The Importance of the Topic Despite on Explosive Growth of Used Car in another country as “in perfect condition”. There is a
Market, 4 Major Problems Still Exist number of methods used by unfair used car dealers.
The automotive market is booming. According to reports,
88.1 million cars and light commercial vehicles were sold 1. Scattered historical data with limited access 3. (Non) public data
worldwide in 2016, 4.8% more than the year before. It is
expected that sales will hit the point of 100 million cars a Historical vehicle data is gathered and kept in various There are plenty of paid database services which can
year in 2020. registers and databases, such as manufacturers, certified provide small pieces of information about car history.
workshops, insurance companies, private logs, as well The main problem is that those companies monopolize
Since the new car market is constantly growing, the as personal car owner’s (at that particular time) records. data which in general should be public. Another part of
growth of used cars fleet becomes inevitable. The EU and US regulations state that all data is owned by data belongs to national car registries , which are
The statistics shows that the annual world’s car fleet the car owner, but in reality this data is shared between centralized. Some countries sell that data to private
growth rate is on average 4%. New car registrations various databases and registers, while public access databases, while others keep data and do not share it.
contribute roughly 7% to the fleet growth, which means is usually forbidden or only available for a significant fee. The third part of data is held by thecertified and
that fewer cars are deregistered or utilized than Only the first owner of the car can be 100% sure about sometimes uncertified car workshops. Only certified car
registered. Car fleet is constantly getting older. their car history. Then, due to the constant owner change, services share their data with car manufacturer’s
its history is deluded through different databases. database. Uncertified car services keep their data locally.
If we convert that into numbers, in 2015 only in Germany The fourth and the most valuable part of data is kept by
the second-hand car market was the size of 77.85 billion insurance companies and is rarely available to the public.
EUR, and it is supposed to reach the level of 95 billion 2. Used car owners and buyers are not aware of
EUR by 2020. China is only gaining momentum, but it is the full history of the car
expected to become the epicentre of second-hand car 4. No ability to share data in between centralized
business within 3-4 years. If you want to buy a car which has changed two or three databases
owners and even a few countries, there is a big chance
Every car has on average from 3 to 5 owners during its that the car will have a troubled history. For example, its The main problem is that all private and centralized
lifecycle. Ownership change involves risks which are odometer may have been clocked to hide its true national registries hardly ever share data with each
mainly associated with unfair seller practices (odometer mileage, airbag deployments can be hidden, or it could other or simply sell it as a service. It is incredibly difficult
fraud, hidden accidents). Only in European Union, the have a flood damage. The car might have had an to build trust in such complicated data relationship. It is
total annual consumer detriment of problems which accident logged at the insurance company and might crucially important in fragmented regions, such as the
occurred within one year of purchasing a second-hand have been repaired at the 3rd party’s repair shop. EU or Asia, where cross-border trades make it difficult to
car was estimated to be between 1.9 and 4.1 billion EUR. Another possible case is when a car becomes a total loss track vehicle history. There is no possibility to transfer
A significant 25% of EU28 second-hand car buyers (44% and the insurance company makes pay-out to the owner, trust from one centralized service to another. That puts
in the EU13) experienced at least one unfair commercial but instead of being dismantled, it is sold to an unfair used car buyers into a complicated situation, because
practice from the dealer. dealer who makes“cosmetic repairs” and sells this car thereis no single source for checking car history and
getting asmuch information about its history as possible.
carWallet - Your car in the Application this is an attractive opportunity to emphasize the value
The Idea and Solution
of the car by leaving all maintenance records on the
Wallet is a mobile gateway to virtually manage your car’s
carVertical is a blockchain-based solution which solves blockchain. For carVertical this is an enormous tool to
registration and maintenance records, perform insurance
all described problems. It gathers as much information monetize the business by becoming an efficient sales
or technical inspection tasks.
about car history as possible from different sources channel for insurance or maintenance-related services.
and puts it into the blockchain registry. Why is blockchain
FREE Finally, carVertical.Wallet will truly revolutionize
needed for such a simple web product? All data which is
the second-hand car market by eliminating unfair trade
in the blockchain cannot be changed, faked, rewritten, CarWallet Database
practices, e.g., hidden defects after accidents. While
or manipulated. It provides full transparency and builds
claiming ownership, a person will also become familiar
trust. The most important of all is that all car history data
with the “history report” of a particular vehicle. This
becomes de-centralized and has public access to it.
draws a very clear line of responsibility when it comes to
The person who checks car data via carVertical can
selling a car and pretending not to know its previous
be 100% sure that no one has manipulated its mileage:
condition.
all insured accidents are logged, and the user gets as
much data about the car as possible.
We are considering testing carVertical.Wallet with
Reports
authorities in some EU countries.
One world - one registry for all vehicles. This is an Whitelabel
unprecedented case.
you have a good team. Also, it takes time. We will provide (bigchaindb.com). Static content will be stored in IPFS. 2017 October
white label (franchise) solution to everyone who wants User tokens and API limits data will be stored in the Made 50.000 EUR
to run such business on their own. Ethereum blockchain. App interface will run on Ethereum self-investment
2017 December
DAPP. We will fully utilise blockchain technology as
Budget raised with additional
Our company will provide access to data, CRM, website possible in such product type. To build incentives 30.000 EUR self-investment
2017 December
templates, automatic report creation system, and mechanism we are thinking about using Ardor (evolved
MVP launch of car’s
payment processing for a monthly or single fee. version of NXT).
history pre-check
The buyer will only need to figure out how to create 2017 December 26th
marketing for their product and start earning revenue. For carVertical.Wallet secured identifications we will fully Start of ICO
integrate blockchain superstar which is 2018 January
Civic Identity Verification technology (www.civic.com).
carVertical.API for Big Fish Start of onboarding
databases and registries
2018 January (end)
Big companies, such as the ones that provide insurance, Brief Roadmap of different countries
Alpha version of
leasing, or claims handling services and others are Wallet application:
2018 March
constantly in a great need of expanding their data Our team have broad experience of working with Power to the People
various global web products. We have acquired Alpha version of
sources. For such companies we will provide an API API product
(automated programing interface), which can be easily knowledge of product development by utilising latest 2018 April 5th
integrated within their in-house systems and supported technologies, business development, and marketing End of ICO.
all the time. through real-life applications. It is definitely safe to say 2018 May
In 6-16 weeks tokens
are listed on exchanges
that we are well-prepared. One of our team members White Label solution
has worked in a leading Europe’s car history database for biggest classifieds
carVertical.Database: company in C-Suite; thus, we have the main competitive group in Baltic states
2018 June
only granted to trusted entities. onboarding different local and global databases and 2019
registries which belong to countries or private owners carVertical development
and start getting revenue in June 2018. continues in all directions
The Token carVertical token flow chart
+ CV token
Our main goal is to establish a working company with - CV token + CV token carVertical company
cash positive revenue stream in the shortest period car.Reports CarVertical company gives CV tokens for
car.WhiteLabel earns CV token as well a users who
possible and get stable growth of the company and car.API products as other crypto or FIAT downloads
can be bought with currencies for carVertical.Wallet
community. That is why we are going to set equal and CV token as well as customers buying the app and registers his
individually assigned purchase cap for each contributor with other crypto or Reports, WhiteLabel car
FIAT currency and API products
during the ICO. The hard cap of the ICO is 15050 ETH. - CV token
The soft cap of the carVertical ICO is 3050 ETH. The pre- User spends
CV token (other
ICO stage is 1050 ETH. crypto or FIAT
currency)
to pay for
The Team and founder tokens will be vested in 4-year in-app
services like
period to show our commitment to the overall success of + CV token
insurance,
CarVertical company earns CV
carVertical. token (other crypto or FIAT maintenance,
currency) from service/product tyres and etc.
We will not have any bounty or programs. We will offer Token Pool providers "offer participation fee"