[ANN] Blockport plans to raise first equity round through STO in March 2019

[DarkOPM]

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Blockport plans security token offering (STO) in March 2019

Blockport is an end-to-end crypto trading platform where you can buy, sell and store all leading cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based assets.

What is Blockport?

Blockport is the first social crypto exchange that is based on a hybrid-decentralized architecture.

You can pay with Blockport tokens (BPT) to follow or copy other members' trading activities.

Earn BPT as a reward for sharing your portfolio and strategies with your followers.
 

Register on the website to receive updates.

https://blockport.io/sto

Problem

The complex crypto space makes it difficult for beginners to start trading. Current platforms impose high barriers to entry, because they often lack usability, transparency and education. As a result, many people are discouraged to adopt the crypto economy.


Mission

We are building a user-friendly crypto exchange that combines social trading with a hybrid-decentralized architecture to help people safely trade crypto assets. We bridge the gap between the crypto economy and the traditional world of finance to shift towards a digital and decentralized society.





The fiat gateway for starters and pros

The Blockport trading platform is designed for both beginners and advanced traders. No prior knowledge of trading or experience with cryptocurrencies is required when you use the Blockport platform.

Buy your first cryptocurrencies and instantly access them through your personal dashboard.







Follow experienced traders and copy their moves

Learn from other experienced traders on the Blockport platform. Browse through the list of available traders, check their risk indicators, and follow or copy their trading activities.
 
Once you are confident enough, you can start trading yourself and earn Blockport Tokens (BPT) as a reward when other members follow you.




Connected to multiple external exchanges

We integrate our smart-order-routing system with leading cryptocurrency exchanges. This enables us to always give our users the best price in real time.

When you initiate a trade, our trading engine will find the best prices and distribute your order across multiple exchanges.







You own the private keys

The best of both worlds, combined in our hybrid-decentralized platform. Access liquidity and trade with high speed whilst owning and and storing your assets on the blockchain. You own the private keys.







Blockchain-based payment solutions

We’re building payment solutions based on blockchain technology. It’s designed to be fast, simple and safe for everyday users.

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[DarkOPM]

Today, we’re excited to announce the official launch date for our STO: the 31st of March.

Next week, we’re looking forward to:

- Publishing our new and updated whitepaper.
 
- Announcing more detailed information about our upcoming STO.

The community feedback and excitement around our STO has been very positive so far, and we’re excited to be one of the first exchanges in the world that’s taking this route.

As always, we’re grateful for your feedback or input, and to have you on in our global community.

[DarkOPM]

After recently announcing our equity-based STO, we’re happy with the interest that’s come both from our community, as well as from prospective investors!

For those who haven’t yet heard, we are planning to tokenize a portion of our company’s shares - granting investors an opportunity to become shareholders of the Blockport company.

STO launch date

The start of the sale of Blockport Securities (BPS) is planned for: 31st of March.

How can you participate?

European investors (from most member states in the EEA) and accredited investors from the US are able to participate in our STO.

For the first round, only limited spots are available.

More information will be published over the coming days and weeks about the steps that are required to participate in the Blockport STO.

For now, you can register to receive these updates on our STO page.


The new Blockport white paper 2.0

Over the past several weeks, our founding team has been curating and writing a completely updated white paper. This will provide our user- and investor-community with a deeper look into the Blockport vision, mission and strategy.

The white paper 2.0 also describes known concepts like social trading and our hybrid-decentralized architecture in more detail. Plus, we’ve added plans for new features and utilities that support the expansion of our BPT ecosystem.

Read the new White Paper

[DarkOPM]

After several months of preparation, the Blockport team is excited to announce that investors are able to whitelist themselves on the investor platform for our upcoming Security Token Offering (STO).

In the first round, we aim to raise a maximum of 5 million Euros by issuing Blockport Securities (BPS). This allows us to distribute the ownership of Blockport amongst the stakeholders in our ecosystem that share our vision - whilst helping us to better match the demand we’ve received for a profit sharing model in the Blockport ecosystem.

The Blockport STO is planned to go live on the 15th of April, at 15:00 CET.

Whitelist (EU)

The Blockport STO plans to include separate offerings to (i) accredited investors in the United States and (ii) to participants in Europe (EEA countries).

Whitelist (US)


Who can participate in the Blockport STO?

For the first round, only limited spots are available. Once the STO is live, we will accept investors on a first come, first serve basis.

If we have not received the deposit amount in time, your spot may be lost. Only investors who have completed the verification and subscription process in the dashboard can make a deposit. So make sure you have completed all the verification steps before the launch on the 15th of April.

Investors can register their interest (also known as whitelisting) by creating an account on invest.blockport.io. Through this account, investors will have access to their own investor dashboards.


The Blockport STO Investment Memorandum

From within the investor dashboard, investors will be able to access and download our Investment Memorandum.

The Investment Memorandum provides investors with all the necessary information about our STO, as well as insights into the BPS offering itself, and how to purchase BPS tokens.

[DarkOPM]

STO: second and third rounds closed to public investors

In 10 days the first round starts on the 15th of April 15:00 CEST.

In addition to the first round, Blockport has previously announced plans for two subsequent STO rounds.

We have decided that these planned second and third rounds of our STO fundraising will not be accessible to the general public.

This means that our community of users and investors will only be able to participate in the first round of the STO, and not in the later rounds of the equity-fundraising.

Read the full article here:

https://blog.blockport.io/sto-second-and-third-rounds-not-open-for-public/

[DarkOPM]

The Blockport STO: How to invest on April 15th

Our STO goes live next week!

If you've already whitelisted yourself to participate in the STO, find out exactly what steps you'll need to take to invest on the 15th of April.

Read the full instruction guide here

If you haven't whitelisted yet, read the "how to whitelist" guide here

[DarkOPM]

Blockport STO postponed by 24h

Due to some unforeseen technical difficulties faced by our issuance platform, Tokeny, we've decided to postpone the STO by 24 hours, until tomorrow, 16 April, at 15:00 CEST.

Although the issue will likely be resolved sooner, we want to provide our investors with a fair and equal chance to invest, and therefore believe a 24 hour postponement is the best solution.

We'll try our best to keep everyone updated on the STO launch status.

We understand that many of our investors and community members put time aside to participate in the STO today, and we'd like to convey our sincerest apologies for the delay.

Thanks for your understanding!

Sebastiaan, Kai, Zowie and the team

[DarkOPM]

The Blockport STO is live!

We’re excited to announce that our STO is officially live, helping us raise capital to fuel the platform’s growth and international expansion.

Through our STO, investors can buy BPS tokens that are linked to equity in the Blockport company.

Go to investor dashboard: invest.blockport.io

Key highlights:

- Blockport is one of the first exchanges in Europe to launch an STO.
- Investors receive Blockport Securities (BPS) in exchange for a minimum investment of EUR 500.
- Investors will receive (indirect) economic ownership of Blockport, as well as benefiting from a potential value increase in the Blockport company.
- Through BPS, investors are entitled to profit sharing via dividends.
- By holding BPS, investors will receive exclusive access to annual meetings with Blockport’s board and management team, including financial reporting.
- BPS holders will be included in key product development feedback processes.

Read the full announcement here:  blog.blockport.io/blockport-sto-goes-live/

[magisterr]

What does this means? Why are you raising money again? You raised money in last year on ICO already and now you are making STO? 

[DarkOPM]

What does this means? Why are you raising money again? You raised money in last year on ICO already and now you are making STO? 

Over the past few months, we’ve been talking with Venture Capital (VC) investors that want to take on the prospect of helping us scale. Throughout these conversations, we instead realised that the concept of raising funds through a public sale allows us to be in control of raising capital in a sustainable and inclusive way, whilst also being beneficial to everyone in our community.

The strategy of tokenization allows us to distribute ownership of Blockport amongst the stakeholders in our ecosystem that share our vision - and also helps us to better match the demand we’ve received for a profit share model in the Blockport ecosystem.

Tokenization also allows for investor participation based on lower barriers to entry, whilst making it easier for investors to buy, sell or trade their shares at a later stage - if they wish to do so.

The wave of security tokens is inevitable, and it’s been shown by the likes of Forbes, Entrepreneur and Nasdaq that tokenized securities will play an integral role in ‘decentralizing’ traditional finance.

Lastly, we believe that this fundraising approach is a faster, more efficient way of raising funds and distributing equity. As a company operating in the blockchain industry, we’re excited to be one of the first exchanges in Europe to be launching an STO

[DarkOPM]

Dear community, two weeks ago we launched the first round of the STO and so far we received a lot of response from our community of investors!

Although we would like to provide more information already, the offering is still ongoing and as such, we can't disclose more concrete information. This is partially due to the fact that we are still processing documents from some investors that haven't yet supplied the necessary KYC documents for participation. Until we have complete clarity on the compliance side of the transactions, we cannot make any statements regarding the progress of the first round.

Furthermore, this month's focus is primarily on finalizing our advanced trading view through the use of internal trading simulations, and we'll be preparing our infrastructure for more optimizations around our trading services. We are also working on improvements to our crypto infrastructure to support more advanced handling of cryptocurrency deposits.

Thanks for your understanding, we will update everyone as soon as we are able to do so.

[DarkOPM]

In the past few months our team has worked extremely hard to launch the first round of our STO, and yesterday this ended after being open for almost one month.

In this article we provide everyone in our community with an update regarding the results of the STO, and the next steps for the future of Blockport.


Read more here: https://blog.blockport.io/blockport-sto-results/