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## About Sandclock
Sandclock is a multichain DeFi platform with the objective of creating ultra programmable money by leveraging cutting-edge yield generating strategies. By splitting principal from yield and allowing users to subdivide either of them to create their own strategies, Sandclock unlocks the programmability of capital. The design space is infinite: from investments into DCA vaults, corporate CSR management, zero-loss donations/investments/subscription services, to setting up DAOs that provide exit liquidity to NFT floor undercutters.

Sandclock team is focussed to onboard the next 50 million non-crypto users to web3, and they have put tremendous amount of time and effort into being compliant, seeking licenses (SOC 1/SOC 2 type II, FINRA, FinCen, CPO, etc), redesigning the crypto UX/UI from scratch, doing key management the right way, baking insurance into their products, and many other unique features.

## What makes Sandclock Unique ?

To better illustrates the uniqueness of Sandclock, here are a few case studies to illustrate the core functionalities of the project.

Watch Sandclock's Pitch Video [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0fXippL2ZQ)

### Case Study I - Endowment: 
*Alice creates an endowment on Sandclock such that when her deposit generates yield, a portion of the yield goes to an account created for her mother. Based on the duration and size of the deposit, every month, Alice’s mom will receive funds with the option to reinvest it or push the funds to her prepaid spend card for grocery shopping. These cards will be issued by Sandclock.*


### Case Study II - Investment and Charity Support:
*John is a graphic designer and makes enough to make ends meet. John is interested in growing his wealth but also cares to support a local food bank. Jon will deposit his funds at Sandclock and will design his portfolio such that all of his principal auto-compounds for 5 years, and 50% of the yield generated is used to dollar cost average (DCA) into Ethereum, and 50% is donated to his local food bank for the next 5 years. In this scenario, John not only receives the benefits of growing his wealth through high rates of return offered by money markets on the blockchain, but also gets to invest in Ethereum, while feeling content that he is also helping a local not-for-profit.
Furthermore, John will also receive charitable tax receipts as NFTs airdropped to his account. These NFTs can either be traded (like carbon credits) or claimed for actual tax benefits.*


### Case Study III - Preserving NFT Floor Price:
*It is important for NFT community members to see the floor price of their NFTs continue to rise. Unfortunately, there are times that certain members of the community are in need of immediate funds and they undercut the floor price to sell their NFT. The activity associated with ‘floor price undercutting’ lowers the overall value of the NFT and is a major issue that has remained unresolved.*

*Using Sandclock, members of the NFT community can deposit their funds and generate exceptionally high rates of return on their money. They can also create a strategy such that, when a would be floor price undercutter needs liquidity, the yield from the aforementioned community members can be used to purchase the NFT at the floor price, and the new ownership of the NFT can be fractionalized and distributed pro rata to all participants who contributed with liquidity. All of this is achieved programmatically, and the NFT community members will be empowered to enjoy a substantial return on their deposits at Sandclock while preserving the floor price of their NFT.*

### Case Study IV - Solving Cash flow Challenges:
*Women’s Shelter is a not-for-profit organization that provides shelter and support for women and families fleeing domestic violence and other crises. Critical to their operational need is certainty of monthly cash flow so they could continue to deliver care and support for the women they serve. Unfortunately, the certainty of monthly cash flow is a pain that is felt by most not-for-profits.*

*Using Sandclock vaults, donors or the not-for-profits can deposit funds and while the principal is preserved, the yield can be used to serve as a ‘constant’ cash flow to be used for operational uses. This certainty of yield flow, either created by the not-for-profit or a donor (with the option to set it in perpetuity) is a unique offering that will bring tremendous value to global NGOs in need of managing their cash flows. *

### Case Study V - Zero-loss Donations:
*The recent humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan echoed the need for efficient methods in how refugees could be supported globally. Although aid and relief is pursued, the presence of many layers of “middle-men” and corruption makes it extremely hard to get the right aid to the deserving refugee when they need it.*

*In collaboration with UNHCR, when an individual receives their Refugee Card, they can also receive a Sandclock prepaid spend card. When Sandclock platform users allocate a portion of their yield to support Afghan refugees, the funds will directly move to top up refugee prepaid cards so they could have funds to buy necessary provisions for their families. 

This example demonstrates a novel mechanism of zero-loss donation and the Sandclock team recently participated in an event during the United Nations General Assembly to speak on the matter.*

As described previously, the design space to use Sandclock is infinite. While we may offer certain features through our own user interfaces, our smart contract scan be used by developers and engineers to build their own unique innovations.

Watch Sandclock host [Philanthropy Summit 2021](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oGgVjW3VIg) with speakers such as Raoul Pal of Real Vision, Do Kwon of Terraform Labs and many other ecosystem experts.

##How Many QUARTZ (QRTZ) Coins Are There in Circulation?
At the time of writing this, there are 2.9 million tokens in circulation.  There are 100,000,000 tokens in total, ~30% of which is perma-locked for 'Charity Mining'. 

[Details of Tokenomics](https://medium.com/sandclock/introducing-quartz-fd99a77ec0bf)
[Details of Charity Mining](https://medium.com/sandclock/give-and-you-shall-receive-charity-mining-7a030e4b0f91)

### Who are the Founders of Sandclock
Sandclock is cofounded by :

* **Cristiano Teixeira** (formerly with Akropolis and Nebulas) as Chief Executive Officer ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/0xCristiano), [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristiano-fortuna-couto-teixeira/))

* **Alexander G Hughes, JD** (Combat veteran experienced in high-stakes litigation, Crypto Law etc.) as Chief Legal and Compliance Officer ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/RobotCowboyATX), [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-hughes-7b540b27))


* **Elizabeth Teixeira** (Experienced marketing and communications leader) as Chief Operating Officer ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/Elizabeth_Teix), [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-teixeira-6313b3152/))


* **Q Rasi** (Crypto banker, University Lecturer, Entrepreneur) as Chief Strategy Officer ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/0xrasi), [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/qasimrasi/))

### Fund Raising
The project launched a fair LBP Auction on October 23rd 2021 and raised over $16.9M, bringing total company funding to $19.9M.

[Details of LBP Auction](https://copperlaunch.com/auctions/0x838de9a9e4fd604be653ef61e63792512e0a0c03)

##Where Can You Buy $QUARTZ (QRTZ) ?
At the time of writing this article, QRTZ is available on [Sushiswap](https://app.sushi.com/swap?inputCurrency=0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0ce3606eb48&outputCurrency=0xba8a621b4a54e61c442f5ec623687e2a942225ef)

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