I’ve checked out hundreds and hundreds of ICO websites since I started getting into cryptocurrencies this summer. And I’ve read well over 100 hundred whitepapers outlining many projects where the founders talked about the pipe dream project they were going to create once their ICO ends. And while I’ve invested in several visionary projects which are looking to disrupt entire worldwide systems— Horizon State for voting and Bloom for credit— I’ve passed on most of them.

Then two months ago I came across CanYa. I checked out the website and read over the whitepaper. Short summary: just like Fiverr, TaskRabbit, or eLance, and other task-based applications/platforms, the CanYa platform enables a peer to peer online marketplace of services, but then they add the extra layers of security and trust that come from a blockchain-based token (CAN). Plus, they already have a functioning mobile app.

Ever since I found CanYa, I’ve been waiting to find something that I didn’t like about them. But every time I think I’m close, they post an update, change something about the project for the better, or announce a new partnership. Finally, this week, there were so many good things happening with CanYa… I just couldn’t wait any longer, and decided to write a blog to promote CanYa because, amazingly, everyone on the planet hasn’t heard about it — yet!

And in the interests of full transparency — something that CanYa has been very good at, by the way — I should mention that CanYa has an active ICO running & we both get a 5% token bonus if you invest in that ICO using my CanYa referral link: https://sale.canya.io/r/329c4. That said, you can and should read the whitepaper and their blog and do your own research before making any investments decisions. This blog is NOT investment advice, rather, it’s an opportunity for me to share with you what has sold me on CanYa as an organization.

Here’s how sold I was — how sold I AM — on CanYa: When I first heard about CanYa, I put the ICO sale opening date on calendar, as I wanted to invest on the first day and get the maximum number of bonus tokens, and set my alarm clock for 4 am, only to wake up and find out that the sale date had changed. I was crushed, and assumed that a big investor had swooped in or that several whales had negotiated massive 100% bonuses and all of the bonuses smaller investors would be gone.

Boy, was I wrong! Instead, they set up a single bonus structure they called the Dolphin Tier, rewarding participation in the ever-growing CanYa community. But even better than the Dolphin Tier announcement was the Bounty Campaign announcement that came along with it. It’s one of the more generous bounty campaigns that I have seen. Again, full disclosure: the blog you are reading right now is part of the CanYa bounty campaign, but I am not ashamed at all to share with you what I am getting for writing it:

Canya bounty campaign for bloggers

As you can see, the blog rewards system is based on quality not quantity — this is not a Charles Dickens novel where authors are paid by the word! [CanYa: I hope you consider this an Excellent blog.]

Also, contrary to every other ICO bounty campaign I’ve seen this year, even the social media bounty campaign is based on quality. You get ONE tweet on Twitter and ONE Facebook post per week to make an impact:

CanYa bounty campaign for social media (Twitter has a similar bounty)

You are reading that correctly — 100 likes for one Facebook or Instagram post, not posts. They aren’t counting how many times you repost their content or how many times you favorite their posts— it’s about how much engagement and impact you get from your social media activity. (For example, if you click on the image below and favorite my tweet, you’ll help me earn a bigger reward this week!)

They are rewarding people for actually doing things that normal people do — sharing information with their social network, rather than paying people to continually click the like button, then copy & paste endless links into a Bitcointalk post for a reward. Would you reward people for using their social media to spam their friends and followers? Well, that’s how every other ICO does it, but CanYa is different than every other ICO.

In fact, that difference is what really motivated me to write the blog. The straw that broke the camel’s back was CanYa’s latest announcement — they changed the asset contract to give 10% of their platform fees to charity. Of all the ICOs I’ve looked at, I’ve never seen this.

So, are you starting to notice a pattern… they are doing things that ICOs just don’t do. But, CanYa has done it. Yet I feel like I’m not done. I’d need another blog just to tell more about all of the other great partnerships they’ve been building (just today, they announced a partnership with Gladius, another ICO offering DDoS protection). And there is the revolutionary HODL club, rewarding long term investors and protecting against bounty hunter token dump to ensure the success of the token on their platform, their team responsiveness to feedback from the community at large as well as within the CanYa Telegram channel, or even what I discovered just recently — the founders have committed to take 100% of their next year’s salaries in CAN tokens.

So I will close by saying the CanYa Coin ICO is live— they may still have a 20% bonus for early investors, and regardless, if you use my link we’ll both get a 5% bonus: https://sale.canya.io/r/329c4.

But, what I’m NOT going to do is make you any wild promises about the CAN token going to the moon or even speculate as to whether the CAN token will sell out by the end of the ICO, because I simply don’t know the future, but one thing I can say unequivocally… this is way I’d want to run an ICO, this is the type of decentralized community that I’d want to be building, and this is the team that I’d want to build it with. So in closing, I’ve got a new slogan for the CanYa team: