hong coin: a real venture fund on blockchain #hong
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Hong Coin
First Venture Fund on Blockchain
http://hongcoin.org
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Questions from the failure of DAODAO, an experiment on Ethereum, failed not only the concept, but the practice.
“Algorithms are really dumb, and people are really smart. If a human designs an algorithm, then there’s going to be a human that’s really good at designing a way out of that algorithm to steal funds. That’s exactly what happened with [The DAO].” Charles Hoskinson, Co-founder, Ethereum
“Computing force alone can’t solve the world’s problems.” Shyam Sankar, Director, Palantir Technologies
Why DAO was so sweethearted, and then disgraced so quickly?
VisionA cryptocurrency can be part of our real life, by being coded into smart devices, and linked to business operations and even social good.
However, man and machine should well collaborate, to best perform the advantages of each, instead of surrendering to each other. Our society would not adopt cryptocurrency unless they feel it is secure and ease-of-use.
We believe the future cryptocurrency will be fueling the whole connected society and linking distributed elements together. Decentralized Organization (DO) will be also unavoidable.
The Need for An Investment Vehicle on Blockchain Cryptocurrency, so far, is still an outlier to social life, mostly running as a gambling tool for digital punks.
We see the future world empowered by cryptocurrency. A venture fund based on cryptocurrency to fuel products around the world can support and realize the crypto currency's real value as a borderless financial tool.
Blockchain as a Smart Ledger“No, Ethereum is not a world computer… ”, Isaac Mao
Copyright, RICHARD GENDAL BROWN
Early Thoughts
A Venture Fund Not Only Smart Professional Management to guardian in whole lifecycle of the fund
Open screening and voting to select best projects to invest
Continuous close mentoring and management over portfolios
Lean startup methodologies to grow each project and risks control
Various exit strategies to assure the maximized return to investors
Secure Transparent
Democracy Agile
Man-Machine Teaming Model
Distribute & borderless shareholders
Collect intelligence from crowdwithout closed chamber
24*7 Monitoring and executingkey business decisions
Regulate fund security
Communicating
Decision Making
Supervising
Fine Tuning
Propelling
Hong Coin: DO + Human Agility“Human does human works, machine does machine works!”
Fund on blockchain
Global coverage from day one
Decision made by crowd
Monitored by community
Managed by professionals
Lean methodology to projects
The Symbol Ħ
August 13th, 2016
Initial Coin OfferingEth/ 100 Ħ
0.9
1.2
0.8
100M 200M 300M400M 500M
1.11.0
Blockchain
Contract Takes Effect after ICO
Kickoff(fiscal_year)
Harvest
Refund
Freeze
Vote
Community
Vote
MB
Fund on Blockchain
Sequences in MMT
Token Creation
Initialize Management Team
Design and development Contract Deployment
GovernanceInvest and daily management
Ideas and white paper
Screening and voting
Harvesting Return distribution
New season
Coin contract wallet
Coin Creation contract
HTH
HTH
HTH
issueTokens()
abort()
bounty()
Uint MB_reserved;
Token Creationcreator
Governance Model
Coin contractwallet
Management fee
Investment wallet
Return pool
Projects
HTH
HTH
HTHDistribute
Exit
invest
Governance Contract
Kickoff(fiscalyear)
Harvest()
vote
Invest(barrels)
Layer one: Token CreationSet with token_symbol (Ħ) and token_name (Hongcoin, or short as
HON)
Totally 2 Million of total tokens will be created and reserved as bounty
Two mode of token issuing in general:Time-shutter (with a closing date)
Quantity-shutter (with a target quantity)
Anytime before total_token reached the target_supply investors can do refund
Layer 2: DO governance (Fund Management)Once fund ICO finished, community will vote Kickoff(0) called by
management body(MB) once it reaches ICO target
First time kickoff(0)
Wallet_Return will be created the same time
Wallet_Investment will be created
Every kickoff() in new fiscal year, management fee account(Wallet_mgt) will receive 2% of total_fund(in Ether), until fund was freezed, or last_fiscal_year.
Layer 2: DO governance (Investment)Other projects-related voting can be happened in online community,
instead of on pricy blockchain, Each HTH will have the voting weight equals to their tokens amount
Once community vote “yes” to a project, MB will conduct series of due-diligence works and invest()
Every invested project will receive (1, n) of barrels of fund
One barrel equals to 1,000 Eth
There will be hectic ground legal documents proceeded by MB with invested project
Every project exit will go to Wallet_ReturnProject return will be converted back to Eth by management body in different ways
Layer 2: DO governance (Harvest)Harvest() should be voted to triggerer as well then write to contract.
It should be only effective after the 3rd fiscal year. Once it’s approved, the fund investment will be freezed.
The total_return of fund will be distributed to HTH based on their token amount(including management_token)
In case total_return < 125% of total_fund(in comparable price, e.g. to USD???), management_token holders will not be distributed as part of accountability
Secured by the blockchain-based contract, human will start to play more active role in daily operation...
Management BodyLinked to a ground business in Hong Kong
Communication with project teams/community
Investment opportunity sourcing
Portfolio management
Real world currency exchange for fund injection
Legal contracts and paper works based on jurisdiction
MVP methodology to propel project to deliver
Life Cycle (3+1)
Year 1Smaller, wide-spanned & diversified
Year 2Incremental & focuses
Year 3Mid-, late stage
Year 4Exit and trade(no investment)
Kickoff (fiscal_year) by CommunityThe first kickoff will call community to vote to commence the fund’s investment process. With every kickoff, the fund will allocate 2% management fee to the management body to operate in the coming new fiscal year.
The fourth kickoff will vote for the fund to cease investment and start harvesting process.
FY1 FY2 FY3 FY4
Investment Areas (Suggested by MB)
Future Tech: Which means disruptive, innovative, sometimes even hypes
Creative Works: We will support artists and creators, to make brilliant works.
Educations: We believe education tools and service can be both profitable and enjoyable like Minecraft
Future Tech Creative Works Educations
Investment PrinciplesLean team, and diversified background
Open and open source
Resource sharing and synergy between portfolios
Community Tools
Fully online presentation
Screening
Debating
Voting
Due Diligence Executed by MB
Result reported to community
Community review and voting
InvestMinimum measurement unit: Barrel
Set milestones and targets for each milestone
Progressive investment injection based on milestone achievement
1 Barrel = 1000 Eth (2016)
Project #101: Create a new solar panel for Ethiopia
Description:
Hongcoin investment: 3 BarrelsLifecycle : 18 months
Portfolio ManagementMilestone tracking
Ground mentoring
Reporting to community
MVP Method Focus on delivering product with enough features to gather validated learning about the product and its continued development.
Fund HarvestingOK, time to reward all investors (HTH)
Also reward the management team for their hard working and strived to make the fund value-added.
Initial Fund
Return FundMMT(4yrs)
Legal considerationsFund and community is borderless, yet considerable amount of local effort is expected
Local regulations under different jurisdictions
Legal binded relationship between the fund and project team
Venture Capital 3.0Venture Capital 1.0 (KPMG)
Big LPs
Fixed fund size/investment stage, region, and close chamber
Venture Capital 2.0 (500 Startups, YCombinator, HAX)
Middle-sized LPs
Multiple, high speed projects
Incubation + Acceleration + Resource sharing
Cross several regions based on value chain
Venture Capital 3.0
Capital on blockchain, fully transparent to crowd investors
Cross-region, global projects
Invest in super creative ideas
Resource flow between teams
Let’s code and Run with Humanity
http://hongcoin.org http://github.com/hongcoin/DO
DAO v.s HONG
DAO Fund
Hong Coin Ħ