ICO Analysis: Officium
Published on June 28, 2018By Joshua LarsonTeamThis extremely solid team is based in London. Check out these highlights.
Lucas Hopkins: Co-Founder. He served as head of sales at HSBC between 2015-2017 and was previously the company’s sales manager between 2010-2014.
Oliver Thompson: Co-Founder. He served as strategy manager at HSBC 2012-2015, as well as the GM of business development between 2015-2017.
Richard Stevens: CEO. He served as corporate finance manager at Swire from 2006-2010, GM of finance at HSBC in 2010-2013 and head of finance at HSBC between 2014-2017.
Edward Pearson: CTO. He previously served as chief software engineer at Fidessa between 2013-2017.
Jane Liu: Commerce Specialist. He served as commercial sales manager at HSBC from 2015-2017.
They also have two really solid looking blockchain experts, Andrew Hamilton and Samuel Zhao.
A team of three advisers are listed, including Bruce Walker (former business strategy manager for Sun Corp), Michael Sanders (lead software engineer at Xero) and Rory Brown (international businessman, Dixons Car Phone).
VerdictNumerous service providers can benefit from Officium, including digital marketers, web and app developers, writers, virtual assistants, accountants and customer service agents. Once the platform is built, freelancers will be booking jobs non-stop all over the world with basically zero advertising costs or fees. And buyers will be able to choose from an entire world of providers who will be competing for their business.
Risks According to the roadmap, the platform won’t be live until Q3 and Q4 of 2019. That’s an eternity in crypto. -1
There is no working product yet, and they are assuming the public beta version will be released Q4 2018. -1
Their community seems non-existent. Bitcointalk is crickets, and the Telegram is only for announcements. No community chat is allowed. It says they have 8,000 Telegram members. It’s hard to tell if these are real or bots. How are supporters supposed to become a dApp operating community if they can’t talk to each other in Telegram? -2
Growth Potential There is little competition so far. Their closest rival is IOST (Internet of Service Token) which currently has a market cap of $190 million. That’s 10x the cap of Officium. +3
On paper, this is one of the strongest teams we’ve seen, with four high-level former HSBC managers running the show. +4
The infrastructure they are building will allow the equivalent of worldwide free trade of services. +3
Most of their partners are tool providers to help build projects like Officium. The most promising partnership is with Optimal, whose sales pitch is the following:
“Our enterprise-grade software is used by the most successful companies in these industries to collect, verify and analyze all of their product data to ensure that their products meet all of the quality, reliability and functionality requirements their customers demand. With over 50 billion chips and boards processed annually, Optimal+ drives true IIoT connectivity, reduces RMAs, and is ushering in an era of robust, long-term quality products.”
DispositionThe team and the market cap are the two selling points for this project. However, they really need to work on building the community.
+6/10Investment Details Symbol: OFC
Platform: Ethereum
Total Supply: 500,000,000 (500m)
Available for sale: 350 m (70%)
Hard cap: 25,000 ETH ($17 million)
Soft cap: $3.5 million
Crowd sale: starts July 1 – august 25
Price: 1 ETH = 14,000 OFC
Website:
https://officium.cc/ Whitepaper:
https://officium.cc/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/whitepaper.pdf Telegram:
https://t.me/officiumcc Github:
https://github.com/Officiumcc
Token exchange rates:Week 1-2: 1 ETH = 19,600 OFC (40% Bonus)
Week 3-4: 1 ETH = 16,800 OFC (20% Bonus)
Week 5-6: 1 ETH = 15,400 OFC (10% Bonus)
Week 7-8: 1 ETH = 14,000 OFC (0% Bonus)
Proof: https://hacked.com/ico-analysis-officium/+6/10
