Fr8 Network

Fr8 Network

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The $700B US trucking industry is the backbone of American commerce with 80% of all cargo transported overland by trucks, yet it is plagued with inefficiency and ultimately controlled by a bloated intermediary brokerage system whose incentives are not aligned with the true stakeholders.

Imagine forming a blockchain platform bringing together shippers, carriers, truckers and brokers where they can place and track orders, assess performance records, compare pricing and extend credit. Add in a set of decentralized applications (DApps) linking up these stakeholders--and a new digital token speeding their transactions--and you could cut billions of dollars in inefficiencies from the $700 billion-dollar-a-year trucking industry.

That is the vision of Fr8 Network, a newly formed upstart that aims to take the pain out of shipping by targeting, in particular, the $66 billion a year in fees exacted by some 16,000 middleman brokerages. Some key points:
· Potential savings are huge. Trucks travel an astounding 29.6 billion miles every year only partially loaded or entirely empty--a waste of capacity even as businesses struggle with a shortage of drivers.
· Cut that unused capacity in half, and we could save $30 billion a year in fuel costs and reduce carbon emissions from trucks by 100 million tons per year, 20% of their total carbon output.
· By matching customers to and carriers online, the industry could sidestep broker fees that pose up to 20% of the cost of shipping goods; cut fees in half and the industry saves some $30 billion.
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General
Website: Visit
White paper: Read
Dates: TBA
Whitelist/KYC: KYC
Country: USA
Token info
Ticker: Fr8token
Platform: Ethereum
Token Type: ERC20
Available for sale: 100,000,000 Fr8token (10%)
Financial
Raised $ 1,213,222
ICO Price: 1 Fr8token = 0.15 USD
Accepting: ETH
May, 2017
Project initiated.
July, 2017
Proof of Initial Thesis - Direct carrier negotiation netted an 18% discount overnight, proving we didn’t need brokerages to drive deep savings.
August, 2017
1st Carrier Customers Onboarded - (Fr8 National Carrier Network). 8 regional carriers (complete lower 48 coverage). 500 independent carriers.
September, 2017
1st Shipper Customers Onboarded - (Fr8 National Shipper Network). Lewisco Holdings commits to ship $5m through Fr8 Market.
Q1, 2018
Blockdaemon Partnership announced. Fr8 Fair Trade Consortium Launch. MVP Launch.
Q2, 2018
Development Begins on Added Value Products & Services. Fr8 Market Expansion (USA only).
Screenshots taken on 16 Mar 2018
Jon Fox
CEO
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Sloane Brakeville
CTO
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Ling Qing Meng
VP Engineering
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Shankhri Balaji
Chief Strategist
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Yevgeniy Spektor
Lead Engineer
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Barry Glasco
Senior Enterprise Engineer
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Michael Zargham
PHD Mathematician
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Matt Barlin
MIT Trained Data Scientist
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Peter Crane
Business Development
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Will Kamensky
Community Management
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Advisors (19)

Scott Walker
Partner Distributed Network Advisors (DNA)
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Dustin Boyer
Partner Distributed Network Advisors (DNA)
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Emily Bush
Partner Distributed Network Advisors (DNA)
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James Regenor
Deputy Executive Secretary National Security Council Executive Office of the President for Bush and Obama Administrations
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Adam Helfgott
CEO Madhive
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Tom Bollich
CTO Madhive
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Court Coursey
Managing Partner, Tomorrow Ventures
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Konstantin Richter
CEO Blockdaemon
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Alex Lightman
CEO Millennium Energy Corporation
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Matt McGraw
Founding Partner, The Bureau
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Matt McKibbin
CDO, Decentranet
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Ted Moskovitz
Founder, Decentranet
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Eric Greenberg
Founder, Chairman and CEO Warp Media
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Scott Nelson
Chairman & CEO Sweetbridge
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Mac McGary
President, Sweetbridge
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Dave Henderson
Co-Founder and CFO Sweetbridge
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Rebecca Lerner
EVP Madhive
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E. David Ellington
Founder Silicon Valley Blockchain Society
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Amit Pradhan
Managing Partner Jet Ventures
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