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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Background
2. What is WPC?
3. Market and Industry
4. Abstract
5. Roadmap
6. ICO
7. Our vision after Q2 2018
8. Project Team
9. Conclusion
1. Background
Once we think the standard of living which we take for granted over again, we
will see not a few countries in the world still cannot guarantee the minimum
living standard.
While rapid economic growth is expected to increase the income of developing
countries, we found that ownership rate of mobile terminals were extremely high
inspite of low bank account ownership rate in such countries. We believe debts
and consumption can dynamize the economy. Therefore, we concluded the
spread of a new cryptocurrency with blockchain technology could make debts
and consumption available with the mobile terminals. Based on these
backgrounds, WPC was developed.
2. What is WPC?
WPC is a cryptocurrency that aims to route out the world poverty as well as a
cryptocurrency utilizing blockchain technology.
It enables you the real-time settlement with a low remittance charge.
The maximum amount of WPC is set at 2.5 billion and we will donate 10% of
them which is equivalent to 250 million to developing countries. WPC contributes
to creating opportunities for people, who have neither bank accounts nor access
to financial services, to live their independent lives.
Furthermore, it utilizes its own artificial intelligence (AI) system called “TSUMUGI”
which calculates credit scores of people with no bank account so that it is
capable of providing the revolutionary system, Proof of Lending (PoL), that
enables WPC owners to mine while financing.
That means, WPC provides opportunities for people who need a finance to live
their independent lives by analyzing big data with AI and calculating their credit
scores.
3. Market and Industry
According to Statista, the world market for P2P lending in 2015 was $64 billion.
Based on the CAGR given by Statista (56%) and TechNavio (53%), we expect
that at the end of 2017, the potential market for the project will be over
$152 billion (and by 2025, the market is expected to grow to 1 trillion dollars [St
atista]) .
With regard to the market for P2P lending in the Asian region, the Allied Market
Research predicts an annual growth rate of 54%.
There are 4 billion people in the world who have low income in developing countries.
Their annual income is currently under $3,000 on a purchasing power parity basis.
This untapped 4 billion people constitute the market for WPC.
The population of Myanmar, where WPC is the first target of distribution,
is 51,480,000 people, living in 11,956,000 households as of May 29, 2015.
According to JETRO's announcement, 48% of these households are living on a
monthly income of 400 dollars or less, in a household that can only be purchased for
the minimum amount required.
In Myanmar, these 5,738,880 households constitute the market.
In the early stages of the project, a donation of 10,000 households will be 67$ USD x 6
(months) = 4,020$ USD, which is the minimum wage in Myanmar for 20 days of labor.
In this way, markets that have been untapped so far are opened, and there will now
be a demand for economic cycles to happen. If we try to solve this as a charity, it would
be a enourmous undertaking.
However, through the use of "PoL"(Proof-of-Lending) and some of the
other features of crypto-currency such as mining
(which is financed by the loan), WPC will create a virtuous cycle of donations and
investments by giving investors a reason to donate.
4. abstract
Features
WPC is a public cryptocurrency that employs its own blockchain.
It holds 10% of the total amount in its dedicated wallet and donate it for
supporting the independent lives of the world’s poverty.
Algorithm
X13
Source code
The WPC source code will be published on GitHub in accordance with
the stability of the block chain and the listing to the virtual currency Exchange
scheduled for Q2 2018 - to guarantee the benefit of the ICO participants.
Overview of Blockchain
block generation time: 2.5 min
block size: 1MB
Way of Mining
WPC adopts a hybrid system of Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS)
and plans to move on to a hybrid system of PoW and PoL by Q2 2022.
Mother Wallet
TSUMUGI is a database to provide credit scores for PoL as well as a mother
wallet managing and distributing loans appropriately collecting learning materials
effectively.
With PoL, users do not send or receive money directly each other. Instead,
users in developed countries send it to TSUMUGI as a mother wallet
automatically for PoL implementation, and TSUMUGI distributes and sends it to
users in developing countries according to their credit scores and loan
applications.
Similarly, all repayments are implemented through the mother wallet and all the
records will be learning materials of deep learning. PoL is calculated according to
the past WPC remittance and recorded information regarding PoL, and all the
remittances should be approved by “node”.
Wallet
WPC designs dedicated wallets for loaners of PoL (we call them “UA”) and
loanees of PoL (we call them “UB”) respectively.
UA Wallet
Remitting functions for PoL are installed, in addition to common features of
Crypto currency wallets.
No limit for remittance and balance.
UB Wallet
Loan limit is set according the score calculated by TSUMUGI in balance.
Functions to see the loan limit, the current loan amount and apply loans
with PoL.
Flow of PoL
WPC sent from UA wallet to TSUMUGI will be pooled and allocated for the
allowance in case of delayed loan repayments of UB wallet.
Here is the pool rate for remittance.
1st year: 30%
2nd year: 20%
3rd year: 15%
4th year: 10%
5th year or later: 5%
All remitting processes regarding PoL should be approved by “node” and PoW
reward will have been made until 2027. After that, as long as transactions are
generated by PoL, node maintains the stability of the blockchain. Because PoL is
necessary to maintain and stabilize the transactions and the blockchain, PoL
can generate both local economic circulation and donation activities to the poor
areas permanently.
Why Myanmar?
The pace of economic growth of Myanmar is extremely rapid, with economic
growth rate of 7.0% in 2015. Though it decreased slightly to 5.9% in 2016, it is
expected to be 7.7% in 2017 and 8.0% in 2018[3].
The social infrastructure of Myanmar is developed relatively well, but Myanmar is
characterized by a low bank account ownership rate. A survey among people
over 15 years of age reported the bank account ownership rate of Myanmar was
very low, 23%[4].
The so-called "chest deposits" are mainly in the suburbs excluding the center of
the city such as Yangon, where the Crime prevention property is extremely weak. It is
in place like these that the case in which people cannot afford to save stands out.
In addition, most of the time, it is dangerous to make a money transfer, for
example, because you do not have a bank account whatsoever. It is
an example of committing to the person of the same village when returning home,
and entrusting it to an illegitimate remittance trader.
On the other hand, the penetration rate of smartphones in Myanmar is extremely
high with 89% has their own smartphones. However, it had been only 1% until
2000[5].
The background of this rapid growth was that the government aimed to
increase it to 80% by 2016 to promote the communication infrastructure develop
ment[6].
Therefore, Myanmar is expected to continue to develop the communication
infrastructure and has the necessary conditions for spreading WPC. Also, its
legal currency “kyat” is so unstable that people usually pay with the US dollar
and it is hard for multinational enterprises located in Myanmar to exchange kyat
to their domestic currencies. In other words, Myanmar has an environment where
a cryptocurrency is easy to circulate.
However, cryptocurrency market of Myanmar still has not reached a saturation
point. Even the bitcoin nor the Ethereum has not expanded there. We believe
that we can have a corner on the market by introducing WPC as Myanmar’s first
cryptocurrency.
5. Roadmap
6. ICO
Sales Schedule
ICO has become a new way of raising funds for companies trying to launch a
new business and is used around the world. With ICO, it became possible for
companies to offer their own cryptocurrencies to investors and to raise funds for
a new business.
We held presale of WPC in October 2017 and plan to hold pre-ICO on
December 20th, 2017~January 20th,2018.
We set our target amount of pre-ICO to USD 10 million and are going to use it
for development, marketing and the upcoming ICO. ICO is scheduled on March
25th, 2018~May 23th, 2018 (UTC).
Target amount of ICO including pre-ICO is USD 20 million. The sales of them
are going to be handled on Ethereum and bitcoin and the price is as follows.
pre-ICO: 1WPC = USD 0.22
ICO: 1WPC = USD 0.28
Bonus
March 25 - April 8 : 17%
April 9 - April 23 : 12%
April 24 - May 8 : 8%
May 9 - May 23 : No bonus
WPC will be available for converting into legal currencies and major
cryptocurrencies on cryptocurrency exchanges from Q2 2018.
7. Our vision after Q2 2018
From Q2 2018, major cryptocurrency exchanges will start to handle WPC,
utilizing 5% of the fund obtained from ICO for risk avoidance of investors. Also,
donations to developing countries that need a financial platform will begin while
WPC will be available for converting into major cryptocurrencies and fiat
currencies around the world. We thus will start to create a new mechanism to
generate liquidity of WPC.
250 million WPC, which is equivalent to 10% of total issue amount is planned to
be donated.
We plan to start to donate to Myanmar with WPC from October 2018, and at the
same time WPC will be available at cooperative stores and services located
mainly in Yangon. Donations to Myanmar will be done for 24 months. Very
reliable credit scores can be provided by utilizing scores calculated by TSUMUGI
and WPC use history. TSUMUGI continues deep learning with these data and
will be able to provide more reliable scores. PoL mining will start after clarifying
the credit scores so that we can minimize credit default risk and promote a
smooth circulation.
By targeting the above roadmap, we plan to consume 250 million WPC by
donating it to other areas in a similar scheme. We will decide how much WPC
to donate to each area by living standard of it. In case the total amount of
donation does not reach 250 million WPC, we will ask for second donations in
areas considered to require additional marketing.
To realize a smooth circulation of WPC, we will use 60% of the fund obtained
from ICO for infrastructure development such as exploring partner companies
allowing WPC as a mean of settling and providing devices.
From the time the first donation will be completed, 2025, donations will be
continued for the purpose of PoL from around the world using credit scores
alculated by TSUMUGI, generating the worldwide economic circulation.
8. Project Team
We include realizing independent lives of the poor as our vision to deal with the
poverty.
Lack of financial services can be given as a factor preventing developing
countries from developing. We always need money to live today.
There are some poor countries where people earn less than USD 30 per month.
Seeing this kind of situations, our project team has been considering how to
deal with the problem with “root out the poverty around the world” as our
mission.
To realize this vision, we organized a team with core members from various
departments: the top management, development department, corporate planning
department, information and communications department, and PR department.
9. Conclusion
WPC is a totally new cryptocurrency having possibility contributing to change the
world.
It had been said that no access to any financial services was the reason why
2.5 billion people without their bank account could not receive educations,
launcha business, nor invest for their asset buildups. Without a bank account,
they cannot get their credit scores based on their asset status and credit
information, and that causes them to depend on money lenders with high
interest rates, resulting in making their situation worse.
However, do they really need banks in this Internet age?
What is necessary for them is to access to a financial service. And if they need
a right with a financial service and an opportunity, FinTech can offer it.
Even though the past results of microfinance prove a very high repayment rate
of it, it has some problems to do in the poor countries because enormous
funding and cooperation of giant banks are required. Under existing conditions,
very few people can get an opportunity of microfinance.
To deal with such problems, people all over the world need to work on together
for future market development, but it is hard for a mere individual perspective of
devoted spirit to take action rather than a country or company. However, mining
can change the situation.It is WPC possible to solve these problems.
WPC is a magnificent project to realize the world peace with mindshift from
volunteer to investment.
Spread of WPC could change the world economy.
Thank you for reading to the very end.
We hope more investors will aim for the world peace as investors together with
us.
[1]
The World Bank [April 19, 2012]
[2]
The World Bank [April 19, 2012]
[3]
Asian Development Bank [September, 2017]
[4]
The World Bank [April 22, 2015]
[5]
International Telecommunication Union [2017]
[6]
Japan International Cooperation Agency [April, 2017]