SwissBorg Produces Limited Edition Silver Rounds to Commemorate 7 Years Since Inception
Cyborg
Community member
“Lausanne January 30, 2015, it is past midnight and I’ve just dropped my luggage in Cyrus’s apartment. After spending 10 minutes exchanging about our personal lives, we then sat on the sofa and discussed the future of the financial universe: the Fintechs. For many years now, Cyrus and I stepped out of traditional finance institutions to concentrate on Fintech projects. We are both involved in two Robo-Advisory projects and we are bravely impatient to change the perceived frameworks and faces of finance.”
- SwissBorg ICO Chronicles [part 1], 7 Sep 2017
This quote from Anthony Lesoismier co-founder of SwissBorg, is from 3 months before the ICO he launched with Cyrus Fazel. The SwissBorg ICO was one of the most successful in 2017/18 raising $52M from over 23,000 unique investors making it the 10th largest ICOs in the world.
Given the progress of the last 7 years and with our eyes on the next 7 to come, we thought it would be an appropriate time to mark our anniversary with a special memento. We are excited to share that we have partnered with GOLD AVENUE to mint 1,000 limited first edition silver rounds* to be distributed to our beloved community who have fuelled our progress this far. GOLD AVENUE is Europe’s leading precious metals platform, based in Geneva, making gold investment easy and accessible to everyone with free, secure storage in Switzerland. Back when we started, it was impossible to think that Bitcoin would surpass silver in terms of total market cap; in a way, these silver rounds are symbolic of how far the industry has progressed.
The first 28 of the silver rounds will be distributed during the run-up to Christmas, December 2024. Please keep your eyes on your emails/SwissBorg apps for more details on how to participate.
Looking back at the last 7 years and where we are today
As we write (Dec 2024), SwissBorg is now the leading meta-exchange in Europe integrating 11 centralised/decentralised exchanges in 1 to empower its app users with unrivalled trading execution. Over 1M individuals have downloaded the SwissBorg app, funding over $1B in fiat and crypto assets to their wallets. Since the launch of the Alpha Early Deal program this year, SwissBorg has helped its community fund over $20M for 20+ emerging crypto projects, bringing in a brand new, more sustainable avenue for crypto projects to access funding vs the high fees and value-diminishing demands of bigger centralised exchanges (CEXs).
The growth of the SwissBorg ecosystem now encompasses gaming identity protocol, XBorg, early project liquidity providers, BorgPad, web3 identity layer, Galactica, and gaming DEX, Agora. We are firm in our commitment to decentralisation at every layer of society, and with the growth of our ecosystem, we aim to create an all-encompassing decentralised world for individuals to grow, follow their aspirations, and become financially free.
The #BetterThanCEX Philosophy
The November referendum this year saw 10,000 BORG holders come together to vote on the future of the BORG token, one of many more votes to occur every month. The BORG community voted for a decentralised future for the BORG token, removing it from centralised exchanges so it can exist beyond the market manipulation of central entities, in a purely on-chain form.
This ideology has spread not just through our BORG token, but through our whole product suite. The SwissBorg Alpha Early Deal was created to allow communities to raise funds for new projects outside of the high fees and VC value extraction that occurs with CEXs. Now, projects can raise funds through their own users and communities, retain the value in their ecosystem, and have full control over the manner of their growth. Similarly, the launch of BorgPad will enable pre-TGE (token launch) projects to raise liquidity in a fair, transparent, and community-centred manner, empowering any founder with a vision to make this vision a reality.
Christmas 2024 Promotion
This December 2024, we will distribute 7 commemorative silver coins each week to eligible participants of our promotion. To become eligible, just follow these 2 simple steps:
- Show your commitment to SwissBorg by opening the app every day that week.
- Show your commitment to your financial future by ensuring you are a Premium SwissBorg app user (any tier) and adding 70 or more BORG to your portfolio.
We will confirm distribution details once the winners have been selected.
The commemorative silver coin will also be available for purchase directly from the GOLD AVENUE store.
As we close out this most eventful and optimistic of crypto years, we couldn’t be more excited about our product roadmap for 2025. There are some gifts there waiting to be unwrapped.
In the meantime, as our proud CEO always says…
Stay healthy, stay wealthy, and love our BORG.
Best wishes,
The SwissBorg Team
* Rounds differ from coins in that they have no face value and cannot be used as legal tender.
