Since the beginnings of humanity, GOLD has always been an object of value and one of the first forms of currency.
Until today, gold remains an important asset and is used traditionally for investments as well as trading.
Bitcoin has often been nicknamed a "digital gold", or a next-generation type of gold - but it looks like there's an entirely new type of currency for that now.
Introducing: GOLDMINT - a platform for 100% gold-backed crypto assets!
What is GoldMint about?
GoldMint runs on a blockchain ledger and works via a digitized cryptoasset called GOLD whose cryptocurrency value is based on physical gold. Goldmint buys, sells and repurchases GOLD at the current market price for physical gold. The company uses exchange-traded funds (ETF) or physical gold (of 999 quality) as its security. GoldMint gold reserves equal or exceed its mined amounts of cryptoasstes GOLD.
GoldMint aims to combine the benefits of physical gold with those of a cryptocurrency, and ties the value of its tokens to the actual value of real gold.
This offers the best of both worlds: traders can be relatively sure of GOLD's stability, while not having to purchase physical gold and taking care of it.
GOLD and MNT Tokens
The GoldMint platform will release two different tokens: GOLD and MNT.
GOLD is the stable cryptocurrency which is tied to the real gold price. The consistent value is ensured via ETF and futures paper assets as well as physical assets.
GOLD tokens can be used in loans, guarantees and escrow services on the platform.
MNT tokens on the other hand are used for the utility part of the platform - implementation of smart contracts, reward for transaction confirmation and block creations and more.
Since they're facilitating the blockchain, MNT owners are eligible to 75% of the commissions taken from the processing of GOLD transactions.
Custody Bot & Graphene Blockchain
Upon release, MNT will be sold and distributed on the Ethereum Blockchain.
But once the project has fully launched and MNT tokens have been distributed, GoldMint will eventually launch their very own PoS blockchain based on Graphene.
What is the Custody Bot?
Custody Bot is programmed for temporary holding, inspection, long-term storing and conveying of physical gold. It is programmed to inspect and store gold jewelry, coins or gold bullions.
Custody Bot carries out this function on all gold given them by small banks, non-credit financial institutions, pawnshops, and private individuals (among other parties). Also it is used in investing programs with cryptoassets GOLD and lending system secured gold.
Custody Bot is connected to blockchain where it storages data regarding all the gold things that were put in the box.
The Custody Bot is a groundbreaking new innovation.
Like explained above, it's a robot that manages the physical assets, and which is connected to the Graphene based blockchain.
The custody bot will be placed in different financial institutions.
When you put an item into the custody bot, it analyzes it through a weighing system and spectrometer, and then sends the information about the item to the blockchain.
GoldMint Team
The founder and CEO of the russian-based GoldMint team is Dmitry Plushevsky.
He is also the co-founder of Lot-Zoloto, which is a Russian gold trading company with a trading profit of $50.2 billion in 2017. One of his project developers from Lot-Zoloto is also on the team, as well as the Blockchain developer Anton Akentiev and CTO Konstantin Pichugin.
GoldMint ICO & Future
There is no exact date for the GoldMint ICO yet. The website shows a statement explaining that more information is to be released on August 20.
So if you want to invest in GoldMint, mark August 20 in your calendars!
The GoldMint team predicts that gold will mostly be stored, traded and invested in machines like the Custody bot, and that their GOLD token will become a major trading unit for this purpose.
GoldMint aims to disrupt the billion-dollar gold market and become the market leader in the cryptocurrency revolution of the market.
I think this project has a lot of potential, we'll see how it will develop in the future!
What do you think about this idea of a gold-backed cryptocurrency and a real-life Gold custody bot device?
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