Welcome to the second edition of the Expanse Newsletter for 2018. This publication is a bi-monthly newsletter issued on the 1st and 15th of each month to share happenings within our community. Keep in mind that breaking news can come at any time, but the Expanse Newsletter is a great overview of progress, news, and our current focus.





DROPD INITIAL COIN OFFERING ON TOKENLAB

As we previewed in the last newsletter, our first Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is about to launch on the Tokenlab™ platform and the Expanse.Tech blockchain. The Dropd (DPD) countdown site is up. You can view it at https://dropd.tokenlab.io.

Here is the ICO roadmap and for the project:

- February 1 ICO Countdown begins

- February 14 Exclusive sale begins ($.07)

- February 28 Presale begins ($.20)

- March 12 ICO (Final sale) begins ($.50)

Important Note: This ICO is not open to U.S. Citizens. Government ID validation is required when participating.

About Dropd

With its antiquated business model and closed system, the music industry is poised for a blockchain disruption. Enter Dropd, where artists will be able to create, promote, distribute and monetize their music without the need for an agent or a record label. Dropd users will be able to crowd promote and re-drop songs to their followers both inside and outside of the application. Dropd will enable both artists and listeners to directly connect, interact, discover and participate in a visionary music platform.

Dropd 1.1 is a free streaming music application, currently available worldwide in the Apple iTunes store. Version 2.0 will drop new artists LIVE on the air and allow users to re-drop songs to their followers both inside and outside of the application. Users will also have the ability to rise in “status” within the application and earn status badges as their follower base grows.

As you can see, Dropd is a working, viable product with a great track record—not just an idea or dream. Take the time to read the whitepaper from the website link. We think you will be as excited as we are about the opportunity to participate. The music industry is about to change forever. Expanse and Tokenlab are thrilled to be a part of it. Join the discussion in the Dropd Discord channel, https://discord.me/dropd





EXP.LIFE LOGO REVEAL

EXP.Life, long a dream of Expanse Co-founder Christopher Franko, is about to become a reality. Spearheaded by Omar Alvarez, the project is well underway. One of the first steps was to bring the initiative to life through a brand that reflects the innovation and aspirations behind the concept. The logo is revealed above. It is not just a logo, but a design that is a reflection of the ideals it is created to represent. Here are its origins:

In Maori art, the koru represents peace, personal growth and positive change. Inspired by the shape of an unfolding fern frond, its circular design tells the story of new beginnings and renewal. The varying shades of the color purple, with its mystic qualities, communicates a sense of calm and spiritual balance.

Koru is the Maori word for loop. As if in perpetual motion, the design’s inner coil symbolizes the start of a new life while the outer coil implies continuous and infinite rejuvenation.

This is EXP.Life, where even the end is just the beginning.









EXPANSE.TECH 2.0 WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT UNDERWAY

Many of you have noticed that there is a temporary landing page on www.expanse.tech, our company website. That is because, with feedback and suggestions from many in our community, a new site is in development. See the sneak peek of our landing page in the graphic above. We call it Expanse.Tech™ 2.0.

Among the many rich and innovative features are the ability to view content according to the user profile (miner vs. developer, etc.), curated news content, a knowledge base, and real-time exchange and Discord chat viewing.

We could not be more excited about bringing this new site to our community. Watch for an announcement about the launch soon!





EXPANSE: BEHIND THE TECH — OMAR ALVAREZ

Expanse — Behind the Tech is a new blog series that provides a glimpse into the people behind the scenes who make everything happen at Expanse.Tech™. Think of it as a window into the lives and driving forces of the people that forge our path and work hard every day for the community and to achieve the Expanse goals. Without our team members, vendors, influencers and contributors, we would not be on the solid footing we have achieved to date. I’m proud that our first profile focuses on Omar Alvarez, Expanse team member and Gameboard CEO. As is characteristic of the exuberance and motivation he brings to all of his projects, he has penned his own profile. I hope you enjoy the series.

— Christoper J. Franko, Expanse Co-founder

My Journey with Expanse

By Omar Alvarez

Everything starts with a wish…

I remember that I was sitting in the concourse of the Guatemalan National airport with some friends. We were heading to the Collision Conference in New Orleans, LA. We were reading about the attendees, informational sessions and new technology awaiting us at the conference. The year 2016 was amazing for the Dev Shop, my company, and 2017 was the moment to launch my gamification platform. Sitting there with business cards, web page and a t-shirt we created, I felt proud. I didn´t know what was coming was so big.

So, the Collision conference went fine, and I met a lot people, I got some new clients for the Dev Shop back here in Guatemala, and I attended a lot of fun meetings and parties. The NOLA food and beer were amazing. I was so excited to be there, waiting for an opportunity to introduce GameBoard, The Gamification Playground, to someone that would take the platform to the next level.

After meeting with some local clients, I knew something awesome would happen — and it did happen in a way I really did not expect. Let me tell you about it.

The AHA! Moment

So it was the last day of the conference, and I didn’t get a chance to present Gameboard to anybody. S I put my Gameboard T-shirt on, got my business cards ready, and had faith. I wanted to have breakfast in a small restaurant, run by some cool girls near the Convention Center. It was about 5km from the hotel where I was staying, and it was an amazing morning to walk. I started walking and thinking about how I was going to present the platform to somebody. (Have you ever had that feeling when you want to make other people believe in the things you do, like you do?)

After my 5 km walk, I arrived at the coffee shop, but it was full. I had no problem waiting, so I stood in line. After all, I was just looking for some feedback and validation, despite being successful in the local market. I needed to know if we were ready for the world.

Standing in line, I was approached by a tall, thin guy who introduced himself as Timothy Suggs. He said, “Do we have to sign in to have breakfast?” I said no, and after about 10 minutes waiting, he started talking to me about the blockchain with a passion that you don’t see in many people. He told me what he did for a living, and began to talk about this amazing technology that would change the world. “This is the future and you are in the beginning of a new revolution,” he said. He mentioned that he is part of a community supporting a company named Expanse, which he described as pioneers in blockchain technology who are setting out to change the world. He was so passionate about the tech that listening to him was mind-blowing.

The Hamster in my head, stumble and fall

So 10 minutes before we finished breakfast he asked me what I do for a living. In my mind, the hamster running on the wheel stopped, stumbled and said, “Hey this is it, say it, go!!” and started running like hell. I said, “I created a gamification platform to add the mechanics to any platform. If you have an API to connect your system, I will give you dashboards, leaderboards, points, levels badges… it is a Gamification playground.” Then he asked me to stop talking and to explain it to the Expanse CEO. The hamster stopped again. “The CEO? Oh man.” He told me he would look for me at the conference so we could talk to him. He stood up and left — my mistake I didn´t give him my business card and didn´t get his number.

After the whole day in the conference talking to people about GameBoard and collecting contacts, suddenly Timothy messaged me in the Collision App and said, “Where are you? Come to the food area to meet my CEO.” The hamster collapsed and said, “The CEO?”(You imagine this 60-year-old guy with white hair with a young beautiful model by his side, 6’8”, 240 pounds, so direct and business oriented that you have 30 seconds to tell him what you do.

I was walking cool to the meeting with my heart pumping like hell and there is Timothy with a guy that looks like a “normal developer person” and a beautiful lady. Tim said, “This is Christopher Franko our CEO.” When I met Chris, he made me feel so confident — he was just a regular guy, a person, someone who had a dream and he was living it. He asked me about my life and my story, and then he started talking about his rap music, cryptos, kids, and Expanse.

The hamster sits down to open a beer and said, “This is dope!! Enjoy!”

(Oh!! I forgot, the beautiful lady was Chris’ wife, Heather — awesome person.)

This is the real AHA! Moment

After we explained our platforms and ideas, Chris said I have this project that I always wanted to do. It is about life and I am looking to gamify the experience. After he said that, we talked for an hour about it, creating this amazing platform in our minds. He said, “We will talk next week and do the necessary partnership paper work. This is awesome.”

We both shook hands and said goodbye, somehow, I felt like I knew this guy, maybe from another life. “The big CEO” became an accessible person with values and a dream.

After a few months designing and creating the EXP.Life project, we wrote the white paper and create the logo (coming soon) I started working with Expanse. I am sure this is the greatest opportunity that life gave me, I am in charge now of the project, creating new and amazing things for the platform, part of the Advisory board, and the Ambassador in Guatemala for Expanse. I already held the first meeting with the Blockchain Guatemala group that I created, and I am learning a lot.

For an entrepreneur in Guatemala, with a lot of dreams and the desire to change my country and the world, Expanse has become an excellent opportunity to dream, to work, to accomplish, to create the world that I want to live in.

I will try so hard that one day I will accomplish.

So, thanks Chris, Tim and the whole team, I feel very welcome.

Omar Alvarez — Husband, Dad, Guatemalan, Improv fan, entrepreneur, gamification lover and proudly Expanse Team member.

Original Article:

https://medium.com/@Borderless/expanse-behind-the-tech-omar-alvarez-6c9947f31ed





RECENT ARTICLES AND VIDEOS ABOUT EXPANSE

Top 10 Altcoins for February (Expanse Mentioned)



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Life is About Experience

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Posted Jan 24, 2018

Legal Services on a Blockchain — An Excellent Way to Save Scarce Resources

https://medium.com/@Borderless/legal-services-on-a-blockchain-an-excellent-way-to-save-scarce-resources-aefe4dfa90e

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Quiknode Tweets about Node Addition



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Posted Jan 20, 2018

Expanse Partners With CryptoBridge To Provide Expanse Markets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=4Jo84AdRU24

Posted Jan 19, 2018

Bunny Ranch Brothel Plans To Accept Bitcoin (Brenna Sparks in Article with Expanse T-Shirt)

http://www.ibtimes.com/bunny-ranch-brothel-plans-accept-bitcoin-2642057

Posted Jan 17, 2018

Thank You For Playing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=31&v=1R03xxKyEY8

Posted Jan 17, 2018

How a Borderless Society can End Humanity’s Struggle for Food and Shelter

https://medium.com/@Borderless/how-a-borderless-society-can-end-humanitys-struggle-for-food-and-shelter-bae35812baf1

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Trade Recommendation: Expanse

https://hacked.com/trade-recommendation-expanse/

Posted Jan 11, 2018

Earn Cryptocurrency for Experiencing Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g64rc38Z1Ko&feature=youtu.be&a=

Posted Jan 10, 2018

Education on a Blockchain — Can it truly democratize the way we learn and impart knowledge?

https://medium.com/@Borderless/education-on-a-blockchain-can-it-truly-democratize-the-way-we-learn-and-impart-knowledge-645523536c59

Posted Jan 7, 2018

Is it time to accept cryptocurrency? (Christopher Franko of Expanse is quoted in this article by American Express)

https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/openforum/articles/is-it-time-to-get-paid-in-cryptocurrency/

Expanse Analysis ($EXP)

https://steemit.com/expanse/@thescoop/expanse-analysis-usdexp?

Posted Jan 7, 2018

A Borderless Financial System — A Dream or a Reality?

https://medium.com/@Borderless/a-borderless-financial-system-a-dream-or-a-reality-4f9c69018b91









PRESS RELEASES

Borderless Corp., Inc. to Launch Expanse DAO

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/borderless-corp-inc-to-launch-expanse-dao-300551075.html?tc=eml_cleartime

Posted Nov 7, 2017

Borderless Corp. Inks Deal with Compound Films for Multimedia Creation Services for Tokenlab and its ICO Clients

http://www.einpresswire.com/article/409575287/borderless-corp-inks-deal-with-compound-films-for-multimedia-creation-services-for-tokenlab-and-its-ico-clients

Posted Oct 13, 2017

IJI, Inc. Selects Tokenlab for ICO Management Services for Dropd, Its Revolutionary Decentralized Music Platform

https://www.einpresswire.com/article/408142091/iji-inc-selects-tokenlab-for-ico-management-services-for-dropd-its-revolutionary-decentralized-music-platform

Posted Oct 6, 2017

The Praetorian Group Taps Expanse/Tokenlab for ICO Management in New York State’s First-Ever Crowd-Funded Token Sale

https://www.einpresswire.com/article/405227711/the-praetorian-group-taps-expanse-tokenlab-for-ico-management-in-new-york-state-s-first-ever-crowd-funded-token-sale

September 21, 2017

Expanse Partners with CHCK-N for ICO Management Services; EXP to Reside on Millions of Mobile Devices Worldwide

http://www.crossroadstoday.com/story/36241015/expanse-partners-with-chck-n-for-ico-management-services-exp-to-reside-on-millions-of-mobile-devices-worldwide

Posted: Aug 29, 2017

















EXR (EXPANSE REWARDS) INSTRUCTIONS

http://forum.expanse.tech/topic/150/how-to-buy-bonds-and-redeem-your-coupon-using-the-expanse-bond-dapp-version-1-0-ebs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dzhbDCXyQM

DOWNLOAD THE EXPANSE REWARD SYSTEM (EXR)

https://github.com/expanse-org/bond-dapp/releases





LIST OF CURRENT PARTNERS, CLIENTS, AND WORKING RELATIONS

AXIA PUBLIC RELATIONS

http://www.axiapr.com/

COMPOUND FILMS

https://www.facebook.com/compoundfilms

DROPD

https://www.dropd.co/

THE PRAETORIAN GROUP (PAX)

http://www.praetoriangroup.io/

CHCK-N (CHECK-IN BAR)

http://www.chck-n.com/

JAXX

https://jaxx.io/

GAMEBOARD

http://gameboard.site/

HONGICO

http://www.hongico.com/portal.php

CENTURYLINK

http://www.centurylink.com/

MICROSOFT AZURE

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-blockchain-update-7/

MICROSOFT BIZSPARK PLUS

https://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/startup/profile.aspx?startup=693057

CHANGELLY

https://changelly.com/exchange/BTC/EXP/1?ref_id=expanse

CHANKURA

http://chankura.com/

COINOMI

https://coinomi.com





EXPANSE DISCORD

We recently launched Expanse Discord, Discord is a communication system much like Slack, but Discord has much better security and is safer for users, so due to greater security we have switched from Slack to Discord for the community. To speak directly with the Expanse team or others in the Expanse community we suggest signing up for Discord, thank you.

https://Discord.me/expanse

LINKEDIN

Be sure to follow Expanse on Linkedin. Additionally, our lead marketing director, Marcia, is now taking lead at expanding and improving our Linkedin presence, as she is the most experienced with fortune 500 companies and Linkedin standards.

https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/16212682/

EXPANSE TELEGRAM

If you prefer the Telegram platform you can follow and chat about Expanse here.

https://t.me/ExpanseTech

TOKENLAB TELEGRAM

This is the channel for Tokenlab on Telegram

https://t.me/tokenlab

TOKENLAB FACEBOOK

https://www.facebook.com/pg/TokenLabIO

INTERLEDGER PROTOCOL OF RIPPLE XRP

Expanse is one of the first Alternative Blockchain projects to join ILP, Interledger protocol of Ripple. There are a few “Internet of Blockchain” projects out there, but this is perhaps the most promising of them all. Expanse is staying ahead of the curve and ready, just in case this works out and is a success. It is an open source project and anyone can join, but the Expanse team was one of the first to sign up to be a part of it back in September 2016.

SHOPPING WITH EXPANSE MADE EASY BY COINPAYMENTS

You can shop at many merchants right now using the Coinpayments Platform. We are one of the Alternative Tokens listed on Coinpayments, and they are a reliable trustworthy payment provider that works much like Bitpay does for Bitcoin.

https://www.coinpayments.net/

DOWNLOAD BORDERLESS TECH ALPHA PREVIEW

Current features include Marriages, Status updates, Web Of Trust, Notary, Citizenship, and many more features on the way soon!

https://github.com/borderlesstech/borderless-dapp/releases/

TOKENLAB WHITE PAPER

http://www.borderlesscorp.com/docs/tokenlab-whitepaper.pdf

EXPANSE WHITE PAPER

http://www.expanse.tech/docs/whitepaper.pdf

BORDERLESS WHITE PAPER

http://www.borderless.tech/docs/BorderlessWhitepaper.pdf

ADDITIONAL EXPANSE LINKS

http://blog.expanse.tech/

http://www.expanse.tech/

http://www.borderless.tech/

http://www.borderlesscorp.com/

http://www.borderlesscharity.org/

http://forum.expanse.tech/

http://slack.expanse.tech/

https://twitter.com/expanseofficial

http://www.exp.life/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExpanseOfficial/

https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/16212682/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/expanseofficial/

https://www.facebook.com/ExpanseTech/

https://www.tokenlab.io/

https://www.facebook.com/TokenLabIO/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIo8vX6P_O0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dzhbDCXyQM&feature=youtu.be&a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R2EK1Cnink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWPeWQrnYVg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyiJOCDUUcY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFzA7w7FScc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lql75D1q3Yg

POOLS

http://dwarfpool.com/exp

http://clona.ru:8083

http://exp.hashpower.farm/#/

http://exp.hodlpool.com