[ANN][ICO] The Agora [ETH/BTC] - Passive income with next-gen marketplace

[TheAgora]

Discover the Agora Marketplace

WEBSITE - WHITEPAPER - SUBREDDIT - FACEBOOK - TWITTER - SLACK


ICO 10% OFFER Premium Period - LIVE NOW

A truly decentralized market

Based upon Ethereum for the logic and IPFS for the content, Agora is the first market thought in the interest of all parties. Register on it using your current Ethereum Wallet and then you can buy or sell over the marketplace*. An automatic system is holding the funds during the transaction. That way, if something goes wrong you can always get your money back.

A profitable place

When a transaction is made over Agora, a 2% fee is taken and transferred to a special contract. Every month, all Agora token holders can claim their part of the fees gathered during the period. This is how the market is profitable for investors as well as for the development team which holds tokens too. These tokens held by the Agora team is the way developers can work and live off building Agora.

Seller's new home

As a seller, you can create your place, fully-customized, to sell your goods or services. All the assets that make your market so beautiful and unique are stored on IPFS, so they are as distributed as the market. You will be able to choose colors, pictures and the layout with a fully customizable CSS to make your place completely unique.

In what are we different from other decentralized marketplaces ?

• We want the user to be able to use the market the most natural way. Just going to an URL must be enough. No software installation etc... We will be working with public nodes. Of course, if the user wants to use its own node, he also can.
• To register only an Ethereum Wallet is enough.
• We want to be able to suggest goods that can interest you, but respecting your private life must be taken into account. Creating a decentralized search-engine/recommendation  based on IPFS and Ethereum will be one of our biggest challenge.
• To get the community truly involved, the shareholders that get involved into the community generate passive incomes based on the 2% fee taken from every transactions made over the marketplace.

Getting involved in the ICO

We're glad you want to be in. The ICO started the 5th of august around 00:00 UTC.

You're using Metamask, Parity or any web browser wallet injecting web3
Directly go here : https://theagora.io#buy-token and use our wizard to buy.


You're using a standard ethereum wallet

To buy tokens, you need to send the amount you want of Ether to :
0x2f5e044ad4adac34c8d8df738fac7743eda1409c
With the following data :
0xa6f2ae3a and with 130000 gas
The data is used to trigger the method on the contract, it is a mandatory parameter.

Do not try to send Ethers from an exchange or a multi-sig wallet : you won't be able to get your tokens.

10% premium offer during the first 2 weeks of the ICO

The ICO last for 2 months. For 1 ether you get 500 AGO. But the first two weeks a premium discount is applied : for 1 ether you get 550 AGO.

Bounties

Bounties are divided in this categories :

Press releases
Traductions
Others

If you are interested, we would love to talk with you on our SLACK ask @jeremy once on it.

Will you miss the chance of generating incomes with the next generation of marketplaces ?
Come change the world of online marketplaces with us .

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[iTradeChips]

greeting TheAgora dev team. i would like to reserve for Filipino/Tagalog and/or Esperanto translationsif you will run any bounties. i have done many translations before and i can provide links to them if the team wants it. thanks and good luck with this project !

[$crypto$]

projec Simple really  
bounty ?

[TheAgora]

projec Simple really  
bounty ?

Our project is simple in its first version, indeed. But it make it feasible. Our long-term goal is to build a fully-featured marketplace, and we will be able to do this only if we start with an accessible goal. If you check our timeline, you can see we have :

• Mobile applications
• Decentralized search-engine
• Parcels deliveries traking
• ...

It's not that easy to do.

For bounties, we haven't defined anything about this. We still discuss about creating some. we'll post it here as soon as we have decided something inside.

[TheAgora]

Hello BitcoinTalk Users ,

We've just added bounties ! Check out the first message, If you are interested, we would love to talk with you on our SLACK ask @jeremy once on it.

[TheAgora]

Here is a little announcement about The Agora Marketplace ICO :

Today, we've integrated a mechanism that can help you to get involved into our ICO using Bitcoin and/or Litecoin (in extension of the Ethereum base).

We're currently working on making this engine open-source and opened, so everybody that will want to create an ICO in the future will be able to accept payments in all of this currencies. If you have any question, come talk to with us on our Slack !

[CryptoVote]

Hi, I sent 3.0 Litecoins to the ICO but don't see my tokens yet.

LTC Address: LbWpY7zfMHtninKYcAsoT3EvWmhSMnpF9Z
Tx ID:  44a91974eadc9a51b47dda928914512d4479364bb842f2532b24a7f8f742c79f

I did get the tokens for the Bitcoin I sent.  Thanks!

[TimeTeller]

I'm just wondering that if the thread is not attracting attention from the community, then, how can you promise about the passive income?
It's hard to believe to acquire such passive income if you have very small audience supporting you.
Just my thoughts though...

[TheAgora]

Hi, I sent 3.0 Litecoins to the ICO but don't see my tokens yet.

LTC Address: LbWpY7zfMHtninKYcAsoT3EvWmhSMnpF9Z
Tx ID:  44a91974eadc9a51b47dda928914512d4479364bb842f2532b24a7f8f742c79f

I did get the tokens for the Bitcoin I sent.  Thanks!

I'm going to fix this right now, it seems the API we rely on for Litecoin is a bit buggy. Sorry about that.

[CryptoVote]

Hi, I sent 3.0 Litecoins to the ICO but don't see my tokens yet.

LTC Address: LbWpY7zfMHtninKYcAsoT3EvWmhSMnpF9Z
Tx ID:  44a91974eadc9a51b47dda928914512d4479364bb842f2532b24a7f8f742c79f

I did get the tokens for the Bitcoin I sent.  Thanks!

I'm going to fix this right now, it seems the API we rely on for Litecoin is a bit buggy. Sorry about that.

I received the tokens.  thanks!

[Kenrich]

What's the update of this project? Any latest news from Dev?

[TheAgora]

What's the update of this project? Any latest news from Dev?

I'm the lead developer, what do you want to know ?

[anousak102]

yet have a demo for the platform?

[TheAgora]

yet have a demo for the platform?

No, it's too soon for a demo of the platform. We've finished designing all smart-contracts used by the platform, we are reviewing and testing them as we are talking. We will publish them on GitHub so people will be able to audit it before we deploy it. (probably next week)

We don't want to make the same mistakes as previous projects : rushing the contract development and getting stuck with some limitations, or worst.

By the 15th September, we will have deployed the "claiming" contract (the one that generates passive incomes) and the market contract itself on the Ethereum chain.

[ELE.ZYK]

yet have a demo for the platform?

No, it's too soon for a demo of the platform. We've finished designing all smart-contracts used by the platform, we are reviewing and testing them as we are talking. We will publish them on GitHub so people will be able to audit it before we deploy it. (probably next week)

We don't want to make the same mistakes as previous projects : rushing the contract development and getting stuck with some limitations, or worst.

By the 15th September, we will have deployed the "claiming" contract (the one that generates passive incomes) and the market contract itself on the Ethereum chain.

15th September ,there is a lot time ,I  interested in this coin so i will keep watching

[TheAgora]

yet have a demo for the platform?

No, it's too soon for a demo of the platform. We've finished designing all smart-contracts used by the platform, we are reviewing and testing them as we are talking. We will publish them on GitHub so people will be able to audit it before we deploy it. (probably next week)

We don't want to make the same mistakes as previous projects : rushing the contract development and getting stuck with some limitations, or worst.

By the 15th September, we will have deployed the "claiming" contract (the one that generates passive incomes) and the market contract itself on the Ethereum chain.

15th September ,there is a lot time ,I  interested in this coin so i will keep watching

We do know it can seem long, that's why we've decided to make the ICO open until the 15th of October, and to motivate people to start invest in our project, we've added the 10% offer at the opening.

[dadingsda]

bounty for german translation? pm me!

[IOTUSA]

How is ICO disbursement and escrow handled? Is it all through smart contracts? Is there an MVP? Is there a gui? Many questions before I put any money into this ICO. You should also add linkedin links for the TEAM asap. Photo's and text as presentation is way too much 2013.

[TheAgora]

How is ICO disbursement and escrow handled? Is it all through smart contracts? Is there an MVP? Is there a gui? Many questions before I put any money into this ICO. You should also add linkedin links for the TEAM asap. Photo's and text as presentation is way too much 2013.

The disbursement/escrow is handled by the smart-contract itself (you can check the source here) like all the parts of our ICO :
https://etherscan.io/address/0x2f5e044ad4adac34c8d8df738fac7743eda1409c check the refill method. If the ICO fails, you can simply execute this method on the contract to get your ethers back. If the ICO is a fail, here is the transaction to make to get the Ethers put back :

Code:

  address : 0x2f5e044ad4adac34c8d8df738fac7743eda1409c
  gas : 150000
  data : 0x538e0759

If the ICO is a success, the smart-contract owner (0x603DEFF7b4B6467dB3e3e4A39a704Ab3Ee04Fa53 on the Ethereum chain) can withdraw the Ethers raised during the ICO to pay services (like marketing, designers or legal advices).

There will be a GUI for shareholders (like stated in our whitepaper).

We will add LinkedIn links, you're right .

[IOTUSA]

How is ICO disbursement and escrow handled? Is it all through smart contracts? Is there an MVP? Is there a gui? Many questions before I put any money into this ICO. You should also add linkedin links for the TEAM asap. Photo's and text as presentation is way too much 2013.

The disbursement/escrow is handled by the smart-contract itself (you can check the source here) like all the parts of our ICO :
https://etherscan.io/address/0x2f5e044ad4adac34c8d8df738fac7743eda1409c check the refill method. If the ICO fails, you can simply execute this method on the contract to get your ethers back. If the ICO is a fail, here is the transaction to make to get the Ethers put back :

Code:

  address : 0x2f5e044ad4adac34c8d8df738fac7743eda1409c
  gas : 150000
  data : 0x538e0759

If the ICO is a success, the smart-contract owner (0x603DEFF7b4B6467dB3e3e4A39a704Ab3Ee04Fa53 on the Ethereum chain) can withdraw the Ethers raised during the ICO to pay services (like marketing, designers or legal advices).

There will be a GUI for shareholders (like stated in our whitepaper).

We will add LinkedIn links, you're right .

I look forward to seeing the linkedin profiles and an MVP. I could fund the project myself if I feel that you are a serious development team.

[Vanellsworth]

how about airdrop 

[sarfield]

Discover the Agora Marketplace

WEBSITE - WHITEPAPER - SUBREDDIT - FACEBOOK - TWITTER - SLACK


ICO 10% OFFER Premium Period - LIVE NOW

A truly decentralized market

Based upon Ethereum for the logic and IPFS for the content, Agora is the first market thought in the interest of all parties. Register on it using your current Ethereum Wallet and then you can buy or sell over the marketplace*. An automatic system is holding the funds during the transaction. That way, if something goes wrong you can always get your money back.

A profitable place

When a transaction is made over Agora, a 2% fee is taken and transferred to a special contract. Every month, all Agora token holders can claim their part of the fees gathered during the period. This is how the market is profitable for investors as well as for the development team which holds tokens too. These tokens held by the Agora team is the way developers can work and live off building Agora.

Seller's new home

As a seller, you can create your place, fully-customized, to sell your goods or services. All the assets that make your market so beautiful and unique are stored on IPFS, so they are as distributed as the market. You will be able to choose colors, pictures and the layout with a fully customizable CSS to make your place completely unique.

In what are we different from other decentralized marketplaces ?

• We want the user to be able to use the market the most natural way. Just going to an URL must be enough. No software installation etc... We will be working with public nodes. Of course, if the user wants to use its own node, he also can.
• To register only an Ethereum Wallet is enough.
• We want to be able to suggest goods that can interest you, but respecting your private life must be taken into account. Creating a decentralized search-engine/recommendation  based on IPFS and Ethereum will be one of our biggest challenge.
• To get the community truly involved, the shareholders that get involved into the community generate passive incomes based on the 2% fee taken from every transactions made over the marketplace.

Getting involved in the ICO

We're glad you want to be in. The ICO started the 5th of august around 00:00 UTC.

You're using Metamask, Parity or any web browser wallet injecting web3
Directly go here : https://theagora.io#buy-token and use our wizard to buy.


You're using a standard ethereum wallet

To buy tokens, you need to send the amount you want of Ether to :
0x2f5e044ad4adac34c8d8df738fac7743eda1409c
With the following data :
0xa6f2ae3a and with 130000 gas
The data is used to trigger the method on the contract, it is a mandatory parameter.

Do not try to send Ethers from an exchange or a multi-sig wallet : you won't be able to get your tokens.

10% premium offer during the first 2 weeks of the ICO

The ICO last for 2 months. For 1 ether you get 500 AGO. But the first two weeks a premium discount is applied : for 1 ether you get 550 AGO.

Bounties

Bounties are divided in this categories :

Press releases
Traductions
Others

If you are interested, we would love to talk with you on our SLACK ask @jeremy once on it.

Will you miss the chance of generating incomes with the next generation of marketplaces ?
Come change the world of online marketplaces with us .

Seems like, some bounties will be available in the future, for now could you give us the list of the bounties that will be open.
Thanks.

[TheAgora]

@IOTUSA : The MVP will be available anytime soon now. The LinkedIn links will be deployed with a (big) update of the site next week.

@sarfield : If you're interested in some bounties, come talk to me directly on Slack

Since we rely on blocks and not on timestamps, it seems the Premium period will be opened 21 more hours. Don't miss the chance to get involved in our ICO at a preferred price .

[ICOHunt]

Can you provide more detail as to the distribution of the tokens and what the funds raised will be used for? Thanks

[TheAgora]

Can you provide more detail as to the distribution of the tokens and what the funds raised will be used for? Thanks

The token distribution last 2 months. There is no maximum cap. The total of token released after the ICO period can never be changed. 1/6 of the tokens are owned by the development team. If you want more details, you can find it in our whitepaper .

The funds will be used for :

 - ~70% : Developing/Designing the marketplace
 - ~10% : Legal consideration
 - ~20% : Marketing, helping marchants to create an account

[ICOHunt]

Can you provide more detail as to the distribution of the tokens and what the funds raised will be used for? Thanks

The token distribution last 2 months. There is no maximum cap. The total of token released after the ICO period can never be changed. 1/6 of the tokens are owned by the development team. If you want more details, you can find it in our whitepaper .

The funds will be used for :

 - ~70% : Developing/Designing the marketplace
 - ~10% : Legal consideration
 - ~20% : Marketing, helping marchants to create an account

Yeh this is what confused me in your whitepaper: "For 1 token created for a shareholder, 1/6 more token are created and given to the contract owner."

So does that mean that the development team will hold 1/6 of all tokens or 0.166/1.166 ~ 14.2% of tokens? 

Thanks for providing what the funds would be used for. This doesn't seem to be in your whitepaper.

Thanks

[TheAgora]

Here is how the smart-contract is calculating it :

Code:

 function buy() payable {
    require(block.number > icoStartBlock && block.number < icoEndBlock && msg.sender != owner);

    uint256 tokenAmount = msg.value * ((block.number < icoPremiumEndBlock) ? 550 : 500);

    shares[msg.sender] += msg.value;
    balances[msg.sender] += tokenAmount;
    balances[owner] += tokenAmount / 6;

    raised += msg.value;
    created += tokenAmount;
  }

Your calculation is correct. For one token bought, there is 1.16 token created. The 0.16 more created are indefinitely frozen (cannot be exchanged). It is made this way so we can have sustainable gain to develop the marketplace overt the time.

[TheAgora]

Half way through the ICO, a little bit more raised than the half of the required value. We're preparing a big update on the project with an online MVP .

[tyberyus]

Hello

Can you please tell me if the information on your website https://theagora.io/ is real time info:

03.10.2017 - 276 ETH raised and 144385 tokens released.

Suppose ico will be a succes, let s say 600 ETH, that means aprox 300 000 tokens released. Ant that will be all, correct?

thanks for you response

[TheAgora]

Hello, yes that is correct : no more token can be created after the end of the ICO.
For the data on our website it is supposed to be realtime and can be delayed to, at most, 30 seconds (due to some caching).

[vertexsofts]

I not receive my agora coin please check the problem
my ether wallet: 0xC85e260502a6eede089448D883e33C5b10570ca1
BTC 0.00125394 Sent to 1B6VfRTM8zpshFj8aqPSGwLJZVfjmExVgq
https://ibb.co/kbFHdw
https://ibb.co/fsbZQb
bitcoin block chain confirmation :  https://blockchain.info/address/1B6VfRTM8zpshFj8aqPSGwLJZVfjmExVgq

[housebtc]

It will be interesting  how this work out, low interest in the project and I don't know where they team will get capital to generate sustainable passive income promised here because low community support is a very big concern here

[TheAgora]

I not receive my agora coin please check the problem
my ether wallet: 0xC85e260502a6eede089448D883e33C5b10570ca1
BTC 0.00125394 Sent to 1B6VfRTM8zpshFj8aqPSGwLJZVfjmExVgq
https://ibb.co/kbFHdw
https://ibb.co/fsbZQb
bitcoin block chain confirmation :  https://blockchain.info/address/1B6VfRTM8zpshFj8aqPSGwLJZVfjmExVgq

As stated on our website, we cannot handle Bitcoin payment with less than 0.01 BTC. It's written, in bold red, above the QRCode when you pay in bitcoin.

It will be interesting  how this work out, low interest in the project and I don't know where they team will get capital to generate sustainable passive income promised here because low community support is a very big concern here

The more people will come, the more profitable we will be able to be, of course. But, the amount we raise do not determine the number of people that will use the marketplace. Being an investor and being a user is two different kind of thing.

[alex890]

I’m going with the best 50/50 combo ever. Half for this one and half for the PayPie pre sale that opens this Sunday. Winning combo.

[lukeSAW01]

Hi i deposited some 0.025 BTC but still haven't received tokens...is it normal to take more than 24 hours?


https://btc.com/15zPDwpXdYMZ267tLKr5hijkdh3rjkyVhw


Here is blockchain for proof.

Cheers

Luke

[TheAgora]

Hi i deposited some 0.025 BTC but still haven't received tokens...is it normal to take more than 24 hours?


https://btc.com/15zPDwpXdYMZ267tLKr5hijkdh3rjkyVhw


Here is blockchain for proof.

Cheers

Luke

Hello, it seems to be okay, you have received your tokens this morning.

[PrintMule]

I did not understand what you were aiming for in a real meaning? what exactly does the project cover, could you write a short project summary? are you trying to bring a new exchange market or something different?I really need so much to create a passive income. I am delighted how you can really help. there are many false projects in the internet world aimed at achieving a passive income. and people are really struggling to rely on such a project proposal. So I want a brief information from you. thanks to  you.

[HOSTONOID]

And now devs dump heavy earned money on expensive cars,girls and vacation 

Why are this coin not listed even on coinmarketcap.com?

No update,nothing.Where are you devs?Where is my investment goes?

[HOSTONOID]

SCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM- no response no listing on CMC

BEWARE.

Price is -300% and more under ico on etherdelta

[leningradskiy90]

any update for this project guys,hope still running!

[elitecstrike]

Agorai Unveils £20 Million Investment in UK AI Market, Appoints Sir George Zambellas to Board of Directors

Significant Investment and the Launch of a New AI Accelerator in the UK Reinforces Agorai’s Commitment to Help Drive Education and Access to AI tools for All https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180613005225/en/Agorai-Unveils-%C2%A320-Million-Investment-UK-AI

[BillieCrypt]

ICO Analysis: Agora
Published on July 4, 2018
By Daniel Won

Verdict
Below is a breakdown of the risks and opportunities associated with Agora.
Risks
    If demand for VOTE tokens mainly based on Agora being used for elections, it seems that token demand is driven by the Agora team’s ability to get contracts. Contracting with governments to oversee elections is no small task (-0.2)
    Related to the above, according to the table posted in the Token Economics section of this review, a 50 million voter election would only lead to a purchase of $1m in VOTE tokens. How many elections per year does Agora expect to handle? Agora won’t buy massive amounts of VOTE (and drive trading volume) unless the whole world were to adopt Agora for voting (farfetched – for now) (-0.2)
    There seems to be no other use for the tokens other than paying nodes that verify election results and audit those results (-0.2)
    What is the difference between company tokens and team tokens in the token distribution? (-0.1)
    Lied or was otherwise misleading about using blockchain in Sierra Leone’s 2018 presidential elections (-0.15)
    None of the heads of business development (former ambassadors and so on) or project ambassadors (Mauritian presidents, former wives of Ukrainian presidents, etc.) listed on the Agora team page, list Agora on their Linkedin profiles (-0.15)
Growth Potential
    Very good PR team – able to get published in even major, non-crypto publications like World Economic Forum and TechCrunch (+2)
Disposition
Voting is something that could really use innovation via new technology like blockchain but from an investment standpoint, Agora isn’t looking too good. Agora receives a 1/10.
Investment Details
    Type: ERC20 – Utility
    Symbol: VOTE
    Platform: Ethereum
    Crowdsale: August 15th, 2018
    Minimum Investment: 1 ETH
    Price: 1 VOTE = $0.041
    Hard Cap: $20m
    Payments Accepted: ETH
    Restricted from Participating: USA, China, Canada
Proof: https://hacked.com/ico-analysis-agora/

[soixantedix]

I've been following Agora. The thing that caught my attention about them is the actual technology behind it. Their white paper is very academic along with those of bitcoin and eth. They propose to solve some of the scalability issues needed for mass voting with multi-chain copying of the voting record

[darkota]

Agora partners with ORCA to facilitate community voting on their platform
https://medium.com/agorablockchain/agora-partners-with-orca-alliance-10ba42c65cd3

[Ozinzin]

Hope to see more new update team,good luck

[wimpingextraneouswg]

I think that the technology of Agora really very attention of people. I hope to see many new updates. Good luck!