BTRICs mission is to work with great projects and transform them into awesome businesses through our Innovations Incubator program. Once theyre ready, we launch them as separate entities, ready for investment and primed for growth.We also focus on industry-wide advocacy, educational, and research efforts to promote best-practices and smart approaches to changing the world through decentralization and other emerging technologies.receive BFD Tokens, which are Ethereum ERC20 tokens. Holders of BFD Tokens will be rewarded by every project that completes our Innovations Incubator program. Now, strictly speaking, you shouldnt consider BFD Tokens to be an investment (as that has specific legal meaning),Each business launch will specify the rewards that are given for that business (which is subject to applicable legal and regulatory requirements). These could include:

The work done by BTRIC Labs could have applications in multiple projects or in the emerging technology industry as a whole. By conducting blue sky research, we work to advance the leading edge of emerging technology.We believe it is vitally important to contribute to the projects that underpin much of the emerging technology ecosystem.BTRIC Labs also provides offers to provide, on a cost recovery basis, support to carefully selected emerging technology projects that have a need for infrastructure or systems that are operated independently of their project.[Learn more about BTRIC Labs: ON OUR WEBSITE

BTRIC Institute is our advocacy, education, and policy development initiative. Working across the emerging technology industry, it is important for common ground in the areas of standards, policies, and regulatory flexibility be developed and maintained. There exist volumes of great concepts that dont get as wide of an audience as they deserve. At the same time, there is a need to develop and promote best-practices for organizations in the industry, as well as develop and implement educational programs that help the ecosystem as a whole.

Utilizing a special purpose blockchain and IoT technology, this project will create a tracability system that will trace seafood, which is highly subject to fraud and misrepresentations, from the point of capture, farming, or import through to the point of sale. In the United States, Federal regulations will mandate the use of seafood tracibility systems to reduce IUU (Illegal, Unreported, and Unmonitored) fishing and seafood fraud. This business will launch in early 2019 with a product ready for fishermen, seafood importers, and fisheries management bodies. [Learn more about Sea to Table...]

This project is exploring the possibility of creating a U.S.-based Federal Credit Union that specializes in accounts for cryptocurrency users and businesses. The first step is to conduct a statistically-valid survey of the proposed national scope of membership (crypto users and businesses). If the survey is successful, then the work to prepare an application for a Federal Credit Union charter will be undertaken. If chartered, this credit union will help cryptocurrency users and businesses as they face ever-increasing challenges with the legacy banking and financial services industry. [Learn more about Cryptocurrency Federal Credit Union...]

This project is creating a platform enabling donations to be made to any recognized charity. With an "Amazon Smile"-like experience and integrations for major shopping cart platforms and that will be marketed to major online retailers, donations to the charities will beThis increases the adoption of crypto assets as well as provides financial support to charitable organizations. This business will launch in the second or third quarter of 2018. [Learn more about Bitcoin for Good...]

BTRICs Innovations Incubator program is a project incubator and startup accelerator for emerging technology businesses. We identify projects with great potential and transform them into businesses which we help launch. By promoting best practices, focusing on delivery of the project, and handling administration so projects can focus on ideas, we create better businesses, one at a time. Donations from people, businesses, organizations, and grants financially support projects while theyre in the program. When they launch, they are divested from BTRIC into independent business entities. All projects in the program commit to providing contributors with rewards once theyve launched as businesses. The first three projects in our Innovations Incubator program are code named as follows:

BTRIC is short for Blockchain Technology Research Innovations Corporation. We're a 501(c)(3) economic development organization. Our mission is to build promising emerging technology projects into great startup businesses, through business incubation and acceleration, and to advocate, educate, and research about the benefits that emerging technology is bringing to humanity.As a non-profit, we do not have investorswe have donors. However, like other non-profit economic development organizations, our donors are uniquely positioned to become investors in the businesses that launch from our Innovations Incubator program. Of course, the rules about investing are complicated and in a state of flux, but as(legally compliant based on their business model and the jurisdiction in which they choose to form their business).In addition, as a non-profit, we are uniquely positioned to provide our BTRIC Institute and BTRIC Labs programs thatBTRIC has been awarded the, the highest recognition that GuideStar offers, demonstrating our commitment to operational and financial transparency.Consult with a qualified tax advisor for more information.[Learn more about BTRIC: WEBSITE

Now through March 31 is the only time that BTRIC will be offering BFD Tokens (BTRIC Founding Donor). Only 500,000 BFD will ever be minted, and all of them go to those that participate in this crowdfunding campaign as Founders. By participating, you become a BFD Token holder and receive these unique benefits exclusively for our Founding Donors:

Thank you! It's not all going to happen at once, but you're right, it will happen eventually. The end of nations is not our objective, but we do want them to be more fair, more open, more honest, and promote businesses and projects that can (and are) fundamentally change society.BTRIC's mission is to focus on specific projects as an incubator and then, when they're ready, to launch them as separate businesses. At the same time, as a non-profit, we can focus on advocacy and other initiatives that really can advance the ecosystem as a whole.Have a great day!Ben

it seems that this project will be one of the most successful projects in the future, because after I read it, I started to like the concept, and it could be if there is an ICO, maybe this would be a successful ICO

The main reason we are focused on a fundraising target of $500,000 is because that's what we budget we'll need (and a prudent reserve) to get us through calendar year 2018 and focus on our mission. We do not want to try to raise more than we need. We accept donations at any time, of course, but we are limiting our BTRIC Founding Donor fundraising campaign to 500,000 tokens. Only those donors that participate in this campaign will be able to be recognized as BFD's (on our website if they choose as a Founding Donor). Check out our white paper for more details on that.One of the challenges where we we're focusing on making a difference is in increasing the quality of projects that emerge as investment offerings. We've all seen too many ICO/ITOs that either cut/pasted their white paper or ran off with the money. The projects that we incubate will be put together like top-shelf businesses during our incubation program.

Thank you! We are really focused on doing great things and will have some other partnerships and announcements to make in the coming days. All of our projects that complete the incubation phase, we're going to give them all the support they need to be outstanding ICO/ITO offers (or whatever other method they choose to raise capital). Some quality is needed in the ecosystem and we're going to use existing best-practices, contribute to improving them, and work hard to share this with all of the community. We want everyone to benefit from the paradigm shift we're just at the very, very beginning of.We're putting together a great team of professionals that really want to make a difference in the field. 2018 is going to be a great year for BTRIC, cryptocurrency, and the whole emerging technology community.Best regards,Ben

it seems that this project will be one of the most successful projects in the future, because after I read it, I started to like the concept, and it could be if there is an ICO, maybe this would be a successful ICO

Hi everyone! Just added BTRIC ICO to my website https://concourseq.io/Q/Btric . ConcourseQ is a collaborative due diligence community that researches and reviews ICOs. Anyone with an account can submit information to your page, so we are reaching out to this community to get you all involved in the discussion. Thanks! PS: If you have any questions about filling in the info, feel free to ask us in our discord group: https://discord.gg/j8RBAwB

Thanks pangu, I appreciate that. Looking at the CoinMetro white paper very briefly, I completely agree with the need for cryptocurrency to become much easier to use from an end-user perspective. If crypto is going to replace much of banking, it needs to beas easy to use as a payment card. In my view, that's the bar that must be met or exceeded in order for the paradigm-shift to really take hold.I recognize that's a huge challenge and that it's really the trillion dollar opportunity, but eventually crypto must work as quickly and reliably as a card swipe.I wish your project the best and will be reviewing the white paper more fully later today.Best regards,Ben

Hello SeveralQ, thanks for adding our organization to your website. Considering your site is for due diligence, would it be appropriate for us to add material to the page? Or should it come from other members in the community?In any event, if you need any information about our organization, please feel ffree to reach out on here or by email to me directly at benjamin.beideman@btric.org Please have a great day!Best regards,Ben

Hi everyone! Just added BTRIC ICO to my website https://concourseq.io/Q/Btric . ConcourseQ is a collaborative due diligence community that researches and reviews ICOs. Anyone with an account can submit information to your page, so we are reaching out to this community to get you all involved in the discussion. Thanks! PS: If you have any questions about filling in the info, feel free to ask us in our discord group: https://discord.gg/j8RBAwB

Thank you very much. Yes we have spent a lot of time focusing on the best way to deliver real value to our donors and others in the emerging technology community. Being able to focus on aspects that aren't often considered and implemented as well as they need to be has given us a great perspective on how to do this. One example is the need for projects to have a close examination of how their project is governed. It needs to be sufficient but not overbearing -- more fluid and dynamic approaches that remain focused on the goal and mission can be the key that separates a successful project that delivers from one that is "a great idea", but had stumbling blocks.Best regards,Ben

Hi, wafdawg,Thanks for your interest in our organization.For the BTRIC Founding Donor Token (BFD), We have EtherDelta in process. We are also working on other exchanges and want to seek feedback from our donors as to their preferences. Some of the exchanges we are talking with require that we not discuss them by name (and also sign an NDA) until the listing is active or they reserve the right to ban the token. Do you have particular exchanges that you believe are essential? We want to be responsive to our donors.As far as "BTRIC Coin" (working name)... this is a cryptocurrency or token that will be issued in 2018 Q2. All holders of BFD Token as of a snapshot date/time (to be publicized in advance) will be granted an amount of BTRIC Coin for each BFD they possess at the time of the snapshot. We do not yet know if BTRIC Coin will be a cryptocurrency with its own blockchain or will be a token, and if so, what platform it will be deployed on. We are going to consult with advisors concerning the stability and resilience of the Ethereum platform as we do have some concerns about both. Also, if we do deploy our own blockchain, again, we are going to do so under advisement of experts. We do not want our organization to make a poor decision and cause harm to our reputation, so that's something that will be carefully considered as we move towards the launch of the coin.If you have any more questions, please let me know. Have a great day.Best regards,Ben