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Controversial crypto-backed fashion line
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ORCAf
on 09/09/2019, 10:03:39 UTC
Hey folks,

I am starting a highly controversial clothing brand. My goal is to launch a collection of high quality, contemporary garments at a reasonable price.

I am seeking investments in exchange for shares of the company.

Contact me via personal message for further information.
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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
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ORCAf
on 24/10/2018, 14:08:43 UTC
ORCA ICO Round II starts in 5 days!


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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
by
ORCAf
on 16/10/2018, 12:24:44 UTC
Hey there, Orcans!

The decision has been finally made and approved. We are proud to announce that the second round of ORCA ICO starts on October 29th - on the last Monday of the month.

The Halloween this year is going to have a special ORCA vibe, so be sure to get your costumes in order before the big day. Don’t forget to ask your neighbors for trick or treat or ORCA tokens. 😉

If you’ve not whitelisted yet, be sure to do so before the start of the round. You can do it by visiting the ORCA Alliance website. Already confirmed whitelisters will be sent invite links to the cabinet before the sale starts.

Whitelist for round II

More specific information on round duration, hard cap, procedure, bonuses available and more will be announced during the upcoming days. You can highlight your calendars and circle round the date. We will publish all relevant information in our blog, Telegram group, and social media channels - we will make sure you won't miss it!

On other relevant news: our CEO Natan participated in an online AMA session last Friday during which he and Adomas answered a multitude of community questions, talked about the upcoming equity round, PYGMY development and how the team is doing getting ready for the second round.

You can find the video in the official ORCA Alliance Youtube channel. Feel free to review other videos as well - a lot of interesting material is located inside including clips with ORCA advisors, team members, and animated platform descriptions!

View the video

Those are the news for today. Stay tuned and we will provide you with all the details ASAP.

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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
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ORCAf
on 19/09/2018, 10:45:11 UTC
Time to open up: Open Banking Promises Better and Safer Financial Services

Previously, we caught a glance of Open Banking, covered the underlying idea of it and discussed the fuss behind the EU regulatory push.

This time we‘re exploring something a bit different. In the name of all the overly-intensive police dramas, we‘ll be lining up all the stakeholders – the banks, the upstarts, the customers – against a cement wall, taking mugshots and questioning their interests in Open Banking.

People say that if you want to see what man is capable of – look at his motives. We‘ll be doing just that. Dress up, cover up your badge and bring some coffee, oh and don‘t forget to put on an empty facial expression – we‘re seriously investigating this.

This article explores the potential of Open Banking. We highly suggest you read up on the general idea of it in part one and then come back for the second piece of the cake that is just below.


Suspect #1 – the FinTechs (Third-parties)

Financial technology upstarts will, no doubt, take full use of the mandated data sharing.

Finding themselves newly acquainted with the treasured customer data, they will now offer every financial service imaginable – from price comparison to instant payments to data brokerage. They will definitely be staking it all on Open Banking system to hold.


Suspect #2 – the Customers (Yourself included)

Open Banking framework will ensure that, the aforementioned products are designed to satisfy all your needs and urges. More competition meanwhile, will make them affordable and provide a more customer-centered services.

Financial applications, which display all of your bank accounts in one screen, will help you budget, and view a more accurate picture of your finances. Other apps might look at your transaction logs and combine information from multiple providers to identify the best financial products and services for you, such as a new savings account that would deliver the highest returns.

Unspent income could even be designed to be transferred into a pension account with a press of a button – helping you grow to be more responsible with personal finance. Some providers might even offer you crypto-related projects if you swing that way.

Even the most entrenched financial institutions will benefit from Open Banking, if they’re imaginative enough.

If you’re under financed or running around with a “thin” credit file, FinTechs could review your loan requests with the help of more accurate AI-powered (Artificial Intelligence) client screening technologies. Because they harness the power of AI, they just might say “Yes” to that motorcycle on credit you’ve been dreaming of.

More options can’t be a bad thing for customers. Surely, the paradox of choice is strong with this one, considering the overabundance of the new financial service providers.

But looking at the long-term, more choice, in economic terms, has always been beneficial for customers as they can slam the door to the faces of providers that treat them with high prices, neglect or indignity. Also, more choices over time reveal user preferences and allow for service offering evolution.


Suspect #3 – the Banks (The providers)

Surely, this can’t be a good thing for banks. They must anticipate new digital competitors showing up on their turf, legally using their collected data and then offering their customers FinTech services. This seems like a daylight robbery – or, at the very least, a game of Texas hold’em where one side is forced to openly display the hand.

Fearing a loss of business, they’re thus going all-in, shouting “Massive data security risk”.


Uncovered Suspect #4 – Data security

Some concerns about security and privacy are legitimate as sharing data across multiple institutions opens up vulnerabilities. Banks claim that with requests for data access and payments originating from a wide range of third parties, there will be even more targets for cybercriminals to attack.

While true, that is a misconstrued description of how things will work under Open Banking system.

In fact, with the possibility of data leaks, FinTechs will need to do some serious convincing of national regulators that their security regimes are solid and trustworthy. All will submit to annual inspections and the newcomers will also take out fraud insurance, which will be denied if their protections are not cutting-edge.

Furthermore, contrary to the chaos and anarchy predicted by some banks in the payment industry, payments will enjoy even better security, because the EU directive also demands robust authentication processes, involving a two-step verification.

So, the security is not a problem. Bank, in fact, might even learn a thing or two from the newcomers. The problem is, once again, their reluctance to innovate, which is shameful, considering the potential.


Uncovered Suspect #5 – the Potential

Even the most entrenched financial institutions will benefit from Open Banking, if they’re imaginative enough.

Lower marginal costs when delivering financial services through digital channels is an obvious revenue-adder. Banks will also rejoice audit trails that are inherent to the system of APIs (Application programming interfaces) – this new way institutions will share data is a far better option, if the alternative is information getting scrapped off the providers’ screens (see part one).

Regulated FinTechs will submit to annual inspections and the newcomers will also take out fraud insurance

It is also not hard to imagine banks making a nice profit by partnering up with these FinTech providers. Banks could employ them to screen potential applicants for loans and thus expand this market in a controlled manner. PwC, a professional services network, envisions a 186% jump in loan approvals by 2022 due to use of external data, which could be a boom for both banks and unbanked individuals.

Economies of scale would also be easier to achieve as even a small- or a medium-sized bank could aim to mimic the coverage of a national bank by assembling a portfolio of various digital products that are not offered solely by it.

Banks could also leverage partnerships to maximize consumer engagement. With the average user spending only 0.9 minutes daily on their online/mobile bank, it’s clear that banks could add a bit more spice to the mundane tasks of banking. Tips on personal finance management could be offered to the clients with low-balances; digital assistance could be provided to the well-off individuals looking to invest or save.

 
Criminal record #OB2368

Surely, things won’t be entirely smooth – there will be bumps and road ahead as with all good things. But if we look purely from the view of a clear motive, all of our stakeholders fit the description of a beneficiary: everyone will be better off under the system of Open Banking.

From providing capital to the unbanked to making personal finance more adoptable for regular Joes and Janes, the potential hidden inside Open Banking is a thought experiment not fully explored. Open Banking is going to reshape the financial landscape, that's unquestionable. The things that we are yet to find out are how and when.
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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
by
ORCAf
on 13/09/2018, 11:15:57 UTC
Over the last few months we have gathered quite an alliance!

Here is an incomplete list of our most successful partnerships - take a look!



- ORCA Alliance sponsors EDHEC students association, a renowned French Business school with more than 8000 students, proposing a large panel of programs: from innovative Management courses, International Economics, while ranked #1 worldwide by the Financial Times in 2017 for its Masters of Finance programme.



- Connect Capital - Blockchain Investment Fund Backs ORCA
The financial backing of Connect Capital is an earnest testament to the potential of the ORCA project.



- FundRequest Accepts ORCA’s Friend Request
Our network keeps on expanding. After ongoing communication ORCA Alliance and FundRequest found multiple areas for mutual benefit.
FundRequest is a decentralized platform for developers to collectively solve issues. It’s an open source marketplace where aspiring programmers — no matter how knowledgeable they are — can start working on blockchain projects, gain competence and get rewarded.



- A Symbiosis: Trust Wallet and ORCA
Trust is a mobile application which acts as an online wallet in sync with tokens issued on the Ethereum blockchain. Trust Ethereum wallet also supports other two blockchains belonging to the Ethereum ecosystem — Ethereum Classic and Callisto.



- Road to Security and Compliance: Partnership with Essentia
Essentia is developing expertise in the field of identity application. A field which is becoming critically important while deploying any digital service into the market. Following recent data leaks by some of the largest social platforms in the world, the topic of data security and control is only going to escalate in the nearby future. To battle this lurking threat head-on, ORCA Alliance is teaming up with Essentia project.



- ORCA platform secures first e-money institution for SEPA payments, partners with MisterTango
EU-based fintech ORCA just signed a partnership with an e-money institution MisterTango making the first step into the world of payment processing. From now on ORCA, a platform bridging traditional banking and cryptocurrency services, will have the ability to develop solutions for SEPA payment account creation using technology utilized by MisterTango.



- It’s a Fact: Setting Camp in S. Korea, Partnership with Factblock
ORCA is making waves going into the Korean market. Multiple trips over the last couple of months starting to pay dividends. ORCA has established a partnership with Factblock — an information sharing platform connecting blockchain and crypto-related content from industry leading experts.



- Tomochain and ORCA Alliance shake hands, begin working together
ORCA Alliance, an Open Banking platform for technology-led personal finance pivots and relocates development plans to Tomochain. A technologically-advanced blockchain infrastructure fulfills multiple needs that ORCA can utilize during development.



- Sending Money Home: New Partnership between ORCA Alliance and Sentbe
ORCA Alliance is proud to unveil a new partnership with Sentbe, an online remittance company that is one of the fastest growing providers of the service in South Korea. This FinTech (Financial Technology) company is the leader in providing cheap and reliable financial services to the people in need and we are more than happy to announce that we will be integrating this solution-provider into our platform.



Many more are still to come, many hands are still to be shaken. Interested in working with us? Let us know!




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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
by
ORCAf
on 11/09/2018, 10:46:53 UTC
ORCA partners with Agora to facilitate community voting on the platform

Some great news just came and we are eager to share them with the community. ORCA business development department continues to gallop and has secured a new connection on the block — Agora protocol.



About Agora
Agora is a Swiss voting protocol building a decentralized digital voting ecosystem based on blockchain technology. It ensures security, end-to-end verifiability and support for multiple devices. By creating an immutable and publicly viewable digital record of elections, Agora’s technology allows both private and public organizations to eradicate fraud and corruption, reduce cost and engage voters in a modern, convenient and accessible way.
Agora is also building an election supply chain tracking app and will provide decentralized application hosting on top of its custom, fair and token-free consensus mechanism.



Agora on ORCA platform
Agora’s functionality will be best used in ORCA’s gamified community ecosystem — Quest which is constructed specifically with the intention to involve members of ORCA the platform.
Community engagement remains one of the fundamental driving forces behind blockchain and cryptocurrency projects. Therefore, Quest ecosystem is encompassed around giving the incentive for active participators to continue showing initiative and getting immersed in internal group dynamics.
In turn, these incentives help to build brand ambassadors who indirectly invite new people to come and try out the platform’s features. External parties such as app developers can also utilize the community voting infrastructure to get a better grasp on industry’s needs. Later on, they will be able to use this information to build better solutions and offer them to the existing member base.


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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
by
ORCAf
on 06/06/2018, 13:37:15 UTC
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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
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ORCAf
on 06/06/2018, 13:33:57 UTC
Thank you all for the support!

We are super excited for what's coming and IT'S COMING FAST!
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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
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ORCAf
on 06/06/2018, 13:24:06 UTC
Does the project have a bounty compaign?

Hello, Tanya, we did have a bounty campaign, but now it's over. Well, the first round is over, there should be another one coming.

Join our bounty group for news Smiley
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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
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ORCAf
on 05/06/2018, 07:42:34 UTC
5 shades of ORCA to dominate international waters by 2020:
Roadmap

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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
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ORCAf
on 04/06/2018, 15:21:12 UTC
ORCA platform secures first e-money institution for SEPA payments, partners with MisterTango


EU-based fintech ORCA just signed a partnership with an e-money institution MisterTango making the first step into the world of payment processing. From now on ORCA, a platform bridging traditional banking and cryptocurrency services, will have the ability to develop solutions for SEPA payment account creation using technology utilized by MisterTango.


Moreover, in the future ORCA will also be able to issue debit payment cards. Only a handful of companies in the cryptocurrency space can offer these services at the moment. ORCA aims to join the list before the end of this year. Cooperation with a licensed e-money service provider is opening a lot of doors for the evolution of the ORCA project. Identifying and securing beneficial partnerships is one of the fastest ways to grow the digital business.



ORCA whitelist is open, we strongly urge people to enlist now, finish the KYC procedure so you can peacefully wait for the start of the ICO. Visit www.orcaalliance.eu to do so.
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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
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ORCAf
on 01/06/2018, 08:37:53 UTC
I'm waiting for ico begin.its feelings like forever.and what is minimum buy at ico ?

Hey Omjhon, the minimum for ORCA ICO will be 0.1 ETH Smiley
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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
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ORCAf
on 21/05/2018, 06:32:39 UTC
Due of upgrade ORCA to ERC-777 please tell is it possible to get tokens on MEW? What I need to know to work with ORCA tokens?


Hey! ERC-777 token standard is backwards compatible, meaning that it will work with any ERC-20 compatible wallet, therefore MEW will be of no problem Wink

Cheers!
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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
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ORCAf
on 15/05/2018, 07:12:11 UTC
hello guys,
When does the ICO starts?
Thanks  Smiley

Ahoi! We are still to announce the starting date of our ICO, but it's coming soon!
You can follow all the latest news in our Telegram group.
Cheers! :*
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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
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ORCAf
on 15/05/2018, 07:10:40 UTC
this is AWESOME! I am waiting ICO!!!

Biggest hugs sent your way!
<3
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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
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ORCAf
on 10/05/2018, 08:05:20 UTC
Ohh thank you  Grin

Do you know if there will be other currencies than Btc and Eth which will be accepted during the ico?
We will only accept ETH and BTC during the ICO
Cheers! <3
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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
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ORCAf
on 09/05/2018, 15:46:57 UTC
Hey  Smiley
Can you tell me what the difference between erc-20 and erc-777 is?  Grin

ERC-777 is a super updated version of ERC20. ERC777 is backwards compatible meaning that it has the same usability as ERC20, just many improvements on safety, functionality and so on. After ERC20 there was ERC223 which ORCA was meant to be, but we are moving with the times and improving every aspect of our project to the max, gotta stay with the best there is out there, so we moved to ERC777.
You can find clear comparisons on Google, just type in ERC223 vs ERC777 Wink
Cheers!
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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
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ORCAf
on 09/05/2018, 13:17:01 UTC
ORCA token is upgraded to
ERC-777
standard!
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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
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ORCAf
on 09/05/2018, 11:57:03 UTC
Orca is quite a serious investment, and its run by a hardworking team

ORCA is sending a bunch of hearts to you!
Thank you for your support.
<3 <3 <3
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Re: [ANN][ICO] ORCA ALLIANCE - BANKING PLATFORM CONNECTING CRYPTO & FIAT SERVICES
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ORCAf
on 30/04/2018, 08:56:34 UTC
This is actually good thing that hype is on the rise before the announcement for public sale is out. I also came here on recommendation of one of my friend to have a look at this under the radar flying project. It got my interest and many small investors are waiting for the door to open to get involved fully in future.
We are thrilled to hear that! Let us know if you have any questions, we will answer them all. And you are very welcome to join our whitelist which can be done by registering on our website.
Thank you for being with us and let's shape the future together!