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This Company Is Making Investment Funds Accessible To Individual Investors

Published

6 years ago

January 25, 2018

Imagine you are an individual investor with $5,000 or $10,000 spare cash. You want to put it to good use so you research your options and you see that certain funds are performing well – say, for example, a real estate fund that invests in commercial property in New York. You want to pick up some equity in the fund and you’ve got your $10,000 ready to commit but there’s a problem – the minimum investment required to pick up equity in the fund you are looking at is $100,000.

This is a common problem and it’s one that leads to many individual investors that have restricted investment capital allocating towards less reputable funds or handing their cash over to an inexperienced investment manager, who then proceeds to rack up losses against the initial investment.

One company is creating a solution to this exact problem – Nousplatform.

Nousplatform is harnessing blockchain technology to allow fund managers to design, create and offer access to their own funds, based on practically any asset imaginable (so, New York commercial real estate, for example).

The technology tracks the performance of the funds that managers have created and provides up to date performance analysis to individual investors that are using the platform. These investors are able to use this performance analysis to get a picture of which funds are performing the strongest and – in turn – use the information to help them decide which funds they want to invest in.

So how does it all work?

If an investor decides he or she wants to invest $10,000 in a particular fund that’s been created and managed/tracked using Nousplatform technology, they need to buy equity in that fund. The idea is that, as the fund value increases, the value of the equity stake they have in the fund in question will increase in parallel.

When they want to cash out, they sell their equity stake and the profit they generate is the difference between the price they paid for the stake initially and the price for which they sell the stake at closure point.

Which is where the ongoing ICO comes into the equation.

When investors take part in the ICO, they are buying Nousplatform tokens with the ETH they transfer to the ICO wallet. These tokens are called NST and they are what investors will need to use to purchase a stake in any of the funds set up on the platform by the fund managers that use it.

So, when the platform is live, investors in the ICO can either use the NST they own to acquire stakes in various funds or, alternatively, hold onto the NST in anticipation of the token rising in value over time, with this rise in value rooted in the growth in open market demand for NST tokens as the platform expands and more and more investors buy NST and, in turn, exchange it for a stake in a fund.

In addition to the NST they receive on participation in the ICO, participants will also gain a stake in two funds that Nousplatform is setting up at the launch of its blockchain-based technology. One fund will revolve around cryptocurrency and another will be rooted in real estate and, assuming the predetermined caps are reached during the ICO, 15% of the former and 15% of the latter will be allocated to ICO token holders.

So how can you gain an early exposure to this one?

The company is currently conducting an ICO pre-sale, as part of which participants can pick up a 20% bonus on the NST tokens they receive. 1 ETH will return 8000 NST at the current price.

As always, it’s worth checking out the whitepaper before committing and it’s available here.

There’s also a light paper here for anyone looking for a quick introduction to Nousplatform.

You can take part in the ICO here.

Disclaimer: This article should not be taken as, and is not intended to provide, investment advice. Global Coin Report and/or its affiliates, employees, writers, and subcontractors are cryptocurrency investors and from time to time may or may not have holdings in some of the coins or tokens they cover. Please conduct your own thorough research before investing in any cryptocurrency.

Image courtesy of Nousplatform.

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Bitcoin Price Dumps Below $41,000 Amid Uncertainty

Published

4 months ago

December 18, 2023

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Bitcoin price dumped hard on Monday, briefly slipping below $41,000, erasing gains recorded in the previous week. The premier cryptocurrency seems to have exhausted its recent rally propelled by industry vulnerabilities. At the time of writing, the world’s largest cryptocurrency was trading slightly lower at $41,385. Bitcoin’s total market cap has dipped by 2% over the past day, while the total volume of BTC tokens traded over the same period climbed by 58%.

Fundamentals

Bitcoin price has been facing retracements and a rollercoaster over the past few days after recently rocketing to a 20-month peak. On-chain data has suggested that many investors used the opportunity to take some profits, leading to a decline in the asset’s price.

Bitcoin’s price slump is mirrored in the wider crypto market, with the global crypto market cap decreasing by 1.85% over the past 24 hours to $1.55 trillion. The total crypto market volume has increased by 32% over the same period. The Crypto Fear and Greed Index has plunged from a level of extreme greed to a greed level of 70, suggesting a decline in risk appetite.

Ethereum, the largest altcoin by market capitalization, is currently trading at $2,167, down almost 3% for the day. Meme coins have been hit hard by the market slump, with Dogecoin and Shiba Inu down by more than 4% over the last day.

Last week on Thursday, cryptocurrency experts took notice of…

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Bitcoin Price is in Consolidation Mode Despite Market Optimism Post-Fed Decision

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4 months ago

December 14, 2023

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Bitcoin price edged lower on Thursday despite optimism in wider markets on the back of the Fed’s interest rate decision. The flagship cryptocurrency has been consolidating above the critical level of $42,000 after briefly topping $44,000, its highest level in 20 months. Bitcoin was trading 0.71% lower at $42,569 at press time. BTC’s total market cap has increased by more than 3% over the last day to $832 billion, while the total volume of the asset traded over the same period jumped by 22%.

Economic Outlook

Bitcoin price has been trading sideways over the past few days, suggesting a pause in its recent rally towards $45,000. The premier cryptocurrency has decreased by 4% in the past week but remains 15.22% higher in the month to date. The digital asset has staged a significant recovery this year after a torrid 2022 in which a string of scandals, including the collapse of FTX, led to a market meltdown, undermining the credibility of the sector.

The crypto market has been buoyed by the Fed’s latest interest rate decision. The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday held its key interest rate unchanged for the third consecutive time, in line with market expectations. With the easing of the inflation rate, members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted to keep the benchmark overnight borrowing rate in a targeted range between 5.25%-5.5%.

Additionally, the central bank indicated that three rate…

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Bitcoin Price Blasts $44K in Spectacular Surge as Spot Bitcoin ETF Approval Looms Large

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5 months ago

December 6, 2023

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Bitcoin price has been hovering above the $43,000 psychological level over the past two days amid anticipation about the potential approval of a spot bitcoin ETF. The flagship cryptocurrency has climbed more than 16% in the past week and nearly 170% in the year to date. Bitcoin’s total market cap has increased by nearly 5% over the past 24 hours to $858.9 billion, while the total volume of the token traded rose by 43%. The Bitcoin price was trading at $43,914 at press time.

Fundamentals

Bitcoin price has posted significant gains over the past few days, climbing to its highest level since April 2022, before the crash of a stablecoin that started a litany of company failures, pummeling crypto prices. The world’s largest cryptocurrency briefly topped the crucial level of $44,000 on Wednesday amid rising momentum despite being massively overbought.

According to analysts, with no spot bitcoin ETF approvals yet and the halving event five to six months away, the market is riding on FOMO. Capital has been flowing in the Bitcoin market amid enthusiasm that the launches of spot ETF will bring in billions of dollars of new investment into the crypto sector.

Investors have already started providing capital as seed money for ETF products. Notably, a recent report by CoinDesk showed that the world’s largest fund manager, BlackRock, received $100,000 in capital from a seed investor for its spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund…