We are very pleased to have concluded our 3nd weekly office hour.
Please find below our weekly recap, survey question results and the live community Q&A session that followed. If you missed it we hope to see you there next time!
Weekly Recap
Listing and Launch
We’ll be working with DODO to launch a small token auction for newcomers to our community. Below are some facts about the auction:
Amount of tokens for auction: 100,000 ITGR (0.03% of the total supply)
Floor price: 0.9812 USDC Max price: 2.10 USDC
Personal hard cap: 300 USDC
Size of the whitelist: 1000 people
You can read more about the auction here:
https://integral.link/blog/100k-newcomers-auction-whitelist
Timeline
Below is a simplified timeline about what will happen between now and September 15th, the TGE:
September 10th 12:00 PM UTC: Deadline for applying for auction’s whitelist
September 12th: If you are selected for the auction, you will receive a confirmation email from kyc@integral.link
September 14th: Auction starts 12:00 PM UTC on https://app.dodoex.io/
September 15th: Auction ends. Time release/staking contracts go live (you can claim and stake then) and the Uniswap pool will be up and running.
Community
We now feature on Lunarcrush and Messari!
Lunarcrush can be used to view our progress we have in terms of marketing and social engagement. Messari is a useful tool for project details and market data like charting and supply metrics.
Community-building-wise, we are seeing 10% increase of our twitter followers and discord members. Well done guys! We hope you can keep sharing our community on social media!
Q&A
IDO, Listing and Crowd pool
Why are you conducting a new public sale auction to 1000 people? I think, this will affect the $ITGR price and you have already concluded a public seed round?
Think of it as a thank-you note to our community. Our community has grown bigger since our public seed round, but for people who joined the community afterwards, they never had a chance to get our tokens. Therefore, as we are getting closer to the TGE, we want to give out some benefits & perks to these guys, and that’s why we haven’t made it too big: 100,000 $ITGR in total, and personal hard cap being $300.
Marketing
When can we expect $ITGR to be listed on Coinmarketcap and Coingecko? And what marketing efforts are being deployed to publicize $ITGR ahead of and after listing on Uniswap?
We have started working on this and we have filed our application for Coinmarketcap over their self-reporting system. Regardin Coingecko, they require us to provide price information, which we will have only after the token is up on Uniswap.
You are frequently referring to large institutional traders from Coinbase in your articles. How will you attract these institutional traders (which seem to be part of your key target audience) considering institutional traders require strong legal foundations, custody, security, US regulatory frameworks, etc?
I think the question is, when we say the word “institutional”, who are we talking about? The definition determines the scope here, because Goldman Sachs is institutional, so are other crypto based funds. Oh, and not to mention the ETH whales. These are not companies, but they do use Coinbase a lot for large trades.
Currently, we have got a good product for whales and crypto-native funds. Our 1st product, the comparator, has given us the best price for large orders, not just in DeFi, but also compared with Binance. In the next few months, we will be keep building and shipping products to suit their needs, and we hope to release the 2nd product by the end of this year.
But can we serve Goldman now? I don’t think so, I don’t think any DeFi project out there can. It needs another product (and we’ve been thinking about this already), and a big push on the BD and regulatory side. This will be our main focus after launching the 2nd product, and we are preparing for this.
Would it be possible to expand Integral to other networks? Today Ethereum is the slowest and most expensive network to use. And I believe that the future Internet is clearly going to be multi-chain. Limiting ourselves to Ethereum even though it is the mostly used right now, I think it’s not the best path to take today.
Yes. Currently, we are proving out our product utility on Ethereum. A lot of big traders still mainly stick around on Ethereum. But expanding to L2 will become a priority for us after this current focus.
To be the last exchange, to eat other exchanges’ liquidity, one must construct the infrastructure to house the liquidity. When will additional tokens/pairs be added? Is it even worthwhile to pursue this avenue? It is possible most large orders concern the pairs already present. What are the developers’ thoughts on this?
Yes. Since our biggest value proposition is to execute large orders on chain, we have a higher criteria for token pairs than an average DEX. When we start to look into a token we have to see sustainable block trade orders – we look for a ‘in-the-wild’ sign, a need of deeper liquidity. Currently, we are carefully monitoring the performance of a few DeFi blue-chip tokens, and hope to bring them to Integral and the new product. And you are correct, the large orders we are seeing do concern the pairs that we already have listed.
How big is the team and how many will you recruit for the Integral mission?
Our team currently has 15 people, and we have a very high standard for recruiting.
Is your focus on institutions, power users or retail?
Focus-wise: power users for now. Institutions for long-term.
How will you differentiate from Sushi, Uniswap etc? And on that, will you introduce new products?
Sushi/Uniswap: solve the problem for trading altcoin on chains, also at a retail-level.
Integral: solves the problem for trading large orders on chains, power users/institutional-level.
And yes, we are currently are working on other products such as the 1-day to 1-week execution window along with some other ideas we have.
Will you integrate with MM, Matcha and other aggregators?
Aggregator integration will boost our volume instantly, and we are in talks with the leading aggregators (the ones on our Comparator). However, because we are non-atomic, it takes extra engineering from their side + UX changes from their side to plug into their system. It is not hard, but everyone is extremely busy pursing higher priorities, and integration with us is not a high priority for them. But we are talking to them every month to update them on our progress.
What are, if any, your biggest competitors?
We have not discovered any yet! As we are focusing on the niche market of TWAP. If you find another project that shares the same vision of Integral, please let us know!
$ITGR and Token Metrics
Could you please give a brief overview of the $ITGR token allocation and distribution plan?
Sure, the below chart roughly depicts the allocation of the $ITGR token and assigned vesting schedules:
Note: One month after TGE, the circulating supply will be approx 5.98%
For a more detailed explanation of our token metrics please visit here.
The public seed round sale raised over $30M, how many unique token holders does this equate to? And is there holders with large portfolios?
We had roughly 2000 people joining in on our public seed round, and the largest investment from an individual is around $3mil.
You mentioned that for every dollar the protocol earns – 1 dollar will also go into the treasury. Can you please explain in detail how the protocol earns that dollar? Is it through trading fees and if it is how are those fees calculated? % of each trade?
Yes trading fee. Integral currently charges a 1bps (basis point) trading fee for stablecoin pools (USDC-USDT, DAI-USDC, DAI-USDT), and 5bps for all of the other pools.
