[ANN] SHOP Protocol - The Future of Decentralized Retail 💲🛒

[SHOP_]

SHOP PROTOCOL

CHAIN AGNOSTIC OPEN eCOMMERCE PLATFORM FOR SHOPPER RIGHTS
HOME | WHITEPAPER | GITHUB
  API DOCUMENTATION | TELEGRAM | TWITTER | BLOG | YOUTUBE | REDDIT | LINKEDIN  | DISCORD

INTRO VIDEO

The leading global Retail Marketplaces like Amazon and Alibaba have become powerful forces driving apart Brands and Shoppers. In conjunction with discovery environments like Google and Facebook, these firms have built retail empires around hoarding consumer data and blocking its exchange within the Brand/Shopper relationship. SHOP is a decentralized blockchain-enabled retail data marketplace that establishes a truly democratized free market commerce landscape focused on reconnecting Brands & Shoppers through transparent new tokenized value exchanges.

The SHOP Protocol is a brand/shopper consortium that operates as a member-led democracy with a mission to decentralize the shopping experience onto Ethereum's blockchain. SHOP threatens the grasp of third party marketplaces by giving shoppers control of their data, re-connecting brands with their customers, and encouraging innovation.




The SHOP Protocol supports equitable value exchanges across the Retail, Grocery, and Services landscape. At initial launch, the CO-OP is focusing on direct-to-consumer Retail as it holds the greatest opportunity for disruption, with specific attention to digital commerce, a market set to be worth $16 billion by 2020. The SHOP Protocol enables users to control who sees their data and how much of it is shared. The more users share, the greater the savings. Brands get direct access to information about their customers and increased profits from transactions.



CURRENT INTEGRATIONS
SHOP has already open-sourced numerous APIs to connect existing platforms (Shopify, Stripe, UPS, and more) to the Ethereum blockchain, and provides a new framework for shopping & selling digitally with tokenized value exchanges across decentralized networks. The SHOP protocol is open, transparent, and bridges the gap between the current system of eCommerce and the P2P future.



ROADMAP





TEAM LEADERSHIP


John Wantz, CEO
A serial retail technology entrepreneur and former Target Innovation group team leader, John Wantz is focused on the development and implementation of decentralized, blockchain-based retail solutions that facilitate tokenized, trustless new value exchanges.


Jeff Mataya, CTO
Having worked at the intersection of eCommerce and enterprise SaaS as Co-Founder and CTO at FoxCommerce, Jeff is an experienced and visionary technologist, product leader, & entrepreneur who leads technical execution of the SHOP Protocol.

Jonathan Gagliardoni, CPO
A  proven retail and eCommerce tech innovator/educator with a history of leading product development & management for software and physical goods in early stage and enterprise retail companies, Jonathan Gagliardoni facilitates product strategy around the execution of tokenized value exchanges between Brands and Shoppers.

Jamie Oshea, CMO
With extensive experience developing and implementing innovative revenue-driven marketing strategies and executions for brands like Nike, Disney, Target, Johnson & Johnson, and Coca-Cola, Jamie OShea oversees the implementation and adoption of the SHOP Protocol across the retail landscape.

This list of team leaders is just a piece of the 20+ person team who are working full time on the SHOP Protocol.

ADVISORS



Casey Carl
Former Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Target, Casey is a Fortune 40 C-Suite Digital Innovator, Change Agent and Helpful Advisor supporting thinking across the retail network.

Adil Wali
Co-Founder of ModCloth and Co-Founder of FoxCommerce, Adil has a proven track-record of building business, the web applications that drive them, and is currently developing cryptocurrency wallets.

David Otto
Founding & Managing Partner of Martin Davis, PLLC. Retains extensive experience, directly engaging the SEC and CFTC in complex matters within cryptocurrencies and tokenized utility value exchanges.


This support comes in the context of an even larger network of professionals from diverse backgrounds who help guide and inform SHOP.



SHOP exists to maximize value for its Brand and Shopper members. To power equitable and accountable value exchanges that protect data and capture value for individual members, Developers pay a small fee to access Brand and Shopper data stored on the SHOP Protocol so that they might create product discovery and marketplace experiences. Profits from Developer fees are used to determine annual budgets for maintaining both the SHOP Protocol and SHOP Co-op community, including dividends returned to Co-op members.

SHOP TOKEN
ERC20-$50,000,000 Hard Cap

Presale [Accredited/Non-OFAC Investors]
Start Date: February 20, 2018 5:00am PST (UTC-8)
End Date: April 29, 2018 4:59am PST (UTC-8)

Public Auction
Start Date: May 14 2018 5:00am PST (UTC-8)
End Date: June 13, 2018 4:59am PST (UTC-8)

Max Tokens Available for Sale: 105,000,000
Tokens Minted: 1,000,000,000
Public Sale [10%]
Embedded Rewards [45%]
Ecosystem Development [30%]
Acquisitions [5%]
Team [10%]

[SHOP_]

RESERVED

[SHOP_]

added a tweet if there is a desire to thank the addresses that you will always find on my page on Twitter  ^{https://twitter.com/Bill_Djons/status/965066005683818498}

Thank you! We are still deciding the details of our bounty program, but we have noted your contribution and will take it into consideration.

[SeveralQ]

Hi everyone! Just added Shop Protocol ICO to my website https://concourseq.io/Q/Shop_Protocol. ConcourseQ is a collaborative due diligence community that researches and reviews ICOs. Anyone with an account can submit information to your page, so we are reaching out to this community to get you all involved in the discussion. Thanks! PS: If you have any questions about filling in the info, feel free to ask us in our discord group: https://discord.gg/j8RBAwB

[SHOP_]

Hi everyone! Just added Shop Protocol ICO to my website https://concourseq.io/Q/Shop_Protocol. ConcourseQ is a collaborative due diligence community that researches and reviews ICOs. Anyone with an account can submit information to your page, so we are reaching out to this community to get you all involved in the discussion. Thanks! PS: If you have any questions about filling in the info, feel free to ask us in our discord group: https://discord.gg/j8RBAwB

Fantastic! Big fans of the site, very excited to be listed. Can't wait to see what kind of comments and feedback we receive.

[SHOP_]

Hi everyone! Just added Shop Protocol ICO to my website https://concourseq.io/Q/Shop_Protocol. ConcourseQ is a collaborative due diligence community that researches and reviews ICOs. Anyone with an account can submit information to your page, so we are reaching out to this community to get you all involved in the discussion. Thanks! PS: If you have any questions about filling in the info, feel free to ask us in our discord group: https://discord.gg/j8RBAwB

Fantastic! Big fans of the site, very excited to be listed. Can't wait to see what kind of comments and feedback we receive.

The profile looks amazing! Has all of our key info and I love the live stats. Thank you again.

[Kravious]

I am quite familiar with some of your targets like Oracle. I understand that you will focus on connecting individuals to organizations who deliver wanted or needed products. However, I am quite curious to whether you will deliver a website in which all the brands are there and for consumers to see. In addition, how does your organization get profit from this? Or are you a non-profit organization?

[SHOP_]

I am quite familiar with some of your targets like Oracle. I understand that you will focus on connecting individuals to organizations who deliver wanted or needed products. However, I am quite curious to whether you will deliver a website in which all the brands are there and for consumers to see. In addition, how does your organization get profit from this? Or are you a non-profit organization?

Oracle is actually a current integration we already have developed, along with the other brands listed above. We are aiming at mainstream integration with incumbent retail partners, instead of building something and hoping people decide to use it. We already have a wide range of partnerships in development, and a large portion of our budget is aimed at constantly bringing more successful brands onto the platform, and this sets us apart from many other blockchain projects. Our team has decades of experience and connections in traditional retail and this will lead to an extremely vibrant community utilizing the SHOP Protocol from day one. We are excited to announce each of these partnerships as they arise, and there will definitely be a repository of all of the brands who use our platform as more and more join.

As far as how we profit from the protocol, SHOP is a cooperative, so we are in the business of creating something powerful that will improve the rights of shoppers all over the world, and the success of the platform will be shared with all CO-OP members and token holders, and we are included in that. Our incentive is the same as all people who use the platform and hold tokens.  After operational fees, any left over margin is returned to the CO-OP’s brands and shoppers as dividends.

[SHOP_]

We will be posting an update shortly with details about our public pre-sale.

[SHOP_]

SHOP, today, is the culmination of a year of architecture, design, and development. As you probably understand at this point, our mission is to decentralize retail information to be used more efficiently and effectively by Brands and Shoppers.

We know this is an idea with far-reaching ramifications. Our drive has been fueled by the number of incredible partners and team and community members who have joined the cause. Our growing leadership team and advisors have a depth and breadth of experience we could have only hoped for when we started a year ago. We’ve accepted invitations to present at ShopTalk (the largest retail convention in the world) and SXSW (the launching pad of companies like Twitter and Foursquare) in March.

Thank you all for joining us as we plan and execute against the potential market impact, growing constituent base, and the scale of execution that is ahead of us. As the team and community expand, we’re rearchitecting our timeline to apply the skill and experience coming around the table to our considerable development efforts. In accommodation, we have moved the public launch of the SHOP Protocol and the public sale of SHOP Tokens to May 14, 2018.

We’re already on our way to Day One utility and network usefulness, and through significant independent protocol development are creating an original platform with long-term value. The SHOP team is working to reshape and redefine at-scale retail, and launch the Co-Op of Brands & Shoppers. This is a long-term vision, and to scale the value of the network we need to start with a powerful foundation. To build and maintain this groundwork we’re announcing the launch of the SHOP Token Public Pre-Sale, live now through April 29.

The engagement we’ve received from blockchain users and developers, as well as retail and legal leadership, has been happening at a rate we find encouraging. We’re very excited to begin expanding the scope of our partnerships through our public fundraising with partners who qualify as accredited investors.

Here:(http://www.shoppers.shop/) is more information on SHOP and our active public pre-sale open to accredited US investors and all other international investors (excluding residents of OFAC countries).

To a future bright with disruption and value alignment,

John Wantz, CEO

via https://medium.com/@wantz/shops-open-announcing-our-public-pre-sale-19d6e0032383

[SHOP_]

Public Pre-Sale is now live @ https://shoppers.shop.

Become a part of the co-op and own the network!

[leningradskiy90]

ill closely watch it ,hope it will succed,looking forward to follow more update

[SHOP_]

Two notable additions to our full time team:
 
Paul Swegle, has come on as our in-house counsel to expedite our efforts. Paul is a former SEC & DOJ Finance Regulator. His joining is SIGNIFICANT considering the climate.

Cheryl Briere, has joined to lead Strategy & BD as we prepare for a myriad of investments, partnership, brand relationships, and growth. Cheryl has had impactful roles @ Amazon, Zulily & Target.

[SHOP_]

We updated our roadmap a bit to include recent updates:

[mikev]

David Hasselhoff really?

[dzkrb]

I watched the presentation. I do not understand, what is the difference between your trading floor and Alibaba? There are also many sellers and buyers.

[SHOP_]

Hello! I am editor from icoholder.com. Your ICO was added to our listing and now is available to investors: https://icoholder.com/en/shop-protocol-19164 You can edit your Page  by adding more information about your ICO after verification and also verify team members to improve ranking.

Thank you! We will verify shortly.

[hutabayouchin]

I like it very much, I will continue to observe it

[SHOP_]

David Hasselhoff really?

Jamie is a funny guy, and really good at what he does. He has worked with retail giants like Target, Nike, and many others. If you want to learn more about his prolific work developing the foundation for SHOP check out his LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamieoshea/.

His picture has since been updated on our site as well, but the resemblance is striking: https://shoppers.shop/team/

[SHOP_]

ill closely watch it ,hope it will succed,looking forward to follow more update

Please join our Telegram channel to get the latest updates and talk to the team, we would love to hear your thoughts on our whitepaper!

https://t.me/shoppersshop