Soar (SKYM) TEAM AMA with Vladyslav Perevozchykov (CEO CryptoDiffer)

Soar aims to create a decentralized SUPER MAP of the world that sits on the blockchain. The project does not focus on the drone content alone, it also uses satellite and aerial imaging. Soar is backed by a big team that comes from multidisciplinary backgrounds. The advisory board is also diverse: former US Army - Signals Processing Expert, people with the vast experience in the blockchain space.

Amir Farhand - CEO at Soar has 20 years of Satellite, Remote sensing and Earth science experience.

Darren Smith - Geospatial Specialist at Soar has experience in mapping applications and applications as a whole.

Christopher Lowe - Lead Blockchain Scientist at Soar has been a lead developer in geo space mapping software for five years now and have been working with Amir (CEO) for 5 years as well.

Team is not considering specialized drone B2B companies focused on specific industries as their competitors. Amir Farhand explains Soar role in the following way: “Imaging Soar being Microsoft Windows and other content providers will be available to use that platform for their own purposes. 80 % of all the data brought by aerial imaging, satellites, drones are used only once, that is because it used specifically for one area in the world. What we are allowing for these organizations is to get access to all this content in one platform.”

Currently, there are 10-11 millions of drones on the Earth and this number is expected to double by 2020. As it has been mentioned earlier, 80 % of all the data brought by aerial imaging, satellites, drones are used only once and there are already a lot of people who have become popular by making drone pictures and posting it in various resources such as Shutterstock, Instagram etc. These people in case if they want to sell their content can lose up to 70-80% in commision. So, the prominent marketing strategy for Soar team is to reach out to people who already have had popular accounts and explain to them that their images can become part of global Super Map and get monetized with only 7% platform commision and that is only if they want to sell it.

Soar aims to get 5000 images on the test network before ICO. In the next year they plan to grow to 100000 images and in the second year, they potentially want to reach 300000 photos.

Drone operators produce tons of data. In order to store that data team has developed on chain and off chain solution, the actual data is stored off-chain on the cloud service providers like Alibaba, while metadata about the image is stored on-chain. Partnership with Alibaba is very useful because it gives access to the incredible technologies. Alibaba storage can be accessed in every country in the world unlike Microsoft, Google and so on, although Soar does not limit users to Alibaba.

Companies and drone operators will be able to communicate via SkyTask System which is a smart contract build to acquire a specific type of imaginary.

SKYM tokens play 2 crucial roles in Soar ecosystem:

1. They are a store of value.

2. Location Based staking system. The staking model allows you to place your tokens into part of the world and in return for staking tokens you will receive a dividend (share) of the sales in this area.

Soar is being developed on Ethereum because it is the most stable and mature platform.

The team has already developed testnet and mainnet will be ready in 5-6 months. Testnet supports first of three formats: images. The team is currently working on second and third formats: aeromapping and video accordingly.

Testnet is up and running. You can visit it to discover amazing images.

Soar has partnered with the major global provider of satellite imaginary and next week every person can download satellite imaginary from Soar demo website for free.

Soar plans to hold crowdsale at the end of September.

Soar team has received funding and investment from Node Capital, JRRCrypto, H.Capital, Lateral and has strategic aligns with Krypital Group.

The team is delivering ahead of schedule and new major partnership announcement is coming soon. During the public sale, the team is planning to give drones to investors.