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Maxim Balashevich

Founder & CEO, Santiment · 1 appearance on the record.

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Maxim Balashevich is the founder and CEO of Santiment, an on-chain, social, and developmental analytics platform founded in 2016 to monitor cryptocurrency market behavior. A former software engineer and financial markets analyst, he is known for developing crowd-sentiment metrics to analyze crypto market cycles.

12statements → 5claims → 2claims resolved → 3.67/5average certainty → 1.42/5average debate potential →

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 3 assertions · 2 opinions · 5 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Maxim argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Hackers stole $7 million during the CoinDash ICO crowdsale
“I think the first one was that Coin Dash, actually it's also in service doing something similar they were hacked during the crowd sale, the address of crowd sale was exchanged on their webpage, and some, like, seven million dollars was stolen.”
Maxim Balashevich Oct 13, 2017 ▶ 18:22 811: Crypto: After $2m ICO, He's Building the Bloomberg Terminal for Crypto

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
StockTwits is pivoting to crypto to launch its own ICO
“I think they simply decided to switch or even pivot completely to cryptocurrency, and now they're moving also creating their own crowd sale and what they're doing.”
Maxim Balashevich Oct 13, 2017 ▶ 15:24 811: Crypto: After $2m ICO, He's Building the Bloomberg Terminal for Crypto

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Maxim Balashevich on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Maxim Balashevich said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Most retail crypto projects merely copy traditional finance models
“Most projects doing basically the same for end customers, but they're copying already existing business models from normal, from classic financial economy, like trying to establish, well, some are doing a kind of social trading platforms.”
Maxim Balashevich Oct 13, 2017 ▶ 14:02 811: Crypto: After $2m ICO, He's Building the Bloomberg Terminal for Crypto
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Balashevich sees no active direct competitors building crypto data terminals
“I don't see yet active competitors who are doing on the same level like going very deep down and trying to establish informational layer. well, I'm sure they will emerge.”
Maxim Balashevich Oct 13, 2017 ▶ 13:49 811: Crypto: After $2m ICO, He's Building the Bloomberg Terminal for Crypto
Assertion Contradicted
StockTwits is pivoting to crypto to launch its own ICO
“I think they simply decided to switch or even pivot completely to cryptocurrency, and now they're moving also creating their own crowd sale and what they're doing.”
Maxim Balashevich Oct 13, 2017 ▶ 15:24 811: Crypto: After $2m ICO, He's Building the Bloomberg Terminal for Crypto
Opinion
Balashevich views Polkadot as promising due to its technical architecture
“Very, well, I personally like Polkadot. Polkadot? This one? Yeah. Because of the technical background, which is very, very high level.”
Maxim Balashevich Oct 13, 2017 ▶ 16:46 811: Crypto: After $2m ICO, He's Building the Bloomberg Terminal for Crypto
Disclosure
Balashevich: Santiment offers fiat subscriptions or token staking for data access
“Now, in order to get access to information we are generating and packaging for you or visualizing, you have basically two means of paying us. One way, normal way, you can buy our services through monthly subscriptions. Like normal paying in dollars or euros or…”
Maxim Balashevich Oct 13, 2017 ▶ 3:34 811: Crypto: After $2m ICO, He's Building the Bloomberg Terminal for Crypto
Disclosure
Santiment does not yet sell data or generate subscription revenue
“We are just building the system, so we do not sell the data yet.”
Maxim Balashevich Oct 13, 2017 ▶ 4:16 811: Crypto: After $2m ICO, He's Building the Bloomberg Terminal for Crypto
Disclosure
Santiment raised $12 million in its July 2017 ICO crowdsale
“We raised at that time, and that time it was around twelve million. ... We started crowdsale on the first of July, one day for our own communities, and one day for other communities, and it was over. So at that time, yeah, it was 45,000 Ethereum.”
Maxim Balashevich Oct 13, 2017 ▶ 4:39 811: Crypto: After $2m ICO, He's Building the Bloomberg Terminal for Crypto
Disclosure
Santiment raised 12,000 ETH in a 2017 presale when ETH was $10
“At that time it was 12,000 Ethereum. ... Back then it was difficult to believe at the time Ethereum was 10 dollar per ETA. So we were aiming like between 120 and 50,000 is what we collected.”
Maxim Balashevich Oct 13, 2017 ▶ 6:44 811: Crypto: After $2m ICO, He's Building the Bloomberg Terminal for Crypto
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Balashevich predicts Santiment will establish meaningful revenue in six months
“Well, positively, I try to align team to go for it like in three months, but after talking and estimating, we think, ah, it's most likely like in a half a year, where some revenue, which makes sense, can be established.”
Maxim Balashevich Oct 13, 2017 ▶ 7:43 811: Crypto: After $2m ICO, He's Building the Bloomberg Terminal for Crypto
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Balashevich: Hedge funds are requesting specific paid data from Santiment
“There are requests for us to deliver specific kind of data where people, well, mostly it's like hedge funds will be ready to pay for it.”
Maxim Balashevich Oct 13, 2017 ▶ 8:34 811: Crypto: After $2m ICO, He's Building the Bloomberg Terminal for Crypto
Assertion Supported
Hackers stole $7 million during the CoinDash ICO crowdsale
“I think the first one was that Coin Dash, actually it's also in service doing something similar they were hacked during the crowd sale, the address of crowd sale was exchanged on their webpage, and some, like, seven million dollars was stolen.”
Maxim Balashevich Oct 13, 2017 ▶ 18:22 811: Crypto: After $2m ICO, He's Building the Bloomberg Terminal for Crypto
Disclosure
Santiment's $12 million crowdsale had around 720 participants
“Well, in the crowd sale itself, we've got a bit more than 700, I think it was 720, and the number you see on Token Explorer, it shows actually amount of people who moved the tokens.”
Maxim Balashevich Oct 13, 2017 ▶ 5:44 811: Crypto: After $2m ICO, He's Building the Bloomberg Terminal for Crypto

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
811: Crypto: After $2m ICO, He's Building the Bloomberg Terminal for Crypto Oct 13, 2017 12m
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