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Introduction
Since the appearance of Bitcoin in 2009, the cryptocurrency market has gained popularity as a means of payment for the purchase of goods and services. Its use has become widespread, among other reasons, because they represent an innovative project in constant evolution and change. There is a certain consensus on the potential of cryptocurrency or digital money, auguring a future in which these will become a system of universal exchange.
No one can argue about the success of the cryptocurrency market last year, when there was significant exponential growth and where many investors benefited from an extremely volatile market. However, more than half of the ICOs (Initial Coin Offering) designed to raise funds in different market segments such as finance, commerce and infrastructure, had no clear and viable purpose, or were just a scam to attract unwary investors, resulting in a loss estimated at $ 2.76 billions.
Being able to identify which projects are really feasible could be a Herculean task. Therefore, verification is a challenge for investors who must evaluate in which ICO to invest to obtain returns for their investments.
Being 100% sure of the projects will greatly contribute to improving investor confidence and also to increase the viability of the projects, which will allow the growth of the industry.
What is Vertex
Vertex is a decentralized platform that aims for investors to participate in a genuine ICO and obtain a return on their investment, avoiding misunderstandings in the market by reducing the number of projects that are not viable and ruling out fraud.
This solution is revolutionary and is essential if the market expects to attract more investors to decentralized projects without the risk of losing their capital. To achieve this, Vertex combines its venture capital, negotiation and tokenization experience to develop an extreme research mechanism that achieves the implementation of a fully functional ICO market.
In the Vertex aftermarket, you can buy at a discounted price those ICOs that are successful or more likely to succeed and that may be included in stock exchanges.
The users of the platform will be able to acquire tokens of researched projects and will have access to the analysis that the experts, which include world renowned investors, international business leaders and venture capitalists have done in each project.
How Vertex works?
The Vertex platform is based on three pillars or vertebral columns that are: the ICO research process, the VTEX token and the platform itself. When a project has been successfully investigated by the team of experts, it obtains an investment from Vertex that acquires the ICO tokens at a reduced price at the time of the sale of the ICO, and then sell them to the holders of VTEX tokens once the public sale has ended.
The process to carry out this transaction will be facilitated with the use of the VTEX token. The users of the Vertex platform will have to acquire the VTEX tokens to be part of the presale of the ICOs, which will have a preferential price.
Investors must create an account and go through a KYC procedure, which will be activated within 48 hours after approval. Then, they can explore the platform to identify opportunities that appeal to them along with the details of the project. For each open sale, users can click on the "buy tokens" button. A unique ETH address will be provided, where users can send Vertex tokens in exchange for the project in which they wish to invest. These addresses are unique and valid for a single transaction. The addresses where users will send funds must be registered to avoid abuse of the system. Purchase intent must be established, and declaring three times without buying can lead to prohibitions.
Benefits
Vertex business model is designed to benefit everyone, creating a win-win situation for all involved, through the following:
- Financing for ICO examined to start their projects.
- Access to a growing group of users who have gone through the KYC process, which will become the customer base for ICO examined.
- ICO project sheets that have the best chance of success.
- Guaranteed access to tokens that would not otherwise be available in the open market.
- A decentralized system that allows users to keep their funds in their own wallets, which keeps hackers away from the platform.
The Team
The Vertex team has professionals, most with years of experience in the world of finance and Blockchain technology, no doubt, is a great team worthy of admiration
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