HelloGold Foundation Update #14– 7th August 2018
Business
World Cup Fever
July meant one thing all over the world: Football! As the FIFA World Cup took place in Russia, HelloGold wasn’t immune to the fever. The teamed joined in the excitement with some fun and rewarding campaigns…
Jom Lepak
Jom Lepak campaign saw the HelloGold team roam around to meet crowds of football fans at their local restaurants during the game. A great way to connect with potential customers and introduce the HelloGold app.
HelloGoal quizz
On the Facebook front, a HelloGoal quiz competition was launched. The participants with the correct and most creative answers got rewarded with… gold of course! A few participants showed some serious skills and scored some shiny bits of gold. Who said you needed to be French to win during this World Cup?!
Referral program
To keep up the momentum created by the Best Price promotion, a referral program was launched, which works as follows:
1. Refer HelloGold to people you know
2. They purchase a minimum of RM50 worth of gold
3. They get a RM10 discount when buying gold
4. You get RM10 worth of gold automatically added to your HelloGold account
The program will be ongoing until the end of August so if you are a HelloGold user, make sure you and your friends don’t miss out on it!
RISE 2018
HelloGold was present at Asia’s largest tech conference, Rise 2018 which took place at the Hong Kong Convention Center from the 8th to the 11th of July. The event was packed with great conferences and panels showcasing some of the most innovative tech companies out there. The HelloGold team were able to link up with potential partners ahead of its expansion in the ASEAN region.
BOOST integration completed
And it’s finally here!! HelloGold has been working very hard over the past few months to make their partnership with Boost a reality, and the whole team was really pleased to finally deliver the Boost wallet integration into the HelloGold app. Malaysians can now buy gold on their favourite app without needing to use online banking to top-up their balance. This is a major step towards serving the underserved in the country!
Jom Heboh
We concluded the month by participating at one of Malaysia’s largest and most anticipated festivals, Jom Heboh, gathering more than 100,000 people in Kuala Lumpur’s Sports City, home of the national stadium.
The weekend’s Festival gave visitors a taste of the world’s first Shariah-compliant, fully digital gold mobile application at the HelloGold booth. Local celebrities also dropped by the HelloGold booth to promote the brand: Amyra Rosli, Hairul Azreen, Sharifah Sakinah, and Ajak Shiro all had fun engaging with the crowd and learning more about HelloGold.
Watch out on HelloGold social media platform for news about the next roadshow!!
PTT/Rise Demo Day
The PTT Rise accelerator workshop closed with all the participants, HelloGold included, pitching during a big Demo Day event which took place on the 13th of June at the PTT Auditorium in Bangkok. A crowd of investors and tech entrepreneurs gathered to listen to the different teams presenting their demos. Roger did a good job presenting the HelloGold app and what it will bring to the Thai customers once it is launched in the country.
Technical
HelloGold App Development
The HelloGold tech team has now released the referral engine and the product team will be monitoring how it is being used and refined as required. The team has been working hard on implementing the new dashboard design that includes the main dashboard and also other core features to make sure that the app retains a “fresh” look for customers. This redesign should help make the app more accessible with a consistent user interface as well as serve as a more flexible foundation for new features to be added in the future.
Wallet Integration
Tech-wise, the Boost e-wallet has been integrated and has been ready to be rolled out any time after the e-wallet provider validated that it followed Boost’s customer experience guidelines. HelloGold finally got the go ahead from Boost and now the integration is live, meaning that customers now have access to another low cost option (currently set at 0 fees) to top-up their wallets and thus buy gold.
Product Blockchain
HelloGold continues to add new smart contracts for the product functions to add and also withdraw cash. The blockchain explorer has already been built to allow our partners to view the transactions within the permissioned blockchain.
GOLDX and HelloGold Tokens
The exchange contract is complete and is currently being tested internally prior to an external audit. This contract will allow HGT holders to use their HGT to pay at a 50% discount for the buying fees of GOLDX, HelloGold’s fully allocated ERC20 gold token.
Core systems preparation for regional expansion
We are integrating the Central Transaction Server (CTS) into the Central Web Server (CWS). Once the integration to CWS is completed, we will start validation tests on transactions occurring on the CTS followed by the implementation of report generation tools that work on the CTS.
Token
Robin spoke at Wild Digital South East Asia, held at the Hilton in Kuala Lumpur on 4th and 5th of July. He was invited on a panel together with CoinGecko, ProximaX, and Inmagine Group to share some insights on the topic of business finance and ICOs.
Jupiter Chain Partnership
July 11th saw the publication of a joint press release: HelloGold Foundation and Jupiter Chain announced an intention to collaborate towards the interoperability of our tokens on our respective platforms. This collaboration will allow HGT holders to use their HGT to pay when establishing their credit profile while preserving their data privacy on Jupiter’s platform.
This partnership is one of the steps towards providing greater utility for HGT to ensure ever increasing use cases to HGT holders.
Live AMA with Dave Appleton
We had our second AMA session on the 12th of July. After Robin, it was Dave’s turn to sit in front of the computer and answer questions from the community. Our dear lead blockchain developer wore his best Ethereum T-shirt to speak about the new smart contract he is currently working on. This is will be the cornerstone allowing for the automatic buying and selling of GOLDX, as well as the integration of HGT discount & burn utility feature.
Dave also gave his view on the future of Ethereum, the importance of protecting new crypto enthusiasts from the many scammers out there, and the important work HelloGold is doing for the not-so-rich.
ETHKL#2
We are happy to continue supporting Dave and Harith’s initiatives in building the local Ethereum community in KL and are glad to see Etherscan getting onboard as well. As part of this month’s meetup Robin was invited on a panel discussing the topic of Financial Inclusion together with folks from Sentinel Chain, Kommerce, and Credible.
If you haven’t been able to make it, keep an eye on ETHKL’s YouTube channel for the recording coming out soon…
GOLDX distribution
We are distributing rewards on 13th August 2018! The total allocation will be 2.1670 GOLDX.
Please remember to keep HGT in your own wallet and not on any exchanges to receive the GOLDX!
We will continue to provide updates on a monthly basis. Please do get in touch with us in between updates if you have any thoughts, suggestions or recommendations.
The HelloGold Foundation Team
