perhaps is the better question, do you like jumping through hoops, handling decimals and worry about how much will you have next week? No retail business (big or small) can work on that, that's why Bitcoin never catch on in this field and most likely never will. A currency needs to be somewhat stable to be used daily, weekly and monthly.

It never was available to the public I think, you need to be logged in to view it, it's still there.

I was under the impression both BTC/ETH were already converted to fiat, they don't hold crypto anymore. We got our tokens based on that final rate (around $44.xx for ETH). If they have 11M as you mentioned earlier because of this and each token is valued at $1.1 then that's perfectly acceptable. If not, then a refund of the difference should be made.

Seamus Donoghue se une al equipo de Lykke como director de sus oficinas en Singapur - Reporte Oficial
"Fue un sincero acuerdo de voluntades", dice Richard Olsen, anterior fundador y CEO de OANDA y actual CEO de Lykke. "Nos hemos entendido fabulosamente, podemos realizar mucho desde Singapur. Es un verdadero privilegio trabajar con personas tan capaces, entusiastas y de todas partes del mundo".

Mr. Donoghue fue recientemente CEO de Allocate Bullion Solutions. Ha ocupado diversos cargos en Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Deutsche Bank y JP Morgan.

https://www.lykke.com/company/news/seamus_donoghue_joins_lykke

Seamus Donoghue Joins the Lykke Team as Head of Singapore - Official Report
“This was just a clear meeting of the minds,” says Richard Olsen, previously founder and CEO of OANDA and now CEO of Lykke. “We got along fabulously, and there is so much we can do from Singapore. It’s a real privilege to work with such enthusiastic and capable people all around the globe.”

Mr Donoghue was most recently CEO of Allocate Bullion Solutions. He has held positions at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and JP Morgan

https://www.lykke.com/company/news/seamus_donoghue_joins_lykke

The conversion was fair in a way that it was very close to what we sent at the time. The thing is the actual conversion happened many days after the ICO and both BTC and especially ETH increased in value. Where would that difference go is something I particularly don't know but it should be refunded or the value of each token increased.

Please explain to me what is a real currency?