The creation of the internet changed everything.

We believe Holo can change everything again.

Holo ICO Quick Facts

Token Information: HoloTokens (HOT) are temporary ERC20 tokens purchased with ETH which will become exchangeable for Holo fuel when the Holo ecosystem launches later in 2018. More information about HoloTokens

Token Pricing: 1 ETH buys 4,410,747.31 HOT

Minimum Purchase: 0.1 Eth

Initial Supply: €2.5M (25,000,000,000 HOT)

Hard Cap: €25M (250,000,000,000 HOT)

Minimum Threhold (already met): €1M. If we raise less than this we will return the ETH to all participants, by executing an off-chain script not included in smart contract code, and will fulfill the project through other funding strategies

Token Distribution: Whatever has been minted during the ICO + 33.3% more HOT than were purchased will be minted for the Holo organization and team, such that 25% of all tokens are held by the organization and team, and 75% are held by the community

ICO Period: Thursday, 29 March 2018 10:00AM GMT to 28 April 2018 10:00AM GMT (Tokens become transferable upon ICO close)

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Testimonials

“The ICO that will be remembered as the gateway to a better internet.”Tom LaForge, Former Global Director of Human and Cultural Insights at Coca-Cola

“We strongly believe in all things Holo. It’s very aligned to everything we want to do…this is about fundamentally shifting things with a bias to making it right, and doing it right for all.”Duleesha Kulasooriya, Head of Strategy and Research, Deloitte, Center for the Edge

Holo Roadmap

Holo is a community of passionate humans building a distributed cloud, owned and run by users like you and me.

We believe in the power of a truly peer-to-peer Internet.

Together we are now able to build a more human internet: one where you control your own data, you decide who you want to interact with and how, and you get recognized and rewarded for helping others do the same by sharing some of your computer’s processing power and storage.

Be part of building a new digital economy
Choose who you support and connect with online
Help create a more human internet for everyone

How It Works

Funded and Built by the Crowd.
That’s You and Me!

Your backing now enables the launch of a broad, stable, secure, and user-ready network. And by purchasing one of our personal cloud devices—a HoloPort—you will be building an essential piece of the network’s infrastructure starting in Spring 2018.

Most people only adopt technology when they're sure it's great. You are not most people. You are an early adopter. Your early support allows users a taste of the new, equitable Internet to enable a global-scale switch! Be a node of the internet we all need.

Indiegogo Campaign

Our Indiegogo crowdsale will boost distribution of Holo developers and hosts by selling: hosting nodes (HoloPorts) and developer trainings. All Holo hosts will earn cryptocurrency (Holo fuel) for hosting data from distributed apps when the network launches.

Initial Community Offering

The ICO is our Holo fuel presale. Our aim is to launch Holo responsibly. So we're limiting the supply of Holo fuel based on the demand for HoloPorts and Developer Trainings sold on Indiegogo. We have carefully designed our offering to ensure wide distribution across the community.

Use Cases

Earn Money: Sharing Economy on Holo

Today: Jim has a small guest house that he’d like to rent to visitors. However, he is looking for an alternative to Airbnb. Jim likes to talk to people before he agrees to have them stay with him, and Airbnb blocks attempts to share phone numbers until after a guest has finished booking.

Coming Soon: Jim could opt to join Ourbnb, a peer-to-peer home sharing platform run by the hosts themselves. Whenever someone visits the Ourbnb website, one of the community member’s computers serves their requests and deals with the booking. In return for making Ourbnb available to anyone with a web browser, that host gets compensated in Holo for the work their machine did.

Vision: The Sharing Economy on Holo expands through building numerous interoperable cooperatives. Reputation becomes portable across communities, so rave reviews in acclaim in Ourbnb may help Jim access opportunities in other contexts as well. Sharing smaller resources (not just homes and cars) also may become more common thanks to Holo’s efficient micro-transactions.

Secure Sharing: Medical Records Management

Today: Dana has medical records on file with 8 different doctors at 3 different hospitals. Yet, when she moves to a new town, it could be a bureaucratic nightmare to assemble the records from all of the different locations.

Coming Soon: With Holo, she would be able to securely share her own copies of her records with her new doctors and hospital. She would have that team working with a full medical history without any delays. Dana feels better knowing she holds, owns, and controls her personal information.

Vision: Dana’s personal AI integrates health information from her Fitbit and other ongoing health records, noticing trends worth watching for a heart condition she was diagnosed with a couple of years ago. Dana can also opt to share the insights gleaned by her AI with a service that, through a custom blend of diet, activity and relaxation, will help her more effectively manage not only her physical health, but also her emotional wellbeing. In addition to choosing to share this “between checkups” data with her doctors, Dana can choose to share subsets of her data as anonymized information for medical research.

A Communications Ecosystem: Incentivized Mesh Networks

Today: A handful of telecommunication companies have a monopoly over bandwidth. This is true in countries around the world and has enabled governments in places like Turkey and Egypt to “turn off the internet” whenever they feel like it. Furthermore, some internet providers want to charge different rates for different kinds of data, making the net less neutral. Before long, access to the internet could look like your cable bill, with selective channels of access. Today, the only organizations that can benefit from adding bandwidth to the internet (and thus the only ones incentivized to do so) are telecom companies. They lay cable and put up towers, and bill customers for internet access on a monthly basis.

Coming Soon: On the other hand, Holo’s micro-transaction system could make it possible for anyone who puts up an antenna or shares a bit of their cell phone bandwidth to get rewarded for the increased internet access that they are creating. Similar to how holo leverages idle storage and processing power, it can also help us make better use of idle bandwidth—or incentivize the creation of additional bandwidth. Jane could put up an antenna and choose to relay data for free for her friends or for a fee for strangers, thus extending network capacity.

Vision: With a growing ecosystem of peer-to-peer applications and an expanding peer-to-peer infrastructure, the centralized internet that has led all of us to grow accustomed to being monitored and manipulated could soon become more of a memory than a menace. In addition, these more distributed models prove far more resilient—able to rebound from disruptions far more readily than is the case today. It seems silly to require the residents of Hurricane impacted Puerto Rico to establish a connection to data centers in Silicon Valley in order to send messages to family members a few kilometers away, but for most social media and messaging applications today, that is what’s required. This centralization has resulted in brittle systems that have hampered rescue efforts too many times. In contrast, with distributed applications, just an antenna or two would re-establish the ability for residents and emergency responders to communicate, coordinate, and save lives.

Enable Dignity: Identity for Refugees

Today: Amena is a 15 year old Syrian refugee living in Eleonas, a refugee camp outside of Athens. She had no ID when she arrived. Though this type of situation is not uncommon, it has complicated her interactions with a variety of government agencies and aid organizations.

Coming Soon: With Holo, upon arrival in Eleonas, she could be given a Identity with Dignity (IDwD) smart card with which she could use applications and control her own digital records. These could include credentials created as she moves through steps in a government immigration process, records from doctor visits, school achievements, and more. For example, when Amena attends school, she can add copies of her classes and grades to her own online records. Each would be cryptographically signed by a teacher or administrator. Later, if she moves to a different camp or is accepted into a host country, she will be able to share her school records directly with administrators, who will be able to confirm that the grades were signed by her school in Eleonas through any web browser. The hosts that support web access to refugee controlled records may choose to donate processing power, or could be compensated for helping support IDwD by the government overseeing the camp.

Vision: Our ability to control what we share and with whom we share it is critical for privacy and agency. By making it not only possible, but easy for each of us to carry claims from our past into new interactions, we improve our ability to build relationships with our fellow community members without compromising our dignity—and this in turn can enable more fluid and thriving forms of community.

Powered by Holochain

Holochain is a new open source framework for truly peer-to-peer applications. Not only is Holo a Holochain app, Holo supports and extends other Holochain apps.

Relative to Blockchain, Holochain apps are:
- Massively scalable
- Exponentially faster
- Far more energy efficient
- 10,000x cheaper

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