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Smartlands will be the first ICO on the Stellar platform!
To ensure a smooth transition and to make all required preparations the ICO start date will be moved to November 2, 2017!
Cooperation with Stellar.org is of strategic importance for the market. Stellar is a breakthrough platform in the financial sector, which has rapidly gained popularity in both the crypto community and financial/fintech sectors. Smartlands has a similar philosophy and sets ambitious goals to integrate agriculture into the crypto economy.
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Yes, the land is the best asset that can be collateralized as it does not depreciate. With other assets there should be a rollover, that is not that easy to handle.

Small farms will fit the Group of assets ABT type the best but you need to have assets to collateralize before you can raise crypto investments.
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As it is stated in the Lightpaper and was mentioned by tokensepton: Once the number of ABTs of agricultural companies issued on the Platform will reach five, the Platform will construct the index encompassing all the Platform’s agricultural ABTs. After the issue of 10 ABTs on the Platform, an index token will be issued. Proceeds of sales of the token will be used to buy ABTs proportional to the composition of the index. Such index token will make the Smartlands index of agricultural ABT investable providing an opportunity to buy all the issued agricultural ABT tokens with one action.
We expect to have 10 companies on the Platform in 2nd or 3rd quarter 2018, so that's a good proxy for Smartlands Index token creation.

The Lightpaper is already available. Please use the link provided to access it.

The Smartlands team continues to work hard on the creation of the Platform! We are always glad to keep you updated on the latest news.
The updated Lightpaper is available now. In the document, we introduce a new financial instrument for the market - Smartlands INDEX Token (one token to invest in all the Platform's agricompanies).
Find Smartlands Lightpaper here:
https://medium.com/@smartlands/smartlands-lightpaper-and-index-token-model-f37e7d464f3d

Good chance for agritech and agri companies

And some more about global agriculture exposure.
Smartlands to bring significant value for improvement of global food security. Farm investments are crucial component of sustainable development in poor countries.
The issue is in focus of the United Nations and top business media. Yesterday’s article on Bloomberg discusses the possible challenges that poor countries may face in this regard. Nevertheless, great challenges bring great opportunities.
The growing demand from urban food markets, which consume as much as 70 percent of food supplies, could benefit the rural agriculture industry, the FAO said. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, the value of urban food markets is projected to more than triple to $500 billion in 20 years through 2030.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-09/poor-nations-need-farm-investment-or-face-importing-more-food-j8jssozu

Smartlands marketing research shows that 48% of agricultural companies are willing to use the Platform.
Smartlands Platform team extensively work with farmers and agricultural companies all over the world to better understand our clients and make the Platform that will be the most suitable for their needs.
To confirm the demand for Smartlands Platform and its services, we performed a marketing research of agricultural companies that was focused on two critical issues for the success of the Platform:
-   understanding and readiness to use Smartlands Platform (once created) and blockchain technology in general
-   need for reliable long-term financing for the introduction of innovations and expansion
91 agricultural companies took part in the marketing research, and the obtained results are encouraging.
 


Summarized results are indicated in the chart and provided below.
•   44 companies (48%) are both ready to use the Platform and need additional sources of financing.
•   18 companies (20%) have a positive perception of the Platform but don’t plan to raise additional capital in near future.
•   15 companies (17%) don’t understand or like the idea of the Platform/blockchain, but need additional sources of financing
•   14 companies (15%) don’t understand or like the idea of the Platform/blockchain, and don’t plan to raise additional capital.
The distribution of answers is also illustrated on the scatterplot below

You can find it in the Whitepaper
Here is the relevant part.
At the initial stages, Smartlands intend to create an ecosystem of agtech companies - partners of the Platform, which in the future can be developed into agtech accelerator.
Such a partnership will allow the Platform to be always at the center of innovations in this field and to achieve integration with the information systems of ABT issuers as complete, reliable and effective as possible.
For agtech companies, cooperation with the Platform is an additional way to find clients and possibly investors, as investors in agricultural assets are also often interested in investing in agtech companies.
For ABT investors, the cooperation of the token issuing company with the agtech company from the Platform's ecosystem is an additional confidence in the correct use of the investments attracted by the agricultural companies. First, the risk of overstating the cost of implemented systems is significantly minimized. Such cost overstating is commonly used for improper withdrawal of investors' funds from the account of the company that attracted investments. Secondly, the risk of non-fulfillment of obligations by agtech company is reduced. Non-fulfillment of obligations may entail a lack of improvement in the efficiency of the token issuing company, accordingly reducing the income and profit of the asset, parts of which are allocated to investors.
For agricultural companies, cooperation with the agtech company from the Platform's ecosystem is the confidence in achieving contractual obligations by the contractor and larger amount of investments that can be raised, due to greater investors’ confidence in the effective use of the ICO proceeds.
Thus, each of the parties of the ecosystem involved has an interest and benefit from cooperation, that makes us optimistic about the success of the establishment and development of such an ecosystem based on the Platform.

A good prospect for those who are looking for emerging agri tech business. A way to tokenized every crop products available on the market.

Smartlands Platform was introduced to agricultural experts at the largest Asian exhibition — “Asia Fruit Logistica”
The Platform was presented at the largest Asian exhibition — Asia Fruit Logistica, which was held in Hong Kong. Our team has successfully presented the Smartlands Platform to various agribusiness and companies from all over the world. Along with the productive work at the exhibition, we held more than 50 meetings with potential platform participants, who expressed their desire to attract investments towards development of their business. Potential Investors and future participants are looking forward to the successful launch of Smartlands Platform.
Read more http://www.asiafruitlogistica.com

Yes, SLT is a token of Smartlands Platform that will create the relevant infrastructure that will let agricultural companies to issue ABTs with minimal effort. On other hands Smartlands Platform will protect crypto investors from major part of risks with its blockchain, agtech, legal and other solutions.
SLT holders will have the right to take part in management of the Platform and set the rules for tokenization.