ALFA Rating Agency - Rating for Startups and ICO

[Alfa Rating]

ALFA Rating (https://alfarating.com) is the first investment rating agency providing an exhaustive statistical and analytical information of alternative investments' market. Our company is founded by leading experts in the field of financial markets, investments, consulting and blockchain from around the world.

Nowadays there is already several various listing platforms and rating agencies for ICO. However, these companies face with problem of the poor quality of their analytics. To some extent, this is due to the lack of qualified personnel and the infancy of the industry. The methodology of such agencies is in the public domain and usually is rather weak.  

And yet we are sure that investors and enthusiasts need relevant guidance in this area. That is why we gather experts who have successful work experience in systemically important organizations from around the world such as Credit Suisse, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young. Our mission is to make the process of venture investment more transparent, efficient and safe.

We hope, that our agency will minimize the risks of fraud in the cryptocurrency sphere and information about the projects will simplify the process of making decision for investors. What about the issuers, they will be more responsible with information about themselves before they send it to users.

Rating assignment will be helpful not only for the investors’ attraction, but also for the great a contribution to the project. ICO market is still evolving and undergoing change. As early as the summer of 2017, ICO was perceived as a simple and accessible way of attracting money. Cryptoinvestors did not demand to present either a final product or even a working prototype - nothing but White Paper, which describes the essence of the project and terms of ICO procedure. But since then the situation has changed. Already, investors evaluate projects more meticulously and pay attention to the same moments that traditional investors consider when buying the shares.

For projects, our company will help to structure the information, eliminate risk factors that can significantly affect the investment potential and attractiveness of a token for investors. Thus, projects will establish itself for institutional investors and large private investors.

We believe that it will contribute to the emergence of new IT companies whose services and products will deeply change both our society and our economy.

You can find us on Telegram: ENG - https://t.me/alfarating and RUS - https://t.me/alfaratingru

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[Tatiyami]

Sounds great! Where can I read your reports?

[ART4815]

You can read our reports on our website (www.alfarating.com) or our Telegram (https://t.me/alfarating) or contact us and agree on individual conditions (relevant for funds and large investors).

[KateKras]

Very interesting, and how long does the report take?

[Alfa Rating]

Very interesting, and how long does the report take?

Thanks. It will take 10-14 days. You can write to our Sales Manager on Telegram

[KateKras]

Thank you for information

[ART4815]

Nowadays it becomes increasingly difficult to attract investment to projects without proper documentation. We are surprised that ICO launch is marketing agencies sphere. Marketing agencies have no competence and experience in making investment decisions. There is not necessity to spend a million dollars on ICO. It's enough just to have a good business model and detailed documentation that reveals all the necessary information about the investment qualities of the project.

[Alfa Rating]

We are glad to present our new analytical reports. We gradually improve assessment standards for blockchain startups and assign ratings for current and upcoming projects.

IAGON Investment Report
https://alfarating.com/files/iagon_eng.pdf

Paygine Overview
https://alfarating.com/files/paygine-eng.pdf

We would grateful for your comments about our analytical reports.

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We're excited to announce new section on our website – Funds. Here we place the logos of our partners – crypto funds focused exclusively on ventures, tokens, and projects related to blockchain tech, digital currency, and crypto assets.

Check it here: https://alfarating.com/

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The rating scale of ALFA Rating.

Evaluating projects ALFA Rating assign one of three ratings: "SPEC", "INVEST" or "FLAT".

"INVEST" rating is assigned to projects with high investment attractiveness.

"SPEC" rating is for projects characterized by increased volatility of the token price and/or by high risks associated with the business model of the project.

"FLAT" rating is assigned to projects that are not of interest to investors and speculators for some reasons.

Find out more on our website https://alfarating.com/

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Let us tell about our partner - https://serokell.io

Serokell works with complex blockchain and functional programming projects which gives them vast experience in developing large-scale systems and managing them. The team is multinational and multidisciplinary. Senior and junior developers collaborate on a project using modern management techniques to give the quality of top-down with the innovation of bottom-up.

Together with Serokell we provide Technical Expertise for ICOs. Our Technical Expertise is an independent evaluation of the technical part of the project, identifying possible risk factors that can lead to the decision of costs for the implementation of the project or even to its closure.
Technical expertise includes analysis of technical documentation of the project, evaluation of the technical solution of the project, team experience and prototype analysis.

[Alfa Rating]

Our specialists mark out top ICO projects for next two weeks.

1. IAGON is a platform for harnessing the storage capacities and processing power of multiple computers over a decentralized Blockchain grid.

2. Paygine is an open Financial Blockchain platform for Fintech and Crypto business.

3. Trust Platform is a set of core technologies and solutions that work together as an ecosystem with enhanced capabilities able to provide developers with advanced tools, enable the integration of blockchain and non-blockchain projects.

4. NEX is a platform for complex decentralized cryptographic trade and payment service creation.

5.Health Nexus is a healthcare-safe blockchain to lower costs and empower patients and providers across the globe.

For more information visit our website - https://alfarating.com/

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Digital Asset Business Decree by Thai government classifies virtual currencies in two categories. The first one is Cryptocurrencies which defined as a “medium of exchanging goods”, the second is Digital Tokens – “rights to participate in an investment, or to receive specific goods”, reports Bloomberg.

More details on https://alfarating.com/inews/

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New listing on ALFA Rating Platform!

Agora Project (Governance&Voting)
15.08.2018 - 15.09.2018
https://alfarating.com/ico/agora/

Agora is a Blockchain-based digital voting solution for governments and organizations. Agora provides clients with a modern, secure, cost-effective and incentivizing manner of engaging voters.
 
RISK: MEDIUM - 3
HYPE: MEDIUM – 3.4
TECH: MEDIUM – 3.2

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CEO loyalty hypothesis.
 
Crypto projects have raised more than $6 billion through Initial Coin Offerings from the beginning of 2018. How can Crypto Coins attract money while investors do not have a right to claim a fair return?
 
Recent research from University of California conducted by Paul P. Momtaz shows that CEO matters. Researcher tests the hypothesis that investors use previous CEO loyalty as a reference point in their investment decisions. CEO loyalty was measured by the average time a CEO stayed with his/her former employers. Based on empirical results author concludes that in the presence of a loyal CEO, investors require less underpricing as an incentive to participate in the ICO. Assuming CEO loyalty is a valid proxy for agency conflicts in the cryprocurrencies industry, he finds that more loyal CEOs are less likely to destroy coinholder value.

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Sex, Drugs, and Bitcoin

Cryptocurrencies are among the largest unregulated markets in the world. Bitcoin is often called The Currency of Terrorism. However, it may be not quite true. Despite the surge in crypto currency usage and values in 2017, estimated holdings of criminal proceeds in crypto currency remain small in absolute value and even smaller relative to estimated criminal transactions.

A recent study by the University of Sydney and University of Technology Sydney found that ‘approximately one-quarter of bitcoin users and one-half of bitcoin transactions are associated with illegal activity. Around $72 billion of illegal activity per year involves bitcoin, which is close to the scale of the US and European markets for illegal drugs.’ But, the researchers found the same users collectively hold just $8bn worth of Bitcoin.

Barclays analysts claim, that there is evidence that ‘dark web’ criminal activity on Bitcoin is shifting to Monero and Zcash to better mask transactions, but these two crypto currencies have total market capitalisations of just $4,1bn and $1,1bn, respectively.

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#ICO_Listing

PlayChip Project (Gambling & Betting)
01.06.2018 – 31.10.2018
https://alfarating.com/ico/playchip/

PlayChip will deliver the fully-integrated, blockchain enabled global fantasy sports, online sports betting and gaming ecosystem.

RISK: MEDIUM  - 2.6
HYPE: HIGH - 3.8
TECH: MEDIUM - 2.8

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If bitcoin is “digital gold”, then forking and copy-pasting are successful forms of “digital alchemy”.

Although no government or central bank can control cryptocurrency`s supply, in fact it is endless, while value of Bitcoin is based on perceived scarcity only. What is why forking and cloning may have devastating effects. To be fair, Bitcoin is scarce on the Bitcoin blockchain, but all technologies are public property and blockchain can be forked, cloned and its technology copy-paste.

Bitcoin sometimes is regarded as digital gold. However, gold is in truly limited supply. There are already several actual Bitcoin forks and, theoretically, the number of clones and close substitutes are unlimited. Just imagine that alchemy can successfully clone gold and create very close substitutes, some of which have even more attractive properties than gold itself.

How will this affect the value of gold?

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Overall situation with ICO at the end of June 2018

In the first 5 months of 2018, a total of 537 ICO’s with a  volume of USD 13.7 bn have been closed successfully  – which is more than all pre-2018 ICOs combined

Since November 2017 several large scale ICOs have  entered the Top 15, dwarfing previous records from 2017  – with Telegram (USD 1.7 bn) and EOS (USD 4.1 bn)

The US, Switzerland and Singapore remain key global ICO  hubs, however, over the past months, the UK and HK gained significant ground.

ICO regulation continues to emerge around the globe: many jurisdictions have issued their respective guidelines and cryptoregulation.

Strategically, ICOs continue to crowd out traditional VC funding, especially in technology and Blockchain-related  startups. Hybrid models (combining classic VC/PE funding and ICO) are increasingly establishing themselves as a valid funding alternative.