ClearPoll is a breath of fresh air. In a big, scary landscape of multi million dollar ICO cash grabs, it’s nice to see an achievable project with a modest funding goal.
ClearPoll, for those who don’t know, is a social public opinion poll network using blockchain tech to secure votes and poll results, so the grubby media can’t manipulate public opinion or censor it.
It’s a fantastic concept and has received praise from many of the leading fintech and blockchain minds.
The ClearPoll token, POLL, will be in low circulation, maximum of 10 million (and likely closer to 3 million). Despite this low circulation, there is likely to be a high demand for the tokens because they will be required to access all kinds of awesome. Specifically, ClearPoll Plus. ClearPoll Plus is an add-on service which will allow journalists, marketing people or just a curious individual to access advanced metrics on poll results. Age, gender, specific location, votes by the hour and more. An incredibly valuable tool for research and reporting. So, given that it’s a must-have service if ClearPoll becomes popular, and they must have POLL tokens to access it, there’s a constant and healthy demand.
In order to meet that demand, holders of POLL tokens can name higher and higher prices because the buyers will have little choice. “Oh crap, it’s 4:55pm and my boss wants this data, I’ll have to pay whatever it takes!”. After sending POLL back to ClearPoll for the subscription, ClearPoll will no doubt be selling it straight back to the exchange for the highest bidding price. Rinse and repeat! POLL could become a very hot commodity.
ClearPoll ICO is only asking for around 1,000 ETH worth of token sales. That’s chicken feed compared to what we see elsewhere (KickICO disappointed to only make $98M, for example). I would not be at all surprised if a “whale” bought up POLL in a big way, to monopolize the tokens and be able to name their price to the desperate POLL-hunters.
A refreshingly honest, achievable project with a good reason for tokens, and solving a real world problem of centralized public opinion data. I like it. I like it a lot.