Depository Network

When you make a new business - you enter a competition (with other ICOs or FIAT projects that provide various solutions to satisfy the tagreted customers). So it is a mistake not no make a competitive analysis. It make believe that your strategy maybe wrong and out of the market. There is also no business planning in the WP. The team itself is too localised

I would look at it as a crypto bank and the co founder Ivo Gueorguiev is serial entrepreneur after looking at this linkedin profile. Seems like a good project but gaining adoption might be a tough one because of the number of competitors out there.

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“We build a secure infrastructure for lenders to accept blockchain assets as guarantee for loans. - Improve the liquidity of 100 million crypto holders.“

Please priovide reference source for the 100 million crypto holders?

Project looks promising with a star advisory team.

All the best!

I like the advisor team because of their authorities but it does not mean the project idea can be a great success.

Competing with FIAT and other cryptocurrencies which has stable standing is not an easy work so you need to have careful review and analysis of pros and cons. Without showing investors the solutions on how to compete with other payers to win the battle, you can't convince investors to contribute to the project.

Good team and detailed white paper but it seems to me yet another (solution) platform for P2P lending platform. Couldn't find competition analysis so It would nice to have it to prove they are "The World’s First Decentralized Multi-Platform Collateral Infrastructure". Tried to find username / password for MVP but couldn't get it neither able to create an account!

[Update]
Team++
Vision--
Team sent me MVP credentials on LinkedIn. Tested it on Ethereum test-net. Looks good.
[Correction] The platform provides only collateral solution for lenders which narrow down the scope of the product! Why would borrowers needs Blockchain to put assets for loans? There are many crypto collateral solutions out there!

very good team and advisers. Vision is good as well. Just need to be more faster to follow the roadmap as there are already lots of competition in the market. Team need to concentrate on connecting to FIAT based partners(funds) who can boost their chances in this competitive world. Best of luck team.

Team looks experienced enough to execute a project of this level, but they are not the only ones competing in the B2B lending against crypto space. It will take some time before cryptos are stable enough to be recognized as collateral against fiat.

I like the idea of marketing their depo platform to the traditional financial system. They talk about solving the issue of mass adoption, but they don't really say how they plan to solve it.

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Team - C-suite seems lacking in thorough experience of banking and crypto, the 2 major features of this project. Some good advisors onboard. Further legal advice should be sought for an international project in multiple jurisdictions.

Vision - WP explains the concept well, but, in my opinion, I cannot see this platform catching on for many years. Banks are not allowed to use cryptocurrencies as part of their tier 1 capital adequacy due to the volatility of crypto, so I can't see them accepting crypto as collateral at the moment. That's not to say things won't change in years to come, but I cannot see the platform being very well subscribed over the next 5 years.

Product - cannot find an MVP. 3 for now.

This project seems a little ahead of its time. That's not to say it won't become relevant in the future however, but this would take a wholesale shift in both the reliability of crypto as a store of value and zeitgeist of how traditional financial service providers view crypto-assets.

Good luck to the team with the project implementation.

The team and advisory board is strong, though competitive analysis is needed. The project has a strong vision, it’s way ahead of its time. The whitepaper is detailed. I am eagerly waiting for the project MVP.


Update: I have received the MVP from Depository Network, the UI is simple and easy to use. I wish long-lasting success to the team.

The idea is nice that every lender could define its own condition, but it exists already such platforms which are working. www.coinloan.io is such a platform and its working great.
But I like the idea that they want to expand the crypto community to traditional lenders.
I like the idea that coins from other blockchain projects could be used as collateral. Thats a really good approach and makes other coins more useful.
The multisig wallet its also a good idea.
Couldnt find a MVP.

The vision is unique but there is high competition in the lending space. For the project to be successful it must seek adoption from its biggest market - lenders. For this to occur people actually need to borrow / leverage crypto assets.

The WP does provide numbers on the opportunity this market presents but doesn't mitigate relevant risks involved.

The team is experienced with extensive years of finance.

Couldn't access MVP.

VISION: An interesting and ambitions vision, though a great deal of experience and work will be needed to be able to deliver this in practice and there may be regulatory and legal issues that need to be considered carefully. 3/5

TEAM: The team looks strong although concentrated in Bulgaria which maybe an issue given the cross-border vision. Some members seem to be shared with other projects. 4/5

PRODUCT: The white paper seems to be perfectly acceptable. It makes clear what problems are being solved and how this might be achieved. 3/5 +++REVISED 31 Jul 2018: after contact from the team, I was able to review the MVP which looks good, and better than average for this stage of the project. My original rating contained the words "The MVP link does not seem to work -- guys feel free to reach out." which are now obviously retracted. I'm increasing the mark by 1 to 4/5+++

This is not an invitation to invest. ICOs are risky and you can lose everything you put in.

"We are building infrastructure, where each lender will be able to build their own white label depository platform for accepting all types of crypto assets (currencies and tokens) as collateral for loans."

I think its a very interesting approach, looking forward to product development.


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9 Team Members and 11 Advisors. Highly recommended to increase your team size if you want to implement this project.
Aside from this, the other aspects of the project look good.

The idea is good in principle but the way the Whitepaper positions the product is not clear enough. For example the "Depo Smart Contract" makes Depo the middleman, it does not remove but adds players to a lenders process. I believe what they mean to say on P10 item 6 of the paper is 2 not 3 signatories. The paper should focus on Depo as a Blockchain Escrow service for traditional lenders wishing to accept crypto assets as collateral. I'm not sure there is enough international lending/banking experience in the team, especially from the core NBFI's that would be the main market for the solution.

The Whitepaper is not detailed enough with regards to the problems, solutions or the underlying technology.