Alphacat (ACAT)

Low cap: $25M
2.5B/6.2B circ. supply
No ICO, $20M raised in private rounds
Platform: NEO (Nep5 token)
MAINNET: Q1 2019

SUMMARY:
-Complete trading platform and prediction/trading AI economy
-Marketplace designed with specialized roles/incentives for bot creators/consumers
-Defined roles: algorithm architects, AI bot engineers, and consumers (retail/institutional)
-Initial market will be seeded with proprietary prediction bots, specialized for various coins (BTC/NEO in user beta now)
-Core ACAT engine will be exposed as API to engineers
-Algo architects/engineers will be rewarded w/ tokens according to demand for their bots

TEAM:
-All-star team w/ strong finance/AI backgrounds (30 in size)
-Founder Dr. Bin Li was VP of Merrill Lynch, Dr. Liang Li was principle engineer at Huawei, Dr Yue Wang worked on Google DeepMind, and few others w/ WS quant. trading backgrounds.
-Much of the team have been working together since company was founded. They launched A-Share hedge fund in China in 2016 using ACAT tech, which has been generating 23% annual returns (supposedly outperforming almost all other funds)

PARTNERS/INVESTORS:
-Onchain/NEO Global Capital, Badwater Capital, Node Capital, Bo Shen from Fenbushi, Draper Dragon Fund, and hedge fund managers

CODE
-Unreleased

DEVELOPMENT
-BTC prediction bot in beta testing (free for token holders), currently operating at 63% accuracy. NEO beta will begin in June (free for holders of > 1m tokens)
-New roadmap was recently released with marketplace/terminal mainnet looking like Q1 2019, along with a whole set of flagship products for popular cryptocurrencies

ANALYSIS
-Project is currently under the radar due to private-only funding and initial lack of emphasis on marketing
-They have since prioritized their marketing efforts, and price now trading 72% above all-time low
-Given team background, no doubt they have the ability to execute their vision
-Potential network effects of a specialized trading/prediction economy w/ proprietary tech are HUGE
-Opening up the walled garden of institutional trading tech to ordinary investors in an open, decentralized economy has not been done before
-Finally, user adoption: the Achilles heel of most crypto projects but ACAT’s greatest strength, for the simple reason that their target investor market is almost IDENTICAL to profile of traders/investors currently speculating on the token.
-Closest competitor: Cindicator (lol)