Friendz is a platform that allows businesses to help users make money via digital word to mouth marketing.
Site: https://steward.friendz.io/
Token / Coin: FDZ Friendz Coin – ERC20
Supply: 1.5 Billion (50% for ICO)
Crowdsale date: - March 1st - 22nd unless hardcap Reached.
ICO Breakdown: 50% for contributes , 20% reserve fund, 11% partners, 7% advisors, 5% liquidity fund, 5% team, 2% bounty program.
Hardcap : $50,250,000 USD – 750M FDZ. ( 0.067USD = 1FDZ) (unsold tokens will be burned)
Countries excluded : U.S
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/B3IVIERTfwUcNdiPtJIqYw ( 20,000 users )
Blog: https://medium.com/friendz ( quite active on posts which is good )
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Friendz_ICO
Intro Video:
Whitepaper: https://friendz.io/white-paper.html
What is Friendz?
Friendz is a company based in Switzerland who has been in the market since 2016. Their goal is to connect brands to their users by using digital word to mouth marketing.
Companies will connect directly with the users asking them to create content for their product / brand. You will be paid in Friendz which you can then swap for money and services on their platform. As Friendz gets more popular their profits will be used to buy back their tokens.
As the ad space grows rapidly, companies are paying influencers to upload reviews/ blogs and pictures about their products. Instagram and Youtube have been a great source for users to build up a following. However with Friendz you can be approached or you can participate in their campaigns directly.
Their focus is people who like to upload for fun with around 500-2000 followers. Friendz are not looking for big influencers and celebrities due to their following will be more diluted in interests.
How to use token:
Participating in a campaign is very straight forward.
- Select a campaign ( businesses buy campaigns to use the platform)
- Take a picture that is relevant ( Approvers will check if it’s relevant to track)
- Upload to social media eg Instagram ( They review statistics like comments and likes)
- Earn Credits ( credits are pegged to a euro amount to avoid price fluctuations )
- Trade Credits for Friendz Coins
- Friendz Coins can be used to purchase in-app features like gift cards.
Friendz will also run Fun campaigns daily to get users engaged in earning coins and help build their profiles. Having a high quality profile will give you a better chance to be approved by the approvers. Profiles will be rated on a scale of 1-5 stars system.
In-App features to use Friendz tokens:
- Special discount to final price products
- Upgrade to see special features like increasing your number of campaign participations, increasing your profile star rating, appear in most popular users sections etc..
- Participate in games organized by Friendz
- Buy coupons for discount at client shops
- Get access to special clubs, VIP, groups promoted by clients
For clients:
Friendz will offer clients a dashboard to monitor and analyse their results and KPIs for their campaigns.
Approvers Approval system:
They will have qualified users who manually check users participating in campaigns if they are following the rules of the client’s needs. Once multiple approvers agree they will then approve your photo and then allow the tracking statistics on Facebook or Instagram APIs. Anyone can become an approver and get rewarded in credits, however to qualify they must have taken part in sufficient number of campaigns and achieve a high profile quality rating.
Clients & business partners:
ICO details:
Locking Scheme:
They will have a fixed period to reduce the dumping of the token. Tokens assigned to the reserve fund, advisors, team and ICO Power hour will be locked for 12 months and made available proportionally.
Bonus Rates:
Roadmap:
Quick roadmap : https://friendz.io/#roadmap
Past achievements roadmap:
Future Achievements roadmap:
Team / Advisors:
Their team is very young who have a good amount of marketing and programing experience in the industry. I was able to find most of them on Linkedin. The good thing is that most of them have been part of Friendz for years and are not new employees. The team consists of 35 people. They operate in Milan, Rome and Madrid.
https://friendz.io/#team
The advisors seem to be not be big fishes however their history do show they are advisors of multiple projects such as WePower and NAGA.
Simon Cocking:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-cocking-20540135/
David Drake
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ldjcapital/
Paolo Rebuffo
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paolo-rebuffo-8255766/
PROS:
Get paid to post quality content
get paid to review on help their platform
Token has a buy back system if fiat is used by the client.
Token has a buy back system from profits from Friendz
Whitepaper is detailed and easy to read. 72 Pages.
Established since 2016 with users and working business model
Working product and ready to go.
Nice website and very active blogging
CONS:
Do we really need the blockchain? I guess it can be a centralized system
Multiple similar ICOS like indaHash and Robin8
50M raising is quite big. Full dilution is $100,500,000 market cap.
Overall rating: 7 / 10
The ICO is worth a shot with its already established business model, users,app and partnerships. Friendz looks like this can gain some decent hype and growth. I don’t like how they are raising quite a lot of money but the growth of where its at compensates for it. The money can be used for marketing and the buy back system which should help the token increase its value over time.
Use my referral code : https://steward.friendz.io/go?r=MjIzMjc ( i get a 5% bonus )
Will I participate in the Whitelist? Yes there is still heaps of potential for them.
Allocation Ratio : 2/5
Use my referral code : https://steward.friendz.io/go?r=MjIzMjc ( i get a 5% bonus )
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Disclaimer:
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Friendz is a great project with a lot of potential and is very mature. It's quite similar to BAT or DATx but it does things much better in my opinion. This could revolutionize the marketing industry in the near future.