ICO Analysis: NODVIX

The existence of censorship on content is a brute fact of the modern world. Although this is arguably justifiable on moral grounds in some cases, often it is used for economic and/or political reasons by governments and corporations and the ordinary people usually have none to very little power on this decision. Several countries such as China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore are known for extensive restrictions implemented on Internet usage.

This contradicts with freedom of speech and expression and the NODVIX team provides a broadcasting platform, similar to YouTube but without KYC procedures and governmental interventions, enabling people to reclaim their right to free speech. Instead of appealing to any governmental criterion of content restrictions or bans, NODVIX is self-regulating as people acting as master-nodes restrict or ban content. Still, as what counts as illegal content differs from one jurisdiction to another, it is not clear how any confusion over such definitions would be dissolved.

The platform is designed to be live 24 hours a day and this is incentivized by a reward mechanism. Any profit made by several streams of revenue such as advertisement will be distributed among actors on the platform.

1. Original content creators or uploaders get 83%.
2. Supported torrent nodes get 8%. Staking NDVX tokens are a requirement to become a supported torrent node.
3. Unsupported torrent nodes get 2%. They are not asked to stake NDVX tokens, but they get a lesser cut of one-fourth.
4. The platform gets the rest, using 5% for marketing and 2% for platform development.

The platform works in the following way: Firstly, a visual media, whether it is a music video, news story or a film, or anything with a frame rate is uploaded to the platform by its creator or uploader. Then advertisers provide appropriate banners which are then checked by torrent nodes. A hash file which contains also wallet addresses where profits will be sent is created and stored by torrent nodes. Ads take their place in content and the content is broadcast to the platform, placed into specialized categories. Then it is available for users to watch whenever they’d like. It should be noted that as torrent nodes play a quite important role, they can choose not to broadcast some content.

Token

The platform’s internal currency, NDVX, is used by an advertiser to pay for advert airtime, by original content creators and uploaders to receive in return for their efforts and by supported torrent nodes to stake. As people who stake their NDVX tokens get a higher percentage of profits than who do not, we can say that there is sufficient holding pressure for the token.

The ICO investor should note that the base price is 8,000 NVX for 1 ETH though this is only for the last twenty days of the ICO. The sale is structured that early birds pay less ETH per token as an investor will get 15,040 NDVX for 1 ETH, almost 90% more tokens for the same cost. It should worry him or her that during the pre-ICO, contributors get 24,000 NDVX per ETH, making the pre-ICO price 200% over the ICO base price. Also, the more ETH one invests in, the more NDVX tokens he or she gets as a bonus. Thus, we can safely say that anyone considering to participate in the token sale should either hurry up or wait until the token hits exchanges.

The total supply of NDVX tokens are yet to be determined, but they will be distributed according to the following.

1. 75% pre-ICO + ICO
2. 12% team
3. 9% reserved
4. 4% bounty

It is another source of worry that team tokens are locked for 6 months, a shorter period of time than most ICOs. No information on how the team is planning to use the token sale proceeds is made public yet.

Team

Valeriya Okuneva: Okuneva is a content specialist at BAKERS, a marketing and advertising company based in Moscow.

Ryan Raymond: Raymond is a community advisor at PayFair.

Verdict

Below is a breakdown of the risks and growth potential of NODVIX.

Risks

• Team members’ LinkedIn pages do not show their previous working experience. (-2)
• Token metrics do not favor the later ICO investor much. (-2)

Growth Potential

• A demo for Windows, MAC, and Linux is already available, a rare sight for many ICOs. It can be found at the top of NODVIX’s website. (+4)
• As supported torrent nodes (master nodes) who get 8% of the profit are required to stake NDVX tokens, there is sufficiently strong holding pressure. (+2.5)

Disposition

Governmental intervention over the content on the Internet gets tighter and tighter every single day. People living in places like China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore experience this phenomenon in their day to day lives. In response, the NODVIX team provides a broadcasting platform similar to YouTube where original content creators and uploaders provide visual media and get paid in return. As the platform will be live 24 hours a day, people who will supply and verify the content data are incentivized to do so through a stake-and-reward mechanism. Any supported torrent node will get 8% of the profit, which is a sufficient reason to hold NDVX tokens.

It is a bit hard to evaluate the project’s value in terms of return on investment as team members’ LinkedIn pages contain very little information, yet a working demo already exists and can be found at the top of the main page. It is quite praiseworthy that Windows, Mac, and Linux versions are available. Token metrics do not favor the late ICO investor as the early bird catches not only the worm but also great bonuses. Anyone planning to participate in the sale should hurry or perhaps wait until the token hits the market. NODVIX receives a 2.5/10.

Investment Details

• Type: ERC20 – Utility
• Symbol: NDVX
• Platform: Ethereum
• Crowdsale: November 22nd
• Minimum Investment: 0.01 ETH
• Price: 0.000125 ETH
• Hard Cap: 21,000 ETH
• Payments Accepted: BTC, ETH
• Restricted from Participating: United States, Singapore, Korea, China.

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AUTHOR

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