Kinesis: A new gold based monetary system

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The real challenge for an alternative global system of value exchange is not for it to be a wealth creation exercise for the elite, but an effective method of transfer that is stable, cannot be manipulated by institutions or governments, protects the individual, has an intrinsic value and can be used quickly for ordinary, day-to-day transactions.

After the gold standard that once defined the value of currencies was abandoned in the 20th century, the monetary system became dependent on central banking policies and political instability.
Against this backdrop, the evolution of blockchain and cryptocurrencies opened up new opportunities to ensure decentralisation and stability. However, current blockchain payment systems and their cryptocurrencies have suffered from severe price volatility, limiting their holder’s desire to be used as tender. 
A large part of this is owing to the cryptocurrencies' lack of intrinsic value: Cryptocurrencies are merely pieces of digital information subject to the whims of a volatile market.


With Kinesis, a new gold standard is being developed using the latest blockchain technology to digitize the most precious of all commodities. 
Kinesis is a monetary system that combines the age-old stability of gold and silver with the efficiency of transactions on the blockchain.
With cryptocurrencies currently overwhelmed by speculation and volatility, a crypto that is based 1:1 with gold and silver deposits will bring stability to the coin, promoting its use as a functioning currency rather than just an investment to hold or trade.

Kinesis was founded by the Allocated Bullion Exchange (ABX), the world’s first electronic, institutional bullion exchange for physical precious metal.
This gave the new blockchain-based fintech company an exceptional start: extensive infrastructure and a fully operational exchange built for the trade and storage of physical bullion in seven locations around the world. 
"We’ve combined the knowledge and experience we gained from that, as well as the infrastructure we developed with ABX, with the advent of blockchain technology and the introduction of cryptocurrencies," says Mr Case,  chief commercial officer at Kinesis Money "Doing this has given us some significant advantages against other cryptocurrencies in the gold space."

"I can’t do much with a kilo bar of gold that is stored in a vault somewhere. I can’t monetise it and I can’t access the liquidity in terms of the dollar value that is represents. But we saw the introduction of cryptocurrencies, and combining a traditional asset such as physical gold with a digital currency, as a great opportunity to return to being able to transact gold easily and efficiently - using it as a medium of exchange."

To encourage users to send, spend and transact on the Kinesis Blockchain Network, Kinesis has introduced a multi-faceted yield system that remits the 0.45 per cent it takes on each transaction back out to the network based on how they’ve participated.

When you purchase Kinesis currencies, you have simultaneously allocated real gold or silver stored securely in one of several third-party vaults around the world ensuring no counterparty risk. These digital coins (KAUs represents the gold-based coin and KAGs represents silver), can easily be spent at point of sale through the Kinesis debit card, allowing users to make fast and safe transactions. Holders of Kinesis currencies can redeem the coin and take delivery of the underlying physical precious metal guaranteeing intrinsic value to this cryptocurrency.

Kinesis enhances money as both a store of value and a medium of exchange.

The Kinesis Monetary System
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Kinesis was born out of the Allocated Bullion Exchange.
The ABX is an institutional marketplace with offices in Brisbane, Hong Kong, Bangkok, New York and Limassol, set up in 2011 for the trade of physical precious metals. Through the ABX, physical precious metals participants are able trade, deliver or store physical precious metal in 7 global locations around the world, Zurich, London, NY, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai and Sydney.

ABX will be responsible for quality, storage and audits of the precious metals represented by the coins.
You can find their "Quality Assurance Framework", with a list of their Good Delivery Refiners, here: 
https://www.abx.com/d/QualityAssuranceFramework.pdf

In this document you'll find also the framework regulating inspections and audits.
Particularly important are §§ 11 and 12.
§ 11 (Audit and Inspection) ensures the presence of the bars.
"Under the ABX quality assurance framework, semi-annual audits are performed by Bureau Veritas (Inspectorate) - A leading global physical commodity audit and inspection specialist."
§ 12 (Approved Refiners) ensures the quality of the bars.
The refiners which ABX gets their metals from belong to the Good Delivery Lists of the LMBA (London Metals Bullion Association).

Finally, ABX stores the metals in an allocated way, "with individual holdings allocated through a Holding Identification Number (HIN) system. 

Each HIN, which can be used to identify a sub-account of a Member or a Private Client ... holds direct full legal title to all bullion purchased."
https://abx.com/technology-services/storage-logistics/
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Kinesis has already won the backing of, among others, the Indonesian Post Office, which has signed up to use it in handling its $12.5 billions of assets.
This was possible because Kinesis, unlike most cryptos, is Sharia compliant, since it makes its yield from transaction fees not interest.
https://abx.com/2018/01/23/ptpos-abx/

Kinesis CEO: "POS (Post of Indonesia) runs the country’s largest transportation, logistics and non-bank financial services operation through both online channels and over 4,000 physical post offices, and serves hundreds of millions of Indonesians each year.
Bringing innovative gold trading and investment products and cutting-edge technologies in partnership with POS is a very powerful platform and will be able to serve the millions of existing and future POS customers who are un-banked or under-banked."

Even more important: "Significantly, POS and ABX have also agreed to cooperate together to replicate the offering to the ten ASEAN countries through each of the government-owned post office entities."
The 10 ASEAN countries are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.


Deutsche Bourse, the largest Exchange in the eurozone, is set to become a liquidity provider to ABX and, in my opinion, will run Kinesis on some of their platforms
https://abx.com/2017/11/15/ecc-abx/
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