Have you ever tried to organise a group betting on a sport event, the elections in your country or who among your friends can do something faster or better? It’s a pain in the ass. Using excel for calculation sucks and getting everyone to contribute in cash sucks even more. I thought there must be something better and created “the social bet” in 2014 with one of my co-founders.

I have also been interested in Blockchain from 2014 on and followed the rise of e-sports for quite some time. At some point it was clear for us that focusing on e-sports is the right way to continue. We created the platform www.herosphere.gg, where we have 250 000 registered users to date to bet on e-sport games & events.

The “house always wins” is one of the biggest problems in gambling so the logical step for us was to think of a real decentralized use case and build our system on the Blockchain. It was tough to convince investors to get involved in such new technology but we knew the community would reward a product that really puts them in the center and give power back to the participants.

We collaborated with companies, legal advisors and politicians and…

… fast forward to the 14th of September 2017:

The HERO was born with our ICO going live at 4pm CEST.

We started our heroes journey despite the tough market situation and managed to raise more than 4200ETH worth over $1,200,000 (at current market price) already. We are overwhelmed by everyones support and want to thank every single contributor so far. Over 1500 transactions show that there is a widespread interest rather than a few people investing big amounts. This means that we have a solid foundation for growing our platform Herosphere from already 250 000 users to millions. It will also be the first to implement the HERO token .

We are working hard to keep the steady growth we have seen within the past 10 days up and hope the community will spread the word too. We have seen great support so far, where they share their experience and telling everyone why they invested aswell as showing that they have a great sense for innovative products by investing in HERO already within the first days.

With such a strong community behind us, we strongly believe we can do this together and are confident that the entire HERO community will be rewarded with a successful end of our ICO.

Let’s do this.