With a rising number of ICO scams, the Sapien team believes transparency is key to building trust in our community. Until our Token presale begins, we will be posting weekly updates to post any announcements, share our achievements, and revisit our goals.

🔥 Announcements

Sapien has been listed on ICO Alert for our upcoming token sale in January.

Our Founders wrote a piece about how Sapien came to fruition. You can read that here, if you have not already.

Our team member, Chris, put together a thorough piece discussing “Why will decentralized social networks thrive in the future?” If you haven’t read that, you can read that here.

We have over 250+ members in our Telegram community and we are growing rapidly!

in our Telegram community and we are growing rapidly! Bounty Program Phase #1 is now live. You can earn stakes that translate to SPN tokens for inviting your friends to the Telegram group. You can find more details here: Community Rewards Program.

You can earn stakes that translate to SPN tokens for inviting your friends to the Telegram group. You can find more details here: Community Rewards Program. Putting the finishing touches on our white paper. We should have it out for your reading pleasure next Monday.

🚀 Development Updates

Dynamic ceiling — To ensure that tokens are distributed to as many participants as possible, our token sale phase #1 will have different capped stages. As the stages progress, the contribution cap will decreases, allowing more contributors to participate in the token sale. This will encourage a Democratic distribution of SPN tokens.

— To ensure that tokens are distributed to as many participants as possible, our token sale phase #1 will have different capped stages. As the stages progress, the contribution cap will decreases, allowing more contributors to participate in the token sale. This will encourage a Democratic distribution of SPN tokens. Delayed Withdrawal — In order to establish trust, the Sapien team will only be able to withdraw the funds in a wallet AFTER the end of the crowdsale. We are fully committed to our mission and want to be transparent from the start.

— In order to establish trust, the Sapien team will only be able to withdraw the funds in a wallet AFTER the end of the crowdsale. We are fully committed to our mission and want to be transparent from the start. Escape Hatch — We now have a backup strategy in place to block attackers from exploiting the crowdsale contract. The Sapien team can call a function (escapeHatch) which will block the majority of the smart contract’s functions.

⚖️ Legal

Lawyers are in the process of reviewing our white paper and drafting the terms & conditions for a SEC-compliant token sale.

💯 Team

We would like to welcome Tomoko Kikuchi to our team! Tomoko will be our Community Manager for Japan and Korea.

Biography

Graduated from Kyoto University with a major in Medical Technology.

Exchange student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011.

Specialized in sales and marketing, market research and data analysis.

Previously worked as Analyst at IMS Health which is one of the largest market data providers in healthcare industry, and Biogen, an American bio-pharmaceutical company.

Currently living in Seoul, Korea and working as Business Development Specialist.

Native speaker in Japanese and good at Korean and English.

Tomoko has set up a few communities specifically for Japan and Korea.

LINE Chat for Japan:

QR Code for Line

Sapien Network Japan: Medium

Kakao Chat for Korea: Kakao