The team includes an execution plan in the whitepaper which lays out some of their business development ideals. In general, the AERGO team feel that due to difficulties with enterprise IT integration and a lack of developer-friendly and easy-to-use software tools, there is a significant area for them to move into. In addition, they state that many implementations lack the enterprise grade capabilities that are needed to run business applications in private and public deployments. They plan to use and leverage a number of components from Blocko including various existing products, services and know-how to gain a significant amount of market share. Crucially, they also seek to leverage some of Blocko’s existing customers who have expressed an interest in AERGO’s capabilities.
Concreteness & Feasibility
AERGO’s core technology is based on COINSTACK2 from Blocko Inc., which operates in the UK, South Korea and Hong Kong. COINSTACK-based blockchain systems have already been deployed to 25 million users in over 20 in-production systems, and Blocko proposes to approach its existing clients to present AERGO as an enhancement to their existing deployments. Blocko will sell AERGO as a preferred open protocol that it can configure and connect to its own COINSTACK solution for clients, and also directly support enterprise deployments of AERGO based products and services. In addition, when clients upgrade to Coinstack 4.0, the tech will be replaced by AERGO so that enterprises will by default have the option to build on and access the public network.
Clarity
The white paper clearly shows that Blocko will be instrumental in helping AERGO to drum up business, in addition, key stakeholders in the AERGO ecosystem are shown to include any type of business wishing to use blockchain and their developers; as well as the IT contractors, infrastructure and service providers that provide value-adding services. AERGO also intends to support open source developers who plan to use, develop, and extend core features and projects within the AERGO technology stack.
Cost Effectiveness
The team still needs to confirm their hard cap and token metrics, and as a result it is difficult to make an accurate decision on the cost effectiveness of their project. However, as only 30% of token are being made available to the public, a significant amount of funding will be coming from strategic partners such as private entities or venture funds, and the proposed cap of $30 million is high for an enterprise level blockchain platform as the project will open up with a valuation of $100 million. However, RChain who also aims to provide blockchain solutions for businesses and enterprises is currently valued at $266M.
Legitimacy
A significant number of the AERGO team are based in South Korea and the project appears to hold a base in that country despite incorporating in Hong Kong. Still, the exact make up of the corporate structure is still to be confirmed, and the project is also supported by Blocko Inc., which has been operating since 2014 and has operations in South Korea, Hong Kong, and the UK. The advisory board and core team have academic and professional records that are easy to verify, and more information on the commercial makeup of the project should soon be available.
