Waves is an open platform for Web 3.0 applications and custom decentralized solutions, with a wide range of purpose-designed tools for making the process of developing and running dApps easy and accessible. Launched in 2016, Waves has since released numerous successful blockchain-based solutions and has steadily developed into a rich and constantly-growing technological platform. Waves’ technology is designed to address the needs of developers and companies that want to leverage the properties of blockchain systems – including their security, auditability, verifiability and the trustless execution of transactions and business logic.

Team:

• Sasha Ivanov: CEO, Founder. (Twitter, LinkedIn);
• Guy Brandon: Semantics Engineer. (Twitter);
• Alexander Bezkrovny: Communications. (Twitter);
• Carlos Parada: Brand Management. (Twitter);
• Martin Spodymek: Head Community Manager. (Twitter);

Waves held its ICO on April 12, 2016. The ICO coin supply represents 85% of the total coin supply, so there was a total of 85,000,000 coins available at the offering, for an average price of 0.00035405 BTC each. The ICO raised a total of $16,010,008 (30,094 BTC) with a total of 5790 participants, and ended on May 1, 2016. The largest investor contributed 866 BTC which is equivalent to 2.87% of all Waves. The top 10 investors contributed 5,178 BTC and hold the equivalent of 17% of all Waves.

Token Reserve Split (15%):

• 01% Distributed to early supporters;
• 01% Reserved for post-ICO bounties;
• 04% Reserved for strategical partners and backers;
• 09% Withheld by the development team;

Waves ICO campaign featured bonus, bounties, escrow and the coin will not be mineable.

Bonus Structure:

• First day - 20% Bonus;
• April, 13 to April, 30 - 10% Bonus.
• May, 1 - May, 15 - 5% Bonus.