Our Slack community has 324 members and growing. We have also worked on building our project awareness on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube ... We are completely aware that this is a critical component of our future success.

This hidden cap concept has been used a few time and is an incentive for investors to not wait until the very last moment to participate in a successful ICO otherwise you would risk to be left on the sideline if reached before you are in. The harcap, is just to reassure that we are not trying to raise too high an amount otherwise I would put the hidden cap at 1,000,000 ETH which would be misleading on our objectives.

We have indeed started to initiate conversations with some big guns but have not concluded any deal yet. We are using the conf we are attending to build this momentum and try to close deal. Of course we would make some announcements should we do so. W definitively have their ears though.

We are completely aware that one of our biggest challenge is to build our community fast now in order to make this ICO a success. Thank you for the advice on Cindicator. We will look into this.

Bots are like professional poker players: they are using statistic to earn money. One one hand, they get raw signals to take on a position. And then there are using money management techniques to know how much to bet. And this is really a combination of these two elements that allow you to design performing bots. We have one or 2 other tricks such as using filters for market timing signal we are getting and reduce trading hence risk.

We know that we need to work on pedagogy as the concept that we are manipulating are not all mainstream. Maybe with the help of the bounty program, we could get some help on this front. But we put this on our to do list.

We have not developed AI / Deep learning yet even though we have all what we need to do so in our team given the background of Stefan, our CTO, Arnaud and myself. For the moment, our bots are market timing tools developed on closing prices mainly and providing low frequency trading signals.

Having worked on a lot of complex data project, we know very well that to run AI / Deep Learning bots, you need to have first class datasets and this is a very valuable and difficult to acquire asset. We have already started to build our own database and will dedicate a decent size of our budget to build this further as this is our raw material. This is tougher than anyone thinks and that is why firm like Bloomberg and Reuters have developed huge business.

We need to organize a creativity session on our side to come up with some ideas that we would propose to our community. We definitively will put oil and sparks on the list, and give you copyrights on these ones !!!

We have managed structured funds which main assets were made of fixed income, forex and equity products. We used both delta one and derivatives to build our portfolios. However, as self learner, I have also traded a lot gold and silver and have run funds on commodities and real estate.

We are conscious that as long as we are not asking people to actually commit the money, these are just promises. However, this is a way for us to gauge market interest in our project and to offer these early people to get a bigger bonus should they decide to finally commit to our ICO. And thank you for sharing this statistic.

Because we've been there more than 15 years ago, we are proposing this project. We are trying to save everyone sometime in their trading experience.
http://www.fxtradermagazine.com/trading-psychology/how-to-eliminate-emotions-from-trading-2.php

Indeed, algorithmic / systematic trading has taken bigger market share in the traditional universe and rightly so given the poor performance of most discretionary asset managers. However designing a trading bot require some skills and there is plenty of research to be made in this area. But it is true that not everyone has the capacity to design performing bots.

Regarding AI, this is only one way to develop a bot and it is very promising. We find this very challenging and exiting and believe that early adopters will be the one reaping future profits.

We are effectively on a roadshow currently. We were at the ICO Summit in Zurich last friday. The coming events are:
1. meetup organized by the Asseth in Paris on Sept 20
2. speaker at the World Bloclchain Forum on Sept 25-26
3. speaker at the Blockchain Forum in Barcelona on oct 3-5
4. another meetup in Paris mid oct

We have developed our strategies for a long time now even though we are still finding new ones when we have time to spend on this. This is the core our value proposal.

The second element is to build a platform to host these strategies and all the functionalities we intend to provide to NPX token holders. We have already developed a beta version and are testing it as well as putting a security layer. We hope to present this in the next few weeks and in any case before ICO launch.

We have presented a strategy based on Gold in our Blackpaper and Commodities are definitively an asset class where we want to propose bots. We know that in this asset class liquidity is more limited than in Equity and Fixed Income but given the current liquidity in the crypto universe, we think some room to provide some strategy with decent size.

Yes we have one that regularly switch from BTC to USD on a weekly basis and that has beaten a simple buy and hold position by more than 100% on an annual basis with a dozens or so trade per year.

We intend to launch our index publishing that will host our bot strategies within the next few weeks but before ICO. We are busy with a lot of marketing touring all around Europe to present our project to conferences so bear with us please. It is almost ready but are trying to add some features for some kind of whahou effect. Just rememebr that we don't have proper designer with us though.

We might even launch a contest for replacing this "gas" term. Need to think about a prize money o make it fun.

You have different type of algos. Some are looking at the order book to front run or orientate market movement. Ours are more "long term" in nature and might be quite uncorrelated to the ones you are describing

The bots we have developed are very low frequency and might not react like the one that are already in place. We have developed trend following bots on crypto but we want to avoid over trading given the high trading cost.

We also have a lot of algos on traditional assets where we would not suffer any such behavior. The idea that we have is to bring back performance generated in this traditional world back to the crypto universe which will also contribute to its development.