Learn & Earn: Learn about VALOR tokenomics & Earn 50 USDT for free
In the second series of “Learn & Earn” program, we have an exclusive interview with Olga — Co-founder & CEO of Smart Valor to learn about Smart Valor exchange, VALOR tokenomics and its roadmap in Q4 2020.
After reading the interview, please don’t forget to answer the Quiz HERE. 10 lucky winners with the most correct answers will have a chance to win 50 USDT each. This program runs until 16 November 2020, 21:00 GMT+8. All answers after this timeline will not be eligible for winning prizes.
Q: Thank you Olga for joining our interview today. First things first, could you introduce yourself, your background and what you are doing in Smart Valor?
A: My name is Olga Feldmeier and I am Co-founder and CEO of Smart Valor. My career started at Boston Consulting Group in Germany followed by a position in an investment banking at Barclays Capital in London. After around 10 years of consulting and banking I joined the Crypto Space as a Commercial Managing Director at Xapo where I managed to get the first license for a blockchain startup in 2016. One of the main reasons why the Crypto Valley in Switzerland evolved.
Q: What is Smart Valor and what makes it different from other competitors?
A: Smart Valor is a fully compliant Crypto to Fiat exchange located right in the heart of the Crypto Valley in Zug (Switzerland). Smart Valor is in other words the Coinbase of Europe where customers have an easy on- and offramp to all the major Cryptocurrencies. Next to that we have an advanced trading module as well as a wealth management offering which is mainly used by Family Offices and High Net worth Individuals for whom regulation and security is very important. I guess if you look at exchanges in other jurisdictions such as Bitmex, OKex and Bitfinex which currently have big regulatory problems you can clearly see the advantage of Smart Valor. The recent announcement that Smart Valor is rolling out a new product vertical — as NFT marketplace — is also something that is a very promising differentiator to its competitors. There is only one exchange so far (US-based Genimi) which has both NFTs and Cryptos while there is not one single NFT platform that has the license to offer fiat onramps and exchange making Smart Valor unique in this space. As the regulated business, we are in the process of securing a new type of license “Physical Validator” which will put us in the unique role of enabling tokenization of real assets and creation of different hybrid assets.
Q: VALOR — the native token of Smart Valor exchange, has been listed on Kyber in Oct 2020. Could you tell us more about the VALOR token and its tokenomics?
A: The VALOR token is a platform token similar to OKB, BNB and HT. So if you believe in the exponential growth of exchanges like Smart Valor the VALOR token is a good bet. The tokenomics of VALOR are similar to the ones of the other platform tokens just mentioned.
VALOR has the following features:
- Membership Staking: By staking VALOR, Smart Valor members will have access to additional features and early access token purchase possibilities.
- Payment feature and discounted trading fees: By using the VALOR token for paying trading or listing fees the users will get 30% discounts.
Q: Quite interesting! During this interview, I would also like to inform readers that we will launch a Trading Campaign for VALOR on KyberSwap.com from 16 to 26 Novermber 2020 with $12,000 total prize pool (including Learn & Earn, Retweet campaign and VALOR Trading Contest). Please follow both KyberSwap and Smart Valor on Twitter for the latest updates. Stay tuned!
The excitement doesn’t stop yet! I see that Smart Valor is also planning to launch a specific campaign for KyberSwap users during this time. Do you want to share more details about it now Olga?
A: Yes sure. We will announce and run two different events on the Smart Valor exchange as well that are connected to your trading competition.
- Users that buy VALOR during the trading competition on Kyber Swap will be able to sell the token on the Smart Valor exchange for a certain fixed price (of 50 cents) that is above the current market price. The announcement will come on the 17th of November. So stay tuned for more information.
- Users that reach a certain trading volume on Kyber Swap + Smart Valor will get additional tokens into their Smart Valor wallets. This announcement will come on the 20th of November.
Very exciting times ahead.
Q: What are the next big milestones on which SMART VALOR is working on?
A: As mentioned before we are soon launching our own NFT marketplace called VALOR Prime that is unique by allowing fiat on and offramp as well as having a lot of NFTs that will be pegged by real assets. Something like this does not exist yet and we are happy to lead with this product innovation. This will allow newcomers in the space, not coming from Crypto, to have easier access and better understandings (due to backing of the digital art by a real asset). The NFT marketplace will be integrated within the Smart Valor exchange ecosystem. We are already discussing with some of the top artists to do exclusive art pieces for Smart Valor which can only be bought with VALOR tokens. For more information checkout our Q3 update in our YouTube channels: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSK5WoSzaAKhv3FoZc1Ibfg
Wow, cannot wait for this! We will kickstart the Trading Campaign with Learn & Earn bonus right today:
- After reading this interview, you can answer the quiz HERE to have a chance to win $50 reward (in USDT).
- Deadline for the answer: 16 November 2020 at 21:00 GMT+8.
- Please remember that 10 Learn & Earn winners will be chosen randomly.
Okay, so we’re going to the end of the interview today. Thank you very much for your time, Olga! We hope that you and the Smart Valor team will find great success in the near future!
