We are just giving one more way people to donate. Of course TRESARO works as a regular marketplace as well. You can just sell/buy without donating.
But we are trying to make donating to be as simple as possible.

When the sale is for charity people tend to pay more than the price of the item, that's a fact.
Also when you know that your item is going for charity you will go and do all that. Probably not for any charity, but for people you know you will do it.

The whole project is about charity. Thats the core idea.

Thats for sure! 

As for the advisors.. this is a tricky topic. At the moment we are indeed focused on bringing advisors from the charity sector, because as you can see we have very experienced business and IT teams and we know we can make this project happen.

We are also speaking with several high profile names in the ICO space but as you know it is hard to find the right people especially when we have such high standards.

Of course all the charities we work with right now give us very good advices.


Also this is something where our community can help us.  If you know charities please let them know what we are doing and ask them to get in touch with us.

It is not early at all. We are negotiating with a lot of charities, including the TOP 10.
At the moment we have support of many Bulgarian charities that help us to polish our platform. They give us very valuable information how charities works.

To be verified means more trust. This means the charity passed KYC and we know who are the persons behind it. If your charity deals only on a local level and people who contribute knows you then you dont have to pass KYC. Every person who contributes to your charity can left you a positive feedback and increase your “trust”. But if you wish to operate on a larger scale it is probably good idea to pass KYC so people who dont know you are sure that this charity is real.
As opportunities they will have the same the verified charity will have more trust and people will probably donate more.

This is where the blockchain and the users of TRESARO will come in play.
TRESARO is not only a marketplace but a protocol as well. We will provide ratings, feedback, escrow and arbitrage for every charity.
There will be 2 levels of charities - unverified and verified which means they passed KYC.
Unverified level is usually enough for charities that operate on local level or just between friends. If you wish your charity to be trusted , just upgrade it to level 2 and pass the KYC.
 

Thats one of the cases. But think about the following:
You list item in favor of Orphanage Org. When item is sold the TRE goes to them. What ere they gonna do with the TRE? One of the paths is as you said to sell the tokens to BTC and then to fiat. But why they need fiat ? To buy something, right. Now think about what will happen if the items they are willing to buy are available on TRESARO marketplace but are listed in favor of for example Cancer Org. If Orphanage Org buys the item the TRE will go to Cancer Org - for the first time in the world one charity org is actualy donating to other charity org. And what will happen when Cancer Org buys something from TRESARO marketplace listed in favor of some other charity...
We belive that this is very big driver charity orgs to buy from TRESARO and not look outside. Usually charities are competing for a single pool of resources (donations). The Tresaro market implicitly turns this competition into cooperation.
 
 

We will have a bounty about translations very soon. Stay tuned.

At the moment we have no shipping carrier deals that we can disclosure. We are negotiating with few but we will see what will happen.


The business and marketing info will be in the WP in the following week.

The third option of delivery is about how we connect with delivery services. We allow delivery companies to also earn tokens by transporting goods from the site. The tokens they earn can be donated as well. So for example if carrier wants to run or help a charity campaign they can connect with us, give better rates and they will start earning tokens for their services. The idea is to allow carriers to donate part of their earnings to charity campaigns.

TRE-SWARM is application protocol, based on Ethersphere's SWARM, which we intend to use as decentralized infrastructure layer - mainly verifiable and still plausibly deniable KV storage and content propagation. Although SWARM's still ongoing, reference implementation is built over and is a part of Ethereum stack, it could be easily migrated to any smart-contract supporting blockchain (e.g. SWARM is practically blockchain-agnostic). And to staright answer your question - TRE-SWARM is based on the application, off-chain functionality of the SWARM, while TRE-SCS is based on SWARM's smart contract set (which, of course, is on-chain).  You could find more on SWARM in their orange papers and github, which are referenced in our whitepaper (references 08, 09 and 10).

When you list the item you will have a option to select the shipping - free shiping (which mean seller is paying  for the shipping ) or you put the price for shipping which mean the buyer will have to pay it.
And a third very interesting option, Check our WP, we have carrier nodes in the network which mean we can have shipping carriers part of the network.

Sure we have a lot of platforms like Kickstarter but again you have to donate only by cash.

At the moment we stay on Ethereum, we had proposal from Aeternity Ventures to build over their platform and accept funding from them but we declined. Probably in future we will add more networks but not now.
As for our blockchain we will build TRE-SWARM protocol and use it as a backbone for our network.

The special thing about TRESARO is that we allow people to support charities/crowdfundings with items and not via hard earned cash.

Just think about how many people are running small scale local charity events ? How many people are searching for money for a sick friend ? First we will target them. They don't have resources and tools to build good campaigns. TRESARO is just that - a tool that can help you run a successful campaign. When you make a campaign in TRESARO you actually make a web shop where people can buy and sell items in your favor, then you just need to share the link to that web shop to your friends and to people online. This is a very powerful tool for small campaigns. Also we build trust in them, something they lack. Also this helps us spread the word about TRESARO, everywhere people post their campaign link people will see what TRESARO is. And believe me, small campaigns will post it as much as possible.
Then the big charity names will come. For them we will have a special team to invite them. We will setup their pages (this is also possible for all campaigns) and the only thing they need to do is collect and spend the donations.
This is how we are going to attract charities and crowdfunding campaigns.

The first sellers will be the friends of the people who runs the small campaigns and people that are just for the crypto. When a friend of yours come with a request for help will you take your time and post a unnneded item in his favor ? You will. Then your frineds will do it as well. Thats how small charities operates - word of mout.

Buyers will be atracted by the items and by the will to help. If you need a phone from where you will buy it ? From a big retailer where you dont know where your money will go or from a charity and help somebody ?  

Of course, when the big charity names come to the platform they will bring their userbase with them. Every charity comes with a userbase that will start selling and buying stuff.

In the mean time TRESARO will be promoted everywhere.

And thats just small part of how we will attract users. We are updating our WP with more info.
 

Apple did not invent anything but they innovated a lot of markets. We do the same :-)
TRESARO is a innovative platform that will transform the way people donate.

What if your clutter can save a little children life ? What if this clutter can cure cancer ? Will you have the time then?
Thats exactly what TRESARO is - if you dont have the money to save somebody’s life or maybe even yours do it with your time. You just need 5 minutes to make the world a better place.