April proved to be an eventful month for the HOQU team. During the month of April, our co-founders attended a conference organized in partnership with the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation. Our CVO, Roman Kaufman, presented our company at the Fintech forum in Italy, and we also concluded new partnerships, burned some tokens and updated the project’s roadmap! The April Digest from HOQU will tell you everything about these events and much more!

The month of April had begun with an important event as HOQU achieved listing on the eminent HitBTC exchange. Now, holders of HQX Tokens can enjoy trading and realize their full investment potential.

The adventure of the HOQU project was only the beginning as events were scheduled throughout the month.

A few days after the listing on HitBTC, the HOQU project, represented by Co-Founder Alexander Duzhnikov and CVO Roman Kaufman, attended a special conference at the Blockchain Residence organized by IDABC in collaboration with the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation.

As part of the high-profile event, the HOQU team was invited to attend a business lunch with German Klimenko, the founder of LiveInternet. The event was also attended by journalists, representatives of state authorities and various startups and projects from the blockchain industry.

The representatives of HOQU gave an in-depth presentation on the fundamentals of conducting token sales, shared their own extensive experience on the matter and gave a valuable insight on the techniques applied by the project in the course of its own token sale. The presentation aroused great interest among the audience and extended well beyond the allocated hour into more than two hours due to the multiple questions asked.

Ministry of Communications

Upon the end of the conference, the HOQU team was invited to become lead speakers at the World Blockchain Summit event, one of the most notable crypto related gatherings.

The HOQU team is well-versed in giving presentations and attending various events as, for example, on April 12, in the city of Milano, HOQU CVO Roman Kaufman, presented the HOQU project at the ITALIAN Fintech Forum.

Roman was very impressed with the level of the organization of the event. The hosts paid attention to every detail up to the badges made from high-quality plastic. Majority of the audience was made up of individuals ranging from 25 to 60 years old and consisted mostly of business representatives and several Italian parliamentarians.

Roman was also pleasantly surprised by the adherents of Bitcoin Cash, who noted that Ripple is a decentralized register, and that blockchain is a freedom incarnate. There was obviously in-depth understanding of the industry among the participants of the event.

The attended projects were both very different and reputable, and the entire conference was devoted to sharing blockchain knowledge and discussing technology in general. As Roman put it: “It was really cool!”

In general, Roman noted that even with such a volatile market, a number of European countries are increasingly focusing on blockchain technology and its spread.

The HOQU team’s adventures in April continued as one of the most significant events of the month took place when HOQU signed a new partnership with LevelNet!

Within the framework of the agreement, HOQU marked a strategic partnership with LevelNet. The goal of the partnership was to ensure the security of the infrastructure and users of the HOQU decentralized marketing platform.

Alexey Shmonov, HOQU CEO and Co-Founder made a statement by noting: “We are the first decentralized marketing platform in the world that allows advertisers and partners to interact without resorting to intermediaries, which guarantees transparency of the operations of the CPA marketing scheme through the smart contracts. We thank our users for their trust and are announcing a strategic partnership with LevelNet. We clearly understand the importance of information security of the company and our users, and that is why we signed a partnership with the innovative platform for cyber security, LevelNet.

HOQU would also like to turn its users’ attention to the new security approach offered by LevelNet. Currently, LevelNet team is conducting its ICO and I invite you to support our partners and take part in their ICO! “

Pavel Shkliaev, CEO and founder of LevelNet: “Our company provides users with a simple and affordable innovative platform LevelNet by using completely new and effective methods of integrated protection of information networks. We have developed a framework for an integrated cyber security network that allows users to exchange information on cyber attacks (viruses and other network threats) in real time to prevent further incidents”.

“We are happy to be partners with HOQU and stand up for the users of the decentralized partnership platform.” — says Pavel. “We believe that an innovative approach to partnership agreements will have a positive impact on the HOQU project’s prospects. Large players will come for marketing services and will need protection. Our LevelNet anti-virus solution will provide HOQU customers with reliable protection. Also, LevelNet will be happy to use HOQU platform in order to find partners for various marketing campaigns. We consider the product to be innovative, affordable, easy to use and cost-effective. We are happy to invite the HOQU community to join our LevelNet ICO!”

HOQU is a large decentralized partnership platform. Among the partners of the company are such large platforms as Ethereum, BlockLancer, LDJCapital, DAIBC, PlayHall and Disciplina.

In addition to establishing serious partnerships, in the middle of April our team released a video in which we went over the most frequently asked questions.

Some of the questions were: When will HOQU be listed on the top exchanges; How is the development of the HOQU platform progressing?

Currently, we are conducting negotiations with a large number of Exchanges and we had several agreements with some of them. We are doing our best to bring the listing date closer but cannot forecast the exact dates. We are ready to perform all of the exchanges’ requests and pay all the prescribed fees.

If any members of the community have any questions or need clarifications, don’t hesitate to contact our founders in Telegram or LinkedIn as they are always present on all communication channels.

The team is operating in a well-coordinated manner and is doing its very best to keep platform development on track. We have achieved some serious advancements when it comes to the structure of the platform itself and you can find the main achievements in the video attached below:

https://youtu.be/lDm1t874YP8

The HOQU project also achieved another significant milestone last month as more than 500mln HOQU tokens (including unsold tokens and all refunded tokens) were destroyed by sending them to a contract with a zero address, that is, to an address without a contract number.

588,033,620 HQX were burned last month

The Total Supply of Tokens now is 300,854,380 HQX.

(https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/hoqu/)

HOQU Burner transaction

https://etherscan.io/token/0x1b957dc4aefeed3b4a2351a6a6d5cbfbba0cecfa?a=0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

HOQU Burner smart-contract

https://github.com/hoqu-io/platform/blob/master/contracts/HoQuBurner.sol

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We would also like to congratulate our dear community members with the fact that HOQU reached an important milestone during the month of April. Now, buying HQX Tokens is even more profitable as total number on the market has significantly decreased which resulted in an incremental increase in Tokens value.

The end of the month was also filled with events as HOQU updated the project’s development roadmap. After six months of work, the project’s developers and programmers have achieved a deeper understanding of what has already been implemented, where the project currently is, and what awaits it in the future.

The new roadmap has become a two-tier path as most of the work takes place in parallel. Moreover, each stage is divided into two other stages.

Alpha — when the product can already be used by participants with a minimal set of functionalities. At this stage, most services are not yet ready for public use;

Beta — when the product acquires the outlines of a ready-made solution but may contain errors and defects. At this stage, services can be accessed by focus groups for testing, or public functionality will be limited to the tested content;

Release version — the product is ready for release and operation. The product will be publicly available but it is possible to correct errors found during its use.

At the moment, several teams are busy with the parallel development of the webmaster and advertiser interfaces, tracking services, and widgets for generating leads. Also, the development of the platform’s smart contract and API for access to the blockchain network continues unabated.

We are continuing to implement the advertiser’s personal account and in the near future our team will be engaged in the development of plans related to close integration of the advertiser and webmaster applications.

All functional development takes place in a close coordination with other stages as HOQU develops not just a set of applications and components, but an integrated platform capable of fulfilling the most serious tasks that all of the industry’s participants are currently faced with.

In parallel with the development of applications and interfaces for webmasters and advertisers, our team of DevOps engineers is preparing an infrastructure base on the cloud structure which will serve as an operational platform in the future. As a toolkit, we have chosen the Docker containerization and cluster building based on Kubernetes. Our engineers are sure that this system, which has proven itself as a reliable and a flexible solution, will serve as a good basis for the HOQU ecosystem.

We hope that the updated roadmap will help our community and stakeholders better navigate through the development stages of our platform and will prepare them for the important stages of its release.

On a concluding note, we would like to announce that the HOQU project is fulfilling its refunding obligations as more than 150,000 accounts have already been approved at the moment.

In order to accelerate the refunding procedure, the HOQU team has sent out emails about the passing of the KYC procedure to all our participants. We plan to finish this process by the end of May and burn the rest of the unsold tokens.

The Month of April proved to be very eventful for the HOQU team and the project is well on track with its established roadmap. Stay tuned for more news and updates from HOQU as we continue to attend various events around the world and increase value for all of our stakeholders.