Questions and Answers 2023-03

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Background: These questions were asked by Binance about BitShares (for due diligence) and were directed to BitShares GitHub Page Development Team and BitShares Community. Binance said "We basically do health check on our projects quarterly not on yearly basis".

1. Please provide the description and the highlights of the products offered.

Answer:

BitShares Blockchain is a decentralized “Blockchain as Organization” (BaO); an industrial-grade decentralized Web 3.0 open source platform built to run high-performance financial technology means and smart contracts. It represents the first decentralized autonomous decentralized community that enables its core token holders to decide its future direction along with financial technology products in a decentralized manner. BitShares core asset BTS is the core token utility which is used as fees to submit transactions at BitShares Blockchain; it is also used for BitShares Blockchain development purposes; while BTS asset holders are in power to manage and develop BitShares Blockchain and influence its future using several decentralized Blockchain integrated built-in decentralized voting functions in order to issue utility to developers for their submitted and approved worker proposals from utility fees pool, also to assign committee members for maintaining Blockchain dynamic parameters and assign witness nodes that will validate transactions.

As an infrastructure; BitShares Blockchain is a platform built using an open source code, running by elected nodes (witnesses) from all over the world, it is similar to Bitcoin and Ethereum as an infrastructure, BitShares is not a company nor a trademark or a brand, BitShares Blockchain doesn't have a legal responsibilities as a platform nor as code; users of BitShares Blockchain might have responsibilities or legal obligations for using it toward their legal jurisdiction depending on their own usage and the means behind it. legal entities cannot claim legal responsibilities of an open source code nor a decentralized Blockchain platform, they can operate client interfaces that is interfacing with the Blockchain and can bind to a legal partnerships for the sake of validating Blockchain certain data or can provide services on top of Blockchain platform through their own client interfaces which is interfacing with Blockchain using their own channels, internet domains, witness nodes or API nodes.

Products:

• Decentralized Exchange (DEX).
• Decentralized User Issued Asset (UIA).
• Decentralized Market Pegged Asset (MPA) or Smart Assets (Smart Contracts).
• Decentralized Finance (DeFi).
• Decentralized Liquidity Pools (LP) and Automated Market Maker (AMM).
• Decentralized Prediction Market (PM).
• Decentralized Non-Fungible Token (NFT).

2. Please provide the user/usage stats of the project and any other adoption metrics (DAU/MAU, active addresses, TVL, transactions numbers/volume, dApps, validators, etc.). Please include the source of stats provided.

Answer:

Statistics:

• Current Supply: 2,994,858,136.905
• Max Supply: 3,600,570,502
• Number of blocks: 77,456,667
• Number of operations (transactions): 1,259,345,607
• Number of accounts: 1,821,152
• Number of User Issued Assets: 6,519
• Number of Liquidity Pools: 472
• Active Committee Members: 11
• Active Witnesses: 19

Live API Sources:

• https://api.bitshares.build/api-docs
• https://api.bitshares.ws/docs
• https://xbts.io/api
• https://kibana.bts.mobi

3. Please list out the achieved milestones in the last 12-months with the respective timeline and its sources.

Answer:

• BitShares Beet v0.16.0 Release, Mar 15, 2023, https://github.com/bitshares/beet/releases/tag/v0.16.0
• BitShares Core 6.1.0 release, Dec 1, 2022, https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/releases/tag/6.1.0
• BitShares Core 6.0.2 release, Jun 26, 2022, https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/releases/tag/6.0.2
• BitShares UI 5.0.220701 release, Jul 12, 2022, https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-ui/releases/tag/5.0.220701
• BitShares UI 5.0.220214 release, Mar 22, 2022, https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-ui/releases/tag/5.0.220214
• BitShares Mobile v7.16 release, Nov 24, 2022, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.bitshares.app&hl=en
• BitShares Mobile v7.15 release, Oct 23, 2022, https://t.me/btsplusplus/1985
• BitShares Mobile v7.14 - v7.8 releases, Aug 26, 2022 - Mar 28, 2022, https://t.me/btsplusplus
• BitShares Python library v0.7.1 release, May 13, 2022, https://github.com/bitshares/python-bitshares/releases/tag/v0.7.1
• BitShares Beet Release Candidate v0.15.0-rc1, Sep 28, 2022, https://github.com/bitshares/beet/releases/tag/v0.15.0-rc1
• Updates of various community products, timeline to be updated, https://github.com/bitshares/awesome-bitshares

4. Please provide the most updated roadmap for your project. If this differs from the original roadmap, please highlight the differences and explain these differences.

Answer:

General Info About Roadmap: https://github.com/bitshares/roadmap

Year 2023 Roadmap Development Scope:

BitShares Core:

• Remaining:
  • https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/milestone/40
  • https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/milestone/43
• Achieved:
  • https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/milestone/40?closed=1
  • https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/milestone/43?closed=1

BitShares UI:

• https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-ui/projects/22

BitShares Beet:

• https://github.com/bitshares/beet/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed

Other subprojects:

• no info to disclose at the moment

5. Who do you consider your competitors and why do you think you are better than them? Please provide detailed competitor analysis.

Answer:

BitShares Known Technology Competitors who are having similar use cases:

• XRPL
• ETH
• BNB
• ADA
• MATIC
• SOL
• DOT
• ATOM
• XLM
• EOS
• FTM

We don't need to be better than our competitors in every way. We have our own advantages, such as native smart contracts, fast transaction and block confirmation, named accounts, on-chain referral and fee-sharing program, on-chain order book and on-chain order matching, low operating costs, open source, open community, etc.

6. Do you have any partnerships in place or under discussion? Please elaborate on the scope of the partnerships.

Answer:

Not Applicable for us to answer as GitHub development team; business partnerships are between Blockchain users to users, and it is their business.

7. What are the current use cases of your token? What are the planned future use cases? Please list current and planned use cases separately.

Answer:

Utility Usages:

• Utility for Blockchain operations fees.
• Power to participate in assigning active committee Blockchain users, assigning active witness nodes of Blockchain users and vote to issue utility token for development workers which are submitted by Blockchain users.

Note: There are no future plans addressed by Blockchain users in worker system to develop any future different usage at the moment.

8. What do you think will drive future demand for your token?

Answer:

Utilizing the features by corporate users:

• Decentralized Exchange (DEX).
• Decentralized User Issued Asset (UIA).
• Decentralized Market Pegged Asset (MPA) or Smart Assets (Smart Contracts).
• Decentralized Finance (DeFi).
• Decentralized Liquidity Pools (LP) and Automated Market Maker (AMM).
• Decentralized Prediction Market (PM).
• Decentralized Non-Fungible Token (NFT).

9. What is the business model of the project? What are the current and planned revenue streams?

Answer:

The project is being developed through agile contributions and operating as non-profit and open source; it has no business planning hence no revenue streams; features and functions of Blockchain Financial Technology are serving Blockchain users means and businesses.

10. Is the project currently profitable, breaking even, or operating at a loss? How is the project financially sustained? How long is the financial runway without additional funding? Please include the breakdown of the calculation.

Answer:

Not Applicable as BitShares project development is based on individuals contribution and operating as non-profit.

11. What is your treasury management plan? Please provide the amount you currently hold in your treasury (breakdown by fiat, or no. tokens held, etc).

Answer:

Not Applicable as BitShares project development is based on individuals contribution and operating as non-profit.

12. Please provide an 18-month cash flow forecast including FTE plans and historicals.

Answer:

Not Applicable as BitShares project development is based on individuals contribution and operating as non-profit.

13. Can you give a breakdown of the total number of your employees (including Management, Developers, Marketing, etc.)? Please state the number of team members that are working full-time and their respective positions.

Answer:

Agile development supervised by 14 members over BitShares GitHub Project Page: https://github.com/orgs/bitshares/people

14. What percentage of team/founders tokens have been sold?

Answer:

As per our information as development team around BitShares GitHub Page, BTS Tokens was never sold by project founders, it was a fork from another Blockchain so called PTS which was GPU mining based project.

15. Where are most of your communities located (regions or countries) and which social media platforms do you use to engage these communities?

Answer:

Development team around BitShares GitHub Page are worldwide, we do not ask for personal information of GitHub development team. Social Media Links of development team around BitShares GitHub Page and Community can be found here: https://github.com/bitshares/awesome-bitshares and they are managed by their respective owners.

16. Do your project’s tokens qualify as a security under US law (both federal and state)?

Answer:

We don't think so; BTS the utility token of BitShares Blockchain is used as utility for Blockchain operations fees and as power to participate in assigning active committee Blockchain users, assigning active witness nodes of Blockchain users and vote to issue utility token for development workers which are submitted by Blockchain users.

17. Has your project raised funds from US investors?

Answer:

Not Applicable as BitShares project development is based on individuals contribution and operating as non-profit.

18. Has your project made any registrations with the SEC in any capacity? If yes, please notify and furnish us with the relevant information.

Answer:

Not Applicable as BitShares project development is based on individuals contribution and operating as non-profit.

19. Has your project been under investigation or the subject of a probe by any US regulatory bodies or US Law Enforcement agencies? If yes, please notify and furnish us with the relevant information.

Answer:

As a development team around BitShares GitHub Page; we are not aware of any.

20. Do you have any other past or currently outstanding legal cases relating to you, the company, or anyone else related to the company?

Answer:

As a development team around BitShares GitHub Page; we are not a company in the legal sense, and we are not aware of any legal cases against any of our GitHub development team members.

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Drafted by: @ioBanker
Reviewd by: @abitmore