Yesterday (3/3/2021) Mobiepay CEO Brandon Burgason together with Head of Marketing Mark Crawford held a ZOOM AMA (1st time).

Thank you Sven for this AMA recap:

- built on XLM stellar
- features for business onboarding and full usability features will be ready before product launch
- market across (binance tron dot) in for PR
- project phase 3 and 4 planned for march
- 2016 nobel prize winner for economics in team
- focus on sustainable tokenomics with professional team
- sharing economy as foundation for redistribution of rewards
- ceo is focused on solid proportional scaling, usability and working features
- select users, merchants and charities are already onboarded for thorough testing
- private data building process in project phases 2-3 with bug bounties and community feedback before

public launch
- mobile web wallet, payment gateway and in-app exchange on roadmap
- ui / ux updates finalizing
- conservative products release, no hype, no fluff, no over marketing - the right product will sell itself
- building protocol for direct in-app charity with live reports on what donations are used for
- mobie is intended as a movement - do good things to ppl and follow up
- target amazon and uber targeted for onboarding
- checkout portal integration for ecommerce
- big aggregators for top brands
- global community is crucial for creating payment volume to grow
- personal data is not collected by default, rewards planned for user participation

marketing
- plain an simple - mobie in the headlines next weeks
- news on how mobie outperfoms apple pay venmo or paypal
- marketing is strictly tied to strategic timing
- peter mansfield in with fintech experience
- two marketing side will not involve crypto,
- mbx token long term healthy reward system as goal, team is committed that it's worth the wait
- ceo sees himself as data junkie to develop right decisions. He's dedicated to be responsible for stakeholder and shareholder value. forward momentum is tied to patience and education

community help
- law firm model for affiliates and partners
- embassadors program in crypto, gaming and mainstream commerce
- building a massive network to scale growth
- influencers in gaming space
- own podcast as thought leader coming called "the futurist founder"
- no fluff no hype just build roll out
- the name mobie derived from "mobile first" that is pronounceable in most languages
- in latin america mobie is a slang word for mobile phone
- seo development is full on
- official announcement from market across will follow organically
- blockchain business with strong mainstream focus
- stellar built-in kyc to meet market regulations
- vision accept mbx coin with any type of crypto or fiat currency
- stellar is "brilliant, because 100k tx will cost a penny"
- direct merchant marketplace where businesses are able to create their own reward systems on the mobie platform
- one place for banking and to collect your rewards. Mobie is intended to be a one-stop-shop
- monthly ama planned, announcements start this week