Nothing new - this project is just second Estonian-grounded project simply extending ideas of previous Estonian digital Polybius bank, which first proposed idea of blending banking services with financial marketplace. The slight difference is that Polybius team was shy to mention cryptos in conjuction to banking services, but these guys dare to do it.
As far as it concerns crypto accounts and crypto-nominated debit cards - there are hundreds of such start-ups and even well-established companies like MonacoCard, Coinsbank, UQUID etc.
Economic model is also weak - in WP they promise to distribute only 10% of annual income to tokens holders and try to sell only 40% of token supply for near 50mln. For instance, Polybius bank engaged to distribute 20% of annual income for all tokens, from which 93% are sold to public. Thus from financial perspective Polybius token is 17x more attractive then CAG.
Given these considerations I restrain to participate in this ICO and not recommend anybody to engage in it.
that's quite a misinterpretation of numbers, i'm afraid.
https://medium.com/@CryptoJudgemnt/comparing-cryptobanks-tenx-monaco-change-polybius-tokencard-bankera-54345c04c6a7This article just compares team, fees and some other basic elements.
Team actually is better in Change, then in other project , it is good moment.
But financing finacial project, you need also to deep inside token model. And here Change sucks.
You could simply find out actual 17x difference in expected returns between Polybius and Change in favour of first one. It seems Change team is too greedy!
As far as it concerns 'Polybius is scam' - but most of them is soft scam! For instance MonacoCard: they get on ICO near $25mlns, but it is already known that they launched crypto-card leveraging third-party WaveCrest solution. It costs them nearly $300/$400thnd. + 2mln for marketing, and rest of money was pocketed-out.
So no doubt Change will obtain EMI licence and be able to launch product - they openly stated in wp that will use third-party solution for card-issuance, see page 25. The question is that $4/$5mln is enough even taking into account thier innovative API for other fintech, so asking investors for $50mln is soft scam too.