David Olsson / LODE.one

Ian Richard and David Olsson on LODE.one's silver backed crypto

InterviewJanuary 16, 201917:05

In this episode

Today on Blockchain interviews, we dive deep with Ian Richard and David Olsson on how LODE one has developed a multi coin silver backed cryptocurrency platform running on the Syscoin Blockhain, with partnership from Blockchain Foundry.

Key takeaways
  • LODE.one operates a two-token system where LODE tokens represent physical silver ownership and AGX coins function as silver-backed stablecoins for daily transactions.
  • The platform addresses inefficiencies in silver ownership by enabling tokenization, reducing storage burden, and facilitating commerce with approximately 500 million ounces of privately held silver worldwide.
  • LODE.one selected the Syscoin blockchain after evaluating alternatives like Ethereum, choosing it for real-time transaction capability and alignment with the project's technical roadmap.
  • Token holders receive payouts as the monetary mass grows in vaults, with the system designed so users and owners both benefit from putting physical silver to work on the blockchain.

Transcript

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blockchain industry if you guys would please just start out a little bit maybe you Ian with you know what is the load one project and you know how spefic specifically are you guys making this revolution sure thanks Ashton for inviting us on the call today we appreciate it the load project is a collectively organized community of enthusiastic silver stackers and

Silver enthusiasts the project is established essentially on a two token system where each token having a unique relationship to the physical silver that's vaulted currently there's approximately 15.79% can load it into the system take a

digital receipt in the form of a load token which tracks the Silver's life cycle on the internet on the blockchain to Infiniti and enables the creation of agx coins which is the silver secured money in the system as the agx tokens work in the in the marketplace the stack of silver in the vaults in increases and it's not a magic trick

it does that essentially transaction to transaction and as the monetary Mass grows in these vaults the marginal extra silver is paid back or paid out to the load token holders so it's actually not a complicated system it's ambitious and can only be done because the blockchain has the capability of tracking assets to Infinity that's great thank you Ian so

you know we've had a lot of people in cryptocurrency have been in Precious Metals for a long time I know many people that are interested in you know the tokenization of these precious metals you know for those people in a nutshell you know what is the benefit besides just holding a silver bar in your hand to holding silver through load is it easier or you don't have to you

know go to the store and get it you know what are the simple benefits of using using the load system for silver well there's many and the systems it's intended that the system would solve certain inefficiencies that exist in the current silver Marketplace so that's really important to key in on the inefficiencies that exist currently with silver is one it's very

heavy two it can be challenging to store it can cause can can can pose security issues for families to hold secondly it's really hard to spend to buy a coffee with or to you know do trade and commerce most people that own silver today they know how to use it that might have more

challenges teaching their children how to use silver money but essentially the system and the community on a whole are advocates for holding precious Metals so the system doesn't necessarily remove the or doesn't urge individuals to put all of their silver to work the system is constructed so that some of

the silver that individuals are currently holding and it's been estimated that roughly 500 million ounces of silver currently are sitting in private hands worldwide and some of this silver could go to work on the internet on a system like this and be kept track of as it works so putting the silver to work is the intention of the system and solving some of these

inefficiencies that currently exist with the silver industry solving them is the intention that's great thank you so David you know you guys spoke at the beginning that this is a two token system now I've seen two token systems very briefly in cryptocurrency but I've never seen one that integrates precious metal you guys have the load token and you

have the agx coin can you speak a little bit about how these two coins interact within the system and where's the value in the silver you know being held specifically well the it is very unique system in that one side of the coin as it were is the load token holders who have actually created the monetary MK that enables the agx coin users

so one group of people are advocates for the use of silver and want to put it to work and get rewarded for building some 16 million grams right now in terms of the mass and the other group that actually has a need for a stable coin and a stable currency can utilize that silver in a day-to-day fashion from Cars to coffees so they both have

different use cases but they both have a unique relationship to the silver that's great and I foresee stable coins as one of the you know top trends of 2019 so it sort of makes sense to have that stability especially with the volatility of cryptocurrencies compared to the current volatility of silver so I like where you guys are going with that

now I looked into it a little further and I saw that you guys are minting these coins and running the ecosystem on the CIS coin blockchain now did you guys compare different blockchains and why did you guys end up going with CIS coin at the end of the day did we compare blockchain did we do did we blockchain we spent a lot of time doing a lot of

research talking to a lot of different people spent a fair amount of time analyzing etherum and erc20 solutions and then we were introduced to CIS coin Jag and team and found that they had a solution for us that could actually be used as money in real time and not only did they have that they had a road map that actually mirrored some of the ambition that we

have put in front of us so we there providing what I would call a tier one and tier two solution for us to build Community Solutions on top of so that we can actually service the Mandate for our community effectively well yeah and so we're we feel very confident and we've had a very tight relationship with them they've course corrected with us as we

learn and as the as the you know Community evolves and the technology innovates and in this space it's very important that you actually can have a tight partnership with companies and organizations that recognize Innovation is the champion and we're very happy with where we're at we're actually in The blockchain Foundry office right now awesome that's great

and I'm glad you guys are happy and I know that the CIS coin blockchain has really good support so I think you guys are in good hands so let's go back to the tokens for a second can you guys talk about the load payout and the value that's derived from token holders as they are in the ecosystem yeah sure we've been searching for a real world

reference in technology that could give our audience an easy way or easy illustration to work with as as far as how the system works maybe Uber where you have a user and an owner you have an owner of a car that wants to put it to work and Uber system matches you with a user and the ride happens Airbnb does something similar with real

world assets and real estate takes your private home makes it available to an audience finds you a qualified user makes sure that everybody gets paid and keeps track of essentially keeps track of your inventory and turns your property into a income stream I suppose the other way to look look at it is in law essentially you if you've ever used a valet

service and you take your car to the to your favorite restaurant and you drop it off and hand the keys to the valet your expectation is that he's going to take care of your car that he's going to park it in a secure place and then you're going to get it back in the same condition or even better maybe they'll wash it and it comes back to you in better condition so we've been searching

in for a way to illustrate what the system is those three examples would be sort of hybrids of what this is we're taking physical assets and putting them to work making sure that they're secured and vaulted and insured and that the users respect the use of these assets and are willing to use them in their daily life and return the rewards back or the payouts back to the owner of

the silver that's why there's two tokens you've got an owner and you have a user and the two of them come together to create or construct a monetary system which restores silver to as money which has been a dream of this community for a very long long time H that's very interesting and I like the analogy to the valet but you know what I'm curious about is you

know as this is a blockchain project you know is this fully decentralized or how does the business Economics work of the holders and the token holders and like is it are you is the corporation you know you know using their authority to dish out or how does the decentralization work good question that's a good question we both looked at each other

You'll be the first to hear this we've been keeping some of the legal framework very very quiet in the community essentially in law when you have an asset and you are willing to allow another person to do to use your asset in law in common law that is called bailment like the valet you allow them to take your car and put it in the

garage you also allow them to wash it sometimes mistakes happen and maybe you get a scratch on your car that you didn't expect but the expectation is that essentially your asset's going to come back to you not necessarily in the same form but it's coming back the system is constructed around a service providers Network because there doesn't really need to be in a

corporation or a big corporate entity to accomplish these things besides the community is looking for an ecosystem and it's not really possible to supply all of the interests that the community might be seeking so the U Back to the owner of the silver that's in law called the bayor bailment is a is a foundational law that Leasing and

renting contracts have been constructed on top of so it's over 200 years old so it's very old law you can as the bayor allow the baile which is the user or the agx coin to have a service provider assisting you to accomplish the objectives for instance the valet doesn't own the Parkade necessarily where your car is

going they made an arrangement with the parking owner parking lot owner they've also made an arrangement possibly with the person that washes your car while it's in the valet and they've made an arrangement with the insurance company which insures them for taking care of your car while it's in the parade so there's all sorts of levels of service that needs to go along with providing

this all comprising service which completes the bailment arrangement so again you're the first to hear this so I don't want to sort of make things too complicated but essentially the owner of the silver is working with the user of the silver and the service providers collectively in an alliance to

accomplish the Fulfillment of the ARR Arrangement so there is no Corporation there are only service providers and right now there are 33 service providers in the in the first tier of the community and we expect that will grow when say for instance exchanges get involved or ATM networks get involved or POS providers get involved or you know the

blockchain migrates with the help of the blockchain found guys and we bring in more service providers and we have payment gateways and things like that all plugging in it's much better to have a service providers Alliance than it is to have one individual Corporation You couldn't possibly accomplish all of this in an ecosystem with one court and it also

curiously harmonizes with the blockchain itself and in the technology base of being decentralized and distrib it allows for certain people to move in and out of the ecosystem and meanwhile the community can still function so it is very project in that regard and from a technologist point of view it's very interesting how it does harmonize with the tech that we chosen that's

great well U I'm looking forward to reading a little bit more into that because it sounds like a very interesting layout that you guys have so I just have one last pressing question you know I'm curious about the silver itself I know you guys mentioned how much you guys had at the beginning but you know is the amount of silver audited you know is there a picture of

video of the silver and are you guys planning on getting more silver well there's actually going to be five audits in the series of audits that the first audit is when the silver is checked in to the system and it's get counted double signing approach double signing approach and then the vaulting companies they do their own internal audit every quarter and

Count the silver and then Bureau Veritas which is a world leading precious metals auditing company they're presently doing an audit of the seven vaults right now they do an audit and then the expectation is that the community would be invited from time to time to inspect the vaults and send up the photographic evidence that the physical silver is actually

there touch the silver touch the silver and you know they will take a basically take a key that they earn through some sort of awarding system and they will go visit the Vault count it and load up the photos that's great well I'm looking forward to seeing those pictures and those audits as well so that's good to hear so you know thank you so much we're pretty much out of

time in David David what's the best way to for other people to get involved into the load one project and learn more the best place to start is at load. one we have an active telegram Community but you can find all the starting points to participating contributing to the project and I'm being an advocate for the project at load. one L1 awesome thank you guys I'm looking

forward to following up and hearing more about you guys' decentralized processes and seeing the silver and all the best to you guys in 2019 and I'll talk to you guys next time thank you Ash thank you Ash Cheers Cheers

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