Altcoin.io: The cryptocurrency exchange of the future

CEO and Co-Founder

2014 — Inc. 500 #58 Fastest Growing Company 2015 — Inc. 500 #91 Fastest Growing Company 2017 — Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30

Altcoin.io is working hard to make the first ever decentralized exchange for traders, by traders. While many DEXs have bulky, complicated interfaces, Altcoin.io is building both a simple interface to quickly exchange crypto, as well as an in-depth, customizable exchange. The team was made famous back in October for successfully completing the first ever BTC-ETH atomic swap – a complicated feat because these two coins run on completely different blockchains.

Dylan Dedi

CoinTelegraph

Altcoin.io’s wallet gives a cryptographic code confirming both parties have sent the coins, alongside a code declaring the settlement was complete, much like a receipt.

Jamie Redman

Bitcoin.com

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What does your company do?

Hackers have stolen almost $10 billion in Bitcoin in the last few years, and centralized exchanges are to blame. By holding your tokens in a single vault during each transaction, they create a single point of failure, a weakness hackers can easily exploit. The market wants a secure way to trade. At Altcoin.io, we’re building a decentralized exchange that puts safety first: you stay in control of your coins the entire time. Already, 110,000+ traders have pre-registered since September 2017.

Where will your company be in 5 years?

We believe decentralized exchanges are the future of cryptocurrency and centralized exchanges will soon become obsolete. Our mission is to build an exchange that supports instant, low-fee trades of virtually any token, all secured by the blockchain, that is easy to use for novice and experienced traders alike. With thousands of different altcoins on our network, high liquidity, and an excellent user experience, we hope to become the preferred platform for all traders concerned with security.

What is Altcoin.io?

Altcoin.io is a platform for trading cryptocurrency peer-to-peer, without ever losing control of your tokens. If our service were to go down or be hacked, users’ tokens are never in harm’s way. All we do is connect one individual to another. We never assume the custodial risk of holding users’ tokens, nor do we have any control over them. Our mission is to bring the entire cryptocurrency community together to create a transparent, trustworthy, and honest market. We believe that will help take the cryptocurrency industry from where it is today, which is around a $250-$300 billion market cap, up to a multi-trillion dollar market cap. We look at CoinBase, an exchange that made $1 billion in revenue in 2017 by making it really easy to buy Bitcoin and a few other digital assets, including Ethereum and Litecoin. What CoinBase did for Bitcoin, we want to do for altcoins. We want to help people trade securely, easily, and peer-to-peer, without ever giving your tokens to a third party.

What makes Altcoin different from other cryptocurrency exchanges?

A lot of cryptocurrency exchanges are centralized, which makes them vulnerable to hacks. Since June 2011, we’ve seen about 30 exchanges,resulting in the loss of billions of dollars in tokens. As Bitcoin’s value continues to rise, we’re likely to see more of these hacks. These exchanges store digital assets in a centralized reserve, typically known as a “honeypot”, which is a single point of failure hackers love to exploit. We’re building a decentralized exchange (DEX) that’s both easy to use and removes the single point of failure exposing traders to theft. With centralized exchanges, users’ coins pass through a third party, similar to an escrow account, and this is why hackers target centralized exchanges. All of our trades are peer-to-peer.

What makes Altcoin different from other decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges?

We’ve seen countless new decentralized exchanges popping up over the last few months, and this is a great thing. Finally the market is waking up to the failure of centralized exchanges. But despite losing their users billions of dollars in hacked funds, centralized exchanges still dominate the market. To compete and really change this market for the better, DEXs must have the following characteristics: - Instant trustless trading- A great user experience- Blockchain interoperability- Liquidity We originally pursued atomic swaps and smart contracts to address both trustless trading and blockchain interoperability. While we’ve had some success, atomic swaps fail to provide a great user experience for two reasons: - Transactions can take minutes to be confirmed on their blockchains.- Users have to pay high blockchain transaction fees. This constrains trading volume, liquidity, and creates a frustrating trading experience. The community wants security, but not at the expense of transaction speed. So now we’re focusing on building an instant and trustless trading model with an amazing user experience using a plasma-like sidechain approach.

How are users’ tokens stored?

At Altcoin.io, smart contracts are helping us build a decentralized exchange that provides trustless trading for the cryptocurrency community. Smart contracts are a way to safely trade cryptocurrency without involving a third party. And if either trader doesn’t meet the terms of the sale, then the transaction is cancelled, keeping everybody’s assets safe. By harnessing technology within smart contracts, we’re enabling on-chain peer-to-peer trades without any middlemen. Crucially, using smart contracts means you don’t have to give us anything. Your private keys to access your tokens stay private, known only to you. This is different to CoinBase. When users use dollars to purchase Bitcoin from CoinBase, the digital assets are stored within their centralized web-based wallet, not on the blockchain — so if they get hacked, users could lose their Bitcoin or any other digital assets stored. But since we store everything on a blockchain and don’t have access to anyone’s private keys, users have full control.

How does the Altcoin.io Plasma-like side-chain work?

Plasma was introduced by Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum) and Joseph Poon (Lightning Network) in their white paper, Plasma: Scalable Autonomous Smart Contracts. In its most simplified form, Plasma is a design philosophy for off-chain applications. Plasma’s goal is to scale Ethereum to transact billions of actions per second (instead of just 10–15) by building a blockchain within a blockchain, and removing the need for every node on the network to verify all transactions as they occur. To get technical, by splitting a blockchain by transaction type (DEX, dApp, social network, and so on), you can increase the transactional capacity in proportion with the number of divisions. For example, you could create a sub-chain on Ethereum for a DEX, operating independently on a Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism, that effectively doubles transactional capacity. Three chains would triple it, four quadruples it, and so on, ad infinitum (in theory). The state of each sub-chain is enforced by its “parent” or “root” chain, but it doesn’t need to do anything unless there’s proof of fraud, which is another reason why Plasma can support so many transactions. To withdraw funds, traders wait a predetermined period of time to ensure other nodes can challenge any fraudulent activity. In the case of proven fraudulent behavior, Plasma will trigger a “mass-exit”, which allows users to withdraw their funds from smart contracts (after proving ownership from the last legitimate block in the chain) while the fraudulent block is reversed. There’s theoretically no limit to the number of sub-chains, so Plasma solves the scalability problem while still providing a secure, decentralized trading environment. We explain all this in detail on our blog.

How are you ensuring trades will be trustless and secure?

When trading through Altcoin.io, you’re effectively trading on a sidechain that reports to a smart contract on Ethereum. The smart contract is there to ensure everyone in the sidechain, including us, plays by the rules. Trading will be trustless, near instant, and our DEX will have an in-built mass-exit function to ensure you won’t lose your funds if verifiers spot fraudulent activity.. Again, to get technical: We’ve partnered with Tendermint, a consensus technology that’ll operate a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) mechanism for nodes in our DEX. Each node will sign transactions and commit them to blocks. Currently, Tendermint can handle up to 10,000 transactions per second, and as we only commit transactions for our DEX, we’ve massively improved transactional capacity without sacrificing security.

Why haven’t other exchanges decentralized?

I believe the main reason is because it’s really difficult to build a decentralized exchange with the same transaction speed as a centralized one. Unlike a decentralized exchange, a centralized exchange controls users’ funds, so when you buy ZRX, ETH, GNT, or any other cryptocurrency assets, those trades execute much faster. But at the same time, users are compromising their security — exposing themselves to hacks and server downtime. . It’s only in the last year or so that we’ve been able to build a decentralized exchange that’s both easy to use and gives users full control over their tokens, but still has the advanced trading options and high liquidity of a centralized exchange.

How will you decide which currencies to include and which to exclude?

We haven’t standardized that yet,but we only want to include credible projects. There are a lot of tokens on the market with low market potential, and frankly, a lot of them are bad investments. All the projects we list on our exchange will have undergone a due diligence process — understanding what value a token has, how strong its development team is, and what it will likely be used for. We want to allow users to trade anything, including niche coins that aren’t available on other exchanges. But we’re not going to let every coin on the planet in just because we can. We’ll focus on offering quality tokens only. Our customer protection is broader than that, too. There are a lot of shady actors in the crypto space, and we want to protect you against things like bots and pump-and-dump activity, which you see consistently on some of the larger exchanges. We’re going to actively block any sort of activity that doesn’t leave a fair playing field for other traders.

How does the wallet interaction work?

Each wallet we create comes with a unique key. Users lock their funds in a smart contract and then put the wallet on a blockchain where only they have access to it. Each wallet has a two-tier security system. The first tier is a memoranic pass phrase of 12 words which users write down and store. We never have those words. This method is very secure, but if users lose those 12 words, they can never get their tokens back. The second tier encrypts wallets with secure passwords. So, to break in, hackers would need to get users’ private keys on the blockchain plus be able to hack a smart contract that holds the funds. And that’s assuming a hacker would go to the trouble of attacking a single account — remember, there’s no honeypot in our decentralized exchange. Before taking our exchange live, we’ll be conducting private third-party security audits which will go beyond our smart contracts. We’ll release a detailed report when finished. It’s an important test to make sure our wallets and exchange are as secure as possible.

Cryptocurrency can be complicated. How do you plan to attract customers, especially newcomers to the market?

Last year, we saw an explosion in digital assets. We saw the total market cap rise from under ~$10 billion to, at its peak, ~$800 billion. A lot of people are angling to get into this market, and not just with Bitcoin. Existing exchanges make it difficult to get into the market. We, on the other hand, want to be a transparent company and offer a high level of user experience and support. We see a lot of opaque exchanges in this industry. Many refuse to share information about their daily trading volume or the assets they have on hand. Even with a reputable service like Coinbase issues can arise — they rely on centralized services, so when Bitcoin Cash reached its peak price and started to fall, they froze withdrawals and deposits. Because there are no regulations, exchanges make their own rules. We want to build an exchange by traders, for traders, based on their feedback, which gives them true autonomy and security. Also, many other exchanges lack a user experience that builds trust and understanding at every step. For more experienced traders, using exchanges like Bittrex, Poloniex, or Binance can seem relatively easy, but for those just entering the market, they’re pretty daunting. We see a huge opportunity to introduce an exchange that, one, is trustworthy; two, is secure and never takes custody of your tokens; and three, gives an easy and enjoyable user experience with a support team available to help you along the way. We believe we can attract not only experienced traders, but also traders who are just entering the market and want to diversify their cryptocurrency portfolio beyond Bitcoin.

How do you make money?

We add a small fee to every peer-to-peer transaction we process.

Who's your competition?

First, there’s 0x which is essentially a re-layer, a protocol that allows us to share among one another. I mention this project first as they’re focused on solving liquidity and sharing it among decentralized exchanges as are we. We plan to do something similar with the Altcoin SDK but it will be more focused on less-technical groups looking to build a decentralized exchange. We’re building a secure way for anyone to become a re-layer between buyers and sellers. Then there are a lot of other decentralized exchanges coming to market including KyberNetwork, Airswap, Bisq, IDEX, RadarRelay, and many more. However, the trading volume on these exchanges is very low compared to centralized exchanges due to liquidity issues.

How do you plan to solve the fragmented liquidity issue amongst decentralized exchanges?

Fragmented liquidity is a problem facing all DEXs, so it makes sense for us to work together. The next version of our DEX will allow us to share our secure trading engine while you customize the exterior however you’d like. You can add extra features, change the UX/UI, mold the exchange to your brand, and tailor everything to your existing traders.

What are you worried about?

There’s so much innovation happening so quickly in the blockchain space we sometimes wonder if what we’re building today will be relevant a year from now. For this reason, we’re working with other projects to leverage their technology so we can be nimble and improve our exchange as times moves on, but again, the space is moving very fast. Another thing I worry about is certain projects failing. It’s unrealistic to think that every company or project that has conducted an ICO will successfully deliver what they promised the market. As we see projects fail, the market could dip, and then we could start to realize a lot of these new tokens are bad investments.

What happens if the SEC decides none of these coins pass the Howie test and they all have to be treated as securities?

Some tokens are 100% utility tokens. That means they’re required to use a certain product or service. The chance of those ever being deemed securities is, I think, fairly low. But as an exchange, we want to comply with government regulations first and foremost. Our goal is to make cryptocurrency trading more secure, so it would be irresponsible of us to assume the U.S. government won’t issue laws around this. We’ll be staying ahead of the curve in terms of legal requirements and how they affect exchanging digital assets. After all, even if we make the exchange extremely secure and give users full control of their tokens, if the government were to step in and say we’re not complying with regulations, that would mean we had failed in our security goal. Whatever regulations come, we have a legal team to help us understand what they mean so we’re compliant at all times.

Why are you choosing to raise funding through an equity investment instead of an ICO?

We want to show our investors the largest return on investment possible and keep the valuation of our project fair. A lot of projects are currently valued over $1 billion and don’t have a working product at all. By raising through Wefunder, we’re still able to involve those in the crypto community who’re looking to invest and support our project, but also leave options open for our project to be acquired by a larger centralized exchange, another cryptocurrency project, Bitcoin wallet, and more. We would love to help secure exchanges that are putting traders funds at risk, or help them provide their users access to thousands of cryptocurrencies without any of the custodial risk that comes with it. Also, we don’t think our exchange needs a utility token to function. So why create one just to raise millions in funding that we don’t need? As a company, we’d like to raise only the amount we need to achieve our goals. As a result, we are driving focus, accountability, and discipline into our team culture to focus on what really matters — development and innovation — without worrying what the price of our token is each day.

How are you planning to spend funds raised?

If you invest in Altcoin.io, we’ll spend your funds cautiously. At my previous company, we bootstrapped the business to millions in yearly revenue and eventually exited successfully to a private equity firm. I am a big believer in building strong, distributed teams to save costs and increase team performance. 40% to expand our engineering and UX team10% to perform 3rd partner security audits10% on additional legal advisement20% to build a world-class customer support team10% to build out an operations team10% to build our marketing department

Who’s on your team?

I’m Andrew Gazdecki, the CEO and founder of Altcoin.io I was also the founder of Bizness Apps, which was number #91 on Inc. Magazine’s list of the 500 fastest-growing companies in 2015. I’m based out of San Diego. Sule, or Sulejman Sarajlija, is our CTO and lead developer. He specializes in back-end development and blockchain technologies. Day to day, he leads Djenad, Anto, and Azra, who are our engineering team based in Bosnia. Finally, we have five advisors, four of whom are active cryptocurrency traders. That helps support our goal of creating an exchange built by traders, for traders.

So, to our understanding upon launch you will not be 100% decentralized, correct? And what is the reasoning behind this?

Overtime we’ll likely work to become 100% decentralized as our community grows but upon launch, we want to deliver the best experience possible and to do that we need to have some centralized items to compete with other exchanges. The reality today is that decentralized trading is confusing and we want to be there to help. There’s also a lot of grey area with the SEC etc. and to attract institutional/professional traders we feel having the correct regulations in place is appropriate for now. But long answer short, no we will not be 100% decentralized to start, but we will never have control of your tokens & you can expect a strategic approach to solving the liquidity problem which makes us confident in our initial launch strategy. Making cryptocurrency trading more secure is our main priority.

Anything else you'd like to mention about Altcoin.io?

From a blockchain project perspective, we’re kind of doing everything in reverse. We haven’t written a white paper and we have no plans to conduct an ICO. Not every blockchain starts as a utility token to function. A lot of projects these days create a utility token with the sole purpose of conducting an ICO, but what projects should be doing is thinking more about what utility their token provides. In our opinion, if you have to think about why you need a token, your project probably doesn’t need one, which is why we’ve chosen to avoid the ICO route altogether. In addition, there’s a kind of a gold rush happening for ICO projects (initial coin offering — similar to an IPO). Unlike other teams, we don’t have millions to burn. This makes us hungrier to find ways to improve organically, as opposed to some project that has raised tens of millions of dollars (sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars). We don’t have the luxury of a 36-month burn rate, vacations included, so we aim to demonstrate value and innovation from the get go. Altcoin.io Teamhttps://www.altcoin.io/ Want to stay up to date with Altcoin.io updates? Follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, preregister on our website, or join our Telegram channel.

1	110,000+ pre-registered users.
2	Founder named 30 Under 30. Grew previous company to 100+ employees.
3	Centralized and less secure competitor Coinbase earned $1 billion last year.
4	Founder's two previous companies acquired.
5	First DEX to implement a Plasma-like sidechain solution.
6	Featured on Bitcoin.com, Coindesk, CoinTelegraph, Cryptovest, and more.
7	Accomplished and open-sourced world's first Ethereum and Bitcoin atomic swap.

Month / Year	Exchange	Number of Bitcoin Lost
Apr '17	Yapizon	3,816
Aug '16	Bitfinex	119,756
Jan '15	Bitstamp	<19,000
Feb '14	Mt. Gox	650,000
March '12	Bitcoinica	43,554

1	The Company may never receive a future equity financing or elect to convert the Securities upon such future financing. In addition, the Company may never undergo a liquidity event such as a sale of the Company or an IPO. If neither the conversion of the Securities nor a liquidity event occurs, the Purchasers could be left holding the Securities in perpetuity. The Securities have numerous transfer restrictions and will likely be highly illiquid, with no secondary market on which to sell them. The Securities are not equity interests, have no ownership rights, have no rights to the Company’s assets or profits and have no voting rights or ability to direct the Company or its actions.
2	The Company's current business model is not proven or a source of significant revenue. Current revenues do not cover current expenditure of the company. As a result, the Company's business model is due to change and adapt according to market conditions, product market fit and finding a successful sales and revenue model.
3	The Company's business model depends on a number of factors. There is no assurance that the Company’s business model will be successful or that the Company will generate increased revenues. The Company may be forced to change or abandon the Company’s business model in order to find a product market fit and valuable revenue stream for its products and services.
4	In order to respond to market changes, the Company’s management may from time to time make changes to the business of the Company. There are certain risks associated with such changes. As a strategic response to changes in the competitive environment, the Company may from time to time make certain pricing, service or marketing decisions or business combinations that could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, results of operations and financial condition.
5	The Company's current software applications are new and therefore do not have a stable or significant customer base. It is necessary that Company grows the number of customers of rapidly, although, there is no guarantee the Company will do so.
6	The Company's ability to increase the Company’s user base and revenues will depend heavily on the Company’s ability to innovate and to create successful new products and services. If products or services the Company introduces fail to engage users, the Company may fail to attract or retain new users and may not be able to generate additional revenue and the Company’s business may be materially and adversely affected as a result.
7	The development of new features and products is a complex and time-consuming process that may not be completed with the expected roadmap, as a result, products may fail to engage with users and the Company may not generate new revenue streams to an expected timescale.
8	The Company's business plan relies on hiring a key team of experienced product developers. Although every piece of due diligence is done before making a significant hire, the Company can not guarantee the performance, creativity or product building success of these key hires.
9	A significant amount of the team's time is spent working remotely. The Company uses the latest communication methods, such as Skype and Telegram message apps, to make sure the team is working towards a common goal and product development, however, as the team expands it is unproven that this method is optimal to product development. As a result, it may be necessary for the team to find a more stable base. This could potentially result in departures in the Company if team members did not want to re-locate.
10	The Company has, and will be developing, a global team. As a result, the Company must make sure it is adhering to complex laws and local regulations regarding employing and hiring. It must also adhere to all international trade and tax requirements as a result.
11	The Company's limited operating history may make it difficult to evaluate the Company’s current business and the Company’s future prospects. The Company has encountered and will continue to encounter risks and difficulties frequently experienced by growing companies in rapidly developing and changing industries, including challenges in forecasting accuracy, determining appropriate investments of the Company’s limited resources, market acceptance of the Company’s existing and future products and services, competition from established companies with greater financial and technical resources, acquiring and retaining users and developing enhancements to the Company’s products and services. The Company cannot assure you that the Company will be successful in addressing these and other challenges the Company may face in the future.
12	Our ability to protect our intellectual property and proprietary technology is uncertain. We have entered into confidentiality agreements and intellectual property assignment agreements with our officers, employees, and consultants regarding our intellectual property and proprietary technology. In the event of unauthorized use of disclosure or other breaches of those agreements, we may not be provided with meaningful protection for our trade secrets or other proprietary information.
13	The Company has open sourced, or plans to open source, its code and intellectual property. By making elements of the Company's code and intellectual property freely available, it opens it up to being copied by other software developers and companies, thus potentially increasing its director competitors or devaluing the Company's resources.
14	The Company will need to raise additional funds in the future in order to fund marketing and operations to expand it's user based and rapid expansion, to develop newer or enhanced services, to respond to competitive pressures or to acquire complementary businesses or technologies. If additional funds are raised through the issuance of equity or convertible debt securities, the percentage ownership of the stockholders of the Company will be reduced, stockholders may experience additional dilution and such securities may have rights, preferences or privileges senior to those of the rights of the Class A Common Stock. There can be no assurance that additional financing will be available on terms favorable to the Company, or at all.
15	If adequate funds are not available or not available on acceptable terms, the Company may not be able to fund its expansion, promote its brand names as the Company desires, take advantage of unanticipated acquisition opportunities, develop or enhance services or respond to competitive pressures. Any such inability would have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, results of operations, financial condition and prospects.
16	Investors will not see a return on the Company until acquired, IPO, or becomes profitable to start paying dividends to shareholders. None of those events are guaranteed to happen. Also, that dividends will only be paid if and when declared by the Board.
17	The Company expects competition in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space to continue to increase as the industry becomes larger as a whole and the technology develops. The Company competes with a number of other companies. Many of the Company’s competitors are significantly larger than the Company is and have more capital to invest in their businesses. The Company believes that its ability to successfully compete against these and other potential competitors depends upon many factors both within and beyond the Company's control, including the following:
18	Many of the Company’s current and potential competitors have longer operating histories, significantly greater financial, technical, marketing and other resources and larger customer bases than the Company does. These factors may allow the Company’s competitors to respond more quickly than the Company can to new or emerging technologies and changes in customer preferences. These competitors may engage in more extensive research and development efforts, undertake more far-reaching marketing campaigns and adopt more aggressive pricing policies which may allow them to build a larger user base or to monetize that user base more effectively than us. The Company's competitors may develop products or services that are similar to the Company’s products and services or that achieve greater market acceptance than the Company’s services. This could attract users away from the Company’s products and reduce the Company’s market share.
19	Blockchain technology is still in its infancy and has not been proven in a large scale consumer space. A significant proportion of the Company's business model relies on factors in the blockchain space outside its control, including the following: Growing amount of users using blockchain technology, New and improved uses of blockchain technology to solve consumer problems, Public perception of blockchain technology, Unknown and future regulatory laws and restrictions surrounding blockchain technology.
20	We believe that blockchains will become popular but that might not turn out to be the case. As the Company's business develops, its is likely that the Company will venture into the financial technology space where there is significant government regulation and control. In many countries and states, there is currently limited regulation or control of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. The Company has done very limited research on how future and current regulation and law could affect the Company's current or future business model. Thus, there could be significant current and future regulation that could affect the Company's business model and plan. As a result, regulation and law could make the Company's business model unviable now or in the future.
21	The future business model may offer transactional services between traditional banking services, cryptocurrency financial services and service offerings based on a protocol. This may bring Altcoin.io into scope for traditional financial regulations such as Anti Money Laundering Regulation (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC) & The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). The implementation and maintenance of complying with these regulations could be a significant financial burden on Altcoin.io. As such, Altcoin.io will consider the cost/benefit including any regulatory consequences when extending the services offered.
22	There is significant uncertainty in how Cryptocurrency and services based on Crypto technologies will be regulated in the future. It is likely that many of the traditional financial regulations will be applied to Cryptocurrencies in the future, however the scope and extent of the imposed regulations are unknown and will remain unclear for the near term. This may effect the Altcoin.io'sstrategy around developing crypto technologies but will not devalue the current business offering.
23	Our future success depends on the efforts of a small management team. The loss of services of the members of the management team may have an adverse effect on the company. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in attracting and retaining other personnel we require to successfully grow our business.

Date	Amount	Security
	$35,681	SAFE
01/2018	$50,000	Loan
10/2017	$100,000	Loan

Lender	Issued	Amount	Oustanding	Interest	Maturity	Current?
Bizness Apps	10/31/2017	$100,000	$0	2.0%	01/01/2020	Yes
Bizness Apps, Inc.	01/25/2018	$50,000	$0	2.0%	12/31/2019	Yes

Name	Bizness Apps
Amount Invested	$100,000
Transaction type	Loan
Issued	10/31/2017
Outstanding principal plus interest	$0 as of 05/2018
Interest	2.0 per annum
Relationship	Owned by Andrew Gazdecki
Andrew Gazdecki owned Bizness Apps at the time of the transaction. All debts have now been forgiven, thus repaid in full.

Name	Bizness Apps
Amount Invested	$50,000
Transaction type	Loan
Issued	01/31/2018
Outstanding principal plus interest	$0 as of 05/2018
Interest	2.0 per annum
Relationship	Owned by Andrew Gazdecki
Bizness Apps was previously owned by Andrew Gazdecki. The loan has been forgiven, thus repaid in full.

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