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Spectre.ai : Platform is now LIVE!
« on: September 12, 2017, 12:40:59 AM »
Note: We are making this post for the spectre.ai project. Please direct all questions to Spectre.ai.team
















SPECTRE is the world’s first broker-less financial trading platform with an embedded, decentralised liquidity pool. Like traditional trading, clients are trading against SPECTRE’s balance sheet (also known as the ‘liquidity pool’), however this pool is initially capitalised and owned by ICO (initial coin offering) investors. In other words, SPECTRE’s liquidity pool is owned by token holders who initially invest in the ICO and therefore own a part of SPECTRE’s profitability, into perpetuity. Tokens are publicly traded on all major crypto-currency exchanges and thus can be held by anyone.
 
In this broker-less model, SPECTRE’s liquidity pool is completely decentralised and the conflict of interest problem is eradicated (Exhibit B). The trading process at SPECTRE works as follows; the retail trader signs up to the website but deposits nothing. Instead they simply open a crypto-wallet on the website and send funds to that address (this process is verified and governed by the Ethereum blockchain and so, is trust-less and secure).  Major off-site crypto-wallets can be connected to this wallet as well. This ensures that funds cannot be accessed or handled by SPECTRE employees or anyone apart from the trader him/herself. 
 
When a trader opens a trade (long or short) for a specified duration, the price of the asset they have wagered on, is monitored by a live, verifiable price feed from multiple audited financial sources such as Oanda. The eventual outcome (win or loss) is determined when the trade expires, by comparing the price of the underlying asset upon expiry, with that upon entry. If the trader has lost the trade, their wallet is automatically debited for the amount wagered and SPECTRE’s liquidity pool is credited,  7 net of 2% trade fees which are paid directly to SPECTRE’s operational expenses and 2% dividend, which is paid out to all token holders.
 
The remaining 96% of the trader’s loss, goes directly to expanding SPECTRE’s liquidity pool. If, on the other hand, the trader won, he/she receives an instant 75% ROI (return on investment) and SPECTRE’s liquidity pool is debited for that amount. Again, in this instance where the trader has won their trade, a 2% operational fee is paid to SPECTRE and 2%, to the SPECTRE token holder as dividend. Token holders do not face any losses because of this pay-out to the winning trader. This way, SPECTRE and token holder profits are not driven just by losses but instead by overall volumes.  Note that the payout can, in certain instances, be as high as 93%, depending on volumes in the system at the time. This entire process is governed by a smart contract built on the Ethereum blockchain and cannot be tampered with through human intervention.
 
The question arises; how can token holders in SPECTRE be comforted that it’s ability to pay dividends will remain and/or grow and thus, their dividend entitlement? This is described next, in the perpetual liquidity model.



SPECTRE pays out normal dividends and special dividends to token holders. Normal dividends, as described earlier, are paid as a 2% volume fee on trader’s wins or losses in the system, typically at the end of each month. Whether trades are generated on SPECTRE or other D-Apps connected to the liquidity pool, is not relevant from the token holder’s perspective. The more trades that are taken across the entire ecosystem, the more dividends that are paid out. So, a growing number of users on the platform (either directly on SPECTRE or other integrated D-Apps) will mathematically translate to higher volumes traded, resulting in perpetual growth in dividends to token holders. Special dividends, however, are paid out at the end of the year and only occur if SPECTRE’s liquidity pool (which directly grows when traders lose) has grown above a predetermined threshold. This threshold is detailed in the ‘Market Opportunity’ section later.
 
The average win rate of inexperienced traders is around 35-50%.6 Experienced traders, however, who spend time in learning technical or fundamental analysis in order to gain an edge and be able to beat the market, can at times obtain a 60-70% win rate, although emotions and greed tend to get the better of them, thus suppressing their win-rates below 60%, over time.7 Since SPECTRE’s liquidity pool pays out 75% on winning trades (and as high as 93% in certain conditions) but keeps 96% of all losses, traders on average need to maintain at-least a 57% win-rate in order to break-even. This is difficult for the masses to achieve and therefore, average win rates in the system are likely to hover under 48-53%, resulting in perpetual growth in SPECTRE’S liquidity pool and contractually, the size of special dividend payment to token holders (Exhibits C & F). 
 
This makes the SPECTRE token an industry first, namely one that offers a perpetual dividend stream driven by various avenues of growth, albeit on a fixed token supply, meaning that the value of the token must increase over time, from a mathematical standpoint (Exhibit C). What further perpetuates token value appreciation over time is that the SPECTRE team will be using, from time to time, 3% of fees generated on the system to purchase SPECTRE tokens as part of a wider token-buyback-program. No more than 15% of outstanding supply will be purchased. (Exhibit C).
 
When comparing the SPECTRE model to the current, defunct broker model, which benefits only from client losses, does not pay dividends, is centralised and is deeply riddled with conflict of interest, it becomes evident which model offers the safest trading environment for traders.
 
Lastly, SPECTRE, despite its name, is not an exchange in the classic sense in that it’s liquidity pool acts as the counterparty to all trades. This, in our view, is advantageous when compared to traditional prediction markets on the blockchain as these have no liquidity pools and are dependent on a large volume of users in order for traders to be able to enter and exit trades in a highly liquid fashion. SPECTRE’s model, by comparison, works with as little as 1 user or millions of users. Over time, as the SPECTRE user-base crosses a few thousand active traders, it may be possible for the SPECTRE’s conditional liquidity model (CLM) algorithm to match most if not all trades perfectly and thus truly become an ‘exchange’ in the classic sense; until then, the perpetual liquidity model serves the purpose rather efficiently. We discuss this and balance sheet/liquidity pool protection, next.



SPECTRE sets a new standard for transparency in the retail trading industry; not least because it removes the broker out of the equation, but also because all traders can see the real-time value of SPECTRE’s liquidity pool and subsequent fluctuations therein along with pay-outs to tokens holders, at all times. Unlike most conventional trading platforms designed by technology companies like Spot Option (which powers 65% of all digital option trading platforms globally), Metaquotes Software Corp (creator of Mt4/Mt5, which is used by over 70% of all FX traders)8 which show little to no analytics depicting a traders win-rate, strengths, weaknesses and other important statistics, SPECTRE’s trading platform comes embedded with emotion control, risk management, trade setup identification, deep trader analytics, trader chat and on-board education to help traders gain an edge on the markets (Exhibit E).
 


As part of SPECTRE’s trader protection initiative, neither SPECTRE or any of its employees have access to the trader’s wallet (known onsite as the private escrow). Therefore, all withdrawals are instant, free of classic broker intervention tactics and paid out without any fees subtracted. As all transactions in SPECTRE are governed by Ethereum smart contracts resting on the public blockchain, no human intervention is possible. Owing to the aforementioned platform advantages along with the broker-less model SPECTRE introduces to the sector, the market opportunity for both traders and ICO investors alike, is rather significant. This is quantified in greater detail next.




The retail FX trading industry is worth around $81 trillion every year (or around $2-300bn per day in turnover).  This represents just c.3-6% of the wider FX trading market.9 It is served by a global 4 million strong retail trader user-base.10 As for the digital or binary options industry, this is estimated to be around $30bn per year in volumes (c. $2-3bn in deposits), served by an estimated 200,000 retail traders around the world.11 Owing to the increasing level of fraud, volumes in the industry are under attack at the time of writing.

SPECTRE upon launch will immediately tap and disrupt the latter. Owing to its structural advantages over the classic, defunct broker model, it is likely to gain significant market share and help increase the allure of digital options over the world. This itself can result in a shift; whereby classic FX traders enter the world of digital options (now ‘smart options’) as it offers a simpler, quicker and equally safe way of trading the financial markets.  However, the aim of SPECTRE’s management team is to enhance functionality over the medium-term, such that SPECTRE also allows the physical buying and selling of FX and equities, by accessing the global liquidity pool which, owing to continued progress by the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), will be repurposed for the blockchain where Ethereum can be used as a settlement layer. In other words, SPECTRE’s goal is to ultimately disrupt classic retail FX and equities trading where many brokers still trade actively against clients, but will first disrupt digital options, where broker fraud is holding the entire industry hostage and arresting the growth of what can be a multi-billion-dollar asset class. 
 
In our dynamic forecasts model (which is accessible on www.spectre.ai), we provide three scenarios; the base case, bull case and bear case. The assumptions detailed in the base case will form the basis of the discussion here. This entails purchasing smaller brokerages looking to exit, two of which we have already run due-diligence on and received indicative fair valuation ranges for (c. $0.1-0.3m range cumulative). Partially owing to these bolt-on acquisitions, we forecast SPECTRE to capture 3,000 traders by the end of year 1. By year 5, we expect to have captured 45,900 traders, implying a digital options market share of around 23% on a volume basis. We forecast SPECTRE’s balance sheet or liquidity pool (after all fees and dividends paid to SPECTRE and token holders) to grow by 20% in year 1 to around $6m. By year 5, we forecast the pool to have grown to $26.3m (Exhibit F). It is worth noting should the management team decide to not pursue bolt-on acquisitions post ICO, then the focus will be on organic growth but this would mean that forecasts get pushed out by a year.
 
As for SPECTRE fees, which are set at 2% on all trades, we forecast fee income of $1.6m in year 1 and $24.2m by year 5. Our forecasts translate to a client life-time-value (LTV) of around $800-900, in-line with current brokerage data received. Once clients, in our view, see that SPECTRE is by far the safest way to trade digital options and FX, we forecast a dramatic rise in LTVs, although we have not modelled for this explicitly in our forecasts. It is worth noting that in addition to SPECTRE earning fee income by charging a 2% trade transaction fee, SPECTRE also receives a special dividend (along with token holders as highlighted earlier) at the end of each year. The mechanics of this are described next.

▶ Dividends, Special Dividends and Token Buyback Program
 
We forecast combined dividends (eg. normal and special dividends) to token holders of $3.7m to be paid out in year 1 (or $0.11/token) translating to a projected token-yield of 37%. By year 5, we forecast total dividend payments per year to reach $60.5m (or $1.82/token), resulting in an annual 78% forecasted token-yield for ICO token investors. This compares to a paltry 1-5% dividend yield paid on tech stocks across the globe. As mentioned earlier, special dividends in the system are paid at the end of the year and only when the liquidity pool has experienced growth above a set threshold. If indeed pool growth exceeds pre-set, end-of-year targets at SPECTRE, any excess growth above these targets is going to be paid out at a 70/30 pari-passu basis to token holders and SPECTRE management, respectively. The benchmark level, also known as the hurdle rate, in terms of annual balance sheet growth, starts at 20% and expands to 50% over time. This means that should the SPECTRE liquidity pool grow more than 20%-50% in any given year, the excess growth in percentage will be paid out as special dividend.
 
As token supply will be strictly capped, this means that the absolute value of dividend per token may continue to rise, making the token itself a promising risk-adjusted return investment opportunity, in our view. The SPECTRE team will also, from time to time, use 3% of SPECTRE fees/profits to buy back SPECTRE tokens (no more than 15% of listed tokens). This further serves to increase the token price for holders, over time. At the time of writing (2017), the ICO-based fund-raising process may be in somewhat of a temporary bubble with many projects raising large amounts of funding but not having any working products or those that are generating return for shareholders. A token that pays out instant yield and whose engine is driven by the lucrative financial trading industry, gives, in our view, token investors a certain degree of “bubble protection” in that the SPECTRE token is likely to outperform many others during volatile markets (Exhibit C). 
 
As for pay-outs to traders trading on SPECTRE, we forecast a total of $30.9m paid out as wins in year 1 on the back of a somewhat conservative 52% win-rate assumption (data from major leading brokerages at present shows a 50% win-rate only). By year 5, this figure would have expanded to $472.6. This underlines that despite SPECTRE’s liquidity pool and dividends to token holders forecasted to grow, substantial sums of money will be paid out to traders who can beat the market, in a provably fair and transparent manner. It is important to note that all forecasts are in USD ($), however, as transactions will be undertaken in Ethereum (ETH), end-of-year financial statement reporting may result in translation effects.
 
We expect, in the early years at the least, for our growth efforts to not be hampered by competition owing to the disruptive nature of the SPECTRE model. This is discussed next.



Existing brokerages that are powered by online trading platforms such as Spot Option, London listed Techfinancials, Tradesmarter and Panda tend to power the digital options market. None of these have decentralised liquidity pools or tokenized balance sheets as offered by SPECTRE. While CFTC regulated NADEX does allow for the exchange of offsetting digital/binary option trades by matching traders, liquidity issues do reduce the trading experience and funds are ultimately controlled by the broker. As for the FX market, Metaquotes Corporation offers most brokerages their MT4/MT5 based trading platforms which allow traders to access the global liquidity pool. None of these platforms, however, have any trader protection measures in place, as SPECTRE does (Exhibit G: Full competition matrix accessible on www.spectre.ai).
 
As for recently listed prediction market platforms such as Augur and Gnosis, these are exchanges that match bets on any market that users wish to add to the platform. Users are required to offer their own liquidity initially, in hope that other traders join and play. In our view, this is a less efficient and highly user-growth dependent model, when compared to SPECTRE. As these aren’t direct competitors, we have left them off the competition matrix in Exhibit G. Virtual asset platforms such as PRISM do have a digital element to them and are included under ‘exchanges’ in Exhibit G. In our view, SPECTRE knock-offs with slight variations will be built on the blockchain eventually, however, the size of the liquidity pool and quality of the trading platform will dictate who remains in pole position. SPECTRE’s first mover advantage and significantly ahead-of-the-curve trading platform should allow it to lead the pack, in our view.
 
However, since SPECTRE is disrupting the business models of many unscrupulous brokers, we do expect certain retaliation such as smear campaigns, DDOs attempts and other online measures. As a result, the group is spending significantly on state of the art online DDOS protection and other pre-emptive measures.
 
Innovation, in our view, is a key component of staying ahead as well. Therefore, as shown later in the roadmap, SPECTRE’s management team will be adding new asset classes; starting off with more currencies and later expanding to equities, commodities, bonds, sports (where applicable) and other non-random assets. Additionally, more trade types such as barrier trades, ladders and other exotic options will be added, thereby dramatically widening the scope of what is offered on the platform. We discuss this, along with execution and our roadmap, next.
 


SPECTRE is forecasted to complete its ICO in Q4 2017. In stage 1, SPECTRE (which is already live in alpha mode and can be tested by any trader in the world in demo money mode prior to the ICO), will be re-purposed and heavily security tested for the Ethereum blockchain with an estimated launch in end Q1 2018. It will debut as the world’s first broker-less financial trading platform with an embedded, decentralised liquidity pool focusing on currencies. If the ICO funding target is met, this will mean that upon launch, SPECTRE’s liquidity pool will be around $5,000,000 (if not higher, depending on potential token over-subscription by investors). 
 
Stage 2 will commence in Q2 2018, whereby SPECTRE’s balance sheet would have expanded allowing for more asset and trade types to be added. Specifically, the management team will expand the array of currencies to trade on and add new nonrandom assets such as stocks, along with the addition of commodities such as gold, silver, platinum and others. In addition, after a feasibility study, SPECTRE is likely to add a new asset class known as ULC CFDs (unlevered and capped contracts for difference). This this is a hybrid between a smart option and traditional CFD. In tandem, the management will apply to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of UK, with the view to acquire a European Union MIFID FCA broker/dealer license in London, UK.  Other regulatory regimes may be sought as well. This process will be incumbent on how quickly the FCA transitions from simply providing a blockchain-based developer sandbox to a detailed regulatory framework for blockchain based trading systems such as SPECTRE. The SPECTRE team is engineering the platform on the blockchain such that it can theoretically transmit all transaction metadata instantaneously to regulatory, purpose-built blockchains such as those being engineered by UCL and the London School of Economics under project BARAC (accessible on https://cryptoinsider.com/36-million-funding-towards-new-blockchain-projects-uk/) for reporting purposes.
 
Stage 3, to commence in Q3 2018, is dependent on the progress major investment banks have made as part of their own development of settlement layers for FX and equities contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. If they have progressed their technology to this stage, then SPECTRE’s management team will be able to repurpose the platform to connect with major liquidity providers, giving traders the ability to not only bet on the direction of markets (which they do in digital options) but also actually buy and sell the underlying, speculatively. This includes crypto-currency exchanges as well. Finally, we will give the ability for users to add new trade types and asset markets (including sports betting), not too dissimilar to Augur or Gnosis, the prediction market platforms, albeit with the large liquidity pool of SPECTRE, backing it. 
 
During stage 4 which is Q1-Q2 2019, we will be able to not only introduce order matching capabilities (e.g. the system can find counterparty trades amongst traders themselves instead of making SPECTRE’s balance sheet the counterparty), but a D-App Store, which fosters open-source development of a range of financial and sports betting decentralised applications which ‘plug-in’ to the SPECTRE liquidity pool.
 
During all stages in the roadmap, the management team will be spending the funds required to ensure capacity constraints or security concerns do not compromise the trading experience (such as DDOS attacks). As for the deployment of ICO proceeds, 20- 50% (depending on funds raised) will go directly towards the tokenized liquidity pool, therefore capitalising SPECTRE with ample liquidity. The research and business development spend, on which the remainder of funds will be spent, will be conducted over  c. 3 year period and will cover the following line items:



▶ TEAM
 
SPECTRE’s team consists of industry veterans, many of which who have direct research, trading and banking experience at J.P Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank. As for blockchain and cryptography know-how, the team has partnered with veterans in this space to help with the construction of smart contracts, platform re-purposing and token audit phases. As for education, most staff members are educated at the London School of Economics holding bachelors and masters degrees and our more senior, advisory board, consists of Harvard MBA graduates with direct fin-tech/ad-tech experience having started their own companies from scratch, straight through to IPO. Detailed profiles of the core management team can be accessed here: www.spectre.ai/team
 
 
▶ REGULATION
 
SPECTRE’s team has carefully evaluated short and long term implications of its dividend-paying tokenised balance sheet model and expects the token to be treated as a security in most jurisdictions. Having said that, major jurisdictions are still forming their official regulatory framework, guidelines and Acts which will govern financial technology platforms on blockchains such as Ethereum. This process could take years and we do not believe that waiting until regulation ‘catches up’ is the wise option. After having carefully evaluated the domicile and regulatory license implications and costs of the following jurisdictions; Switzerland, Singapore, United Kingdom, Estonia, Gibraltar, BVI, Cayman, Cyprus, Malta and Vanuatu, we have decided to incorporate in Cayman to conduct the ICO and perform SPECTRE operations without intervention or risk of shut-down. A SIBL license will be filed for immediately after the raise (with an estimated grant period of 16 weeks) such that when SPECTRE’s platform comes out of beta in early 2018, it is fully regulated. As mentioned earlier, the long-term intention is to obtain a regulatory investment and dealing license in an EU jurisdiction or preferably with the FCA, UK and therefore as and when a proper regulatory framework for blockchainbased financial trading platform governance is ready, SPECTRE’s team will apply for this and ‘on-shore’ SPECTREs operations.
 
While the SPECTRE token pre and public sale along with the platform, will not be open to U.S citizens, once the group has secured an FCA license, it will attempt to open a discussion with the SEC of the U.S such that like NADEX, it can obtain CFTC based financial regulation and open the tokens and platform for U.S investors as well.
 
 
▶ RISKS While the management team takes all measures to reduce risk to a minimum, the following risks can impact the long-term viability of SPECTRE:
 
▶ A very small SPECTRE balance sheet (under $200,000) owing to an undersubscribed ICO, could result in trade caps and trade volume caps being placed and slower user adoption and growth of the liquidity pool. 
 
▶ While highly improbable, sustained high win-rates by traders en masse, could deplete liquidity to an extent such that trade caps and trade volume caps need to be activated, to ensure SPECTRE’s balance sheet is protected. This has no direct impact on tokens, only that special dividends won’t be paid until it starts to grow again up and above the pre-set threshold targets.
 
▶ While Ethereum’s smart contract features are well suited for SPECTRE’s balance sheet dividend pay-out model, viral growth in the platform could mean millions of transactions being processed on the public blockchain. This may result in delays to transaction processing (not trade outcomes, however, as this is based on trade entry and exit time stamps). Should this become a significant issue, the management along with token holders may decide on migrating to an Ethereum based side-chain in order to ensure smooth continuity of transactions.
 
▶ While prior to ICO, SPECTRE’s entire code will be subject to multiple audits by reputable blockchain code auditors (and findings published on the website), errors may be overlooked resulting in system crashes and downtime.
 
▶ SPECTRE significantly disrupts a large digital options and FX industry, rendering a lot of its platform providers and brokers irrelevant. This could result in competition driven DDOS attacks and smear campaigns. While the management will invest in state-of-the-art DDOS cloud-flare protection services to mitigate these attacks, there is always a risk that downtime could occur.
 
▶ SPECTRE’s liquidity pool and trades are denominated in the Ether (ETH) currency. A sharp drop or rise in the value of ETH, relative to fiat currencies, could increase or decrease returns for traders on a currency translation basis. To mitigate against this, the SPECTRE management team will hold backup liquidity (as part of the primary liquidity pool) in U.S Dollar denominations in escrow accounts to ensure the value of the liquidity pool is protected against heavy gyrations in the price of Ethereum. As for FX translation risk on the trader’s side, frequent withdrawals can ‘lock-in’ favourable exchange rates, to a certain degree. Finally, the group will explore accessing APIs of services such as Tether (built on the OMNI protocol) to allow for fiat-currency denominated trading.




                          KARAN 'KAY' KHEMANI                                               ZISIS SKOULOUDIS

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Re: [ANN][ICO] Spectre.ai - (SPEC) Speculative Tokenized Trading Exchange
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2017, 03:44:26 AM »

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The world's first broker-less financial trading platform
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A major disruption of financial trading is here. SPECTRE is the world's first broker-less trading platform that removes the broker out of the equation and returns the power back to retail traders across the globe. Built on the Ethereum blockchain, SPECTRE's liquidity pool is entirely owned by the ICO token investors. Profits are paid out to token holders instantly resulting in a revolutionary change to the trading world and a new level of transparency. Find out more here:
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ALPHA LIVE - Get it here: http://spectre.ai/

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Re: [ANN][ICO] Spectre.ai - (SPEC) Speculative Tokenized Trading Exchange
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2017, 12:55:01 AM »
Announcement from KARAN 'KAY' KHEMANI the CEO of SPECTRE.ai :
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"Dear all,
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We would like to take the opportunity to set the record straight in what seems to be a coordinated attack filled with a lot of baseless accusations, as we have received multiple threats of defamation from the admin (who chooses to remain nameless) of spectrecoin today, via email as well. A brief look at our team and their background on LinkedIn (along with the companies associated) will reveal that we are a serious financial technology company with a very public face, not only now but for years. Upon due diligence, "spectrecoin" appeared on our radar few months ago. As our product, which removes financial fraud out of a trading scenario by removing brokers, was in no way competing with "spectrecoin" and more importantly the fact that they were called "spectrecoin" as per their own website and literature including a New York Times article (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/business/dealbook/coin-digital-currency.html) that mentions them as "spectrecoin", the decision we took was to continue with our brand, "spectre". Spectre is an acronym for Speculative Tokenised Trading Exchange. It is not some "cool" name we plucked out of the air or with the view to "piggyback" on "spectrecoin". There are far bigger and more successful ICOs with very attractive names whose names one would consider hijacking before purposely targeting a small newly listed project. Clearly this was not our intention. Despite this, we had planned a reach-out to them and a new project "spectre" from Israel, shortly before our marketing began to let them know, at the end of this month (September). This was to inform them that our website would include a notice to all visitors that we are "spectre" and not spectrecoin.
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Moreover, there are some accusations that the SPEC token is already taken and we haven't done any due diligence regarding this token name. We indeed came across SPEC token but found that it is inactive (https://gyazo.com/83e87619e11a9471dd44314d3328a55d ).  Also, the inactive one is not a ERC20 token. Our team had already initiated the process of getting this SPEC token name allocated to us. Needless to say, we have a range of differentiating 'backup' tickers given they are being mopped up quickly (note, even 'spectrecoin' as per ICO-age (https://gyazo.com/4d47b22ed7597c3c36f893701ea66e7c ) had decided to go with 'SPEC' but then had to change to 'XSPEC'). While the ticker is of secondary importance, please note that our brand is not. SPECTRE stands for Speculative Tokenised Trading Exchange and we will not be rebranding despite us being openly threatened. As for the some of the posts above, unfortunately the level of inaccuracy is high.
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To start with, the structure of the indicated company is presented in a misleading way. This is the structure of a legitimate, professional company that acts as a cost centre in a corporate structure and has
- As director the CEO of the company
- As Secretary, a licenced and accredited company offering fiducieri services under the UK law, which is what the name itself indicates:  "Fiduci - corp" (UK) Services. Therefore having 110 clients, means that they are actually good at what they do.
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As per the fact that there are 0 filings, this is a lie, as a simple search showcases this:
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08245873/filing-history
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Last but not least, there is nothing wrong with having the registrants of a domain hidden. www.spectreproject.io's registrants are hidden as well. In case of spectre.ai, for which we are doing the ICO, this is not hidden, for the purposes of transparency.
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We hope this clarifies the situation. As a team we have a strong and transparent foundation and our goal is to eliminate broker fraud from the financial industry and bring transparency and fairness back into the forefront. 
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We urge spectrecoin to focus on delivering to their investors the targets they promised during their ICO rather than defaming and threatening projects that happen to have similar names and solve an entirely different problem.
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Kind Regards,
Team SPECTRE"

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Re: [ANN][ICO] Spectre.ai - (SPEC) Speculative Tokenized Trading Exchange
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2017, 12:32:04 PM »
Here is a short video on how to generate 75% ROI in just 5 minutes using SPECTRE, the world's first broker-less trading platform with its own decentralised and tokenised liquidity pool. This video also showcases a range of ground breaking features that trading platforms do not have today
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SPECTRE is built on the Blockchain and it is removing broker fraud from Binary or Digital Options and FX trading.
Sign up to the public alpha version for free here and try it out with a virtual account:
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http://dapp.spectre.ai/register.php
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SPECTRE's pre-sale is on the 27th of October. More info on the project and the team available on www.spectre.ai

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  • Re: [ANN][ICO] Spectre.ai - (SPEC) Speculative Tokenized Trading Exchange
    « Reply #4 on: September 15, 2017, 01:55:19 PM »
    Is there an ongoing bounty program?

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  • Re: [ANN][ICO] Spectre.ai - (SPEC) Speculative Tokenized Trading Exchange
    « Reply #5 on: September 15, 2017, 02:06:18 PM »
    I registered on the virtual account, But there is not crypto trading pairs. Is Spectre not crypto based?

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    Re: [ANN][ICO] Spectre.ai - (SPEC) Speculative Tokenized Trading Exchange
    « Reply #6 on: September 17, 2017, 04:58:18 PM »
    To yield or not to yield: TOKENS
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    After the SEC’s announcement a few weeks ago which brought down the gauntlet on ICO token sales, other jurisdictions like Singapore tightened up their stance on what is considered a security and the inherent risks in issuing cryptocurrency tokens that carry dividends. I’m of the firm belief that a good portion of the market and regulators haven’t quite understood the significant risks non-yielding tokens pose, as opposed to those that program some kind of periodic profit share stream to reward token holders.
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    Sure, the cryptocurrency market is in a state of disarray after China’s announcement to crackdown on exchanges. Jame Dimon’s flippant comments about “bitcoin being a scam” (stemming most likely out of JP Morgan’s own prop trading operations having missed out BIG on the huge gains experienced in the sector) added further fuel to the fire. But one thing is for sure, cryptocurrency and all the relevant advancements in decentralized technologies that are happening, are here to stay. You can’t fight fate.
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    Read more: https://medium.com/teamspectreai/to-yield-or-not-to-yield-tokens-f6b2aa959464

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    Re: [ANN][ICO] Spectre.ai - (SPEC) Speculative Tokenized Trading Exchange
    « Reply #7 on: September 19, 2017, 02:43:33 AM »
    “SPECTRE Will Disrupt the Binary Options, CFDs and Forex Business”
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    Karan Khemani, CEO of SPECTRE, talks about how blockchain technology can restore trust in trading.
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    SPECTRE is the world’s first broker-less trading platform that removes the broker from the equation and returns the power back to retail traders across the globe.
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    Read more: https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/interview/spectre-will-disrupt-binary-options-cfds-forex-business/
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    Watch the video:
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    https://youtu.be/wXXpAuAYjPc

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    Re: [ANN][ICO] Spectre.ai - (SPEC) Speculative Tokenized Trading Exchange
    « Reply #8 on: September 20, 2017, 03:44:23 AM »
    Very interestingly project, if it can be implemented this can change Binary Option market.
    I'll watching.  ::)

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    Re: [ANN][ICO] Spectre.ai - (SPEC) Speculative Tokenized Trading Exchange
    « Reply #9 on: September 23, 2017, 07:55:06 PM »

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    To yield or not to yield: TOKENS
    https://medium.com/teamspectreai/to-yield-or-not-to-yield-tokens-f6b2aa959464
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    Spectre ICO - Orchestrating a fireworks display of Disruption!
    https://medium.com/teamspectreai/spectre-ico-374a2814a8c4
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    Digital Options can be an even bigger industry, but the brokers are the problem.
    https://medium.com/teamspectreai/digital-options-can-be-an-even-bigger-industry-but-the-brokers-are-the-problem-cc10a221dc05
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    Re: [ANN][ICO] Spectre.ai - (SPEC) Speculative Tokenized Trading Exchange
    « Reply #10 on: September 24, 2017, 09:42:28 PM »

    The world's first broker-less financial trading platform | SPECTRE ICO
    https://youtu.be/LyZVP-QzCUI?list=PL-jvMlrbCMnnLnGAEk-xTxlz3cTIox7Fw
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    SPECTRE's blockchain based, decentralised trading eradicates the broker completely removing broker fraud permanently!
    https://youtu.be/S4yNyphlTHQ
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    Spectre Coon Mong ICO review on YouTube South Korea
    https://youtu.be/NetUdAlDbAI
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    Re: [ANN][ICO] Spectre.ai - (SPEC) Speculative Tokenized Trading Exchange
    « Reply #11 on: September 26, 2017, 03:48:14 PM »
    Firstly we announced yesterday in Telegram that SPEC will be a dual token model.  One will be dividend based.  One will be a utility token.  The specifics will be available on the website in 3 or 4 days.

    I have some highlights we can share with you now about the specifics.  Here is what was announced in telegram.  These are quotes from Kay our CEO.

    Question: Kay thanks for the replies, I did not find any mention of two kind of tokens on your website, is it a latest change?

    "No problem Aamod, yes we have received a lot of feedback in the last week from both camps. Investors (big buyer groups) who want to invest in Spectre but fear changing regulations meaning that major exchanges like Kraken/poloniex wont be able to list our dividend token. So they want a utility token instead. We are creating it for them. For those investors who are more yield hungry, our dividend token will work out for them. This change has been approved by legal yesterday and we are updating all of our materials today/tomorrow."

    Question: Dividend means it's considered a security and will be under SEC rules for listing do you the necessary approvals?

    "Our Utility token and the company that issues that will fall subject to those rules and will be accepted by major U.S exchanges yes.

    The dividend token will not be listed there but offshore.
    (on smaller p2p exchanges and our onsite exchange)"

    Question: Will the cap you trying to raise remain the same?

    "yes we do not need more than $30m to disrupt. Smiley"

    Question: I guess spectre will be the first to launch two tokens in one ico?

    "Augur and Steem.it have done more than 1 token per ICO please check."

    These questions the community and quotes from our CEO Kay.  Again, the rest of the details will be on the website in 3 or 4 days.  Thank you all for your support and patience.




    Quote from: PitL0rd2002 on Today at 10:21:18 AM


    “We forecast combined dividends (eg. normal and special dividends) to token holders of $3.7m to be paid out in year 1 (or $0.11/token) translating to a projected token-yield of 37%.

    How you ll pay dividends for tokens holders? Once a year or a month? And where we must hold our tokens for receive dividends?”

    There are 2 types of dividends the SPEC token holder receives.  There will be some redundancy in my answer in an effort to make it as clear as possible.

    One type is a monthly dividend based off of trade volume.  This dividend is paid in ETH.  In order to receive that dividend you would need to have your SPEC tokens on a wallet that you control.  A personal MEW or any other ERC20 token wallet that you control.  If you don't have it on a wallet you control then you will not receive the dividend.  Say for an example you have your SPEC sitting on exchange, the exchange would receive the ETH dividend as they control wallet it is sitting on.

    The second type is a year dividend paid each January.  This dividend is based on the excess ETH created each year in the liquidity pool.  Each year a benchmark for growth of the liquidity pool will be set.  If that benchmark is surpassed the excess ETH's will be distributed to the token holders and the Spectre team.  This division will be 70% to the token holders and 30% to the team.  This dividend is paid in ETH also.  In order to receive that dividend you would need to have your SPEC tokens on a wallet that you control.  A personal MEW or any other ERC20 token wallet that you control.  If you don't have it on a wallet you control then you will not receive the dividend.  Say for an example you have your SPEC sitting on exchange, the exchange would receive the ETH dividend as they control wallet it is sitting on.

    "Note: the dividend-token is uniquely different from the utility-token". Just in case they are not aware that there will be two classes of tokens.

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    Re: [ANN][ICO] Spectre.ai - (SPEC) Speculative Tokenized Trading Exchange
    « Reply #12 on: September 28, 2017, 11:32:59 PM »
    Spectre.ai Announces 2 Token Classes!
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    https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/spectreai-announces-2-token-classes
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    Spectre.ai to issue two token types!
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    https://medium.com/teamspectreai/spectre-ai-to-issue-two-token-types-14feee40c2e4
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    Spectre AI - Whitepaper Overview with Passive Income Potential - https://youtu.be/lDg44JRGdO4
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    Spectre Revenue Model Analysis - Passive Income Per Year - https://youtu.be/q5yE975BKr0
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    More on Spectre's Passive income Potential - https://youtu.be/s1YTRVUqnjg
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    Spectre.ai ICO - Russian Language review - https://youtu.be/SHst60NAUK0

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    Re: [ANN][ICO] Spectre.ai - (SPEC) Speculative Tokenized Trading Exchange
    « Reply #13 on: October 02, 2017, 05:31:40 PM »
    Please join Spectre.ai in welcoming Sascha Berresch, CFA and Menelaos Scouloudis, MBA as board advisors.  Both are heavy-weights in their own rights.  Please take amoment to read up on what they are advising on and their backgrounds.


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    Re: [ANN][ICO] Spectre.ai - (SPEC) Speculative Tokenized Trading Exchange
    « Reply #14 on: October 02, 2017, 05:32:59 PM »
    How about secure?

     

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