The tagline from team Zipper comes in form of "Turn your Smart Phone into a BlockChain Powerhouse".
Yeah! that sounds BIG, and above all looking at the member's profile & strength in Zipper Team, turn this phenomenon even bigger into comforting us that achieving this is realistically possible and in near term future.
Dr. Antti Saarnio, Co-Founder & CEO
Past Experience - at KPMG, Accenture and East Partners. Dr.Tech. in Strategic Investments.
Carsten Munk, Co-Founder & CTO
Past Experience - Founder of Mer and author of Hybris open source projects. Pioneering work on Linux and Android stacks for Nokia and Jolla. Team’s blockchain lead.
In the world of ICOS, where it has become a norm nowadays of overpromising and underdelivering. Zipper is one of the few Icos which had a pilot ready before launching their ICO and plans on a roll-out of working BlockChain OS on Android Platform this March.
On a side note, investors creep with two concerns in crypto world at the moment. First being, how to make money (of course the obvious one), Secondly, how to protect it from hackers. The latter being turning out to be a much bigger concern where the reliance on both, (Paper/Hardware Wallet), Digital Exchanges comes with their own caveat.
In case, the coin holdings are kept on the exchange. User private key resides with the exchange. Thus, in case the exchange gets hacked the chances of losing the entire funds cannot be ignored. Keeping the private keys on Paper/Hardware wallet comes with its own drawback, as the user can easily become a victim of a phishing site or a backdoor trojan.
Zipper presents a strong stance by turning your smartphone into an everyday hardware wallet by decentralizing private key storage with "Shamir’s Secret" Sharing. Users can easily confirm transactions using familiar mobile verification methods while remaining in complete control of their private keys, and the process is completely isolated from the operating system. Exactly what we need after a recently exposed vulnerability in Intel Processors and alike, leaving a lot of investors worried.
Moreover, there is a news in circulation where Zipper is backed by "YCombinator" , one of the best incubator, whose resultant coins are QSP, QTUM, OmSiGo, etc (and we all know these coins are doing incredibly well in crypto space).
However, Carsten Munk (CTO) of Zipper was swift enough to clear it out to all the investors that such affiliation does not exist and in-fact It was #Hashed (a Korean Crypto Fund) that has invested in Zipper pre-sales considering its potential and is known for leading several blockchain projects around in the space. Usually, no one does that in crypto world and infact companies grants heavy bounties to people/media for creating an artificial hype for the ico. One such example would be "BeeToken", which is so hyped up.
Noteably, most crypto feeds on the much-created hype.
Apart from that, Zipper also made their ICO contributor friendly, meaning that the coins will be distributed for pre-sales based on ETH price on the closing date of ico which was 4th Jan 2018, and hence was not locked at ETH price on the start date. No one does that either in crypto world.
This conveys a very strong message from the team, that they care for investors and wants to develop a community to help them support their idea and put their trust in to it.
Such transparency is non-existent in crypto world, and Zipper model of ico launch should be adopted by all upcoming icos as a benchmark.
Zipper has the potential to be a mainstream coin once it delivers what it promises in March 2018, considering the utility it brings and the enormous amount of use cases derived from the idea of having a "BlockChain OS" on mobile. "DAPPs" !!
Spoiler Alert: The BlockChain OS will be on Android, to begin with. iOS users may want to keep a handy Android phone nearby not to miss out on this one.