Piece of eight - PO8 & ICO

About:

Po8.io is a blockchain ecosystem democratizing and decentralizing the marine archaeology industry. Po8 scalable technologies take ocean exploration to new heights in search of historical artifacts and treasures, and provide decentralized solutions for the registration, authentication, and transfer of the world’s most prized artifacts:

First, PO8 creates smart contracts to enable any individual to participate in the search and recovery of treasures and be rewarded for performing bounty tasks aiding recovery efforts.
Second, PO8 creates a blockchain artifact registry system ensuring authenticity of artifacts.
Third, PO8 establishes a safe and transparent decentralized auction house ensuring responsible commerce of artifacts.

Maritime Artifact Data System (MADS)
For the first time ever, anyone from around the world can help in the search and recovery efforts of long lost artifact treasures. Simply participate and complete any of our bounty tasks and earn free tokens. Bounty tasks include but not limited to analyzing data such as sonar, magnetometer, geo mapping, historical records, weather patterns, video feeds and more.
Historical Open Auction Platform (HOAP)
We’re creating a whole new way of transferring high value assets in a secure, cost-effective and transparent manner on the blockchain. Our decentralized auction is an open source platform, making it easy for anyone to get the most value for their prized possessions.
Government Artifact Auction System (GAAS)
The GAAS platform serves as a secure escrow service allowing governments, museums and non-profit organizations to register and authenticate artifact treasures to buy, sell and auction historical artifacts between one another. All users of the platform are validated to ensure they are government entities.
PO8 Historical Artifact Registry System (PHARS)
PHARS is a decentralized registry platform used to identify historical artifacts and certify their authenticity, through the creation of unique signature identifications that live in the blockchain indefinitely.

P08 decentralized applications provide a more scalable approach to the recovery and distribution of historical artifacts. Individuals, rather than corporations and governments, will be more instrumental in the search, preservation, exhibition and transfer of artifacts.

PO8 Goals:

Building a smart contract, which enables everyone to participate in bounty tasks to recover lost artifacts or treasure and be rewarded for their contribution
Building a registry system for the authentification of artifacts on the blockchain
Building a transparent auction house for selling and buying artifacts and treasures.

Piece of 8 (PO8) is quite an interesting project in an not so known industry for us common people. As the project furthermore is backed by the government of the bahamas I really think that the team is taking this project very seriously.