BLUE FRONTIERS: SUSTAINABLE FLOATING ISLANDS WITH UNIQUE GOVERNING FRAMEWORKS
In recent years, there has been a rapid rise in the mean sea level all over the world. This rise in sea level can be attributed to climate and has caused many lands inhabited by man to be drowned in water. As we speak, more lands and communities are on the brink of being engulfed by water all due to the rise in sea level, and the centralized model of government in these embattled areas isn’t helping at all. The centralized government system isn’t effective and as such there isn’t proper representation of the people they are meant to serve, especially in situations like this. As a matter of urgency, this precarious situation represents a danger to both humans and the environment and needs resolution. This solution is Seasteading. Seasteading is a decentralized solution where floating structures known as Seasteads, can be set up where new societies can grow, with new forms of government in place, thus providing a solution to the sea level rise being faced by man and her environment.
With Seasteading, new Seasteads can branch off physically from existing ones to form new Seasteads, as in a natural process of variation and selection. One benefit of Seasteading is that, the new decentralized governance it brings will foster new ways of civilization as people can float their homes to new locations of their choice, thus reducing the monopolistic influence of centralized governments on where people live and how they conduct their daily commercial activities. Existing government will then play the role of service providers who will compete to attract citizens and businesses, thus providing a constantly growing marketplace for government. To this end, since 2008, Blue Frontiers has been promoting the development of Seasteads, new cities or settlements on the ocean via its Seasteading Institute. Seasteads are on high demand and Blue Frontiers, an international company that is registered in Singapore, is backed by a well experienced and knowledgeable team of engineers and designers, network, government and media all over the world which stands them in good stead to pull of their aim. A look at this video will provide more insight on Blue Frontiers
Essentially, Blue Frontiers will be providing solution to two very important issues:
• Lack of innovation in governance systems
• Loss of land and homes due to rising seas and a shortage of real estate in coastal areas
The technologies behind Blue Frontiers will birth new opportunities that will aid its entry to new markets apart from Seasteads, such as:
• Floating Solar Power
• Floating Wind Power
• Floating Agriculture
• Fish Farms
• Floating (and sinking) Data Centers
• Wave Power
• Floating Charge Stations for Electric Boats
• Floating Stadiums and Amphitheaters
• Floating Parking Structures, e.t.c.
However, Blue Frontiers has a plan for its first project that involves building approximately 14 floating platforms that include small villas and larger community properties that are connected by floating walkways on a Seastead at the average cost of US$ 5 million. The Seastead will have an estimated foot print of 7,500 square meters and a usable space of 2 hectares, housing 200-300 people.
The services offered by Blue Frontiers are physical infrastructures for Seasteads that include SeaZone administrative services, SeaZone logistics services, business registration, events, tourism, partnership programs, sustainability consulting, etc., and Blue Frontiers will require Varyon tokens in exchange for these products and services. Note that the acceptance of Varyon tokens for Blue Frontiers products and services will be incentivized thereby promoting the use of Varyon. In order to build Seasteads, Blue Frontiers is raising capital via the sale of its ERC20 compliant Varyon token.
VARYON TOKEN AND DETAILS ON ITS SALE
The Varyon token is an ERC20 compliant token on the Ethereum blockchain. Varyon is a tradable token that can be used outside of Blue Frontiers. The Varyon token will be used to purchase Blue Frontiers products and services of significant value through a Vickrey auction or market-based purchasing process. Varyon will be distributed in a crowdsale to buyers who have been whitelisted through the Blue Frontiers anti-money laundering (AML), know your customer (KYC), and selection process. Other uses of Varyon tokens include:
• Required for staking a person’s presence, and residency (or virtual residency if available) in a SeaZone.
• Paying Blue Frontiers for the registration of businesses, and residency (or virtual residency if available) in Blue Frontiers’ administered SeaZones.
• Paying the major utilities provided by Blue Frontiers, such as electricity, cable services, sanitation services, etc.
A total of 1 billion VAR tokens will be minted, with no further tokens minted after the token generation event. All contributions shall be refunded should the softcap not be achieved. The following are details on the Blue Frontiers token generation event:
Pre-sale and public sale softcap: 4,000 ETH
Note that, presale will be sold ahead of the public sale in Bitcoin, ZenCash, and Ethereum, with a tiered bonus of up to 15%. However, there will be no bonuses in the public sale.
Hardcap: 22,000 ETH
You can find more details on the token generation event by visiting the website https://www.blue-frontiers.com/ .
TOKEN DISTRIBUTION
15% - Blue Frontiers Team
10% Community Development
35% - Reserves: Future Seastead/SeaZone Construction, Development, Administration
40% - Sales
Note that, unsold tokens from the main sale will be included with the reserves for future Seastead/SeaZone Construction, Development and Administration. Also, a small portion of tokens allocated to the Team will be distributed locked up for a period of 1 year from the token generation event, with the rest allocated and vested over time.
USE OF FUNDS
Funds derived from the token sale event will be divided among the following:
• Community Growth
• General Administration
• Design & Engineering
• SeaZone Legal & Administration
Note that, the amount spent on each activity depends on the funds raised.
ROADMAP
2017 - Signed MOU with French Polynesia; launched Blue Frontiers; held researchers Floating Island Research: Science & Technology meeting at the UC Berkeley Gump Station on the Island of Moorea. Co-hosted first international seasteading gathering in Tahiti. Conducted significant economic, legal, and environmental research; developed new seastead designs; built a global team
Q1 2018 - Launched Blue Frontiers Global
Q3 2018 - Launch Varyon
Q3-Q4 2018 - Acquire a SeaZone from a host nation; continue negotiations for additional SeaZones; engineer and blueprint seastead designs
Q1/Q2 2019 - Prototype seasteads; wave-model testing; manufacturer and supply chain assessments Q3/Q4 2019 - Manufacturer and construction team selection. Construction/manufacturing begins
2021: First seasteads deployed
TEAM
Randy Hencken – Co-Founder
Joe Quirk – Co-Founder
Marc Collins – Co-Founder
Nicolas Germineau – Co-Founder
Egor Ryjikov – Co-Founder
ADVISORS
Dorjee Sun - COO of Santiment
Yuri Lobyntsev - CTO & C0-Founder, Cindicator
Daniel A. Nagy Ph.D. – Founder, ePoint Systems Ltd.
John-Paul Thorbjorsen – CEO and Co-Founder of CanYa
Martin Stroka - Managing Director, Crypto Science
Robert Viglione - Co-founder of ZenCash
Maciek Ziolkowski - Co-founder of Coinfirm
Susanna Dokupil – CEO, Paladin Strategies
Wang Chien Ming Ph.D. & M.Eng.Sc. - Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Queensland
Matatea Changuy – Founder, Space2Leap
Tom W. Bell - Special Economic Zones expert
Lara Stein - Executive Director Women’s March Global
Pascal Erhel Hatuuku - Culture, tourism and environment consultant
Gaspard Koenig - Philosopher, journalist, and president of the thinktank ‘GenerationLibre’.
Neil Davies Ph.D. - Director of the University of California’s Gump South Pacific Research Station in Moorea, French Polynesia
Gabriel Rothblatt - United Therapeutics, Space Exploration Advocate
PARTNERS
• The Seasteading Institute
• Blue21
• Grey Group
• Cindicator
• ZenCash DRAFT 28
• Kleros
• Coinfirm
• BlockPulse
• Startup Societies Foundation
• Alpinehash
• American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association
• Archimediate LLC
• Balloun Law Professional Corporation
• BERGE
• Center for Innovative Governance Research
• Clean Tech Open
• Click Ventures
• Cryvo
• Deltasync
• Digital Raign
• EnergiPlant
• Everflux Technologies
• Floating Solutions LLP
• GB2A
• LBRY
• Owlized
• Primowind
• Pyramid Foods
• ReCivitas
• Solar Head of State
• UIX Global
• ZyCraft
The solution that Blue Frontiers provides will help curb the growing challenge of rising sea level, as the environment will be preserved. Also, new and improved economies will be formed as well as new governments due to the novel ways in which businesses can be conducted, and this will lead to new and improved living. I, hereby, urge you to not hesitate to participate in this unique to generation event as it doesn’t come often.
Should you require more information on this project, please feel free to read the whitepaper or visit the website form the links provided below. You can also connect with other unique participants token sale participants or get the latest updates via any of the social media handles:
Website: https://www.blue-frontiers.com/en/
Whitepaper: https://www.blue-frontiers.com/whitepaper.pdf
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