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Mar 27, 2018
MyDFS ICO
MyDFS is a blockchain-powered daily fantasy sports platform from uTrener and KHL Fantasy apps creators. MyDFS runs on mobile devices and connects sports fans around the world in a transparent, easy-to-use manner. We’ve simplified the user experience to make the game enjoyable for players of all types. You can use MyDFS tokens to play, win, and exchange it for other cryptocurrency or fiat money. Moreover, we are pioneering player brokerage to let casual users to share prize pool with Pro.
MyDFS | ICO Status: Running | TBA |
| Concept: MyDFS delivers blockchain to the $7B market of daily fantasy sports, where smart contracts improve speed, ease-of-use, transparency, governance and accountability for players. The MyDFS founders have established profitable businesses in Europe; in 2015, they made utrener.com, the official daily fantasy sports app for the KHL (Continental Hockey League), which has also been shortlisted for FIFA 2018 tender. Deep market research by Eilers & Krejcik Gaming shows that MyDFS has an opportunity to reach the 57 million people who play season-long fantasy sports around the world. The hardcap for the MyDFS token sale is set at $20,000,000. Whitepaper: Get more information  |
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Venture  | Raised Capital: $3,000,000 USD  Venture Round: Pre-sale  Price: $0.7  Currencies Accepted: ETH, BTC, ZCash, Ether Classic, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin | ICO token Distribution: Purchased Tokens: 20% of all tokens (25,000,000) Team Tokens: 20% of all tokens (25,000,000) Advisors and Early Contributors Tokens: 20% of all tokens (25,000,000) Growth Tokens: 37% (46,250,000) Bounty Tokens: 3% (3,750,000) |
Mining  | Supply: 25,000,000 MYDFS Soft Cap: 4,000,000 USD Hard Cap: 20,000,000 USD | Usage: MyDFS tokens is an additional way for users to grow the value of what they own and win, and stay engaged and interested. MyDFS tokens can be used to: - Participate in games, receive winnings - Pay for extra app features and in-game content - Invest in other players on the platform - Convert tokens to other cryptocurrencies and fiat money |
Competitors  | MyDFS doesn’t try to compete with industry leaders, but redefines the industry itself. MyDFS adds maximum transparency by using the blockchain and smart contracts for every part of the platform, from player trades to receiving your winnings. We overcomes legal issues by using ERC-20 Ethereum-based cryptocurrency tokens. These replace real money in the game, meaning people from all over the world can play without worrying about the game’s legality. MyDFS makes the gaming process as simple and straightforward as possible, attracting more sports fans to fantasy. |
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Initial Coin Offering  | Pre-ICO Launch: 16th of April 2018 Pre-ICO Finish: 6th of May 2018 ICO Launch: 15th of October 2018 ICO Finish: TBA ICO Tradable on Exchanges since: still not tradable | Platform: Ethereum (ERC20 Token) |
Offices/Locations  | Office 29, Clifton House, Fitzwilliam Street Lower, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland | |
Team behind MyDFS
Viktor Mangazeev
CEO, Founder
In 2016, Viktor founded a daily mobile fantasy sports platform called uTrener and a white-label app for KHL, Eastern Europe’s biggest hockey league. He also worked as CIO for a number of large companies, including IQoneholdings (boasting more than $400 million in revenue), Desert, etc.
Anastasia Shvetsova
Chief Communications Officer
Anastasia is one of the most trusted communication professionals in the tech industry. She has worked with Facebook, PayPal, Houzz and others. Her PR agency leads the way for the best teams active in blockchain and cryptocurrency pursuits, including SingularityNET, Blackmoon Financial Group, and Jibrel Network.
Alex Kireev
Lead Backend Developer
Alex is a lead backend developer with over 10 years of experience with full-stack web app development and all facets of the software development life cycle. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in computer engineering from VSTU.
Polina Polosukhina
Head of Customer Relations
Despite her young age, Polina has strong community management and networking skills. Before joining MyDFS team, she served as a Project Manager at Huawei Moscow. She graduated from HSE, had an internship in Shanghai International Studies University. Polina fluently speaks English and Chinese.
Denis Polyakov
Android Developer
Denis is an Android developer with more than five years of experience. He has a strong knowledge of Android UI design principles and best practices. He’s developed multiple Android apps for fantasy sports, banking, food delivery, and more.
Vlad Zotov
Android Developer
Has 4+ years experience working on mobile apps for startups and established companies. Experienced in complex UI applications. Has strong knowledge of Google guidelines and Material Design.
Kirill Pyulzyu
iOS Developer
Has 6+ years experience of making apps for iOS, including real-time data synchronization, complex UI, RESTful API integration, Social integration (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), CoreData DB management, GPS location processing and many more.
Anastasia Golikova
Project Manager
Anastasia has strong technical background and knows how to lead app development process. She is experienced in team management, agile, understands infrastructure components and has a unique mix of technical know-how and communication skills. This makes her great project manager to lead MyDFS development.
Yobie Benjamin
Advisor, CTO at DragonCoin
Yobie is the CTO at DragonCoin, and served as the CTO of Citigroup Global Transaction Services/Institutional Clients Group, was Partner/CTO of the Ernst and Young LLP and a number of other world-renowned companies.
Frank Kan Fu
Advisor, Managing Director at Meitu
Frank Kan Fu serves as Managing Director at Meitu. He was responsible for all international hype over Meitu app in June 2016. Before joining Meitu Inc. he served as Executive Vice President of Global at Kingsoft Corporation.
Akin Babayigit
Advisor, served as the Head of Business Operations at King and as the Head of Facebook Audience Network in EMEA
Akin served as the Head of Business Operations at King and as the Head of Facebook Audience Network in EMEA, where he led the global publisher partnerships team and helped grow Audience Network revenues to $1 BN + revenue run-rate in 18 months.
Simone Giacomelli
Advisor, Blockchain Lead and Head of Business Development at SingularityNET
Simone is one of the most respected tech specialists in ICO world. He is a Blockchain Lead and Head of Business Development at SingularityNET, the company created the first humanlike robot Sophia.
Eduard Gurinovich
Advisor, Founder of CarPrice
Founder of CarPrice (raised $80m from key industry investors), an online auction for used cars with 50+ offline offices. Attracted $10m+ into CarMoney. IT startup investor in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics.
Slava Tsurka
Backend Developer
Slava has competence in developing high loaded distributed applications. He has great relationship manager and management skills besides his programming experience. Slava organized several developer conferences and managed teams. He is mainly focused on designing integration and implementing API available for our internal services.
Artem Mekhmedov
Backend Developer
Artem has 14 years experience in developing applications. One of his key achievements is taking lead role in developing IDE plugin downloaded by ~100.000 other developers. Artem knows how to develier high quality products appreciated by developers. Artem is mostly focused in innovations for our software.
Dmitriy Korol
Frontend Developer
Dmitriy is a Frontend and Backend developer with over 5 years of experience web app development built using Yii framework. He earned his Engineer’s Degree in faculty of engineering mechanics from Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas.
Alexei Rudakov
iOS Developer
Alex develops iOS applications for the last 7 years. He was the early adopter of Swift language in some of our projects which were migrated from Objective-C. Alex has rich experience in developing apps for iPhone, iWatch. He wrote several extensions form iMessage also. Alex has a deep knowledge of CoreData, Realm, CoreGraphics, UIKit frameworks.
Bennett Carroll
Advisor. Director at Vungle
Bennett is a Director at leading in-app mobile network, Vungle. He has driven new vertical and new market expansion, helping diverse range of app developers acquire high value users around the world. He has a Masters Degree in International Business from Maastricht University in Holland.
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Nice summary!MyDFS looks like a strong project to follow. The team has previous experience in the field, daily Fantasy is extremely popular pastime and blockchain provides an extra element of fair play and security over current options. I believe that this will be a success project in the coming months!