Overview & Opinion
- Pros
- The ICO had a lot of success so was only sold in private sale. A strong team & very strong advisory team, strong partners. A strong presence on Twitter & Telegram. And finally, a huge target market.
- Cons
- Very high goals. A lack of publicly available information, including the ICO hard cap & token allocation. Little media coverage.
- Conclusion
- Considering the lack of information & media coverage, one can only rely on the rest of the fact to decide whether or not this project has a bright future or not.
Methodology used when creating this report
- Every article published using this "5min read" format is answering a very specific list of questions.
- The list of questions does evolve slightly from one article to another, but stays 90% the same to allow easier read and comparison between projects.
- If the answer regarding a given question isn't available on the project's publications (website, white paper, blog, etc) and isn't answered by the team when asked on its Telegram Group Chat (i.e. the team ignores the question or avoids the question asked by answering on an unrelated topic), it is communicated in this report:
- some answers will be written as "not disclosed/available"
- a comment may be added in the "Overall Communication" sectionregarding the team's attitude
Getting started
- Official Website
- ICO page
- n/a
- Overview paper
- White paper
- Fields
- Governance, AI, Machine Learning, Big data
- Competition
- Summary: so far, only few projects have focussed on the field of governance at large scale.
- Aragon (aragon.one) is the governance project we keep hearing about, with its very strong profiles as founders and advisors.
- Goal
- Achieve collective governance based on interdependence
- A software system for collective governance, enhanced by machine learning principles. Our mission is to unite people through shared understanding.
- Governance solution for any organisation: community, startup, NGO, enterprise, city, county or the entire country.
- Consensus AI will be able to offer automated, data-driven solutions to the most complex problems of our collective co-existence by modelling the potential outcomes of proposed changes.
- Market size
- Huge, billions of USD maybe. Consensus.AI is planning to have governments as clients.
- About 3,6 billion people globally to carry a national eID card by 2021 (according to Acuity Market Intelligence)
- Estimated 1.6 billion people worldwide (25% of the world population) cannot officially prove their identity, according to the 2017 update of the World Bank’s Identification for Development Global Dataset
- Project status
- "The product is our main priority at the moment. Our core developer team in Toronto office is already working on the Sentient Network and we plan to release in Q2, 2018. We are currently recruiting more people to enhance the team, but the core developers are already on it. We are opening early registrations to join the Sentient network in the nearest future." - update received from the team on April 20th 2018
- But extremely detailed white paper with clear roadmap.
- Note that "With this additional funding now available, we’re able to accelerate some of the project timelines and are now planning to deliver the network in Q2, ahead of the originally proposed schedule. Our own internal deadline is early June 2018."
- Description
- This is a massive project - the white paper explains in depth the different parts and stages of the project
- Pillars of the project
- Sentient blockchain network - allows running distributed machine learning
- Electronic identities
- Research platform - a system to enable conducting extended research, working with various data sources, including proprietary data acquired by the Foundation and contributed by the participants, data from open sources, public voting and opinion data gathered from the members of the network in exchange for Sen
- Improve the governance mechanisms at all levels of organizational structures
- Open-sourced, decentralized artificial intelligence platform
- Automated, data-driven solutions to the most complex problems of our collective co-existence
- "plan to cover, gradually, most of the governmental interactions within a country and offer advanced modelling capabilities to enhance the decision-making process.”
- A user wallet with eID integration for general, non-developer participants (regular citizens) to allow the creation customized smart contracts for virtually any type of deals or transactions
ICO Details
- Hard cap (if no high cap, mention auction model)
- not disclosed at the time of writing
- For private pre-sale, public pre-sale and ICO
- Special note: there wasn't any public sale, only a private sale. "Due to the token demand, as well as the changing global regulations regarding the token sales, we decided to only offer the tokens for purchase to the strategic accredited investors, who passed our KYC process. Consequently, we will not have a public sale of tokens at the moment. We may offer some tokens for sale to additional strategic partners, most likely traditional venture funds, in the future, and these will be native Sentient network tokens, not ERC-20 tokens.”https://medium.com/consensus-ai/march-2018-consensus-ai-project-update-2-70534cc30c18
- Dates
- "As we worked with our strategic partners only, we didn’t have hard start/end dates. The allocation of tokens to our strategic partners was finalized in March 2018." - update received from the team on April 20th 2018
- Price & Bonuses
- Price ranged from 0.0225-0.0250 USD to 0.03375 USD
- Token amounts
- Token sold: 1.65 Billions
- not disclosed: amount distributed for each price bracket
- "We worked with our strategic partners only, the terms are private." - update received from the team on April 20th 2018
- From the Telegram Group:
- Token allocation
- not disclosed at the time of writing
- The team does not hold any token though (see screenshot below)
- From the Telegram Group:
- Banned countries
- not disclosed at the time of writing
Token trading & usage
- date tokens get distributed
- Tokens got distributed at the end of March 2018
- date tokens hit exchanges
- not disclosed at the time of writing
- exchanges planned to list the token
- not disclosed at the time of writing
- From the Telegram Group:
- Some unofficial data from https://steemit.com/consensus/@ebru/consensus-ai-summary-and-review
- Token usage & tokenomics
- Sen coin provides the payment mechanism to network participants and is generated by the network during mining and execution of smart contracts and other activities (user participation, provisioning of compute resource, provisioning of storage capacity).
- Reward for computation power - much like the Golem project but in the context of Consensus AI. The team updated us on April 20th 2018: "Each network node will be able to provide a portion of its hardware resources for the AI engine computations, and will be rewarded in SEN for it—each node will be able to determine what percentage of its resources to make available for AI engine computations. As a result the Consensus AI will be powered by the fog supercomputer where nodes will receive rewards in SEN that correspond to the price of compute power."
- Reward for users providing personal data. "users providing their data and getting SEN as a reward: using our approach, the AI engine will bring the models to where the data stores are and train them on the encrypted user data. Each time user’s data improves the model, the user gets SEN as a reward. In other words, users will get passive income by providing their data."
Team
- Summary: Very strong team. They all worked together previously at 500px, except Julia Ivanova. They are all Russian speakers.
- Special note: as of writing, Consensus AI is recruiting, c.f. https://angel.co/consensus-ai/jobs
- Oleg Gutsol - Founder
- "Software developer, entrepreneur"
- Head of Global Growth @ Republic of Estonia e-Residency program
- Founder and CEO @ 500px
- Partner @ O2 Ventures
- Co-founder @ Pickapaw
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/oleggutsol
- https://www.crunchbase.com/person/oleg-gutsol
- https://angel.co/oleggutsol
- https://twitter.com/oleggutsol
- George Bordianu - Cofounder Technology: Blockchain and AI
- "Software developer, founder of several startups, crypto currency expert"
- Founder @ Paradiso (Balance) - crypto currency index fund
- VP of Engineering @ Deep Genomics - medical AI company
- Director of Engineering @ 500px
- Founder, CTO @ YourExtraLife
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/omikronn
- https://angel.co/gcb
- https://www.crunchbase.com/person/gheorghita-bordianu#section-locked-marketplace
- https://twitter.com/omikronn
- Artem Loginov - Product, AI, Governance
- "Founder of several AI, EdTech and eSports startups. Chief Product Officer with 10+ years of experience and focus on mobile and artificial intelligence"
- VP of Product @ Lingualeo
- Director of Product @ Yandex
- Cofounder and CPO @ InField
- Cofounder and Head of Product @ 500px
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/timloginov
- https://www.crunchbase.com/person/artem-loginov
- Julia Ivanova - Growth, Marketing
- "Marketing, PR, advertising and business development specialist"
- Co-founder @ Parla.ai
- Marketing Director @ Artificial Intelligence Startups
- investment analyst @ eValue Investment Fund
- Account Director @ Smartclip
- COO @ Click District
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-ivanova
Advisors
- Summary: very strong team of advisors, with skills across the fields of blockchain, governance, tech, entrepreneurship
- Yin Cao
- Founding Partner and Chief Strategy Officer @ Energy Blockchain Labs (China) - world first company focused on blockchain technology energy and green finance application
- Principal Energy Analyst @ China Cinda Securities - biggest Chinese financial asset management company
- Founder of E-Resident Community in China @ Estonian e-Residency
- Executive Director, Energy & Power Business @ 弗若斯特沙利文公司
- strategic advisor @ several famous energy and finance companies
- written several books
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/caoyin
- James Stewart
- Co-founder of the UK Government Digital Service - playing a wide variety of roles in the digital transformation of the the UK government
- Principal / Independent Consultant
- Tech lead in various companies
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jystewart
- https://www.crunchbase.com/person/james-stewart-uk
- https://twitter.com/jystewart
- https://jystewart.net
- Yury Selivanov
- "His software is used to improve performance at Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest etc.”
- “Python core dev & JavaScript wizard"
- Founder @ MagicStack https://magic.io
- Founder @ EgdeDB http://edgedb.com
- Technical Director, Product Design @ Experience IT inc.
- Core Developer @ Python Software Foundation
- Core Python developer, author of uvloop, asyncpg, asyncio.
- Consulted Cisco, ABB, Nintendo and others.
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/yselivanov
- https://angel.co/yselivanov
- https://twitter.com/1st1
- April Rinne
- Local and national governments consultant.
- Member of China’s Sharing Economy Committee
- Advisory Boards member of Seoul, Amsterdam and the National League of Cities (USA)
- Advisor to 5+ companies
- A lot of experience across many different organizations
- Law School @ Harvard
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilrinne
- https://aprilrinne.com
- https://twitter.com/aprilrinne
- https://medium.com/@aprilrinne
- Alkarim Nasser
- Product and growth @ Facebook
- Co-Founder / Chairman / Board Member @ Gallop (Acquired by Big Viking Games)
- prescriptive mobile marketing platform - radically innovative in data science
- CEO / Chairman @ Bogaroo Inc
- Founder / Managing Partner @ BNOTIONS (Acquired by Symbility Solutions)
- working closely with Facebook, eBay, Indigo, Royal Bank of Canada, American Express, C Spire Wireless, Vu Digital, TD Canada Trust, Johnson & Johnson and 500px on mobile strategy, experience and engineering
- Co-Founder/Co-Chair @ AndroidTO
- Canada's first Android developer conference
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/alkarimnasser
- https://angel.co/alkarim
- https://twitter.com/alkarim
- Jane Zavalishina
- Announced on April 24th 2018, c.f.
https://twitter.com/consensus_ai/status/988347147190984705
- consensus_ai - Co-Founder @ Mechanica AI
- VP Strategy @ OnlinePay.com
- Faculty Member @ Singularity University
- Member, Global Future Councils @ World Economic Forum
- Advisory Board Member, Responsible AI @ SIDN fonds
- Mentor for Rockstart AI @ Rockstart
- CEO @ Yandex Data Factory
- Board Member @ Yandex.Money
- Chairman of the Board for NBCO @ Yandex.Money
- CEO@ Yandex.Money
- CEO @ W-M.RU
- Chief Product Officer @ Yandex
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/janetg
- Announced on April 24th 2018, c.f.
Partners & Investors
- Partners
- Republic Of Estonia
- The fundamental part of the project, the Sentient Blockchain Network, will be developed in collaboration with the Estonian e-Residency team and launched as a pilot in Estonia first, with 25,000 e-Residents becoming the initial users.
- https://e-resident.gov.ee
- Creative Destruction Lab
- A Canadian program that provides access to world-renowned experts and chief scientists from leading academic institutions.
- https://www.creativedestructionlab.com
- Mothership
- A digital asset exchange and a token market platform established in Estonia.
- Helps Estonian-base blockchain companies streamlining their registration, development and providing access to funding and incubator-type services.
- https://mothership.cx
- Republic Of Estonia
- Investors
- not disclosed, the team commented on April 20th 2018 "Unfortunately we can’t disclose the names"
Online Presence
- Media coverage - niche & mainstream
- The project is still under the radar of most crypto enthusiasts, so there is very little information to be found.
- Social medias
- Telegram
- 20K members - https://t.me/consensus_ai
- Twitter
- 31K followers - https://twitter.com/consensus_ai
- Reddit
- n/a
- Medium
- 521 followers - https://medium.com/consensus-ai
- Bitcointalk
- Telegram
Transparency
- Organization registration & jurisdiction
- Consensus Foundation, Faehlmanni St. 6, 10125,Tallinn, Estonia.
- Estonian registration number 14332450
- HQ in Toronto, Canada - https://www.linkedin.com/company/consensus-ai
- Open source or not
- Code audited or not
- not disclosed at the time of writing
- Overall communication
- The project is still under the radar of most crypto enthusiasts, so there is not much to be found online.
- Additionally, the team has been mostly in touch with its contributors (strategic partners and investors). This communication does not happen publicly.
3rd party ICO reviews
- Again, there isn’t much to be found online since the project is still under the radar of most crypto enthusiasts.
- However, here is one interesting we came across: "mixed feelings because Consensus AI has such a high goal" - https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/consensus-sen
More info
- Consensus.AI ICO Review & Community AMA with Oleg (Founder & CEO) -
- https://steemit.com/consensus/@ebru/consensus-ai-summary-and-review
- http://freedomandsafety.com/en/content/blog/consensus-launches-decentralized-governance-platform
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