Among the names listed in WHIRL’s leadership team is Anti Danilevski, the founder of KICKICO, a pioneering blockchain token sale platform. Anti’s involvement with WHIRL, as well as the fact that both WHIRL and KICKICO involve crowdfunding, might lead to some confusion as to the relationship between the two companies. Here, we’ll clear up that confusion, and explain how KICKICO and WHIRL are destined to work together and elevate one another.

KICKICO and WHIRL are sister platforms. As you might know, KICKICO is a token sale crowdfunding platform, while WHIRL is a consumer crowdfunding platform. Their tech shares fundamental similarities, but both companies operate independently, with wholly separate development teams. As such, the launch of WHIRL won’t take away resources from KICKICO and, likewise, the KICKICO team won’t interfere with WHIRL’s progress.

The WHIRL and KICKICO teams do engage in knowledge and best-practice sharing…as they should! Blockchain development is hard: not many people have done it successfully at scale before and new security pitfalls are discovered every day. Having two talented teams working in adjacent spheres that can share notes with each other presents a major competitive advantage that we’re proud to reap.

Besides technical knowledge sharing, WHIRL and KICKICO enjoy other synergies. WHIRL’s token sale is hosted simultaneously on KICKICO and, upon WHIRL’s launch, you’ll be able to use the KICK token to back campaigns (and you’ll earn a karma boost for doing so). Every contribution made on the WHIRL platform includes a platform commission fee, but if you back a campaign with KICK, we won’t retain those commissioned tokens, we’ll burn them, which directly benefits all KICKICO members.

As we work to launch WHIRL, KICKICO has been undergoing a major behind-the-scenes code rewrite to herald its 4th version. Once this rewrite is completed, the new KICKICO will introduce major enhancements and features. The flagship feature is that KICKICO’s architecture will enable the rapid development and deployment of new products atop it. WHIRL will eventually migrate to KICKICO’s architecture, which will dramatically improving its backbone, featureset, and development efficiency. Having both KICKICO and WHIRL on the same architecture will also enable exciting new opportunities between the two sister companies.

That’s only the beginning. We see WHIRL and KICKICO as being part of a larger ecosystem that will involve other products that will work seamlessly together and raise the bar for every participant in the network. We call this ambitious network the “KICKONOMY” and WHIRL will be the first product to extend it.

We hope that you agree that WHIRL’s partnership with KICK provides immediate advantages and incredible long-term upside. We’re not just building a single product, we’re building a global ecosystem.

Welcome to the KICKONOMY.