# What is Islander (ISA)?

Islander is an online learn-to-earn and decentralized platform powered by NFTs to manage and market crypto projects in a unique way. 
Central to this proposition is the native token Islander (“ISA”), which serves multiple purposes: 
- To help projects discover, grow and maintain an audience of bonafide supporters
- Allow key opinion leaders (KOLs) the opportunity to leverage their combined marketing power and earn
- Create earning opportunities for content creators 

Additionally: 
- Islander provides an intuitive toolkit for users to manage their various projects
- Full support for developers
- Wallets, plugins, management apps
- Payment gateway platform 

## Who are the team members of Islander?

While being experienced in the blockchain & crypto world, the Islander founders are also “the mind then the might” behind Spiderum.com - an online user generated content platform with 1.500.000 monthly pageviews and 100.000 users. Their expertise in community building and their “community first” vision are their key strengths, along with the technical capabilities and business acumen.

### What makes Islander unique?

Attracting the right users in the crypto world is often a painful process for blockchain projects. Islander solves this problem for both project owners and retail investors with an innovative affiliate marketing platform which empowers active & supportive communities of crypto projects, content creators, KOLs, and individuals. 

On Islander platform, people can partake in different types of quests created by project owners and get rewarded instantly. KOLs who help drive more enthusiasts to projects via affiliate links also serve as the “brand ambassadors” and are commissioned handsomely by projects. In the near future, we will also provide dashboards & data analysis functionality so every statistic regarding demographics, interests, and behaviors of your target audience will only be just one click away.

In brief, Islander’s toolkit enables crypto projects, influencers, and content creators to communicate their marketing efforts in a fun and interactive way. Everyone can benefit from the Share and Earn model.

--Benefits for supporters/followers:
+ Free to join, earn different tokens by completing quests, eg. like/share a social posts
+ Automatically get rewards based on triggers
+ Can follow/support and earn from multiple projects at once
+ Secured, fast, low-fee transactions
+ Use Islander platform to find more interesting projects, influencers, and content creators

--Benefits for crypto project owners and content creators:
+ Use your tokens of choice
+ Create and manage quests to naturally gamify your marketing efforts
+ Highly customizable toolkit to create and manage your own space on Islander
+ Beautiful presentation of project progression
+ Transparent transactions, robust report systems
+ No fraud, chargebacks, or cancellation
+ Minimal blockchain transaction fee
+ Full development support for APIs and SDKs

--Benefits for influencers
+ No need to directly communicate with project owners
+ Get rewards instantly based on affiliate tracked links
+ Use tokens earned to mint more links and increase your opportunities

Islander

Avalanche C-Chain

Avalanche

Coq Inu

BENQI

Nitro Network

Verso

MetaMUI

Heroes Chained

Snowball

PLAYA3ULL GAMES

Crabada

OpenBlox

Pangolin

Platypus Finance

PointPay

ROCO FINANCE

Kimbo

Kalao

Shrapnel

BoutsPro

Future1coin

Graviocoin

Silent Notary

Validity

D Community

Ruff

Humaniq

Tachyon Protocol

High Performance Blockchain is the first permissionless public blockchain to innovate with hardware acceleration and provably random numbers:

acceleration delivers fast, ultra low-fee, on-chain transactions

provably random numbers support 100% fairness

HPB (the coin) is used to pay transaction gas fees and to reward node operators.

Hyperblox

Pascal

X-CASH

SmartCash

JOE (JOE) is the native token of Trader Joe, a decentralized exchange (DEX) on the Avalanche (AVAX) blockchain that offers DeFi services, including swapping, staking and yield farming. The exchange has been growing rapidly, attracting over $4 billion in total value locked (TVL) since it was launched in June 2021. Trader Joe claims to take a community-first approach, and to prioritize innovation, speed and safety. It aims to provide a one-stop-shop DeFi experience and to integrate new products without compromising on security. To achieve this, Trader Joe has outlined an ambitious roadmap that focuses on token-holder growth. It plans to have improved staking, non-fungible-token (NFT) exchange listings, the collateralization of the JOE token, and leveraged trading –– all during 2021.

OceanEx Token

Ycash

QuadrantProtocol

Genaro Network

Pillar

BENQI is a decentralized non-custodial liquidity market as well as a liquid staking protocol built on the high-speed Avalanche smart contract network. The lending protocol allows users to lend, borrow, or earn interest using their digital assets.  The Liquid Staking protocol provides a solution for capital efficiency, offering users the opportunity to unlock their “staked” AVAX to be used on Decentralized Financial protocols

The founding team chose Avalanche because of its decentralized network’s claimed high scalability, low fees and compatibility with popular plugin wallets.

BENQI was founded in 2021 with $6 million in backing. Among its strategic investors are Ascensive Assets, Dragonfly Capital, Mechanism Capital, Arrington XRP Capital, Spartan Group, TRGC, Woodstock Fund, Ava Labs, Morningstar Ventures, GBV Capital, Skynet Trading Ltd, Rarestone Capital, Genblock Capital, Moon Inc.

Who Are the Founders of BENQI?

Rome Blockchain Labs Inc. is responsible for the development of BENQI. It is an incubator and a software development firm specializing in decentralized finance (DeFi). JD Gagnon is one of the co-founders and CEO of Rome Blockchain Labs. The two other co-founders are Hannu Kuusi and Alexander Shul.

JD Gagnon graduated with a bachelor’s degree in commerce in finance and accounting from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Before Rome Blockchain Labs, Gagnon has created the Velox algorithmic trading platform. Gagnon is also the founder and CEO of Scotch & Ramen Media, Inc. and CSO of Etheralabs, Inc.

Hannu Kuusi has experience building institutional-grade infrastructure for financial technology (fintech) and military applications.

Alexander Szul is in charge of managing the development of the BENQI liquidity market platform.

What Makes BENQI (QI) Unique?

BENQI (QI) claims to be the first DeFi Lending project on the Avalanche platform. It offers DeFi users from congested and centralized networks the option to move and place their unused assets on BENQI with no hurdles and low network fees. Avalanche allows BENQI users to seamlessly and affordably access decentralized financial services and increase control over their strategies.

Developers have the option to use BENQI to create financial products using the protocol and governance tokens.

BENQI also aims to ease the overloading of the Ethereum network by providing Ethereum users with a less expensive and faster alternative. BENQI members can withdraw liquidity from the shared liquidity market, borrow from the liquidity market and get a clear view of interest rates.