Interview
alities . Waves blockchain allows that level of transparency and every project creator should be able to use these data to communicate more efficiently with investors and clients .”
Why did you choose to fund your ICO with an array of Waves Tokens ?
“ We invested in Waves since the beginning , I had a lot more time than funds to invest personally . Like every other project creators around the Waves blockchain , we are pioneers and we ’ re showing the platform possibilities to the world . Taking the decision to dedicate my career to a platform that didn ’ t have yet the success it deserved requires to be a strong believer , I already spent a massive amount of hours developing new features , on evenings and week-ends while still working on my day job . And as I know how intense it can be , I also want to support other projects . Waves has a very strong community , we ’ re intimately connected to the platform ’ s success and we continuously act towards it . Even in the adversity of a contest , we were all discussing as friends and planning future partnerships , I ’ ve never seen that in any other cryptocurrency community . We at Oceanlab have a no cashout policy and we believe in the future of all the other pioneers projects as much as we believe in ours , we allow them to benefit of a storage of their tokens away from the markets for a while : We will work with a very limited budget in our first year of operation meaning we probably won ’ t have to spend any of these tokens for a whole year . And having several assets at our disposal will allow us to split our expenses between several assets , preventing unwanted strong moves on the markets for a particular one .”
What applications do you think are the most important you plan on building and why ?
“ We have a lot of applications and features planned , probably years of work if I follow all my ideas . But the first one we want to focus on is our actual prototype Gravit . The engine is the foundation of our ecosystem , and the website will benefit from any new feature we bring to the platform ( encryption , trading analysis , blockchain storage , automation ...). This website will become the first blockchain powered social network with many automated features and content . It ’ s an evolving system able to analyze the depths of
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