Bringing Marine Archaeology to the Blockchain
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PO8 is a blockchain ecosystem democratizing and decentralizing the marine archaeology industry. Our scalable technologies take ocean exploration to new heights in search of historical artifacts and treasures, and provide decentralized solutions for the registration, authentication, and transfer of the world’s most prized artifacts.
Divisions and lack of collaborative framework between competing marine archaeology interest groups.
Recovery expeditions can easily go into the millions, creating a barrier to entry feasible by only a handful of companies with resources.
Selling priceless treasures or artifacts can cost salvage companies, governments and other owners anywhere from 12 to 20% in sales commissions
The PO8 Foundation will be a custodial recipient of some of the discovered artifacts to be shared with the world to view through travelling exhibitions.
Our Historical Open Auction Platform (HOAP) is a decentralized auction platform ensuring responsible commerce of historical artifacts while providing a secure, transparent and cost effective place to buy and sell precious treasures.
The PO8 Historical Artifact Registry System (PHARS) creates a method to identify historical artifacts and certify their authenticity permitting government agencies, museums and organizations to register historic artifacts.
A portion of the recovered treasures such as gold and silver will be placed in the P08 reserve and pegged to the P08 token, resulting in token stability.
For the first time ever, anyone from around the world can help in the search and recovery efforts of long lost artifact treasures. Simply participate and complete any of our bounty tasks and earn free tokens. Bounty tasks include but not limited to analyzing data such as sonar, magnetometer, geo mapping, historical records, weather patterns, video feeds and more.
We’re creating a whole new way of transferring high value assets in a secure, cost-effective and transparent manner on the blockchain. Our decentralized auction is an open source platform, making it easy for anyone to get the most value for their prized possessions.
The GAAS platform serves as a secure escrow service allowing governments, museums and non-profit organizations to register and authenticate artifact treasures to buy, sell and auction historical artifacts between one another. All users of the platform are validated to ensure they are government entities.
PHARS is a decentralized registry platform used to identify historical artifacts and certify their authenticity, through the creation of unique signature identifications that live in the blockchain indefinitely.
Registered and established Bahamian Corporation
Historical Research on Nuestra Senora de las Maravillas, PO8’s maiden exploratory mission
Granted Abandoned Shipwreck Salvage License by Government of The Bahama
Assign key advisors
Creation of PO8 Ethereum based smart contract and wallet
Launch private sale
Launch pre-sale
Launch Crowd Sale
Exchange Listing
Begin development of MADS Wallet
Begin development of MADS Blockchain Algorithm Database
Historical data collection of charts, tides, hurricane and other natural disturbances
Submersible drones to collect structural and metallic underground anomalies
Satellite Imaging Data Collection
MADS Wallet available – beta version
MADS Blockchain Algorithm Database available – beta version
Data mining information collected
MADS token awarded to wallets
Present to Bahamian Government area of interest for commercial salvaging
Exploratory submersible drones deployed
Salvage teams and divers deployed
PHARS, HOAP and GAAS Dapps available – beta version
Salvage teams and divers search
Continuation of data mining and readjusting area of interest
Salvage teams and divers search
Continuation of data mining and readjusting area of interest
Matthew is a Bahamian serial entrepreneur and former co-founder of sendmetickets.com, the first English language online ticketing platform in China, acquired by a private equity group in 2012. Subsequently, he turned his interest to cryptocurrencies and became an early adopter by investing in Bitcoin mining. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Matthew has served in various China market-entry advisory roles for the likes of Uber and Wework, as well as advising trade missions from The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Panama and Chile in his role as Council General for Sino-Latam in Beijing. Matthew is an avid public speaker and has lectured on China business culture at leading universities in China and the U.S. He is a graduate of the Tsinghua-MIT Global MBA program.
Rolf is a computer systems engineer with over 20 years experience working for likes of Hewlett Packard, Sykes Americas, and several other IT datacenters in Latin America. His tech expertise ranges from developing full stack .NET, MEAN and LAMP Software Architect to blockchain and smart contract architecture. Rolf is the former founder and CTO of SoftecDigital, where he oversaw the development of various online gaming and casino gambling software systems.
Raul is a seasoned marketer and entrepreneur with over 20 years work experience in the U.S. and China across various industries such as advertising, technology, journalism and start-ups. He has worked for leading brands such as DDB, Petsmart.com, Knight Ridder Tribune (now McClatchy) and has successfully launched the China division of Weddings Beautiful Worldwide, making it the most trusted learning institution for wedding industry professionals in the country and the most profitable division worldwide. Raul is graduate of Boston College and an avid cryptocurrency investor.
Claudio Bonifacio is a famed historian and author of the book Galleons and Sunken Treasure. With over 30 years experience in archival and historical researcher inside the The Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain; Claudio brings a wealth of sea research and recovery operations experience, and real life stories about the lost treasures and cultural heritage of Spain and the New World. Claudio has discovered historical documentation detailing the loss of over 3,000 shipwrecks, with close to half of them carrying extensive treasure and precious cargos. Through his years of research Claudio has also discovered extensive documents disclosing untold fortunes buried by the Spanish, Jesuits, Knights Templar, and many other dynasties throughout the world.
Ministry of Local Government West Grand Bahama, Bahamas
Nature Conservancy
Nassau, Bahamas
Leading Venture Capitalist Partner at Sequoia Capital China
HangTang Wealth
Risk Management
Ministry of Local Government
West Grand Bahama, Bahamas
Don G. Cornish brings over 20 years of governmental and business experience. Most recently Don serves as a senior official in the Office of the Prime Minister, Freeport, Grand Bahama, where he oversees civil service and all government revenue (over $200 million annually). Prior to that he was tasked with spearheading Product Development for the Ministry of Tourism and was appointed Director of Tourism in Beijing, China from 2014-2017 to coordinate the Bahamas’ efforts to attract business from Asia, with special emphasis on China. Don has also spent a considerable amount of time in the community, leading several sports and community organizations as President; including the Bahamas Volleyball Federation and serving as Vice President of The Bahamas Olympic Committee.
Nature Conservancy
Nassau, Bahamas
Frederick is leading Marine Conservationists in The Bahamas with over 10-years experience in Ocean Governance - Policy, Law and Management. Fredrick brings a diverse background in conservancy in previous roles as former Bahamas Department of Marine Resources National Project Coordinator, The United Nations Environment Programme Liaison and Lead Project Manager of special conservation projects in The Bahamas and throughout the Caribbean. Frederick has been instrumental in the structuring and implementation of the Bahamas Protected - a government initiative to effectively manage and expand Marine Protected Areas by 2020. Throughout Frederick’s career he has been involved in significant research on Marine species conservation, and has participated in international organizations and symposia focused on these subjects. He Graduated Summa Cum Laude from The University of Rhode Island.
Leading Venture Capitalist Partner at Sequoia Capital China
Jin Jiahao is among China’s leading venture capital investors, currently serving as a key strategic partner for Sequoia Capital China. Some of Jin’s early investments where in the casino gaming space, where he was responsible for a number of successful casino ventures in Macau and Australia. A key influencer in cypto policymaking with Chinese regulators, Jin is now fully engaged in the value of blockchain and the opportunities it brings to the world's unbanked.
HangTang Wealth
Risk Management
Dingmi Gong is a seasoned risk management professional currently overseeing over $20 billion in assets and preventing over a $1B in high risk projects for HangTang Wealth, one of China’s leading independent financial advisors. Previously Dingmi held senior auditing roles at Pricewaterhousecoopers and Deloitte representing Fortune 500 clients and overseeing IPO audits for private and state owned companies listing on major exchanges in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
Download our latest Whitepaper to read more about PO8’s mission and contributions to marine archaeology.
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Since last year our team has been working endless hours in different time zones around the world to make this day possible — the official launching of PO8.
PO8 is a blockchain ecosystem making marine archaeology and treasure hunting more inclusive and decentralized. For the first time ever, people from around the world can participate in treasure hunting expeditions through the tokenization of search and recovery efforts. And, through our decentralized applications (DApps), PO8 provides secure, transparent and cost effective blockchain solutions for registering, authenticating, and transferring high valued assets.
The main problems we solve are eliminating barriers to entry for people who want to participate in marine archaeology projects, and the decentralizing the distribution of recovered treasures.
Currently PO8 is the first-to-market blockchain ecosystem bringing value to the marine archaeology industry. Our only indirect competitors would be traditional commercial salvage companies.
For starters, we want to provide an opportunity for anyone from around the world to be a part of recovering history. But what makes us even more unique is our collaboration approach to work with governments. PO8 has been working closely with the Maritime Affairs and Labour Department from the Ministry of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and has recently acquired an Abandoned Shipwreck salvage license. The acquisition of this license is a major milestone, considering licenses have not been issued for the last 18 years. The procurement of the license illustrates the dedication of the PO8 team to preserving the past and the Bahamas’ vote of confidence in PO8’s mission.
PO8 is a utility token that can be used to participate in our various decentralized applications, such as MADS, HOAP, GAAS and PHARS. The SILVER token in a sub token awarded to PO8 holders who take part and complete bounty tasks on our MADS application.
In the event we do not recover any treasures, we will have built a blockchain ecosystem available for many other archaeological endeavors worldwide. The same technologies powering search and rescue for shipwrecks and buried treasures can be used for finding other lost objects and perhaps solving some of our longest unsolved mysteries.Our open source decentralized apps will also provide individuals and enterprises with more cost effective and secure ways of distributing valuable assets.
PO8 tokens cannot be mined. SILVER tokens can be earned by completing bounty tasks on our MADS application.
As a PO8 token holder you will be able to bid on recovered artifacts that are sold on our HOAP application.
Yes, it is mandatory. Please make sure you register and provide all required KYC documentation.
No. DO NOT use a cryptocurrency exchanges like Coinbase, Binance, Huobi or others. You MUST send from an ERC 20 compatible wallet such as MyEtherWallet, ImToken, etc.
Private sale $250K USD, Pre-sale $50K USD and Crowd sale 0.1 ETH
A minimum 250 ETH investment is required for the private sale. Please contact us directly at info@po8.io for more information.
For the most part yes. For residents of the United States, we can only accept institutional investors. OFAC sanctioned countries are NOT permitted to participate in our token sale. For more information on OFAC listed countries please visit, https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/Programs.aspx
While we have no control of any decentralized exchanges listing the PO8 token, we will be talking with major centralized exchanges to list the PO8 token. For regulatory issues, we cannot comment on exact details of the exchange.
Any wallet supporting ERC 20 tokens such as MyEtherWallet, ImToken, etc.
We are officially the first company to launch a token sale from The Bahamas and as a result of our vision to bring blockchain technologies to the country, we have been endorsed by senior members of government. Additionally, we are the first marine salvage company to receive an Abandoned Shipwreck salvage license from the Maritime Affairs and Labour Department from the Ministry of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas in over 18 years.
Upon our first successful expedition a portion of the recovered treasures such as gold or silver will be placed in a reserve in order to bring stability to our token and liquidity for future expeditions and development of new blockchain technologies.