The Trakx.io Team is building what they call Crypto Trackers, what are known also as CTIs (Crypto Traded Indices). Crypto Trackers or CTIs want to be the ETFs of the crypto world, a basket of different digital assets that are traded on an exchange and represent a passive investment vehicle.
Crypto Trackers ar an easy-to-use, low cost, and efficient way to take part in the cryptocurrency market. This is especially true for newcomers in the cryptocurrency scene, who want to diversify or have a stake in various coins or tokens. Most of them had only the choice to register at an exchange an buy the coins one by one. While doing this the faced a lot of downsides: risk of the exchange being hacked, coins losing their worth, fees for every transaction.
But now with Crypto Trackers, also unexperienced users will finally gain access to the crypto world. And they will have a lot of advantages: lowest possible fees, diversification of the risk, no need of technical know how.
Finally I would argue, that there is no need to await for the SEC to approve Bitcoin ETFs and in my opinion that isn't going to happen anyways. Why? Because institutions like the SEC are from a different time and worldview and they are going to loose importance because of the better blockchain technology.
There are strong advantages of Crypto Trackers over Bitcoin ETFs, that it is a very flexible instrument, that can invest in the crypto currency market as a whole, or in a select basket, instead of just focusing on Bitcoin alone. This will most definetly mean higher gain potential but as well better diversification. Even Bitcoin as the Gold Standard of the crypto currencies is not guaranted to stay forewer, especially as we all know of its drawbacks. By the usage of smart contracts Crypto Trackers enable a no trust investment vehicle.
Back to the project that will enable Crypto Trackers. Trakx.io is a promising Team which is working towards of the realization of Crypto Traded Indices, the ETFs of the crypto world. They are going to implement their own ERC20 token, smart contracts, a market oracle and plan to launch a highly scalable, decentralized exchange.
The Management Team of Trakx.io has a very strong background in banking, they know what they are talking about. As they bring their know how into this project, the endresult will be the combination of the revolutionary blockchain technology with advanced banking solutions. Some of the planned features are automatic rebalancing, self auditing, long and short position instruments, leveraged basket Crypto Trackers.
Confluding I would argue, that compared to other projects Trakx.io might not seem as fashinating, but if we honestly examine some of the most interesting blockchain 3.0 projects, they are still very far away from any real world use case. Crypto Trackers on the other hand are definitely a real world use case, provided that crypto currencies are not going to disappear, which seems very unlikely.
For all the technical details of the Trakx.io project, I invite you to download their whitepaper:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mkgrrp8sfvp7o2u/2018%2009%2028%20Trakx%20Whitepaper.pdf?dl=1
The management Team of Trakx.io you find on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/v2/?facetCurrentCompany=%5B%2218815329%22%5D