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ISSUES REVOLVING AROUND INCLUSION IN THE EMERGING MARKETS

Traditional banks are still struggling to reach the unbanked across Africa. In 2014, a staggering 66% of Sub-Saharan Africans did not have bank accounts. The small size of national markets, a lack of financial literacy, low-income levels, political instability and weak judicial systems have created a constrained African banking system. And banks continue to rely on traditional banking models of branch networks, expensive technology, inadequate systems and a limited talent pool. As per the latest reports issued by the World Bank in August 2017, around 2 billion people were unbanked across the world.

Cryptocurrency can bridge the gap and play a vital role in the financial inclusion of people who are still unbanked. The global adoption rate of cryptocurrency is still below 3% implying that there is still a lot more room for growth and as more tokens are created, they will need to be listed in Exchanges. So there is still a demand vs. supply gap of cryptocurrency exchanges.

The market is ripe for Cryptocurrency as witnessed this past year. Exchanges such as Binance, Bittrex, and many others had to halt registration of new users because they could not handle the ever-increasing traffic with their current infrastructure.

More education still needs to be imparted to educate more people. KuBitX is committed to doing so by having structures in place such as having Country Ambassadors in various African countries who will create awareness as well as educate, they will conduct meet up’s for those activities.

The current population of Africa as a whole stands at 1.28 Billion1which has a growth rate of 2.52% yearly. This huge market serves as the target market for the Vision and Mission of KuBitX.

The traditionally unbanked of Africa are devoid of a strong financial footprint but the optimism shown towards cryptocurrency by these people promises a better future financially.

The cryptocurrency market currently has a market capitalization of $342 billion which is expected to rise up to $1 trillion2 by the end of 2018 as per market experts.

This not only shows the overall growth potential that the cryptocurrency market has, but also the role emerging African markets would play in contributing to this growth.

We aim to begin our journey by reaching out to people in the flagship countries of South Africa, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Ghana, Angola and Uganda aiming to reach a market share of 1-10 million users in the first three years of operation.

Achieving such levels of mass adoption, we aim to provide access to financial services to a large section of the African population thus promoting the overall economic growth of the Continent which would thus lead to a better quality of life.

KuBitX VISION AND MISSION

The ideation process behind KuBitX was undertaken keeping in mind the broader vision to educate, enable and engage people from emerging markets in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The technological development that has taken shape since the dawn of the Internet era has been top-down, i.e., from the developed nations towards the developing nations. This has created a gap in the overall development process thus compelling people from the emerging markets following the trail of development rather than being active contributors in shaping the process. KuBitX aims to leverage the emerging technology to move forward in the vision and mission that we have.

The broader areas upon which the vision of KuBitX has a focus upon are:

1. Education about Blockchain technology enhancing adoption by masses – KuBitX has come up with a unique initiative called Global Channel Ambassadors to enter, understand and capture local emerging markets. We aim to tackle the socioeconomic hindrances to adoption. The KuBitX Global Ambassador Initiative will reach the grassroots to drive local adoption.

2. Liquidity improvement – Liquidity is one of the most important pillars of any exchange that exists. Many exchanges today suffer from a liquidity crunch leaving users stranded with their currencies. To tackle this, we plan to involve market makers to build sustainable volume on the exchange, reducing cost of transactions and simplifying the complete process. To avoid wash trading, we have Anti Market Manipulation (AMM) tool on the platform. Market surveillance, supervision and compliance are being looked into very carefully. The admin can choose to freeze an account associated with suspicious trading.

3. Robust Security – Security is one of the most crucial pillars surrounding a cryptocurrency exchange. We at KuBitX do take the security of the whole platform very seriously. Hereby, we not only are developing our own exchange system secure but also plan to make users aware of various frauds and hacks going on in the market. Following are the security measures taken by the team:

• We are storing the password hashes and not the original passwords in our servers.

• All user data is encrypted using the AES-256 before being inserted into the database.

• KuBitX has designed a customized security architecture to ensure encryption keys are stored very well.

• Secure offline multi-signature cold wallets/vault system.

• Our system is fully GDPR compliant.

• KuBitX has developed a third-party code verification and penetration testing functionality.

4. Financial Inclusion – The emerging markets today especially in Africa and Asia suffer from a large chunk of their population being out of reach of the traditional banking system. Banks become controllers but here the person becomes the controller because P2P transactions are possible through their phones. The philosophy of the Blockchain era is excluding the third party and use P2P transactions. Africa has large amount of unbanked people hence KuBitX will educate people how to take advantage of Blockchain philosophy thus enhancing financial inclusion.

5. Economic development of the emerging markets – On a macro level, the emerging markets like Africa experience from low GDP rates, high inflation and generally poor economic growth. KuBitX with extensive strategic partnerships with the private and public sector, have designed an institutional investment plugin on the KuBitX engine to enable a higher volume of crypto trading and traditional capital trading functionalities. For instance, Zimbabwe uses a legal tender which is not native to their country thereby creating a negative impact on all aspects of their economy. KuBitX will be creating opportunities for a digital economy thereby allowing each nation to run its own economy and giving it an opportunity to play in the global market.

Our vision is one of collective growth for all market participants, both our customers and the KuBitX ecosystem, thereby contributing our share to the growth of the market itself.

ABOUT KBX TOKEN

Ticker KBX

Token Type ERC20 (Ethereum)

Decimal 18

Total Supply 500,000,000

Currencies Accepted ETH

Soft Cap 10.000 ETH

Hard Cap 25.000 ETH

TGE Details Seed Round: Ongoing. Ends 16 July, 2018.
Pre-Public Round: 16 July - 31 August, 2018
Public Round: TBC