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Author Topic: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES  (Read 7197 times)
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August 07, 2018, 11:26:56 AM
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Token sale starts tomorrow? Any chance for whitelist now in this round (with 20% bonus)? What hardcap here during all rounds?

i think the round for non whitelisters starts tomorrow and it's still possible to get bonuses! the hardcap is 9.8M
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August 07, 2018, 11:38:36 AM
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email links don't work

I had the same problem yesterday! Try DMing admins on telegram like @Adomass or @Hiibiscus, they have a special chat for ICO support that they direct you to, or they answer everything themselves

i had some other problems but the support was really helpful! Just shoot a message to admins and they will add you to the group Smiley
and beware of scammers, I got so many messages from the people acting as admins..
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August 07, 2018, 01:54:26 PM
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I had the same problem yesterday! Try DMing admins on telegram like @Adomass or @Hiibiscus, they have a special chat for ICO support that they direct you to, or they answer everything themselves

i had some other problems but the support was really helpful! Just shoot a message to admins and they will add you to the group Smiley
and beware of scammers, I got so many messages from the people acting as admins..

Yeah I see they get a lot of scam attacks... I guess that means that the project has some traction and hype?
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August 07, 2018, 02:31:22 PM
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email links don't work

I had the same problem yesterday! Try DMing admins on telegram like @Adomass or @Hiibiscus, they have a special chat for ICO support that they direct you to, or they answer everything themselves

i had some other problems but the support was really helpful! Just shoot a message to admins and they will add you to the group Smiley
and beware of scammers, I got so many messages from the people acting as admins..

Yeah I see they get a lot of scam attacks... I guess that means that the project has some traction and hype?

I think so, this is actually one of the most promising projects I've seen in a while
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August 08, 2018, 01:28:47 PM
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heard about the project from my friend, he seems very hyped about it. would anyone now if the bonus or bounty time is up by now?
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August 09, 2018, 08:52:06 PM
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The development of this project requires a lot of resources and efforts, a fairly global platform covering a variety of areas such as banking, money transfers, the market of applications related to cryptocurrency and much more.
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August 13, 2018, 09:57:14 AM
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The development of this project requires a lot of resources and efforts, a fairly global platform covering a variety of areas such as banking, money transfers, the market of applications related to cryptocurrency and much more.


well this is correct but this is a step towards the broader adoption of crypto
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August 13, 2018, 11:37:29 AM
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This is the kind of project we need for crypto mass adoption. I believe this will be a pioneer member for bringing crypto financing closer to mainstream.
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August 14, 2018, 09:34:58 AM
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With Open and Regulated Cryptocurrency Adoption,this project is proposing that by integrating traditional and crypto financial services on a simple and intuitive platform, it can encourage wider cryptocurrency adoption to proceed in a measured and sustainable way.
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August 14, 2018, 08:44:36 PM
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An open banking platform that brings crypto and fiat together is most definitely welcome. Good luck to the team!
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August 15, 2018, 08:21:53 PM
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Open banking interface with integration for crypto services. All the finance applications in one single user friendly app.
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August 23, 2018, 07:35:04 AM
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The Storm Will Pass: ORCA Crowdfunding Round II is Rescheduled

A week ago we have successfully ended the early round closing it in 50 hours and raising $1.5 M. After that it took no more than 2 days and the cryptocurrency market started slumping down drastically.

Not wanting to shoot ourselves in the leg, the ORCA crowdfunding round II will be rescheduled from August 27th until the month of October (exact date to be published at a later stage), in order to strive for best results and not trap the killer-whale in a perilous storm.

It is better to ride out strong from hiding with the crypto bulls. We don’t feel there’s urgency to rush anywhere now neither from our community, nor from our advisers or partners.

Currently, major crypto-news sources are reporting that Initial coin offering (ICO) market is in downturn. That is understandable, as July has not been great, in terms of funds collected by the firms conducting Initial Coin Offerings.

However, there is no reason to ring the tower bells just yet. These effects are mostly seasonal (July of last year has been simply bad in comparison with other months) while the overall market is set on a tall, upwards-pointing curve. Over $20bn has already been invested into cryptocurrencies and ICOs since the start of 2016, according to CoinDesk.

https://medium.com/cc-connecting-crypto-with-banking/the-storm-will-pass-orca-crowdfunding-round-ii-will-is-rescheduled-b8e4a011b81?v=2

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August 23, 2018, 08:14:22 AM
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There are plenty of good news for Bitcoin in fourth quarter which may trigger the whole market upwards. It is hard to say anything with surety but looks good decision to reschedule when your goals are long term and building reliable and long lasting product is the target. By the end of October market hopefully will be showing positiveness.
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September 11, 2018, 10:46:53 AM
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ORCA partners with Agora to facilitate community voting on the platform

Some great news just came and we are eager to share them with the community. ORCA business development department continues to gallop and has secured a new connection on the block — Agora protocol.



About Agora
Agora is a Swiss voting protocol building a decentralized digital voting ecosystem based on blockchain technology. It ensures security, end-to-end verifiability and support for multiple devices. By creating an immutable and publicly viewable digital record of elections, Agora’s technology allows both private and public organizations to eradicate fraud and corruption, reduce cost and engage voters in a modern, convenient and accessible way.
Agora is also building an election supply chain tracking app and will provide decentralized application hosting on top of its custom, fair and token-free consensus mechanism.



Agora on ORCA platform
Agora’s functionality will be best used in ORCA’s gamified community ecosystem — Quest which is constructed specifically with the intention to involve members of ORCA the platform.
Community engagement remains one of the fundamental driving forces behind blockchain and cryptocurrency projects. Therefore, Quest ecosystem is encompassed around giving the incentive for active participators to continue showing initiative and getting immersed in internal group dynamics.
In turn, these incentives help to build brand ambassadors who indirectly invite new people to come and try out the platform’s features. External parties such as app developers can also utilize the community voting infrastructure to get a better grasp on industry’s needs. Later on, they will be able to use this information to build better solutions and offer them to the existing member base.


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September 13, 2018, 11:15:57 AM
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Over the last few months we have gathered quite an alliance!

Here is an incomplete list of our most successful partnerships - take a look!



- ORCA Alliance sponsors EDHEC students association, a renowned French Business school with more than 8000 students, proposing a large panel of programs: from innovative Management courses, International Economics, while ranked #1 worldwide by the Financial Times in 2017 for its Masters of Finance programme.



- Connect Capital - Blockchain Investment Fund Backs ORCA
The financial backing of Connect Capital is an earnest testament to the potential of the ORCA project.



- FundRequest Accepts ORCA’s Friend Request
Our network keeps on expanding. After ongoing communication ORCA Alliance and FundRequest found multiple areas for mutual benefit.
FundRequest is a decentralized platform for developers to collectively solve issues. It’s an open source marketplace where aspiring programmers — no matter how knowledgeable they are — can start working on blockchain projects, gain competence and get rewarded.



- A Symbiosis: Trust Wallet and ORCA
Trust is a mobile application which acts as an online wallet in sync with tokens issued on the Ethereum blockchain. Trust Ethereum wallet also supports other two blockchains belonging to the Ethereum ecosystem — Ethereum Classic and Callisto.



- Road to Security and Compliance: Partnership with Essentia
Essentia is developing expertise in the field of identity application. A field which is becoming critically important while deploying any digital service into the market. Following recent data leaks by some of the largest social platforms in the world, the topic of data security and control is only going to escalate in the nearby future. To battle this lurking threat head-on, ORCA Alliance is teaming up with Essentia project.



- ORCA platform secures first e-money institution for SEPA payments, partners with MisterTango
EU-based fintech ORCA just signed a partnership with an e-money institution MisterTango making the first step into the world of payment processing. From now on ORCA, a platform bridging traditional banking and cryptocurrency services, will have the ability to develop solutions for SEPA payment account creation using technology utilized by MisterTango.



- It’s a Fact: Setting Camp in S. Korea, Partnership with Factblock
ORCA is making waves going into the Korean market. Multiple trips over the last couple of months starting to pay dividends. ORCA has established a partnership with Factblock — an information sharing platform connecting blockchain and crypto-related content from industry leading experts.



- Tomochain and ORCA Alliance shake hands, begin working together
ORCA Alliance, an Open Banking platform for technology-led personal finance pivots and relocates development plans to Tomochain. A technologically-advanced blockchain infrastructure fulfills multiple needs that ORCA can utilize during development.



- Sending Money Home: New Partnership between ORCA Alliance and Sentbe
ORCA Alliance is proud to unveil a new partnership with Sentbe, an online remittance company that is one of the fastest growing providers of the service in South Korea. This FinTech (Financial Technology) company is the leader in providing cheap and reliable financial services to the people in need and we are more than happy to announce that we will be integrating this solution-provider into our platform.



Many more are still to come, many hands are still to be shaken. Interested in working with us? Let us know!




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September 19, 2018, 10:45:11 AM
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Time to open up: Open Banking Promises Better and Safer Financial Services

Previously, we caught a glance of Open Banking, covered the underlying idea of it and discussed the fuss behind the EU regulatory push.

This time we‘re exploring something a bit different. In the name of all the overly-intensive police dramas, we‘ll be lining up all the stakeholders – the banks, the upstarts, the customers – against a cement wall, taking mugshots and questioning their interests in Open Banking.

People say that if you want to see what man is capable of – look at his motives. We‘ll be doing just that. Dress up, cover up your badge and bring some coffee, oh and don‘t forget to put on an empty facial expression – we‘re seriously investigating this.

This article explores the potential of Open Banking. We highly suggest you read up on the general idea of it in part one and then come back for the second piece of the cake that is just below.


Suspect #1 – the FinTechs (Third-parties)

Financial technology upstarts will, no doubt, take full use of the mandated data sharing.

Finding themselves newly acquainted with the treasured customer data, they will now offer every financial service imaginable – from price comparison to instant payments to data brokerage. They will definitely be staking it all on Open Banking system to hold.


Suspect #2 – the Customers (Yourself included)

Open Banking framework will ensure that, the aforementioned products are designed to satisfy all your needs and urges. More competition meanwhile, will make them affordable and provide a more customer-centered services.

Financial applications, which display all of your bank accounts in one screen, will help you budget, and view a more accurate picture of your finances. Other apps might look at your transaction logs and combine information from multiple providers to identify the best financial products and services for you, such as a new savings account that would deliver the highest returns.

Unspent income could even be designed to be transferred into a pension account with a press of a button – helping you grow to be more responsible with personal finance. Some providers might even offer you crypto-related projects if you swing that way.

Even the most entrenched financial institutions will benefit from Open Banking, if they’re imaginative enough.

If you’re under financed or running around with a “thin” credit file, FinTechs could review your loan requests with the help of more accurate AI-powered (Artificial Intelligence) client screening technologies. Because they harness the power of AI, they just might say “Yes” to that motorcycle on credit you’ve been dreaming of.

More options can’t be a bad thing for customers. Surely, the paradox of choice is strong with this one, considering the overabundance of the new financial service providers.

But looking at the long-term, more choice, in economic terms, has always been beneficial for customers as they can slam the door to the faces of providers that treat them with high prices, neglect or indignity. Also, more choices over time reveal user preferences and allow for service offering evolution.


Suspect #3 – the Banks (The providers)

Surely, this can’t be a good thing for banks. They must anticipate new digital competitors showing up on their turf, legally using their collected data and then offering their customers FinTech services. This seems like a daylight robbery – or, at the very least, a game of Texas hold’em where one side is forced to openly display the hand.

Fearing a loss of business, they’re thus going all-in, shouting “Massive data security risk”.


Uncovered Suspect #4 – Data security

Some concerns about security and privacy are legitimate as sharing data across multiple institutions opens up vulnerabilities. Banks claim that with requests for data access and payments originating from a wide range of third parties, there will be even more targets for cybercriminals to attack.

While true, that is a misconstrued description of how things will work under Open Banking system.

In fact, with the possibility of data leaks, FinTechs will need to do some serious convincing of national regulators that their security regimes are solid and trustworthy. All will submit to annual inspections and the newcomers will also take out fraud insurance, which will be denied if their protections are not cutting-edge.

Furthermore, contrary to the chaos and anarchy predicted by some banks in the payment industry, payments will enjoy even better security, because the EU directive also demands robust authentication processes, involving a two-step verification.

So, the security is not a problem. Bank, in fact, might even learn a thing or two from the newcomers. The problem is, once again, their reluctance to innovate, which is shameful, considering the potential.


Uncovered Suspect #5 – the Potential

Even the most entrenched financial institutions will benefit from Open Banking, if they’re imaginative enough.

Lower marginal costs when delivering financial services through digital channels is an obvious revenue-adder. Banks will also rejoice audit trails that are inherent to the system of APIs (Application programming interfaces) – this new way institutions will share data is a far better option, if the alternative is information getting scrapped off the providers’ screens (see part one).

Regulated FinTechs will submit to annual inspections and the newcomers will also take out fraud insurance

It is also not hard to imagine banks making a nice profit by partnering up with these FinTech providers. Banks could employ them to screen potential applicants for loans and thus expand this market in a controlled manner. PwC, a professional services network, envisions a 186% jump in loan approvals by 2022 due to use of external data, which could be a boom for both banks and unbanked individuals.

Economies of scale would also be easier to achieve as even a small- or a medium-sized bank could aim to mimic the coverage of a national bank by assembling a portfolio of various digital products that are not offered solely by it.

Banks could also leverage partnerships to maximize consumer engagement. With the average user spending only 0.9 minutes daily on their online/mobile bank, it’s clear that banks could add a bit more spice to the mundane tasks of banking. Tips on personal finance management could be offered to the clients with low-balances; digital assistance could be provided to the well-off individuals looking to invest or save.

 
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Surely, things won’t be entirely smooth – there will be bumps and road ahead as with all good things. But if we look purely from the view of a clear motive, all of our stakeholders fit the description of a beneficiary: everyone will be better off under the system of Open Banking.

From providing capital to the unbanked to making personal finance more adoptable for regular Joes and Janes, the potential hidden inside Open Banking is a thought experiment not fully explored. Open Banking is going to reshape the financial landscape, that's unquestionable. The things that we are yet to find out are how and when.
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October 01, 2018, 03:02:24 PM
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ORCA Telegram 2.0: Group Migration
Getting back from a short holiday we’re starting our week with some important stuff right away. We’re migrating our Telegram Group and setting up a new one which is significantly better, faster, stronger and more efficient than our last one.

The decision of group migration has been approved for a number of reasons. First of all, due to the nature of Telegram coding, we suspect a significant number of accounts present in the legacy group might be bots. These accounts display peculiar inactivity in the group nor engage with other members, and may have compromising goals. These suspicious accounts were one of the reasons why we had to mute our group during the first hours of ORCA ICO Round I.
https://medium.com/cc-connecting-crypto-with-banking/orca-telegram-2-0-group-migration-393ef16a4c57
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October 04, 2018, 03:43:17 PM
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Not backing down: World’s largest insurer Allianz tries to bully ORCA
ORCA Alliance, an EU-based fintech startup, which is bridging crypto and traditional financial services, faces some unexpected challenges while registering its trademark at the EU trademark registry system (EUIPO).
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October 16, 2018, 12:24:44 PM
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Hey there, Orcans!

The decision has been finally made and approved. We are proud to announce that the second round of ORCA ICO starts on October 29th - on the last Monday of the month.

The Halloween this year is going to have a special ORCA vibe, so be sure to get your costumes in order before the big day. Don’t forget to ask your neighbors for trick or treat or ORCA tokens. 😉

If you’ve not whitelisted yet, be sure to do so before the start of the round. You can do it by visiting the ORCA Alliance website. Already confirmed whitelisters will be sent invite links to the cabinet before the sale starts.

Whitelist for round II

More specific information on round duration, hard cap, procedure, bonuses available and more will be announced during the upcoming days. You can highlight your calendars and circle round the date. We will publish all relevant information in our blog, Telegram group, and social media channels - we will make sure you won't miss it!

On other relevant news: our CEO Natan participated in an online AMA session last Friday during which he and Adomas answered a multitude of community questions, talked about the upcoming equity round, PYGMY development and how the team is doing getting ready for the second round.

You can find the video in the official ORCA Alliance Youtube channel. Feel free to review other videos as well - a lot of interesting material is located inside including clips with ORCA advisors, team members, and animated platform descriptions!

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Those are the news for today. Stay tuned and we will provide you with all the details ASAP.

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October 24, 2018, 02:08:43 PM
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ORCA ICO Round II starts in 5 days!


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