"Dear IOP fam,

we have two key-pieces of news for you today.

#1. We'd like to inform you that we stopped the IEO on the Latoken platform yesterday, based mainly on investor and community feedback.

To be perfectly clear: The Latoken support team was great. The communication, the helpfulness and the quick response to requests to us were all good. Everything from the team side was top. However, the underlying performance of the Latoken platform was an absolute disaster.

I've been in the web/webshop and app business for over 10 years. I've never seen such a bad pagespeed score in my life (mobile 2/100 & Desktop 10/100). Confirmation emails are sometimes not sent (the support said in this case, people have to repeat the registration process). Sometimes even, the page is not loading completely. You then have to reload the page manually before anything is displayed.

We have received messages from potential investors almost every day since the beginning of the IEO. They complained that they either had too many site issues or would not trust the website because of the bad performance and therefore would not invest.

We brought more than 20k unique visitors to the IEO landingpage so far. Which was hard because we had a long list of restricted countries including the US which further complicated the matter. So based on all this we had to act quickly. Yesterday we asked Latoken to stop the IEO immediately, which is what they did. As I said, awesome team, but unfortunately a very bad technical performance of the IEO platform/website.

Latoken has agreed to refund all money already invested into the IEO. All investors that purchased Hydra will get their BTC/ETH back from Latoken.

This was the first piece of the news. Now here comes the second, and more exciting piece of news!

#2. We are continuing the Hydra token sale in a brand new way, with many upgrades!

We talked to a good and long-term Partner of IOP and asked them if it's possible to run the tokensale on their platform. They agreed and we started working on the implementation together.

Im talking about the best and one of the largest crypto swap service platforms in the world today: simpleswap.io

This brings several key advantages for you!

- No KYC or registration needed
- No restrictions
- You will get your Hydra immediately after purchase and can use them for voting or setting up a delegate
- You can buy Hydra with the following cryptocurrencies:

btc, bch, bsv , eth, xlm, xrp, rdd, xmr ,eos, ltc, dash, etc, bnb-mainnet

In this process we re-thought and upgraded the whole classic IEO format and decided to run a "Dutch auction" on Simpleswap.

We start with a price of 0.08$ on Sunday to Monday night 00:00 UTC and going steadily down to 0.02$ on the following Sunday 23:59 UTC.

Now you might think, oh I'll just wait until Sunday and then buy some. But here's the catch, there will be only a limited amount of Hydra available every week to buy. So if you try to buy too late, you might miss out. To keep the auction fair we will not disclose this publicly, and the amount can change every week.

And finally an update for our extended family in the United States. You are probably aware that it was not possible in the recent past to trade IOP from the US. Now, since HYD is a utility token, there will be some change. We're happy to report that we're currently working with attorneys in the US on a legal opinion and all signs are positive that we'll be a SEC compliant utility token, opening up pathways to future exchange listings. We'll update you more on this later."

Now, you can buy HYD at simpleswap.io

Dead project mate since long time. It was all very well manipulated project  starting from mining and other stuff. They filled up theirs wallet with many BTC and then re-invested in other projects.Someone from the team i saw buying 50 btc in miota coin in 2016-17 just before the miota started the huge bull run. Most likely now they are enjoying the life with many millions dollars

Not at all.

You can swap your IOP coins for Hydra tokens.
Hydra is not a coin, but a utility token. We've chosen a dPOS chain and are looking to partner with Ark.io in their powered by ark program.

Internet of People will provide access to proof of identity, credentials, and ownership to all.
Cryptographically secured identifiers stored on blockchain allow users to control all aspects of their online identity. Instead of relying on email addresses and passwords, Internet of Peopleuses cryptographic addresses as “phone numbers” for fully encrypted P2P communication that can integrate with any underlying network.  Internet of People’s protocols are all built with the latest cryptographic technologies and secured via the Hydra blockchain and its utility token, Hydra. Internet of People is open source and follows international standards provided by organizations such as W3C to ensure maximum interoperability and to allow developers to easily create their own software powered by the Internet of People stack.

We're currently securing a legal advise to ensure it upholds the SEC compliance.
We are keeping the IOP chain up for a minimum of 12 months allowing everyone to make the swap, even if they have missed the recent news, and possibly this will be extended.

So based on that, you've been there from the Fermat community split-up until the blue paper launch into the first days on bittrex I guess then. And now have been out of touch for nearly two years (which is totally fine and your choice of course). But please don't be to quick to judge. 

A lot has happened ofcourse, I personally joined in late 2017 me and others that are on the team have been working hard day in day out to make this vision into reality. Because the world really needs solutions like we are building, that are gate-keeper free and open-source

We're not not perfect, haven't been and will not be. But we're honest and hard-working plus we're really getting into a an exiting era, where the university we partner with will be the first to start real life use of our systems. Thanks for the best wishes, as said, feel free to get in touch at any time.

Yes, you can.
Here you can find a Video Tutorial: https://youtu.be/yMFqY4ID7D8