$CIVILIZATION
Meter.io AMA 31st Aug 2022
Our journey towards DeFi for everyone
Thanks to Meter Community for the opportunity to describe $CIV updates
Alo | Will never DM first, [31/08/2022 18:04]
Hello @Cimmo and welcome to the Meter group! As our latest partnership we are all excited to learn more about CivFund so let’s get started.
Here are the $CIV key links for everyone to take a look at: https://linktr.ee/civfund
Could you give us a little background on yourself and explain what is CIV & when did the Civilization project start?
ICEMAN — CIVian {Won’t DM you first}, [31/08/2022 18:05]
Hello all, first thanks for the opportunity! It’s a pleasure introduce our project and explain how we can collaborate together! I’m a $CIV community member and i’m supporting the project with all the marketing tasks
Civilization was born on July 31st, 2021 with the launch of $CIV: short for Community Investment Vehicle.
We had a revolutionary vision and saw a “social” need to make DeFi more accessible to everyone. We decided to execute this by making the world’s first decentralized investment fund and bringing both resources and opportunities from the larger financial world to the unbanked.
So, we launched the project and since then we’ve been building towards the realization of the CivFund. First, we launched the $CIV token — the ecosystem’s store of value. Second, we released CivTrade — our first product, in partnership with Chainlink, and the part of our ecosystem that particularly leverages Uniswap. Shortly thereafter arrived our reward token named Stone and CivFarm, our farming platform. The launch of CivFarm marked the beginning of our technology licensing venture.
Alo | Will never DM first, [31/08/2022 18:10]
Awesome and congratulations on the successful launches and key partnerships. We will dive more into $CIV and $Stone in a moment. First, I’m curious to learn what makes CIV so innovative compared to others?
ICEMAN — CIVian {Won’t DM you first}, [31/08/2022 18:11]
I will start with the evidence that perhaps best answers the question: we have filed patent application in the United States. This fact testifies, perhaps better than many other things, to our dedication to being one of the world’s leading DeFi communities.
But how did we get there?
Our vision pursues two paths:
- Creating a fully decentralized investment fund, giving everyone in the Civilization community the opportunity to cultivate and develop their passions as traders, developers, risk managers, or asset allocators, etc.
- Creating the technology necessary to make this happen, which is ambitious in and of itself, given the huge gaps that still exist.
We want to become a fund like Millennium on the one hand, but for DeFi. On the other hand, we want to also be a trading platform, like Kucoin or Binance, but totally decentralized. These two aspects of our mission are synergistic and highly complementary to each other. Our goal is to connect investors, traders, developers and marketers.
Let me share a short trailer of it, giving a glimpse of our vision and things to come
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkooqN9DhBU
So far, we have exercised part of our vision via releasing CivTrade and CivFarm. CivTrade introduces the ability to execute truly decentralized limit orders, fully automated, removing the many fees associated with traditional DeFi trading, like market trades, liquidity fees, as well as front-running risk and price impact. CivFarm is the first fully decentralized staking and farming platform governed by our community.
The experience we have gained in building these products has then also allowed us to respond to what is now one of the greatest needs present within the space: the technological support required by projects trying to grow and establish themselves.
I am extremely excited. Our first two products came to fruition in record time, and we are only just getting started. The next, CivFund, will help manage a fully automated fund. Finally, small spoiler, we are close (tomorrow) to launching the first licensed third-party staking platform.
Alo | Will never DM first, [31/08/2022 18:23]
Great to hear CIV continually adapting to dynamic crypto conditions and to see the strides being made by CivFund towards such ambitious goals — no doubt required to deliver high quality returns in a constantly evolving space. Very excited for the staking platform — is there a link for those who want to get involved in the launch tomorrow?
ICEMAN — CIVian {Won’t DM you first}, [31/08/2022 18:24]
if you agree, i can share the link from the partner that announce the launch. They will provide the app link by tomorrow.
Alo | Will never DM first, [31/08/2022 18:25]
Yes would be great
ICEMAN — CIVian {Won’t DM you first}, [31/08/2022 18:25]
https://twitter.com/sanininu/status/1564993439422640128?s=21&t=o78qOw_2qMveK98v9OLx_w
Tomorrow our first licensed tech will be live, then we will focus on the launch of our farming platform to v2.
Obviously at the same time CivFund development continues.
Alo | Will never DM first, [31/08/2022 18:28]
Awesome, thanks for sharing — Meterians check it out!
You mentioned CIV provides the technological support for projects to grow so I’m excited to talk about the Meter <> CIV collab in a moment. Let’s switch back to CIV and Stone — the cornerstones of the ecosystem on which your community rests. Can you describe their Tokenomics?
ICEMAN — CIVian {Won’t DM you first}, [31/08/2022 18:29]
Of course! CIV is the project’s store of value. $CIV is non-mintable and based on the OpenZeppelin standard smart contract. CIV’s smart contract has been verified by Etherscan and audited by MythX, as well as Certik. There is no tax on CIV transactions.
The entire initial token supply of 300,000,000 was committed to Uniswap v2. The keys to that pool were burned to avoid any risk of hacking or rug pulls. Even if the deployer wallet was somehow hacked into, $CIV would be safe from rug pulls and other scams. CIV is deflationary and is burned with product revenues, purchasing it on the open market and sending those tokens to a dead wallet.
Stone (#0NE — a zero, not a letter) is the utility token of the Civilization ecosystem. Major utilities currently include sharing in the ownership of Civilization’s intellectual property and participating in CivFarm governance.
Stone’s massive total supply is capped at 1 quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000). 20% was minted at launch; half of this is locked for liquidity pools and the other half for distribution to IDO investors. The remaining 80% is reserved exclusively for CivFarm.
$0NE has a 4.5% transfer tax that was determined by DAO vote. It will decrease over time. Our intention is to reward long-term holders. 50% of the transaction tax is allocated to burn $CIV and 50% to burn #0NE. Also, all the revenues from technology licensing are used to burn Stone.
I don’t want to spoil anything, so take it with a grain of salt. But I think there is a basis for seeing both of them on the network Meter as well, no? 😶🌫️😶🌫️
Paolo G 🇮🇹 | Will never DM first, [31/08/2022 18:33]
I hope 👀🤝🔥
Alo | Will never DM first, [31/08/2022 18:33]
Paolo answered it there for me :D
Can you tell us more about how value is created within the ecosystem and distributed to community members?
ICEMAN — CIVian {Won’t DM you first}, [31/08/2022 18:35]
All of our products are based on mutual synergies and are part of the Civilization product roadmap, which aims to make the benefits of DeFi accessible to everyone.
All of our products, starting with CivTrade, CivFarm, and licensing technology earn rewards for $CIV and #0NE owners who benefit from our buy-and-burn mechanism. We believe the deflationary structure of our tokens supports and nurtures our great community.
I’ll send a summary about how these synergies work here. Everyone can find the details in our updated whitepaper. For any question, our global community chat is happy to help ☺️ (I’ll share the link at the end so anyone can join)
Alo | Will never DM first, [31/08/2022 18:37]
Perfect, very helpful. Now let’s talk Meter! Why do you find the partnership with Meter valuable?
ICEMAN — CIVian {Won’t DM you first}, [31/08/2022 18:37]
this part is very exciting!
Let’s start with establishing something: we find ourselves at a point in time when the market is putting a lot of stress on projects that want to build. Meter, like us, is in an early stage, continuing to grow, working hard to establish itself, and be ready at the starting blocks for the next bull cycle.
So many applications are being born on your network (the Hackathon is proof) and we think we too can contribute by supporting them in their growth as a result of the great experience we have gained. Our technology solutions are scalable and will certainly enable accelerated adoption, especially for those who perhaps start with strong technology barriers in the start-up phase.
Likewise, our ecosystem will also benefit from the collaboration allowing us to expand our network generating further value for our community.
Alo | Will never DM first, [31/08/2022 18:42]
Our partnerships comes at a good time as we have more developers building on Meter than ever before with imminent launches so support to enable accelerated adoption will be key.
I see you have a licensing system — how does that work?
ICEMAN — CIVian {Won’t DM you first}, [31/08/2022 18:43]
While we love staking and farming (we have CivFarm!), but we realized DeFi in general has failed to really offer robust financial tools beyond this (at least up until now). In order to truly decentralize finance and not keep it as just some trend, we thought it necessary to offer access to real resources many in the developed world take for granted but billions simply don’t, nor have ever, have access to.
For us, collaboration means trust, on both sides. When we choose to support a project that asks us to collaborate, we do so with a long-term perspective in mind. Projects interested in collaborating with us can engage us via the official email marketing@civfund.org (We will also soon have a dedicated section on the new site we are working on — oops… another small spoiler).
In our first phase, we diligently assess the merits of the project (with the support of the Meter team as well) in order to protect both communities. If this first phase is passed, we proceed to analyze specific needs or requests and build the required technology solution.
We aim to do this so that the product, dApp, etc can be released in the shortest amount of time possible. We do not require payment upfront for this service, precisely to demonstrate our willingness to collaborate in the long run.
Alo | Will never DM first, [31/08/2022 18:46]
You mentioned CivFarm which launched around a month ago and looks great! How does it work?
ICEMAN — CIVian {Won’t DM you first}, [31/08/2022 18:46]
CivFarm is the first fully decentralized staking and farming platform. The initial version of CivFarm allows users to earn rewards for staking Civilization ecosystem native tokens, providing liquidity to major pairs in the Civilization ecosystem (i.e. CIV:ETH), and staking the NFT Emerald Civilization collection.
We designed CivFarm so that the community can change stake-able assets, as well as their weighting, reward, and period of availability. We will make these determinations over time via DAO consensus. This is so the farm can adapt to changing market conditions that it operates in.
CivFarm mitigates the risk of impermanent loss by pooling multiple providers’ liquidity and rewarding them over and above their regular liquidity fees with Stone token.
By decentralized platform we mean that the ownership of the platform is from our community and future evolutions will be driven by stone holders (if you remember, holding $0NE plays the role of platform governance).
We celebrated CivFarm’s launch with a liquidity event that the community could benefit from in stone rewards. We think the APRs are still very strong and we are sure that, thanks to our technology licensing model, we will be able to sustain them over the long-term, thanks to the burn mechanism we have in place for stone tokens. I invite you all to have a look at the platform. Anyone with questions or interest in using it is welcome!
Alo | Will never DM first, [31/08/2022 18:49]
Awesome — sounds like a lot of thought has gone into the mechanics! What are the next steps for Civilization with respect to the roadmap?
ICEMAN — CIVian {Won’t DM you first}, [31/08/2022 18:50]
MAKE DEFI ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE
We are in the stage where we are actively developing CivFund. We are testing our first delta neutral automated investment strategies (built by our traders’ tribe) and defining the platform front end in order to give you the best and simplest user experience.
At the same time, we are starting with our technology licensing venture, providing our DeFi solutions to the space. The first staking platform licensed by Civilization will be live tomorrow and we hope that the next one can be on the Meter network!
A lot of initiatives are also coming from our community to enforce our brand and, thanks to them, we hope to expand our partner network. Decentralization is the way — anyone is welcome to join us and act! If there are 10 of us working, we could accomplish our goals eventually. If there are 100 of us, we’ll do it faster.
Alo | Will never DM first, [31/08/2022 19:01]
Keep us informed on the launch and will get our devs talking for the next one on Meter. Community feedback is key and something we value immensely at Meter — great to hear the WeAreCiv family are so active and engaged!
Can you tell us more about how CIV will help future developers building on Meter or future developments on Meter?
ICEMAN — CIVian {Won’t DM you first}, [31/08/2022 19:02]
There are the ideas and then there is the will to actually implement them. Without these two things it is not possible to create value. We went through it as a community and it was not easy, it took time but at the same time it was an incredible achievement that demonstrates the commitment and passion we are putting into achieving our goals. Starting from a blank sheet of paper, when you want to build a project, it is definitely not easy, especially in a space like this that evolves at an ever-increasing speed.
We believe that by sharing our experience and solutions, those who are about to start a project on Meter can grow by bringing value to the entire network. We are ready to mentor our partners to those who will rely on our solutions. I am really excited and we can’t wait to start collaborating with you.
Alo | Will never DM first, [31/08/2022 19:05]
Great to hear and we are over the 1 hour mark so really thank you for your time and all the information on CivFund — learnt a lot :)
Last question before I open up the floor to questions — how can CIV enhance the Meter ecosystem?
ICEMAN — CIVian {Won’t DM you first}, [31/08/2022 19:05]
Our collaboration aims to show the market that we have the skills and expertise that will allow new projects to be born and grow without having to discount that experience gap of those who have just entered the space. Meter has every chance to grow significantly in the coming years thanks to the seriousness and professionalism of the team that supports it.
Like we experienced within Civilization, we think we can help accelerate you along this path, and we are sure that in time the market will also recognize this. I am sure that even with regard to our next product, CivFund, if there are opportunities to be realized together, we will take advantage of them so that everyone can enjoy these strategic opportunities.
Look forward to feedback and questions from our open and transparent community. #WeAreCIV
Join the Civilization Telegram group to discover our innovation roadmap
PS: To learn more about Civilization, please read our vision blog post:
About Civilization
Civilization is the world’s first Decentralized Investment Fund: owned and managed directly by its own users. Token $CIV: the Community Investment Vehicle.
Its CivTrade reached volume of $5 million in its first month, earning $1,718 extra per trade while saving -37.5% gas versus Uniswap. The ProView upgrade achieved functional equivalence with Binance, but fully DeX / DeFi.
Also branded the Burning Man of Finance, Civilization now plans CivFarm and CivFund, to make the benefits of Decentralized Finance accessible to everyone. Any questions? Please join the global Telegram group.
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