Xander,

My name is Alexander Kravets, I'm the founder and CEO of XTRADE.IO. I would like to address the points above. XTRADE.IO is certainly NOT a scam. We will be happy to do whatever necessary to reassure prospective token holders and clients of this. I’ve traveled all over the world and participated in multiple events, on stage and off, and we are very much appreciative of the openness of the community and strive to do the same.

Posting this under Tom’s account as I am waiting for my Steemit account to be approved.

We have registered the website in August, it is common to use whois privacy for registrations.

We have an office at 110 Wall Street, in WeWork - along with hundreds of other companies all over the world. We greatly value Wework's community and flexibility to work around the world. I fail to see how taking office space qualifies as a scam. I would say the opposite would be true.
Anyone is welcome to visit us at the office, and we will be hosting a meet up January 31 from 5:30pm-7:30pm located at the Il Cortile Lounge (125 Mulberry St. NY NY 10013).

Invite link - https://t.me/joinchat/Hr1uVw-zo6d1evMVwTFtfw

I do not have a "dubious history". All my quotes are on the XTRADE.IO website with links under "Press"- Reuters, CBS News, Forbes, NASDAQ, Cointelegraph, many others, as well as multiple podcasts that I've done - BadCrypto, Crypto101, Blockcast Show, and Bloomberg radio.

I am asked to comment as a trading expert (I have over 12 years experience in Direct Market Access trading) as it relates to cryptocurrency markets. I've also written multiple articles on my medium account and cointelegraph - the last two have 200k and 90k views.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-markets-are-broken
https://cointelegraph.com/news/institutional-investors-will-bet-big-on-cryptocurrencies-in-2018

I began trading crypto in 2017 and immediately saw the need to apply fintech I know and used for many years to fix the issues inherent in crypto markets.

I founded two companies after working in finance 2000-2014 - MA Real Estate to build and manage real estate (successful) and RealView Global, a company that takes live video surveillance feeds and provides daily reports to business owners about everything that happened, leveraging AI and human operators. These businesses are ongoing, and very real. We have over 30 employees for RealView Global currently.

I was registered as a Series 7, 55, 63, and 24 for 12 years and most certainly have the experience I claim to have. I was a proprietary trader, trade desk manager, risk manager, ran a retail operation for 100k investors, and we handled a huge amount of daily trading volume through our HFT infrastructure. People in the active trading space and proprietary trading space certainly know who I am.

I'll let Jon comment on his side. He coached Adelphi while employed at JP Morgan as basketball is a passion of his - he was a Division 1 NCAA player at Fordham and helped lead Adelphi to a conference NCAA championship. He operated multiple subway franchises as part of a management consulting agreement with the exclusive NY.NJ.CT Subway development agent (hundreds of locations).

Serg owns Axon Software - we are leveraging his team to build the XTRADE.IO tech. That is why same people on our team – they are our people.

Photos - https://martphoto.com.ua/foto-dlya-rezyume/ - Serge and his team at Axon did a corporate photo shoot in August on 2017. The Martphoto company used these photos as samples of their work.

Here is the link to the photo: https://martphoto.com.ua/corporation/

Notice Serge in the photo on the left with his team.

Here he is in two separate videos - one a presentation in Kiev and another presenting our product with ALL 3 of us in 2017:

Irina Lebedeva's image is also being used as a sample by the company.
We will ask them to take these down ASAP to avoid confusion.
The development team is in Kiev. They are in Ukraine. The 110 Wall St office is operations in NYC and HQ - we also have distributed team members in SF, Manchester, Munich, etc.

Tom Osman already commented on his status.

The FIX API was completed in November, it works, it's an MVP - so it didn't take 9 months, it took 3! We already have this stuff built. We do this quickly and know what we are doing, leveraging existing tech we have built - while most other crypto projects drag the product out over 6-9 months. Here is the product -

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Trademark was filed a bit late, legal had to prepare the filing, we were busy working on product. Good point - but it's in.

CEX.IO is our partner, and their CEO is on our advisory board - along with the CEO of Divisa Capital, Lex Sokolin of Autonomous Next, Steven Wasserman who created the SPAC Product, Ran Neu Ner who hosts CNBC Cryptotrader, Addison Huegel who ran Ethereum PR, etc.

Our partners are well known players, CME, Marcum, CEX.IO exchange - Gimmer is a great project that is using a UI/UX for automated trading bots and is currently doing their raise.

ICO - this is the US side for accredited investors - 1m net worth and 200k/300k income. Not applicable to outside US. That is the definition of an accredited investor.

We are NOT too good to be true. We are taking a set of financial products that we have already built and know and plugging them into crypto to solve existing issues. Listen to my 3 hours of podcasts. There is no need to spread FUD.

As far as https://www.xrpchat.com/topic/16754-why-the-hot-cryptocurrency-ripple-is-going-down-in-flames/?page=2, I was asked to comment by time.com/money on why ripple dropped. I feel it is overvalued - was 70B. It did in fact drop. And I still feel it is overvalued. 10x on ripple would make it worth ALL THE GOLD EVER MINED from 70B to 7T. Logically, the ripple holders don't like that – but I can only say what I believe to be true.

So to summarize, here we are commenting on this article and we feel it’s completely wrong. You are welcome to join our telegram at https://t.me/xtradecommunity or message me directly at @Alexander_Kravets to clarify any further details.