BlockTalks x IOI AMA Transcript!
Hello! BlockTalkers & Blockchain Enthusiastic!
We recently hosted an AMA with IOI, on May 4th at 12.00 PM UTC. Many of you might have participated or many of not. But we make sure no one missed out from the knowledge shared by David Achberger, CMO at IOI & Rastislav Bakala, CEO at IOI. So here we are up with the AMA transcript, for those who missed the live session, this blog post will be a saver & feeder of knowledge for them.
Introduction Questions Asked By Team BlockTalks!
Q1. Could you please introduce IOI to our community in layman’s term?
Ans — IOI corporation is building an blockchain ecosystem for traders, gamers and crypto enthusiast. Main objective is to bring highest possible utility to IOI token via various platforms based on blockchain as traderacemanager and IOI market, IOI trading and Binary battle game in the near future. These projects will tie all the ecosystem logic together and let users fully experience immense power of IOI utility token.
Q2. What are the advantages of IOI to other alternatives in the Blockchain field?
Ans — Backed by fully working product
Ecosystem incentives in the future
Automatic value protection
Governance processes
Unlocks rare NFT which doubles your staking rewards
Various holding benefits as a free races, free nfts, charity and voting
and already strong partners with top infuencers and celebrities in Central Europe , which will be present in our marketplace.
Q3. What are the major milestones IOI achieved so far & what are in the future pipeline?
Ans — Looking at our roadmap you can see many exciting things coming. The most expected event - Token sale is right behind the corner and token will be listed 10th of May on Daomaker and Paid Ignition.
Apart from that we will be launching this year the first charity NFT market called IOI market, One vs One game Binary option game and many more coming.
Mobile Apps on GooglePlay - waiting for approval iOS
Strategic partnerships with Arkane and Polygon
Global users acquisition
More partners getting aboard
More customized NFT ́s
Internal NFT market
More types of NFT ́s like tracks & teams
More variations of games.
Questions Asked on Twitter For IOI Team!
Q1. I know IOI currently working on NFTs. That's a very good news. But where can we find the NFTs? What i have to do to get your NFTs? And looking the market hipe do you guies have any future plan to develop your NFTs?
Ans — Rastislav Bakala: First at all we want build own marketplace, which is currently in process.
For now our NFTs are avaliable in our ioi-wallet.com or traderacemanager.com Where you can purchase them via Polygon or IOI toknes. Or you can visit our partners marketplace arkane and purchase nfts via Paypal.
Q2. What products does IOI ecosystem currently have? What products are being developed so that IOI ecosystem can become better and better than other competitors?
Ans — David Achberger: We currently have Traderacemanager live - www.traderacemanager.com - Product is up and working - Now we are finishing Binary fight with utilisation of avatars, special skills, animations and much more. NFT market is being done with top celebrities from crypto, music and movie industry and IOI trading will be the last piece to the puzzle but lets leave something for future.
Rastislav Bakala:
Secret screenshot of our Binary FIght game coming out end of May. And we are preparing as well most amazing crypto game in 2021 CyberTrade.
Q3. Every industry is severely affected by the egregious situation of the covid-19 outbreak. does it affect the growth of IOI ? What are your plans to turn challenges into opportunities for IOI development?
Ans — David Achberger: Only aspect effecting our company is lack of hiring much developers due to high demand for our products.
Rastislav Bakala: Online industry was not affect at all, but mostly pushed to grow even more as we can see in current crypto market situation.
Q4. You say that by buying the characters, we would get the vehicles directly, but can't you really trade the vehicles separately? or are they both part of a story that cannot be changed?
Ans — David Achberger: You can buy any NFT item separately and there will be also added function in the future for customisation of NFT cars, avatars other vehicles and so on... We are working hard to bring the best user experience possible.
Rastislav Bakala: About the story..we are working on fully unity version game build for steam customers with amazing story in Metropolis . 2021 year is a year of IOI.
Q5. IOI Trade race has several racers and cars to choose from, what are the qualities of these NFTS that users must consider to buy the most capable and therefore profitable one, What is the process to make an accurate choice?
Ans — David Achberger: Each NFT racer avatar has special skills in form of affiliate level but we are adding special features in binary fight that will improve and change logic of gamplay but the biggest advantage for our NFTs compared to other Jpeg s is Staking and ingame usability.
Rastislav Bakala: And collect all cars in one seria , you can unlock a special RARE CAR and you will double your daily rewards. Thats a in game useable and real value in long term.
Questions Asked by our BlockTalks Community Members during live Session to IOI Team!!
Q1. Do you have any Coin Burn / BuyBack systems or any Token Burn plans to increase the value of Token & attract Investors to invest?
Ans — We have a token burning function implemented! Big annoucement will be live in several hours! Check TRM telegram.
Q2. I notice that the basic NFT game family implemented step by step will be: NFT cars; NFT tracks; NFT racers and NFT winner trophies. So, Please tell us How can I make profit from holding these items? Should incase I decide to sell, is there a marketplace already where I can sell them?
Ans — Every NFTs has a special skills .
Holding of a Track you can get rewards from every single race on your track up to 3%
Just a holding a cars ,you can enter more races at same and win more IOI in same time or just stake and getting rewards . Avatars will be crucial for our figts and next games. Wait for it it will be massive.
Q3. What main Problem Do You see in Current Blockchain mostly of Ethereum? What solution do You have to tackle with these Problems?
Ans — High fees, We are working with Polygon to bring our users lowest fees possible so everyone can use blockchain technology and enjoy all the benefits.
Q4. Where can I get IOI’s NFT, is there a market place for the IOI’s NFT and Where can I see your NFT collection and does IOI for NFT have its own marketplace?
Ans — For now we have internal marketplace in ioi-wallet.com or traderacemanager.com
we are working on first NFTs charity market place ioi-market.com
Big launch end of summer.
Q5. I see your community is growing more and more. But how can we members support and help IOI ? What do you need from us?
Ans — Play and use our products that is the best thing you do for us. We are very grateful community is growing and there is much more to come for all IOI holders.
Q6. I understand that by joining different teams, you can get more profits, but could you tell us about those teams? How can I join one of them? Or could I really create a group myself? And also, the races in groups, how would they be?
Ans — Yes you can purchase your own team for 1000 IOI tokens- which represent your community inside of traderacemanager. Than you can hire or release a mangers-which represent a traders and you can together build your wining teams and earn up to 30% from each premium member.
Q7. I could see what your game Trade Race Manager is only available on Android, are you having problems to implement it on iOS ? Or did you decide to only release your game on Android?
Ans — We already apply for IOS aplication ..its still in progress. There are development updates every FRIDAY and this friday we work a lot for mobile version of game.
Q8. How do you intend to attract community members to IOI . How do you intend to gain more community support? How strong is your community support?
Ans — Our community and support growing each day. At the end of the road there is only one thing that differentiate you from other comopanies and that is the quality of the product and customer support which is our main objective and always will be.
Q9. What innovations has IOI brought to the NFT space? How is IOI changing the new NFT ecosystem and what are the plans for the next few years?
Ans — First off all, this is a unique project where we combine trading, gaming and blockchain technology. The backbone of the project are NFTs. So NFTs together with play2earn model create opportunities for multiple incomes. As for the game, we use real market data, which creates equal fairness for all players. Crypto is used as a fuel for cars and the real time market performance determines the winner.
Q10. IOI Trade Race Manager app consists different NFT just like Racers,Cars and it is currently available in Play Store.
Are those NFT minted in limited Amounts?
When will it be available in apps store for apple mobiles ?
Ans — Yes every car is limited and so the RARE ONES . More players , less cars. IOS is in progress.
Q11. Would you please tell a little more about the IOI team members and some of their profiles? Because I have seen many projects kick-off with inexperienced team members and some of them don’t go well due to mistakes.
Ans — IOI family growing stronger every year and we are happy to say the same about our community.
https://twitter.com/ioicorporation/status/1389172927770226689
Q12. What are the benefit of long-term investments of your token?
Ans — Ecosystem incentives and a lot possibilities to utilize your token. We are product based company so there is always something backing IOI logic and utility.
Q13. Marketing will be a strong part of your project,
but
Do you have plan to work with the top influencers, projects in gaming and crypto?
What are your strategies to build the best user experience in your platform?
Ans — Yes we do, we love to work with top in industries. And thats the main priority for whole year
About a experience , we work with game designers and every week update and improve our game with new features.
Q14. I am a professional vulnerability finder on the web, do you think Your system is secure enough from hackers? Does your project have a program that rewards individual vulnerability detection of the system?
Ans — We have our own ethical hackers team to help us find any vulnerability before anybody else. We spent a lot of time and resources to keep our users super safe.
Q15. What is biggest focus for IOI at the moment and what is the number 1 priority for the team in the next 6 months?
Ans — Bringing the products to the market and really show what we are about. Main products will all be live this year and there is much more to come!
Q16. Can I get profit / income by playing in your GAME? Can you tell how?
Ans — You can as a free racer, play a free races and earn up to 200 IOI daily.. than you become a premium member and get all tips and advice from a team... after that you have enough tokens to become a manager and earn 10% from every member join in your team. And than its just a only way - become a owner buy a nfts, stake them and earn passive income.
for whole story - watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCJ7jFyQI4o&t=2s
Q17. How to make IOI easy for anyone? Including those who do not understand crypto will also use IOI?
Ans — We are working on academy as we speak and there will be a lot for anybody that does want to learn how to use or invest in crypto.
Q18. You talk about creating our own teams, how can I create my own? Do I have to have certain requirements for this?
Ans — Yes you need to purchase team for 1000 IOI tokens directly in our platform and it backround - we mint a nfts and you can start hiring managers.
Q19. Tokens from all projects have main utility & practical goals! So can you tell us what the main role of IOI is in your ecosystem? Explain the utility & use cases in the real world?
Ans — Backed by fully working product
Ecosystem incentives in the future
Automatic value protection
Governance processes
Unlocks rare NFT which doubles your staking rewards
Various holding benefits as a free races, free nfts, charity and voting
Rewards for holders and games advantages as a owner, managers etc.
Q20. What’s your outlook on the future of cryptocurrencies in next two years and What can we do to keep increasing adoption?
Ans — Cryptocurrencies are still at the begining, this year shown us that mainstream adoption is behind the corner and IOI will be the one token to lookout for.
Q21. Currently from where i can buy $IOI? Is it possible that I can get $IOI only by holding it?
Ans — Public sale is live on Daomaker and Paidignition 10th of May 2021! After you can find us on top exchanges all will be announced soon.
Q22. Can you tell us more about your Membership Model? It’s stated that every member can choose to be a free member or a paid member, how much is required to upgrade to a premium member and what are the privileges or benefits of becoming a paid member?
Ans — Yeah free membership is just a taste of whats come with premium.
as a premium you have a daily tips, raiting for a managers, community and you play for 5% shares from turnover .
+ you can do a 3 daily task where you can earn monthly up to 90 IOI
and thats all only for 50IOI/ monthly
Q23. How will IOI solve the scaling problem? And what can IOI offer to overcome the threat of centralization? What IOI DeFi uses chains?
Ans — We are scaling already and we are building offices globaly to help us coop with the demand. Scalability is number 1 thing that is on our mind when we develop anything.
Q24. How will your platform affect turnover and price with staking and writing through NFTs? Will all your products be backed up with IOI tokens as copy trading, trading pool, and new games?
Ans — Yeah free membership is just a taste of whats come with premium. As a premium you have a daily tips, raiting for a managers, community and you play for 5% shares from turnover .
+ you can do a 3 daily task where you can earn monthly up to 90 IOI
and thats all only for 50IOI/ monthly
Q25. How long have you been working to build the crypto game called CyberTrade? When will the game be released?
Ans — There is a deflationary model with burning principies which will protect a price in long term.
We are working on our gamification more than 2 years and still working for fully unity version etc. Cybertrade will be another utilities for our tokens.
Mr Rich with all his skills and abilities right now. He will have much more utilisation in next game with special ingame skills and move animations!
Q26. Marketing is a central element for every project, so that everyone knows the potential that a project can bring is vital to achieve the goals set. What is your strategy to attract new users and Investor to your platform and keep them long term.
Ans — Spend more money on marketing as other project. Its simple, if you can become among top project, you need to work with best in industry and outside as well. And thats our goals . We have in house marketing teams, developers, designers and video productions.We already have a officies in 3 countries and soon open one in Dubai. We are still on the begining, but it will be nice ride.
Q27. Community support is one of the biggest aspects of a project’s success. Most projects have programs that interact with their users. Does you have any special plans to attract and expand the community and improve the user experience?
Ans — Im maybe on of the most active members in our community. I love to work with people and will support our community daily.
Q28. Truly, you’ve done AMA in many telegram groups, so what next, what other way will you make your project more popular?
Ans — We are doing these AMAs to really see how communities react to our products, we are starting big campaigns now and we are working with top NFT platform but also celebrieties, sportsman and others to build the best crypto project ever!
Q29. I just realized that IOI have different types of NFTs tiers, so the legendary cars are absolutely unbeatable ? Or a low tier car can win a race against better cars? The races are based on probabities?
Ans — No types of rarity means only better staking and status. No advantages in game. Game is skills game, we are not a fans of a PAY TO WIN , we prefer play to win and have a fun.
Q30. What is your strongest advantage that you think will make your team leading the market?
Ans — First we say something and than we do it. Simple as that, no false promises, only hard work, strong team and best working products ever!
Q31. What concepts and advantages has you built for its users that makes it different from other platforms? What benefits will it provide to its users?
Ans — Education, fun, real provitable platform in long term for our users.
Mass adoption start with education and we want educate users thanks to gamification for our products.
Q32. Currently most investors only care about profits at the moment but ignore the long-term benefits. So can you give them some advice why they should buy and hold this token/coin in the long term?
Ans — As already mentioned, we aim to fullfil all road map goals, which are bringing IOI auction and charity market place live, binary option games, one on one game and also we will get involed more in trading to fullfil demand of our users.
Q33. How users can generate income with IOI? I saw that they have different NFts cars, racers and tracks to start playing and earn $IOI tokens is it necessary to own each of these NFts?
Ans — There is different ways you can earn through Traderacemanager and IOI token - right now our NFTs offer staking, affiliate levels, prize pools and much more. If you want to try out the system you can play for free and earn IOI tokens everyday for free!
Q34. Only getting users, holders etc is not everything. In my opinion, a project needs to deal with solving a real world issue or problem What is the problem that your project primarily focuses on?
Ans — Real issue is that many people dont have a knowledge or education before they jump into crypto and imadietly lost a money. In our game, you can start for free, join a community and get a tips from profesional traders in side our telegram.
Q35. When will the Trade Race Manager game arrive on IOS?
Ans — We are working hard to get this done ASAP. IOS coming soon!
Q36. In the long run, why should we trust and follow you and your project? How do you raise awareness and elimination of the doubts of investors/partners/customers?
Ans — Take a look who invest in us, we have strong partnerships and invetors backing the project for the longterm. We are only looking for quality and added value, as at the begining as now.
Q37. What are some of the major achievements that Your Project has achieved and what milestones are planned ahead in the next 6 months, 1 year and 5 years?
Ans — Mobile Apps on GooglePlay - waiting for approval iOS
Strategic partnerships with Arkane and Polygon
Global users acquisition
More partners getting aboard
More customized NFT ́s
Internal NFT market
More types of NFT ́s like tracks & teams
More variations of games
Big partners will be annoucement after we will be live on market .
ITs simple - we want build whole ecosystem , where you come to our marketplace, purchase nfts, transfer to our games or wallet and use in our games and simple cash out via paypal etc.
Q38. On your store there are several types of cars including common, super, epic, legendary and the rare ones is it possible to get one of them for free?
Ans — Play IOI races and you can get any NFT car for free! Even from Legendary tiers! Good luck.
Q39. IOI is currently going well and is receiving positive attention. What will you do to get more exposure and adoption? What is IOI message for the Community today?
Ans — Hard work, great project, amazing team and achive our roadmap targets and goals. Thats whats make IOI so special.
Q40. How does IOI assess the importance of the user community? How many user communities has IOI built?
Ans — We already have 25 000 members in our games. But its stil a nothing compare to our ambtion.
Q41. Security of Funds are very important factor ! So How much secure IOI walle is ? Is there any pin/password protection for wallet?
Ans — Ethical hackers in our teams, audits from external companies and strick developers criteria.
Q42. The hot new term in crypto is "YIELD FARMING". So Do you have a plan to develop the Yeild Farming system?
Many projects rug pulled and exit scam recently. Why should investors trust your project not to do the same?
Ans — No this is whats im not a fan at all.
Q43. Nowdays So many Rug Pulls and exit scam happening . How Users can trust your project and how you are different from others?
Ans — Difference can be seen very clearly on the way we communicate and the transparency of the whole project and the team backing it. We are truly hard workers and are here for the long run. Traderacemanager is one of the many quality projects to come and utilise IOI token even more.
Q44. What inspired you to come up with the project name " IOI "? In the practical sense, what does the name mean for project activity and ecosystem development?
Ans — We have backround in trading long term . Forex, stock etc. We just have a customers who doesnt have a clue whats is trading, charts etc. Thats why we feel some gamification is needed in this area to attract more and more potential customers.
Q45. What are your plans on GLOBAL adoption? Which country is presently focused on?
Ans — We will be a leader in Central Europe, and next target is USA and CHINA.
100 000 000 tokens - but there will be big supprise in next few hours.
Q46. There are some people who are interested in crypto trading and wants to learn the business but due to high occurrence of scams and rug pulls they became hesitant. Is IOI corporation well positioned enough to help onboard such people and make them learn the business in a safe and fun environment?
Ans — We are working on the big trading platform which will make trading and crypto super easy for everyone with full transparency as every product we do. We are now onboarding best people in business to work with us on the academy witch will be cornerstone for any crypto students, enthusiasts and traders.
Q47. I see an NFT target on your roadmap. What is your plan with NFTs?
Ans — Create something with real value. Not as many project out there. All of our nfts will be special, get you some game advantages and staking rewards. But whats more important you can really use this nfts in our games.
Q48. I could see that to participate in a race, one or more shares of that track would have to be bought, right? But really how can I get passive rewards with those actions? Will it be renting access to those tracks?
Ans — Track are special for of traderacemanager NFTs and will provide you with a % of every prizepool of games played on your track devided by the number of track share holders for a lifetime so the potential is unlimited.
Q49. Trust is very important in business. So, what makes investors, customers and users feel safe when working with Your project? And how will you get the trust of many users that have negative thoughts about Blockchain and DeFi?
Ans — We are here , you can see us daily in our videos, posts and in chat :) We are not hiding , we want represent IOI brand in long term future.
Q50. When following the road map- what are the most important priorities next? Does IOI team have enough basic reserves (funds- community- etc.) to achieve these milestones?
Ans — MARKET PLACE WITH CHARITY :
We have a big plans with it. In IOI corporation we want to make the world a better place and our market will be dedicated to charity. It means from every NFT sold on the platform we will donate to those who need it the most.
But biggest fun will be Binary fight and CyberTrade.
Here are some important links of IOI👇
🌎 Website: traderacemanager.com
📱 Twitter: twitter.com/IOI_game
📢 Telegram: t.me/IOIGAME
📚 Blog: www.ioi-blog.com
