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W H I T E P A P E RThe AirChain
The AirChain Whitepaper 1
DISLAIMER
INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
PROJECT INTRODUCTION
HOW DOES IT WORK
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General Information
Knowledge Required
Risks
Important Disclaimer
Representative and warranties
What will Airchain solve?
Fuel Scarcity
Security
Lack of Innovative Technology
Lack of Transparency
Understanding Smart Contract
Key Characteristics of Blockchain
Smart Contract
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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THE AIRCHAIN ECOSYSTEM
THE INITIAL COIN OFFERING
ROADMAP
CONCLUSION
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The ANK Token
Advantages of the Airchain Token
The Proof of Receipt
The ANK Mobile Application
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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DISCLAIMERGENERAL INFORMATION
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER
The Airchain does not have the legal qualification of a security, since it does not give any rights to dividends or
interests. The sale of Airchain is final and non-refundable. Airchain are not shares and do not give any right to
participate to the general meeting of Airchain board of director. Airchain cannot have a performance or a particular
value outside the Airchain Platform. Airchain shall therefore not be used or purchased for speculative or investment
purposes. The purchaser of Airchain is aware that national securities laws, which ensure that investors are sold
investments that include all the proper disclosures and are subject to regulatory scrutiny for the investors' protection,
are not applicable. Anyone purchasing Airchain expressly acknowledges and represents that she/he has carefully
reviewed this white paper and fully understands the risks, costs and benefits associated with the purchase of Airchain.
This white paper shall not and cannot be considered as an invitation to enter into an investment. It does not constitute
or relate in any way nor should it be considered as an offering of securities in any jurisdiction. This white paper does
not include or contain any information or indication that might be considered as a recommendation or that might
be used as a basis for any investment decision. Airchain are just utility tokens which can be used only on the Airchain
platform and are not intended to be used as an investment. The offering of Airchain on a trading platform is done in
RISKSKNOWLEDGE REQUIRED
The purchaser of Airchain undertakes that she/
he understands and has significant experience
of cryptocurrencies, Blockchain systems and
services, and that she/he fully understands
the risks associated with this as well as the
mechanism related to the use of cryptocurrencies
(incl. storage). Airchain shall not be responsible
for any loss of Airchain or situations making it
impossible to access Airchain, which may result
from any actions or omissions of the user or any
person undertaking to acquire Airchain as well as
in case of hacker attacks.
Acquiring Airchain and storing them involves various
risks, in particular the risk that Airchain may not
be able to launch its operations and develop its
Blockchain and provide the services promised.
Therefore, and prior to acquiring Airchain, any user
should carefully consider the risks, costs and benefits
of acquiring Airchain in the context of this whitepaper
and, if necessary, obtain any independent advice
in this regard. Any interested person who is not in
the position to accept or to understand the risks
associated with the activity (incl. the risks related to
the non-development of the Airchain platform) or any
other risks as indicated in this Terms & Conditions
should not acquire Airchain.
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order to allow the use of the Airchain platform and not for speculative purposes. The offering of Airchain tokens on
a trading platform does not change the legal qualification of the tokens, which remain a simple means for the use of
the Airchain platform and are not a security. Airchain is not to be considered as an advisor in any legal, tax or financial
matters. Any information in the white paper is provided for general information purposes only and Airchain does not
provide any warranty as to the accuracy and completeness of this information. Airchain is not a financial intermediary
according to Swiss law and is not required to obtain any authorization for Anti Money Laundering purposes. Acquiring
Airchain shall not grant any right or influence over Airchain’s organization and governance to the Purchasers.
Regulatory authorities are carefully scrutinizing businesses and operations associated to cryptocurrencies in the
world. In that respect, regulatory measures, investigations or actions may impact Airchain’s business and even limit or
prevent it from developing its operations in the future. Any person undertaking to acquire Airchain must be aware of
the Airchain business model, the white paper or terms and conditions may change or need to be modified because of
new regulatory and compliance requirements from any applicable laws in any jurisdictions. In such a case, purchasers
and anyone undertaking to acquire Airchain acknowledge and understand that neither Airchain nor any of its affiliates
shall be held liable for any direct or indirect loss or damage caused by such changes. Airchain will do its utmost to
launch its operations and develop the Airchain platform. Anyone undertaking to acquire Airchain acknowledges and
understands that Airchain does not provide any guarantee that it will manage to achieve it. They acknowledge and
understand therefore that Airchain (incl. its bodies and employees) assumes no liability or responsibility for any loss or
damage that would result from or relate to the incapacity to use Airchain, except in case of intentional misconduct or
gross negligence.
REPRESENTATION AND WARRANTIES
By participating, the purchaser agrees to the above and in particular, they represent and warrant that they:
have read carefully the terms and conditions attached to the white paper; agree to their full contents and
accept to be legally bound by them;
are authorized and have full power to purchase Airchain according to the laws that apply in their jurisdiction of
domicile;
live in a jurisdiction which allows Airchain to sell Airchain through a without requiring any local authorization;
are familiar with all related regulations in the specific jurisdiction in which they are based and that purchasing
cryptographic coins in that jurisdiction is not prohibited, restricted or subject to additional conditions of any
kind;
will not use Airchain for any illegal activity, including but not limited to money laundering and the financing of
terrorism;
have sufficient knowledge about the nature of the cryptographic coins and have significant experience with,
and functional understanding of, the usage and intricacies of dealing with cryptographic coins and currencies
and Blockchain-based systems and services;
purchase Airchain because they wish to have access to the Airchain platform;
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FORWARD LOOKINGSTATEMENTSAll statements contained in this White paper, statements made in press
releases or in any place accessible by the public and oral statements that may
be made by Airchain or their respective directors, advisors, executive officers
or employees acting on behalf of Airchain, that are not statements of historical
fact, constitute “forward looking statements”. Some of these statements can
be identified by forward-looking terms such as “aim”, “target”, “anticipate”,
“believe”, “could”, “estimate”, “expect”, “if”, “intend”, “may”, “plan”, “possible”,
“probable”, “project”, “should”, “would”,
“will” or other similar terms. However, these terms are not the exclusive means
of identifying forward-looking statements. All statements regarding Airchain
financial position, business strategies, plans and prospects and the future
prospects of the industry which Airchain is in are forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements as
to Airchain’s revenue and profitability, prospects, future plans, other expected
industry trends and other matters discussed in this White Paper regarding
Airchain are matters that are not historic facts, but only predictions. These
forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties
and other factors that may cause the actual future results, performance or
achievements of Airchain to be materially different from any future results,
performance or achievements expected, expressed or implied by such forward-
looking statements. These factors include, amongst others: (a) changes in
political, social, economic and stock or cryptocurrency market conditions,
and the regulatory environment in the countries in Airchain conducts its
respective operations; (b) the risk that Airchain may be unable or execute or
implement their respective strategies and future plans; (c) changes in interest
rates and exchange rates of fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies; (d) changes
in the anticipated growth strategies and expected internal growth of Airchain;
(e) changes in the availability and fees payable to Airchain in connection with
their respective businesses and operations; (f) changes in the availability and
salaries of employees who are required by Airchain to operate their respective
businesses and operations; (g) changes in preferences of participants of
Airchain; (h) changes in the future capital needs of Airchain and the availability
of financing and capital to fund such needs; (I) war or acts of international or
domestic terrorism; ( j) occurrences of catastrophic events, natural disasters
that affect operations of Airchain; (k) other factors beyond the control of
Airchain; and (l) any risk and uncertainties associated with Airchain and its
businesses and operations, including the tokens.
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INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
The transportation industry is a big and
important industry in life. Especially in
the air freight sector. From the practical
point of view, nowadays, the demand
for air cargo transportation is huge,
with a large volume of cargo and a wide
variety of cargo, we build an ecosystem
that, their users can connect with each
other easily to sign their package at
the cheapest cost, highest security,
convenience and intelligence. The
special feature of this project is that
we apply Blockchain technology with
preeminent features of decentralization,
using smart contract to address the
problems of Transparency, Safety
and Flexibility in the system. eco-
transport in particular and in the entire
transportation industry in general.
For the simplest and most comprehensive view, we can look
at the following example: Tom has a flight from Berlin to Seoul
and luggage empty 5kg of portable. Maria living and working in
Berlin want to send her friend in Seoul a 5kg gift parcel. If Maria
sent by conventional means of transport such as DHL, GRS, etc.
the cost is quite high and the waiting time is long. Maria and
Tom meet and exchange their needs at the Airchain ecosystem.
And just the next day, Maria’s package arrived at his friend’s
best cost, safely and quickly. And Tom, he has more income
without any effort due to the sale of his empty baggage. At the
same time, his credibility at Airchain was one level higher after
successful transactions.
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Air transport is a crucial tool for manufactured trade, especially cross border trade.it has been
forecasted by the IATA that the value of international trade shipped by air this year will be USD 5.5
trillion, which represents less than 1% of world trade by volume, but over 35% by value. That is
equivalent to USD18.6 billion worth of goods every day. Air cargo is a major source of strength to
many areas of modern life. Moving perishable goods from one side of the world to the other would
not be possible without air transport.
The pharmaceutical industry banks on air transport for its speed and efficiency in
transporting high-value, time and temperature sensitive cargo, particularly vaccines. USD12 billion
is spent worldwide on cold chain biopharma logistics. By 2020, it is estimated that this will rise to
USD16.7 billion.
In recent times, carriage of live animals by air is considered the most sensible and respectable
method of transportation over long distances to avoid death or health related complications due to
long distances travels.
E-commerce platforms such as Amazon, Alibaba, eBay etc. have generated billions in revenue by
using air freight for express delivery of Goods and services.
EXPRESSDELIVERY
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PROJECT INTRODUCTION
To disrupt the global air freight market.At Airchain we have a simple mission:
We stand for any business that wants to raise and build a world class delivery system. We stand for
any investor who wants to buy shares in businesses they believe in. That’s why we created Airchain
platform. To connect businesses directly to investors, using Blockchain. To make buying, selling and
delivery of products and services easy.
Our platform is already available as a prototype on our website. It provides solutions to the problem
of air freight industry by facilitating fast and efficient delivery of goods and services by air for large
enterprises and smaller businesses alike.
We offer business owners access to the sophisticated tools and techniques of the freight industry. For
less the stress and price. We are creating a business opportunity for investors we provide direct access
to a huge range of offers previously available to institutional investors, for zero fees.
Our cutting-edge approach Is to help business and logistic companies to deliver products of goods and
services, whilst our use of Blockchain technology removes duplication, ensure distribution and enforces
transparency. We allow investors and businesses to exchange goods and service on for fiat or crypto-
currency in a transparent, tamper proof and immutable distributed ledger.
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WHAT WILL AIRCHAIN SOLVE?
Fuel
One of the major pressing issues facing the cargo industry is the constant hikes in fuel price.
According to statistics, the average cost of a gallon of jet fuel has more than doubled, from 75 cents per gallon in 2001
to $2.01 in the first seven months of 2006—the equivalent of about $68 a barrel on average this year. At one point, jet
fuel prices reached as high as $2.50 a gallon.
With this constant increase in fuel price, the air cargo is seemingly expensive and often cannot be afforded by an
average business or enterprises.
“Two years ago, fuel represented approximately 22 percent of direct operating costs for
airlines,” Laird notes. “Today, for most wide body planes, fuel now represents a greater
percentage of total operating costs.”
Ned LairdMANAGING DIRECTOR OF AIR CARGO MANAGEMENT GROUP, SEATTLE.
Security
Security has been one of the major threat of the air cargo industry, terrorist activities has been on the rise since the late
2000, their activities has crippled air cargo freights as cargo planes are targets of hijacks and bombings. These activities
are making companies reconsider the use of air freights
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Adoption of innovative technology
Lack of transparency
The air freight has always been a traditional industry with little or no change in the use of technologies, with the Uber
style of business model, the air freight industry us yet to adopt this approve, making it backward and out of date.
The air freight industry has been inefficient in logistics and inventory has also crippled the air freight industry, making
it not to be at her best performance.
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HOW DOES IT WORK UNDERSTANDING SMART CONTRACT
A Blockchain is a peer-to-peer distributed ledger (information recorded in a shared
database) that enables open and trusted exchanges over the internet without using
central servers or an independent trusted authority. Using consensus, a shared record
it is distributed to all participants in a network to validate transactions and remove the
need for a third-party intermediary. In short, Blockchain facilitate transparent, verifiable,
and secure digital asset transactions with both proof of rights and ownership.
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Blockchain has its origins in the secure exchange of digital currency – such as Bitcoin – but its applicability is extending
far beyond digital payments and into a number of different industries including financial, healthcare, government and
even telecommunications. In fact, the number of use cases for Blockchain is actually quite astounding:
Due to its distributed nature, the database is decentralized with a copy of the entire
record available to all users and participants of the peer-to-peer network. Additionally,
it requires participants to authenticate and verify each new block and only adds with
majority consensus. By storing information in multiple cryptographically validated ledger
copies across a network, Blockchain eliminate single points of failure, hacking attacks, or
control by any single entity.
Because the Blockchain is decentralized and digitally distributed across a number of
computers, it eliminates the need for expensive infrastructure as well as the need for
central authorities or third-party intermediaries. More importantly, it increases the speed
of exchange between people, departments, etc.
Blockchain are encrypted using both public and private keys to maintain security as well
as using both cryptography and digital signatures to prove identity. Furthermore, because
each block is linked to a preceding block, it is virtually impossible to change historical
records as each block has a permanent timestamp that allows for tracking and verifying
information.
Central to how the Blockchain works is the creation of trust by the means of clever
cryptography to establish a consensus on the Blockchain ledger that a particular
transaction has actually occurred. Once consensus is reached that transaction cannot be
amended or tampered with and becomes an immutable and time-stamped record on the
digital ledger. This gives any person looking at the Blockchain ledger a very high degree
of confidence that the transactions detailed did in fact take place. for the first time ever,
we have a platform that ensures trust in transactions and much recorded information no
matter how the other party act.
Key characteristics of Blockchain include the following:
TRUST TRANSPARENCY AND NEUTRALITY:
SPEED AND EFFICIENCY:
SECURITY AND IMMUTABILITY:
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SMART CONTRACTS
Smart contracts are the key element of Ethereum Blockchain. In them any algorithm can be encoded. Smart contracts
can carry arbitrary state and can perform any arbitrary computations. They are even able to call other smart contracts.
This gives the scripting facilities of Ethereum tremendous flexibility. Smart contracts are run by each node as part of
the block creation process.
Just like Bitcoin, block creation is the moment where transactions actually take place, in the sense that once a
transaction takes place inside a block, global Blockchain state is changed. Ordering affects state changes, and just like
in Bitcoin, each node is free to choose the order of transactions inside a block. After doing so a certain amount of work
must be performed.
Match Buyer with Seller
ExchangeContract receives assets
Contract distributes assets
Digitise the Land Deed
Sell House Buy House
Clearing and settlement is automated
Ownership isundisputed
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The transparency of events along the supply chain via the Blockchain is
itself a major enabler of faster payments and improved financing, increased
efficiency, reduced risk of fraud, and lower costs. Exchanging information
related to these events in a distributed ledger facilitates trigger events
that need to take place for goods to arrive at their final destination and
for suppliers to receive payment. But, the capability of the Blockchain
to facilitate these trigger events does not end with the mere exchange of
information along a supply chain.
The use of smart contracts to not only trigger events but actually carry them
out automatically represents a bold evolution that is being actively explored
by a few today. Smart contracts are self-executing computer codes that
automatically carry out functions once a triggering event has taken place. It
is a linear contract that can include multiple parties (investors, borrowers,
buyers, sellers etc.) and that cannot be altered.
For example, if a smart contract is written between a Parcel owner and the
Airchain delivery to say that once the parcel arrives safely in the delivery
process, 80% of the funds will be released to the individual who delivers
the parcel, a smart contract would automatically disburse payment once
confirmation is entered into a distributed ledger that the delivery process
has closed.
The confirmation of approval by the delivery process is not a triggering
event requiring action by a bank; the payment is automatically made once
confirmation has been entered into the system. With a smart contract,
legal stipulations are embedded in the computer code, which enables
the automatic execution of functions defined by a legal contract. It also
provides protection against duplicate and double spend, as the contract will
not allow for a parcel that has already been paid for to receive additional
payment.
A smart contract, therefore, acts as an application layer that is built on the
Blockchain. The development of the Blockchain that supports the smart
contracts we are developing is already built and readily available and
globally known as Ethereum Virtual Machine ‘EVM’ in a number of countries.
Some see smart contracts as the future of the Blockchain, as they enable
more efficiencies in legal contracts through a decrease in manual processing
and initiation of contract terms, risk reduction through the elimination
of manual errors and duplicate financing, which could make value
propositions such as micropayments more feasible.
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THE AIRCHAINECOSYSTEM
With the ANK token an access to a peer to peer platform where
speed and transparency are accessible and a community that
will helps each other strive and grow the ecosystem of the air
freight.
The Airchain token will give the token holders the right to claim
right over parcels sent on the Airchain platform and obtain real
time tracking scores for certain entities which have a sufficient
track record on the Ethereum Blockchain. The Airchain token
allows the community members send parcel on the ecosystem
and make more income. With the ANK token you can pay for
parcels fee and exchange parcels and income on a peer to peer
level without intermediary or regulatory fees.
THE ANK TOKEN
Advantages of Airchain token
Early purchases will be rewarded with tokens;
Airchain tokens will increase in value as the
reserve continues to grow while creating
liquidity in the travel insurance market;
Airchain tokens disrupt the traditional Air
freight travel market by introducing parcel
delivery at Zero cost!
Folks of all walks are able not only to monetize
a traditional sunk cost, but also have access to
a continuous stream of income while still active
in Airchain Ecosystem;
The reserve is fixed as per market capitalization
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THE ANK MOBILE APPLICATIONA UNIQUE MOBILE APPLICATION WITH AMAZING FEATURES
Our application is a unique application. You will
be able to track your parcels, good and services.
You will be able to add friends, family and others
to your own friend. You can easily send and receive
coins from people in your friend list. You will
be able to chat with your contacts, through our
encrypted chat function. 100% secure wallet to
wallet chat function (peer to peer). Your profile can
be linked to the App; People see your review history
which helps your credibility on the ecosystem.
PROOF OF RECIEPT
A proof of receipts is a smart contract encoded document on the Ethereum Blockchain, that contains the information
to cryptographically verify a piece of data is anchored to a Blockchain. It proves the data existed at time it was
anchored. The Airchain proof of receipts can be verified without reliance on a trusted third party.
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THE ICO ( T H E I N I T I A L C O I N O F F E R I N G )
The Airchain ICO crowd sale will be launched on 2018. Check the Airchain website at airchain.org for the latest
information. The ICO will feature coins for sale and coins will be reserved for the bounty program, if coins are not sold
they will be burned with proof of burn after the ICO. The founders will hold zero pre-mined coins. This is fair and may
give purchasers confidence that there is no “pump and dump” going to happen by the founders. This is also why we do
not hold a pre-sale. We do not want people to hold cheap coins, just to sell them right after the ICO.
THE AIRCHAIN ICO DETAILS
TOKEN SALES
TOKEN TOTAL SUPPLY
10 Billion Airchain Token
SOFT CAP
$3 Million
HARDCAP
$35 Million
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FUND DSITRIBUTIONS
AIRCHAINFUNDS
DISTRIBUTION
Presale + public sale: 50% Bounty + referral: 6%
Founding team: 30% Advisors: 3%
Partnership + ecosystem: 11%
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ROADMAP
2 QUARTER 2017:
1 QUARTER 2018:
4 QUARTER 2017:
2&3 QUARTER 2018:
1 QUARTER 2019:
3 QUARTER 2017:
APRIL 2018:
JANUARY 2018:
4 QUARTER 2018:
ROADMAP VERSION 2.0 RELEASE.
Ideas and market research
Token presale & start of the token sale
Searching for business partners
Ideas and market research
Full-functionality operationing product with own Blockchain Mainnet
Applied research on mobile platform
Token sale finish, release alpha application
Token sale preparation
Own Blockchain Testnet
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CONCLUSION
There is no better way to create prosperity and wealth
distribution. As more people are participating and sharing in the
new economy, our lives and prosperity can only improve.
Technologies are reshaping and disrupting the traditional
business model. The tiny savings realized by each individual
in a particular economic sector will add up and be utilized in
other areas such as health care, education, etc. Airchain believes
in this transformation and is poised to bridge the gap in the
sharing economy. The air freight travel industry will be safer
and efficient if Airchain is adopted. Airchain Token is structured
in a dynamic way such that it betters the travel ecosystem, with
Airchain powered by the disruptive features of Blockchain, its
potentials are limitless and anyone who truly wants to create
sufficient wealth for him/ her.
All of the AIRCHAIN roadmap offerings are proven technologies
that exist in today’s society, but the AIRCHAIN Project is uniquely
capable of bringing all of these concepts, technologies and
business uses together in one offering that will be continuously
upgraded, and can bring together everyone into an inclusive,
efficient, more empowered Community.
This is a unique opportunity to get into some of the fastest
growing economic segments in the world, with a participation in
an initial Token sale.