Zero Carbon Project offers ‘Democratic’ Private Pre-Sale of Energis tokens

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Zero Carbon Project

3 min readJul 26, 2018

Zero Carbon Project’s private pre-sale of Energis tokens is live. We call it ‘democratic’ because we have a low minimum contribution to allow smaller contributors to participate earlier, for more rewards but with higher risks, in the spirit of decentralised communities.

The round remains ‘private’ because we are discussing deals with potential strategic cornerstone investors who may be interested in both equity and tokens. We aim to disclose these deals for transparency.

As a condition of listing with Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange, we agreed to lock Energis tokens purchased through the private presale. The reason was to maintain an orderly public token sale across the GBX Grid token sale platform.

‘Democratic’ private pre-sale features

Our democratic private pre-sale was launched with deployment of smart contracts on 18th June 2018. The Sale includes the following features:

1. Minimum contribution of 1 ether, to provide access to smaller contributors

2. Price discount of 50%, at USD0.10, compared to the price offered in our public main sale round

3. Tiered volume-based bonus of 5% for contributions of 5–15 ether, 10% for 15–50 ether and 20% for 50+ ether, to benefit larger contributors

4. Referral bonus of 20% for contributions over 2 ether, 10% paid to both the introducer and to the contributor. Rules and registration is available at www.zerocarbonproject.com/referral-bonus-registration/

5. Energis tokens will be unlocked after completion of the public token sale. They will be unlocked monthly over six months. We agreed to lock these tokens to ensure that the public token sale is not undermined by competing lower selling prices.

Energis token lock-up and Market launch

We had previously intended to unlock Energis tokens immediately upon purchase because we are aiming for a liquidity event in October with the launch of our Zero Carbon Market in UK. This will require a liquid Energis token economy where energy suppliers can purchase tokens in order to pay their transaction fees for using our Market.

We are still proceeding with our Market launch plan, but with controlled Energis token liquidity, until the public token sale is completed.

How to purchase Energis tokens

In order to take advantage of our democratic private presale please apply for KYC whitelisting at www.zerocarbonproject.com/token-sale , unless you have already done so. KYC whitelisting will continue through the private presale round.

Once your whitelisting has been confirmed you may purchase Energis tokens by sending ether from your whitelisted wallet address to our token sale contract address which will be listed on the same page of our website, www.zerocarbonproject.com/token-sale.

Energis tokens will then be sent into your wallet address after the public token sale.