Past-ICO Review: Olympus Labs

Crypto indices are garnering more attention and gaining more traction on the investment side of crypto. If you, as an investor can’t decide where to put your money for a crypto investment, then an index might be the best place. After all, many investors in traditional financial markets strongly believe in the index funds and so do many planning for retirement. Olympus labs is building a product that will allow investors to buy into indices, and maybe build their own (the wording is a bit fuzzy). In an interview with Forbes Magazine, CEO of Olympus Labs said,  “We have found that it can be hard for a crypto investor to find and invest in indices that are diversified and do well. [Author’s note: just for the record, the preceding sentence is not entirely clear: does he mean crypto indices or traditional ones] For those of us who are unsure how to invest in crypto, indices are the best way to track the market by buying into some which are either researched by professional managers or picked by industry experts you may trust.”

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Financials

Olympus Labs raised some $60 mln in a token sale that ended on Jan. 13, 2018. The token sale price was $2.18 for one MOT. However, it appears that some of the information is off because when checking CoinMarketCap, the token entered the market at $0.99 on Jan. 1, 2018 and shot up to a high of $3.05 on Jan. 9 just days before the ICO. After the ICO the price fell to $1.40 on Jan. 12 has been on a steady decline since then; currently sitting at $0.18 at the time of writing. Not a very impressive performance by any means. Market cap hovers around $7.5 mln and daily volume is close to $500,000.

Team

Kai Chen- CEO & Founder

Graduating from Yale and having an interest in investment lead Chen to work in banking and investment firms early on in his career, before founding Olympus Labs and another company.

Bharat Vishnubhotla- Head of Business Development

Vishnubhotla has a BA in business administration from USC. He previously worked at Accenture before coming to Olympus Labs.

Abel Bordonado Lillo- Full-Stack Developer

Has more than five years experience in web dev and gaming. He has worked on many other projects before coming to Olympus Labs.

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Boom to bust

Olympus Labs did a great job raising funds in its ICO but dropped the ball afterward. Checking out the numbers of followers on Telegram, they did not even crack 10,000. According to Twitter, there are more followers there, 34.7K to be exact, but generally in the cryptosphere to be legit you must have a lot of followers on Telegram to be taken seriously. According to the latest Tweet: Aug. 13, they are working on integrating with Bancor and are still developing the platform. Bancor was one of the biggest failures of 2017 and anything it touches turns to dust. With this info in mind, it would be safe to say that Olympus Labs are not going too far past the starting line.

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