Description of the ZIPT cryptocurrency
Zipper strives to accelerate the global adaptation of blockchain technologies and is coming from the right direction. Mobile phones have long occupied an important place in the lives of most residents of developed countries; they have long ceased to be a luxury, but have become working tools that make everyday life easier and better. In the future, we must take things even further and begin to realize the full potential of the powerful computers in the palm of our hands.
Currently, the use of cryptocurrency technologies is associated with significant difficulties and a high entry threshold, which leads to the fact that only a small part of the population has begun to enjoy the benefits of this technology. Zipper are going to make a revolution and attract the masses of people, since to use their technology you will not need to understand what a blockchain, private key, hash and other scary words are.
Team and advisors 
The team behind the project has been successfully developing operating systems for phones for many years, has a reputation for being technically savvy people who have already implemented practice technically complex solutions for mobile platforms. The experience goes back decades, starting with the Nokia operating system: MeeGo, the ideas of which were later developed by the founders of Zipper in the person of the independent company Jolla, which released the independent OS Sailfish, which many experts spoke very flatteringly about, including one of the main adherents of modern technologies in the Russian media space - Director of Technology Distribution at Yandex Grigory Bakunov.
Obviously, a successful project in this area cannot be implemented without the support of any smartphone manufacturer. Zipper's technical partner is the world-famous company Sony, together with which this spring the first Sony Xperia phones with pre-installed Zipper OS will be released, which will be received as a gift by the first investors of this project.
Problems that currently stand in the way of mass implementation of current blockchain projects on mobile platforms: the complexity of the system with the generation, use and secure storage of private keys, and the fact that 98% of smartphones now run on two OS: Android and iOS, respectively Google and Apple, completely control this market and their market model does not fit into providing space for decentralized applications, since these corporations make money from the data of their users.
Zipper is going to solve both of these problems with the help of reliable partners, blockchain and its many years of experience in this field. The five cornerstones of the future decentralized and open mobile ecosystem are:
- Zipper platform on the Ethereum blockchain.
- Collaboration with application developers for Sony Xperia.
- Extensive mobile platform on a global scale.
- Dissemination of the platform on a global scale.
- Community of users.
How will we attract the community?
Benefits for users:
- Ease of transactions, both cryptocurrency and to/from fiat money
- Use of user-friendly mechanisms to ensure security, instead of private keys
- Many integrated decentralized applications
- Parallel operation of the Zipper platform with Android OS or Sailfish OS, no need to give up the usual mechanisms
- Confidence that your phone does not collect and does not send any of your data
- The ability to share your data on your own terms
Benefits for developers:
- Established application distribution channel through platform and its services
- The ability to create applications deeply integrated into the smartphone, there will be no main fixed applications of parent companies (apple, google etc)
Security
When you turn on the phone, the platform will immediately prompt the user to take a selfie and a photo of their ID, and will create a private key to pair it with. The end user does not need to understand the mechanics of the blockchain, all identification will take place using the mechanisms familiar to him. The private key is divided into two halves, one of which is stored on the user’s device, the second in a decentralized data storage.
ZIPT Token
Zippen plans to provide its users with a range of opportunities to earn money using their device, from mining and leasing capacity to trading rights to use certain data. Application creators will also take an active part in building an ecosystem, which will all be tied to ZIPT tokens. The options for using tokens are practically unlimited except the imagination of application creators, so we can expect an extremely developed and flexible economic model in which everyone can find a place for themselves.
The pre-sale investment round has already passed, it raised a little more than 3M dollars and distributed a little more than half of the tokens reserved for sale, but at the moment you can still have time to participate in the private sale or become a member of their community program , helping the project develop and receiving monthly airdrops from the developers for this, this option is available only to those who did not participate in either the pre-sale or the price-match sale. In total, 25% of the tokens will be available for sale, the rest will be spent on developing/motivating application developers and partnerships - as much as 40% of the tokens will be allocated for this part.
Conclusions
The idea of the project is not new; in China, for example, mobile phones are already actively used as means of payment using applications such as, for example, Wechat. A powerful computer is in the hands of most modern people - it is obvious to everyone that its functionality will expand and it is only a matter of time. We have already seen quite a few projects that are planning to do something similar; what distinguishes Zipper from them is, first of all, that they are really capable of realizing their plans. An experienced team that has already developed and released several operating systems for mobile phones, serious technical partners in the person of Sony, a company that actively and successfully competes with the mastodons of the market, which was recently proven in the example of cameras, where they are actively pushing out trendsetters in the form of Canon and Nikon. It seems to me that this union may well become pioneers of a new market for mobile devices with expanded functionality. The main problem may be the lack of proper attention from application manufacturers and ordinary users, but serious partnerships and an impressive percentage of tokens reserved for this allow us to hope that everything will work out here too.
The project is certainly risky; such a business has almost no chance of surviving without becoming global; therefore, if expansion plans do not become a reality, then this startup has very little chance of staying afloat. On the other hand, if successful, the result may well be a unicorn that will pleasantly surprise even the most optimistic of its investors.