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mTiME Challenges by MACHAAO Blockchain Powered Prediction Games Working Draft v0.3 by Harshal Dhir Saurabh Karade Aditya Chavan
The Problem We as passionate fans spend our limited time following or viewing a live event but never get anything tangible in return for the time we put in.
Time is Wealth In the modern era of digital ecosystems, Time has been established as the most valuable human capital and it is this very time that we contribute every day to some existing platforms. Some of these platforms make wealth from your digital footprints, and rarely if ever this wealth is passed down to the hands of the users who are the pillars of any substantially significant digital economy. So, remember time is most valuable wealth you possess, essentially “Your Time is your Wealth”.
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What if we could give back a part of this wealth back?
Preface We are a global company with a mission for satisfying all the sports fans worldwide regardless of their sports affinity, we are starting with Cricket as the first implementation and plan to rapidly expand to other sports due to the plug n play nature of our custom built in house conversational agent fondly known as Ganglia.
Opportunity The global sports betting market has been growing at a CAGR of 8.62% estimated to reach $60B+ worldwide by Jan 2020 but conflicting evidence suggests that the figure hovers around $400B+ currently including the illegal circuit prevalent in developing countries around the world. According to another popular article by Hindustan Times (a major media house in India), The sports betting market in India alone was worth $150 billion (~Rs 9.5 lakh crores) per year as of January 2016. That includes roughly $200 million (~Rs. 1200 crores) that was wagered on an every single One-Day International Cricket game played by the Indian cricket team in 2016, according to the Doha-based International Centre for Sports Security as depicted in the image below.
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Vision To create rewarding second screen communities based on monetized time as a store of value.
Mission Our mission is to create wealth by leveraging the power of time bound conversational algorithms and using them to create skill and awareness based Second Screen Prediction Gaming Models.
Legal governance and compliance We have invested in seeking out legal and compliance expertise to ensure that MACHAAO meets the new regulatory rules of the Initial Coin Offering at the ICO-stage. According to professional opinion of our legal advisors, based on the Howey Test, mTiME Tokens should not be deemed as securities and do not need to be registered as a security.
About Us MACHAAO is currently the home of Ganglia, A Conversational Cricket Assistant currently serving more than 800,000+ Cricket fans worldwide on Messenger. Unlike many other blockchain startups, we have a working market fit product along with an organically growing user base and not just a roadmap. We anticipate having the Blockchain version of the Challenges up and running by end of Q2 2018 (details below)
Background We are a 1 ½ year old Silicon Valley startup featured @ Facebook F8 2017 with a product market fit and a global team, based primarily out of SF Bay Area, CA and Mumbai, India
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History ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
100,000+ Daily Active Users Global Audience Growing Organically Featured on VentureBeat - Aug 2016 Machaao becomes a part of FBStart - Jan 2017 Featured as Experts on Messenger Blog - Feb 2017 Featured on e27 Asia - Mar 2017 Partnerships with Cricket Boards - Mar 2017 Launched P2P Daily Challenges - November 2017 #1 Trending ChatBot in India on Messenger - January 2018 450,000+ Facebook Followers Over 1.5B+ Interactions Processed 100+ Brand Instant Redemption Ready (India) Partnerships with Google, ICOBOX (Jan 2018)
Introducing mTiME “My Time” (mTime) is an ERC20 based cryptocurrency token representing a function of monetized time spent by a particular user on the MACHAAO Platform. These tokens are necessary to participate in the blockchain powered live prediction games called “Challenges”, in addition to availing premium services or content on the platform as a whole.
What is a Challenge? A Challenge is a Real Time Prediction Gaming Contest with varying levels of difficulties which one can play along while watching or following any LIVE event. We would want to take this opportunity to clarify that Challenges function as Games of Mere Skill based on awareness and domain expertise and not as Games of Mere Chance where your outcome is singularly dependent on a single predetermined question or luck plays a major factor in the outcome.
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What is the need for Challenges? Remember the times when you made a series of winning forecasts during a LIVE event which were not by mere chance but a reflection of your real time awareness and circumstantial domain knowledge, but you never got reimbursed by that ever grateful challenger.
Challenges on Blockchain Smart Contracts serve as a perfect vehicle for executing decentralized & secure time bound trusted peer to peer promises which serve a dual purpose of not only a binding agreement from participating challengers but also provide a historic ledger of the transactions.
How does it work? The challenge can be initiated by a particular user aka “The Host” during a LIVE event by locking a minimum of predetermined amount of mTiME tokens into an executable smart contract, thus defining the minimum value “X” which is required to join the newly created challenge along with other nominal properties such as number of participants, et al. Any other challengers wishing to take part in the challenge would require a minimum of X mTiME tokens to participate or join the blockchain version of a challenge. The winner is decided by a Skill based Prediction Game and the winner with maximum number of points get the escrowed mTiME minus a 10% service fee charged in mTiME tokens.
THE ECONOMICS The mTiME Economy is based on a simple assertion, that a percentage of the platform monetized time will be given back to the user as a reward for performing various different monetized activities on the platform. The core concept also has been designed with an inclusive growth of the users in mind. Let's take a look at details at some of the factors or variables affecting the mTiME economy.
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Current Monetizable Factor ( cmf i ) The formula below defines the equation for the current monetizable factor ( cmf i ) which can be derived from Daily Monetized User Time ( dmti ) in seconds spent on the platform on day i n
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dmti ( Daily Monetized Time) = ( ∑ ∑ tau ) = ∑ (ta1 + ta2 + ... + taz ) a=1 u=1
a=1
cmf i (dollar per second) = ( dmti / Z ) where, cmf i = current monetizable factor on day i t = time spent in seconds for each activity a = total number of times the user performs the activity spending cumulative time on the platform u = Single user on the platform z = total number of users that have performed on the platform performing the activity on a day Z = total number of seconds in a day = 86400 It is reasonable to assume that the daily monetizable time would increase over a period as the demand for platform services are currently increasing organically.
Current Earning Potential ( cepi ) The formula below is equation for current earning potential ( cepi ) of the platform on day i. This is based on outcomes of the earning opportunities created by the platform users as a result of dedicating the time to the platform on day i. n
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cepi = ∑ ∑ (eau / cmt * df ) = ∑ (ecf a1 + ecf a2 + ... + ecf az ) a=1 u=1
a=1
where, cepi = current earning potential on day i e = minimum earning per nth activity by zth user cmt = Current mTiME Value in USD on Exchange df = distribution factor ecf = earning coefficient factor = (e / cmt * df) u = single user performing the activity a = total number of times the user performs the activity spending cumulative time on the platform z = number of users on the platform performing the activity on a particular day
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Equation of mTime ( mtei ) i
1 mtei = ibp + ∑ (cepn / cef n ) n=1
where, mtei = value of mTiME on day i ibp = initial base price (locked at an initial coin offering $0.15c USD) cepn = current earning potential of platform in USD on a unique day n cef n = current monetizable time factor of the platform in USD on a unique day n To reiterate, The mTiME economy has been based on a simple principle which signifies MACHAAO’s intent to share the wealth made from the monetized activities that a particular user performs on the platform and MACHAAO in turn returns the favor by awarding mTiME to a user for the efforts a particular user has put in.
Velocity of mTIME The theory of the velocity as proposed by the great Milton Friedman, helps us determine the velocity of a token based on how many times a particular token would be exchanging hands on the platform.
Earn mTiME Users can earn mTiME through time based incentivized algorithms such as: ● Inviting a New Friend - Every invitation that is materialized and added to the user base for a period of 7 days. Anything less is not rewarded ● Watching a Rewarded Video Ad - Watching an advertisement video for a minimum of 60 seconds. Anything less is not rewarded
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● Bonus Schemes using mTiME Earn Microservices.
Consume mTiME ● mTiME Tokens are necessary to consume Ganglia Premium Microservices such as ○ Video on Demand ○ In App Virtual Items ○ Special powers and Virtual Gear while playing challenges ○ Personalized Animated Stickers ● mTiME Tokens can also be used to Redeem Instant Digital Brand Gift Cards which would be made available through a Web dApp and also via a Mobile Wallet ● We charge 10% of the transaction value in mTiME as a processing fee from the winner(s) for every successfully executed challenge.
mTiME ICO Overview Initial Buy Price $0.15c per Unit
Structure Reserved for Community Available for Pre Token Sale Bounty + Bonus + Partners + ICOBOX Team + Advisors Total
120,000,000 268,000,000 144,800,000 467,200,000 1,000,000,000
12.00% 26.80% 14.48% 46.72% 100.00%
Schedule Dev Pre-Sale 15th March 2018 to 21st March 2018 Available Tokens in Dev Pre-Sale Discount
48,000,000 33.33%
$0.10c
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Pre-Sale 22nd March 2018 to 31st March 2018 Available Tokens in Pre-Sale Discount
75,000,000 16.66%
$0.125c
145,000,000 10%
$0.135c
Public Sale 01st April 2018 to 07th April 2018 Available Tokens in Public Sale Discount
Token Emission The token emission would commence starting 27th June 2018
Total Supply Fixed Supply of 1,000,000,000 mTiME Tokens Any unsold tokens would be returned to reserved supply and would be available to buy from the Platform post Wallet dApp release There will be no further emissions
Methods of Payment Interested parties would be able to buy mTiME tokens in fiat currency or alternatively MACHAAO accepts payments in ETH or BTC or ALT Coins
Know your Customer We will be following the KYC requirements as per the country of origin norms and regulations
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Escrow Requirements The tokens sold in the sale would only be available for consumption after the token emission date and after the tokens are available to consume on the MACHAAO platform
TECH SPECIFICATIONS Ganglia - Your Personalized Conversational Assistant Ganglia, Your Personalized Conversational Assistant referred hereafter as Ganglia has been designed as set of reusable micro services and built in-house by MACHAAO to serve varying sets of deeply personalized data and gaming economic models for sports, events, stocks, et al. Ganglia for Cricket is the Cricket focussed implementation of the platform and has been serving over 800,000+ Cricket Loving Fans across the Globe. Ganglia can broadly be classified as into following high level API enabled microservices as depicted in high level component diagram below:
Ganglia - High Level Component Diagram
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Ganglia Personalize This component of Ganglia represents a suite of reusable API enabled microservices which helps a user to follow, create or configure “automation enabled topics” aka “moods” such as a sports team, an athlete, a movie, an event, a stock or even a cryptocurrency at a deeply personalised level
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Ganglia Converse This component of Ganglia represents a suite of reusable REST enabled on demand microservices which allows a user to receive personalized responses based on location, gender, age and of course “moods” as deep level targeting is built into the platform
Ganglia Earn This set of reusable micro components of the engine enables a user to earn MTime for performing incentivized time based actions such as watching a video ad, inviting a user et al
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Ganglia Play This set of reusable micro components of the engine enables a user to join and play blockchain based prediction games aka Challenges
Ganglia Redeem* This set of reusable micro components enable a user to trade or exchange MTime for Digital Gift Cards, Brand Rewards, Swap it for another cryptocurrency, et al.
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Ganglia Merchant* This set of reusable microservices would enable a 3rd party merchant to list his or her product or service on the Ganglia Platform for consumer consumption
Ganglia Settle* This set of reusable micro components would facilitate the key parts of the settlement channels in association with micro raiden or ethereum micropayment channels
Roadmap Feb 2018 ICO Preparation IR Relationships Partners Android App
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018 Token Sale Pre Indian Premier League Marketing
June 2018 Release Blockchain Powered Prediction Challenges Beta - India / Australia / USA Token Redemption with 194+ Brand Instant Gift Cards Enabled - India / Australia / USA
August 2018 eWallet dApp (Buy / Transfer / Redeem mTiME)
November 2018 iOS App Add Soccer Support Release Third Party Developer APIs for Providing Merchant Services using mTiME Gift Redemption - USA
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Mar 2019 Add NFL Support Add Voice / CarPlay Support
June 2019 Launch NBA Support
Team Harshal Dhir, CEO Aditya Chavan, Marketing Shashank Prasad, Infrastructure Saurabh Karade, Finance Mayank Bhatnagar, Product - Web Krunal Patel, Operations Syed Asif Iqbal, Partnerships and Alliances Tapos Pal, Gaming Lead Sagar Gopale, Technical Director
Partnerships Facebook, Platform Google, Monetization Partner Mobigraph, Engagement Partner Dashbot, Analytics Partner ICOBOX, ICO Partner Crypto News India, PR Partner Codecraft Technologies, Technology Partner Microsoft, Engagement Partner*
Advisors Abhinav Ramesh, CEO - WandX Angik Sarkar, CEO - Waylo Dennis Yang, CPO - Dashbot.io Sunil Chiluvuri, Technology
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Oussama Glilah, Razor Capital Piyush Puri, VP - BCCL Worldwide James Sowers, ICOBench Pankaj Thakkar, Padup Ventures Rajat Jain, Padup Ventures
APPENDIX Smart-contracts mTiME Tokens will be created according to the ERC20 specifications of the Ethereum blockchain. Exact information about our smart contracts will be added soon - we are working on it right now.
Backed by Revenue Since mTiME is being awarded only on a monetized action performed by a user they are backed by revenue value in fiat currency.
Safety of Funds Platform employees would not have access to user wallets.
Users' Safety Only account owners have access to their wallets. Passwords to accounts are not stored on the site, with hashing used for fast login. Users can either store passwords to their wallets on the platform or delete them for security reasons.
Disclaimer This document is for information purposes only, and is not an offer or a call to sell stocks or securities on the MACHAAO platform, or that of any other related or associated company. mTiME tokens are not securities User acknowledges, understands, and agrees that mTiME tokens are not securities and are not registered with any government entity as a security, and shall not be considered as such.
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User acknowledges, understands, and agrees that ownership of mTiME does not grant the user the right to receive profits, income, or other payments or returns arising from the acquisition, holding, management or disposal of, the exercise of, the redemption of, or the expiry of, any right, interest, title or benefit MACHAAO or MACHAAO Platform or any other MACHAAO property, whole or in part.
Absence of guarantees of income or profit There is no guarantee that mTiME tokens will grow in value. There are no guarantees that the price of mTiME will not decrease, including significantly, due to some unforeseen events, or events over which the developers have no control, or because of force majeure circumstances.
Risks associated with Ethereum mTiME tokens will be issued on the Ethereum blockchain. Therefore, any failure or malfunctioning of the Ethereum protocol may lead to the trading network of mTiME tokens not working as expected.
Regulatory uncertainty Blockchain technologies are subject to supervision and control by various regulatory bodies around the world. mTiME tokens may fall under one or more requests or actions on their part, including but not limited to restrictions imposed on the use or possession of digital tokens such as mTiME, which may slow or limit the functionality or repurchase of mTiME tokens in the future.
mTiME Tokens are not an Investment mTiME tokens are not official or legally binding investments of any kind. In case of unforeseen circumstances, the objectives stated in this document may be changed. Despite the fact that we intend to reach all goals described in this document, all persons and parties involved in the purchase of mTiME tokens do so at their own risk.
Quantum computers Technical innovations, like the development of quantum computers, may pose a danger to cryptocurrencies, including mTiME tokens.
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Risk of losing funds Funds collected in fundraising are in no way insured. If they are lost or lose their value, there is no private or public insurance representative that buyers can reach out to.
Risks of using new technologies mTiME tokens are a new and relatively untested technology. In addition to the risks mentioned in this document, there are certain additional risks that the team of the MACHAAO platform cannot foresee. These risks may manifest themselves in other forms of risk than those specified herein.
Integration All information contained within this Whitepaper is provided for general information purposes only, and is intended to present a guide to the decentralized services which may be provided by MACHAAO in future. Nothing published in this document is intended to be (i) legal, financial, professional, tax or other advice; (ii) a recommendation to undertake (or to cease undertaking) any action whatsoever; (iii) an advertisement, solicitation or legal offer; (iv) an offer or a call to buy or sell stocks or securities on the MACHAAO platform, or that of any other related or associated company, (v) a promise of any voting or ownership rights of MACHAAO (vi) or a promise of receiving any passive income, any return on investment or any profit; and should not be construed as any of the foregoing. mTiME is a cryptographically-secured representation of a token-holder's rights to get access to the MACHAAO platform and receive services on the MACHAAO platform in future through the token-holder's active actions such as hosting challenges, buying digital services, etc.