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***STEEM*** has proposed a unique concept of a reward-based social media platform in the cryptocurrency space. Our platform has inspired many other projects around the world - and one of them is ***ALIS***. ### ALIS is a new Japanese social media platform that aims to provide trustworthy information through high quality articles to the Japanese online audience. Finding reliable information on the Internet isn't always easy, which is why ALIS aims to reward high quality articles and make it easier for people to find trustworthy information. https://icobazaar.com/static/93b09ed3d926859166e7890c69d25608/ALIS_Solo_Logo.jpeg ## What is ALIS ? ALIS is a Social Media Platform with **Rewards System** to distinguish *trustworthy* Articles. The Japanese startup offers a reliable database of ***articles*** for easily accessible, trustworthy information. Like mentioned above, the idea for ALIS was actually **inspired by Steemit** - and also since the team realized how *difficult* it was to find reliable online information in Japanese about ICO's and cryptocurrencies. There were only a lot of fishy and scammy sites. #### That's why they have decided to create ALIS, a trustworthy source of information for the Japanese market where reliable authors can be rewarded with cryptocurrency tokens. > ALIS is a social media platform which provides our customers with reliable information from experts in no time. We were inspired by STEEM (https://steem.io) and their billions of evaluations to create a media platform specialized for the Japanese market. Our mission is to filter through the myriad of advertising and stealth marketing campaigns. Our goal is to provide more reliable information than traditional media outlets. Please read our whitepaper for further information. ![img](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFHAPEcVoAACcaN.jpg)
## How does ALIS work ? Token holders will be able to use them to “Like/endorse/vote” on what they feel are high quality articles. In return, they will be rewarded for *identifying* quality information with various amounts of tokens, that depend on the contribution of each user. Whoever **finds** and **votes** for quality articles ***first*** gets rewarded more. Of course the ***authors*** of high quality articles also get rewarded with ALIS tokens. The system also takes care that the **distribution** of tokens will not be focused primarily on early users of the platform, but ***newcomers*** will also be rewarded appropriately as the user base is growing. > All articles will receive evaluations. Writers and evaluators of trust worthy articles will earn more ALIS tokens. ALIS token can be purchased and sold like Ethereum and STEEM. The more ALIS evaluations one gets, the more tokens that will be distributed to contributors of ALIS. STEEM has already built a similar eco-system, and has gained billions of evaluations. ![](https://i.imgur.com/uTSnrDK.png)
## ALIS and STEEM So ALIS was ***inspired*** by the idea behind STEEM and Steemit - but how do the two differ from each other? > STEEM clearly says that “anyone can earn rewards” on their platform. For ALIS, we think rewards are a key driver to help a platform grow. We enable people “To find trustworthy articles and people quickly” by using ALIS tokens. Our UVP is distinctly different which differentiates our service. On the ALIS website, it is stated that they respect and admire the concept of STEEM and Steemit, but there are a few things they'd like to make ***differently***. First of all, they're saying that the concept of three different currencies (STEEM, Steem Power and Steem Dollar) are too complicated, which is why there will only be ***one token*** on the ALIS platform. Also, they are focusing primarily on the ***Japanese market.*** Japan has become a major part of the cryptocurrency movement that happened throughout Asia this year. It has become a driving force for new innovations surrounding blockchain and cryptocurrency, and investors in Japan are spending billions to support the market. Despite all this, finding reliable information about cryptocurrencies in Japanese is very hard, which is how the whole idea of ALIS got started. That's why they want to support **content in the Japanese language** and focus primarily on their national community. ![](https://i.imgur.com/DInOLU6.jpg)
## ALIS Roadmap and Tokensale The ALIS project is currently in their ***tokensale***, and still in a phase of development. ALIS' ICO has started on September 1st and will end on September 29. Users can invest with Ethereum, and there are different bonus rates for different weeks of the ICO. There will be a maximum supply of 250,000,000 ALIS, and the ICO is capped at 125,000 ETH while the minimum funding goal is 11,666 ETH. The first ***Betaversion*** will be released in April 2018, and the ***official release*** is set for October 2018. ![img](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIdICRtXUAETLia.jpg) ![img](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJKbdGEUQAAgwv8.jpg)
### It's amazing to see what other projects Steemit is inspiring around the world - what do you think about the concept of trustworthy information and high quality articles proposed by ALIS ?

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