VECHAIN
DEVELOPMENT PLAN
THIS IS NOT A WHITE PAPER！
No, it is NOT!

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Preface
The VeChain team and the VeChain Blockchain platform has been running for more than
two years.
Fortunately, while running down the path of Blockchain which everyone has big hopes onright now, we met many people sharing the same goal and lots of enterprise customers
that dare to explore this new area. We also met many passionate business partners andco-workers with strong believes. Moreover, we accumulated lots of experience of businessuse cases for different industries and we kept adjusting and making corrections during theprocess so that we can continue on searching the right way to use this “secret technology”
that may change the world.
Our original vision has never been changed. The dream is still same as before,
Building a trust-free and distributed business ecosystem to enable transparent
information flow, efficient collaboration, and high speed value transferring.

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Table of Content
1.

Concept Background ............................................................................................ 5
1.1
Call for ICO ....................................................................................................... 5
1.2
The Understanding of Blockchain Technology ................................................. 6
1.2.1 Synergy and Value Transfer ................................................................................... 6
1.2.2 Data and Information Symmetry ............................................................................ 7
1.3 VeChain’s Vision ..................................................................................................... 8
1.3.1 Distributed Business Ecosystem ............................................................................ 9
1.3.2 The "Blood" in the Distributed Ecosystem – VeChain Token(VET)................. 10

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1.4 VeChain’s Attitude on Blockchain Technology ..................................................... 12
Methodology and Technical Support................................................................... 13
2.1 Methodology ......................................................................................................... 13
2.2 Technique Support................................................................................................ 14
2.3 Technical Structure ............................................................................................... 15
2.4 Achieve the Technical Details ............................................................................... 18
2.4.1 VeChain ID Creation and Hashing ....................................................................... 18
2.4.2 Storage of VID on Blockchain............................................................................... 19
2.4.3 Digital Ownership on Blockchain ......................................................................... 20
2.4.4 Data Hashed Storage (proof of data) .................................................................. 21
2.4.5 API Gateway............................................................................................................ 22
2.4.6 Service Discovery (SDP) ....................................................................................... 23
2.4.7 Micro-Service .......................................................................................................... 24
2.4.8 Hashed Storage Service (HSS) ........................................................................... 24
2.5 Blockchain and IoT ............................................................................................... 26
2.5.1 The Issue of IoT ...................................................................................................... 26
2.5.2 Blockchain and IoT ................................................................................................. 26
2.5.3 VeChain and IoT ..................................................................................................... 28

2.6 Technical Testing .................................................................................................. 29
2.7 Technology Development’s Path and Plan........................................................... 31
3.
The Industrial Application and Expansion........................................................... 34
3.1 Fashion and Luxury Industry ................................................................................ 35
3.2 Food Safety .......................................................................................................... 36
3.3 Car Industry .......................................................................................................... 39
3.4 Supply Chain Industry .......................................................................................... 40
3.5 The Agricultural Industry ....................................................................................... 41
3.6 Blockchain Government Affairs ............................................................................ 42
3.7 This is just the Beginning ..................................................................................... 44
4. Governance Structure and Management Philosophy ................................................... 45
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4.1 The Establishment of VeChain Foundation .......................................................... 46
4.2．Governance Principle ........................................................................................ 46
4.3 VeChain Governance Model ................................................................................ 48
4.3.1 Strategic Steering Committee............................................................................... 49
4.3.2 General Secretary .................................................................................................. 50
4.3.3 Technical Audit Committee .................................................................................... 50
4.3.4 Remuneration and Nomination Committee ........................................................ 50
4.3.5 Public Relation Committee .................................................................................... 51
4.3.6 Supervisory Committee ......................................................................................... 51
4.3.7 Other Functional Department ............................................................................... 51
4.4 VeChain Human Resource Management ............................................................ 51
4.5 Risk Assessment and Decision Making Mechanism of VeChain Foundation ..... 52
4.6 VeChain Foundation Economy............................................................................. 52
4.6.1 Funding Sources .................................................................................................... 53
4.6.2 Fund Budgeting ...................................................................................................... 54
4.6.3 Fund Use Restriction ............................................................................................. 56
4.6.4 Financial Planning and Implementation Reports ............................................... 57
4.6.5 Digital Asset Management .................................................................................... 57
4.7 Legal Compliance Matters and Other Matters ..................................................... 57
5. Introduction of the Team and Team Member ................................................................. 58

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1. Concept Background1.1

Call for ICO
The Blockchain technology is experiencing rapid development especially inrecent one or two years. The change is so fast for us entrepreneur. Despite thedirection is technology development and expansion, or application research, weface changes all the time. Every time we site together, discuss and conclude "theonly thing that does not change is change itself", just like a poet. From the second
half of 2015, with an article from The Economist “Blockchain: The Trust Machine”,
the Blockchain technology started to walk out of the geek community and rapidly
gained worldwide attention in various industries.
The term “Blockchain" is no longer an obscure technical term for many people.
Lots of the new ideas and projects are coming out, which includes many
imaginative models and new directions for Blockchain. At the end of last year, theBlockchain technology was even written directly into the national "13th Five-Yearplan", which encouraged us many peers. In addition, it attracts so many aspiring
young people to join the Blockchain industry.
Needless to say, Blockchain has been recognized by the world as a newgeneration of powerful technology. Blockchain is considered as being able tochange the world again just like what the Internet technology did. In addition,
based on the pattern of human technology development, the development
process of the Blockchain technology will suddenly get speeds up by a hugemargin without doubt. We believe that it will have substantial breakthroughs andextensive expansion in the upcoming few years for the Blockchain industry.
However, the reality is tougher than expected. The application direction of
Blockchain is either for financial industry or non-financial industry. For financial
industry, it is so obvious with its high standard of compliance, so it is very hard to
make a break through. For non-financial industry, it has a variety of collaborative
cooperation modes but all these participants lack of drive to move further. That is
why even though there is some new concepts derived from Blockchain, only few
practical Blockchain business application has been established. Even when someproject get partially established can make the teams feel excited.
Although everything is hard at the beginning, there is always someone who isvery careful and willing to be the first one to get into the field. In order to reduce
the possibility of failure as much as possible, we want to share VeChain with theinvestors, enterprise customers, cooperative partners and colleagues – a productthat we started making strategic plan two years ago. It has been through several
platform software updates, many practical cases and debates with arguments at
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so many sleepless nights. Finally we created some matured ideas and we want
to CALL for the ICO for VeChain project.

1.2

The Understanding of Blockchain Technology

1.2.1 Synergy and Value Transfer
In the world of traditional business, different varieties of collaborative andbusiness operations as well as the whole financial industry, which is at the top of
the "food chain", shows trust is the biggest cost in the field. Though Blockchain
carries a "trust aura". The Blockchain technology is widely accepted around theworld since the famous article " Blockchain: the trust machine" published by the
Economist.
The essence of a Blockchain is an Internet protocol and a collection oftechnologies about Trust. We can define the meaning of Blockchain from three
dimensions - data, system and application:
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From the data point of view: Blockchain is a distributed database systemthat is continuously updated in chronological order. The data can only be
added but not tampered with.

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From the system point of view: Blockchain is a distributed deployment andreal-time synchronization system, allows participants from different
parties to create and maintain the data through mechanism for consensus.
It makes each active node on the Blockchain has exactly the same data.

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From the application point of view: Blockchain is a standard global
platform allows multiple participants to connect at the same time andrecords all digital objects, users, and their relative operations on thisplatform.

With the development of information technology and Internet, the application ofvarious systems makes the collaboration more convenient and efficient. Becauseof the existence of trust issue, the majority of such efficient collaboration exists
mainly within an enterprise or a certain organization. However, people are using
the methods and tools from 40 years ago when it comes to the collaboration
between different enterprises. The majority of collaboration is still completed bye-mail. System interfacing is actually not as simple as imagined. Since it involves
data security, trade secrets, cooperation, trust and other problems. The
connection is not just a technical issue. In addition, due to the same problem, thefinancial service that match and support all kinds of business needs improvement
in both efficiency and cost.
For example, a classic business collaborative mode includes supply chain (as thegraphic shows below), brand, manufacturer, distributed retailer, consumer andregulator. All the parties share the same goal: to achieve the same value of6

improving the life quality of the consumer. However, even if the different
enterprises worked together for the same goal, due to the lack of sufficient trust
guarantee, the cooperation is still on a peer-to-peer manner and with traditional
communication tools, and the data exchange will be very inefficient and expensive.
In such a traditional product life cycle, even if the logistics could be relatively
smooth and efficient, the flow of information is often fragmented and the transfer
of funds is also relatively slow. For the participants on the whole supply chain, theutilization rate of funds has always been quite a headache.
The Blockchain technology can help us to establish a new trust-free sharing
business collaboration model (as the graphic shows below). Various parties canensure the security of data in a more convenient and smoother manner. With thesupport of a more timely and accurate information flow, the value transmission in
the ecological environment can be developed and executed during the businessactivities. This way each enterprise can increase the utilization rate of funds, andgreatly improve the speed of value transmission in order to support more businessdevelopment.

Figure 1.2.1 Distributed business collaboration from traditional business collaboration to Blockchain

1.2.2 Data and Information Symmetry
Most enterprises have three types of data:
1) Public data, such as enterprise data that is publicly available on the official
website.
2) Private data, such as enterprise product developing documents, financial
reports for non-listed companies.
3) Permitted shared data, usually exists between different cooperation
partners. Such as the record data from the identification, logistics,
payment information and after-sale service for different level enterprises.
The first and second kind of data are generally well understood. The interesting
part is the third type of data, which is usually converted into private data by theparticipants.
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For example, after a car is sold, maintenance data exists in the 4S store or the
maintenance business. When the owners need to buy insurance, the insurancecompany spend huge cost to buy those maintenance data as a service provider.
Or, based on the market demand, this could become as a new data service. This
service can collect data, centralize maintenance and management, and get paidby providing data to participants who are interested in those data. For users, therisk comes from the centralized/ isolated data, where stay in a variety of online
automotive service platform. This kind of service breaks the asymmetric
information (due to the difference of region and time) by using information
technology, and constructs a new centralized asymmetric information, and thenproduce profit base on this.
We BELIEVE that the Blockchain technology can continuously break thoseasymmetric information and allow data to return to the real owner eventually. For
instance, in the car scenario described above, the data generated by the owner
when he used the car should naturally be owned by the owner. That means thedata generated from car maintenance should belong to car owner without doubt.
While enjoying other service like insurance later, insurance company can reduce
data audit costs through user authorized credible data. Thus car owners could
enjoy premiums service with lower cost.
The Blockchain technology allows data owners really own the data, and let thedata owner have the authority to choose whether to share their data, which
completely breaks the traditional asymmetric of the centralized information. In thisway, the value goes back to where they were. The data owned by one side needs
to be shared and maintained by all parties. Thus new values are generated andis properly allocated in the activities of multi-party participation.

1.3 VeChain’s Vision
What does the VeChain want to do? The vision of VeChain is to build a trustfree and distributed business ecosystem based on the Blockchain
technology self-circulated and expanding.
In this ecosystem, the information is relatively transparent andsymmetrical. A large portion of the source of the profit comes from therealization of true value, and only a small portion of it comes fromasymmetric information (absolute symmetry does not exist).

In this ecosystem, each business party can reduce the potential trust
issue between different parties. This makes business cooperation simpler,
more efficient, low cost, and the business can concentrate resources onmore advanced technology, better product and service to create morevalue.

In this ecosystem, each person and each enterprise can find their own
8place. Based on their contribution and value, they can obtain relatively fairreward.
In this ecosystem, the technology of Blockchain should have room for all
aspects of business, including commercial activities and economic
activities that should be supported.

In this ecosystem, the value is in a closed loop that keep expanding
accompanied by the development of commercial activities with highspeed transmission. The form of value may be commodities, services, ordirect fund.

1.3.1 Distributed Business Ecosystem
In the ecological environment made by VeChain, there are several main types ofparticipants:
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Enterprise organization
All kinds of enterprise organization that provide products and services to
end-users to meet all the needs such as various manufacturing enterprises,brands, service providers for end-users, and so on.
Application service provider
It means an enterprise that provides various application development andservices for enterprise organizations and users on VeChain Blockchain.
The product or service can be a variety of decentralized applications andservices to users, technical products and related services for all enterprises
and institutions, functions of the government agencies, regulators and third
party credit service providers.
For example, end-user oriented Internet platforms like BAT, sharing
products and service providers like Uber, Didi, Airbnb;
For instance, enterprise oriented technology, product, service provider suchas Oracle, IBM. Supply chain services providers of commodity enterprises,
third party credit service providers such as PwC, DNV, GL and financial
service providers such as banks and insurance companies.
Smart contract service provider
Organizations provide VeChain smart contract technology service toenterprises, and allow the end- enterprise or service providers to develop
Blockchain applications in a faster and more convenient manner.
VeChain network node provider
Enterprises and organizations that directly participate in the Blockchain
network and maintain a certain number of nodes to protect the overall
network security.
Maintaining a specific function node to provide related services, such as
customs, quality inspection node, audit node, wallet service, and user
private key management service provider.
VeChain Foundation
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VeChain is responsible for the construction of Blockchain network,
technology research and development, upgrade and maintenance andother basic technical services. Meanwhile, in the initial stage it is
responsible for business development, creating reference cases,
encouraging and supporting more of the new smart contract service
providers and existing technology enterprises to transform. Based on the
demands of ecological development, it provides support to more
technology companies on offering Blockchain services, such as walletdevelopment, payment services, private key management, internal
exchange, smart contract templates etc.
End-user
The service target of end-enterprise, end-users and service provider(investors) enjoy the bonus from the future commercial ecology
development together.
These participants set up the whole VeChain distributed businessecosystem. On one hand, it can form an effective closed loop. On the other
hand, it can connect and assimilate with the environment outside of theecosystem and constantly grow itself, as figure shows below:

Figure 1.3.1 Distributed business ecosystem environment

1.3.2 The "Blood" in the Distributed Ecosystem – VeChain Token(VET)
If the entire distributed business ecosystem is a body, then the Blockchain
infrastructure is the skeleton and various application services are the muscles andorgans. Such body needs the circulation of the blood, and the blood is the
VeChain tokens - VeChain Token(VET), carrying the value transfer function of theentire Blockchain network and various commercial activities running on it.
VeChain Token(VET) will be openly available for sale in a variety of ways in thisICO.
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flows through the smart contract which describes and executes the cooperation
among the parties, as well as forming a special closed loop with an open interface.
On one hand, the value transfer very fast in the ecological. On the other hand, it
opens and communicates with outside the ecosystem as a medium, and further
expanding the scope of ecology.
The main function of VeChain Token(VET) is to circulate as much as possible andto let each participant use it. So we will sell more than 70% of the total amount oftokens to communities, businesses, and users.
Just as the graphic shows above:1) This loop begins with the end-user and enterprises as investors to use ETH
to obtain VeChain Token(VET) in the beginning. VeChain uses ETH toperform technical development, commercial application cooperation
promotion, and Blockchain services support.
2) VeChain Foundation receives VeChain Token(VET) from each smart contractdevelopment and service provider to pay for the GAS needed to run the smart
contract and maintain the operation of each business smart contract. The 75%
to 99% of the VeChain Token(VET) income will be awarded as a node reward
to the node provider, while the remaining 25% will be used for the daily
operation, business promotion and technical development of the VeChain
Foundation.
3) Smart contract service providers use VeChain Token(VET) to pay for GAS
and provide smart contract service of BaaS (Blockchain as a service).
According to different business rules and contributions, each participant
receives VeChain Token(VET) from its client - Application Development
provider provides smart contract services through collecting VeChain
Token(VET).
4) Application provider develops and processes based on end-user’s needs withthe foundation of smart contract service, as well as providing products for theapplication of the traditional enterprise customers or end-users and receive
VeChain Token(VET) as corporate income.
5) End-users can pay VeChain Token(VET) to obtain enterprise products andservices.
Of course, such ecological development will experience different stages, andmaintain an open status. A better fusion with the traditional business world will
help the transformation of traditional commercial enterprises, and then expand
such a distributed business ecosystem.
In this process, there must be a variety of new technology service enterprises, toprovide a bridge for communication and value transfer between traditional
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commercials and VeChain’s distributed business environment.
VeChain will be responsible for the actual development. On the other hand, we
will encourage and support outstanding teams to join us so we can have a better
understand to the various sectors of all enterprises. We can apply better and more
focus on developing and make the right people to do what they do best.
According to the actual experience of the past two years, we have summed up a
few reference methods to carry out this ecological promotion:
1) The breakthrough point should select the enterprise with most
"Blockchain" strategy. These enterprises value greatly on thedevelopment of Blockchain technology in the future.
2) Initial cases should be combined with the real enterprise issue, which cansolve the actual problems, or may bring new value.
3) The business scenario has the multi participants, and space for deeper
expansion.
4) Target enterprises, target cases in the industry or in different industry has
considerable influence.
In this ecological development, the tactics needs to expand both horizontally andvertically:
1) Horizontally, make more duplicated expansion of the same types ofenterprises within the same industry.
2) Vertically, the expansion of different enterprises and participants.
More participants will bring more extensive collaboration, more efficient value flow,
give birth to a new and strong coupling business model, and then build a future
distributed business ecology.

1.4 VeChain’s Attitude on Blockchain Technology
The development of any new technology is bound to go through several importantstages:
The first stage, technical barriers stage; at this stage, being capableor not capable plays a very big difference; doing well and not well is notvery obvious.
The second stage is the business barrier stage. At this stage, thedevelopment of technology has been advancing by leaps and bounds,
and with the trend of social resources, more and more talents have beenpouring in. More technical theories and skills are being shared, andtechnical barriers are becoming increasingly blurred. To do or not to do
already is not a problem; well done and badly becomes prominent. The
key point of this stage is whether we can apply the technology skillfully
and reasonably to the actual commercial products and services and
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produce greater value.
The third stage is the scale barrier stage. At this stage, the snowballeffect is very obvious, and the scale advantage is becoming more andmore important. More business activities and social activities focus on
one or more ecological environments, and the more participants, thefaster they develop.
The fourth stage is the subdividing the vertical phase. At this stage,the industry scale and pattern are basically formed, and new
breakthroughs are made. The new breakthrough comes from thedivision of vertical areas with more concentrated resources advantages
to produce better products, services and values.
The fifth stage, the birth of the new technological revolution. Moreadvanced technology was born in the human pursuit of higher value,
and then enter the next cycle.

Blockchain has no exemption to this route. Although the Blockchain technology
itself still has a long way to go, there is lots of space for improvement.
Nevertheless, as things stand now, we have unwittingly entered the early second
stage of Blockchain.
So, this non-whitepaper does not include mysterious algorithms and technicaldetails. It focuses on the concept and design of the business ecosystem, and the
support and further development needs of the related technologies.
We hope that our investors, partners and communities will be able to cometogether and build this ecosystem together.
We recognize that VeChain technology may not be the most advanced in theworld. VeChain had a good technical starting point and a cohesive technical teamand continuous iterations based on the needs of the application. In the process,we will be very grateful if VeChain could contribute our discovery andbreakthroughs to the community, industry and Blockchain technology.

2. Methodology and Technical Support
2.1 Methodology
Based on the understanding and following the objective of business rule, VeChain
wants to begin with the smallest elements in business (people, object and money).
VeChain wants to digitalize all of these small elements and build a general typeof connection. VeChain builds the reflection on the coordinating activities ofmodern business through different smart contracts. It provides related value flow
tool and system in order to create a new business model based on this13

coordination pattern. After that VeChain builds a new kind of distributed businessecosystem that will be operated on Blockchain.
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Digitalized the objective in a common way. The result by this digitalization
can technically be accepted and used by any of the participant. VeChain
uses the unified VID to mark the object and make a connection between
the hashed data and VID in order to build the corresponded target data
to VID. It also helps to IoT technology to complete the connection
between VID and real life target.
To build a relationship type of connection with different object data byusing the smart contract.
To use the abstract smart contract to cooperate relevant authorizations
to composite modelling and customization, reflecting the different
business activities in the business world.
A brand new digital asset (VeChain Token(VET)) that can provides the
support of high speed value transaction.
Create a new trustworthy interconnect business model.
Different business model communicate and merge together to build a
distributed business ecosystem.

Through this method, we can “translate” the target product, participants andbusiness activities from the real business world into the world of VeChain. We
can combine all enterprise, customers, and government resource and data
information from different industries. In this way we can digitalize the cooperationand systematize the operation. So it can reduce the cost of the industries andeven the whole society. It can also improve efficiency since resource can be
optimized distributed and all kinds of brand new business model will be born.

Figure 2.1 Standard digitalization in the traditional world

2.2 Technique Support
The path of VeChain’s technology development is almost identical as theBlockchain technology. The initial idea was generated from the middle of 2015
and then VeChain started doing a series of technology verification (TPOC).
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At the very beginning of the technology verification, we tried to use Bitcoin
network (UTXO) to build the module and use Colorcoin to make VID come true.
SideChain technology improves the speed of the trade performance so that thesystem can face the future business challenge. In the end of 2015, the smart
contract of Ethernet has been improved step by step and we worked for it. We
also made huge modifications and technical innovation to commercial
requirement and Ethereum Fork based on the open source. Based on thecustomers and project survey, we kept improving the system in the September of
2016. For instance, we increased the data embedding and read performance to
300TX/s and we also improved the data security control in the bottom layer
structure of the enterprise. In addition, we made joint development with CHAOS
data management model, the IoT technology, the Blockchain technology andmany different business smart contract.
Overall, the logic behind VeChain technology is always surrounded by businessapplication. The idea of VeChain’s management is practical requirement leads
product design, product design leads product development and productdevelopment leads practical requirement.
In the whole process of evolving, our technical team got many supports from lotsof great leaders, like the founder of the Ethereum- Vitalik, the founder of JaxxAnthony and many others. We feel grateful and appreciate of your open mind andthe passion to the technology innovation

2.3 Technical Structure
Vechain’s structure is based on application needs, and make standardized
abstraction for every single technical structure layer. It enables every single layer
to have the independent universality and let every model in each layer combine
to each other efficiently. The standard unit model have tens of thousands
combination of the application.
Below is the figure of Vechain’s overall structure:

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Figure2.3 VeChain’s technical structure

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The structure is separated mainly by two parts of abstract layer: Blockchain
abstract layer and business abstract layer.
Blockchain abstract layer:
1) It is the bottom structure of the basic layer. The technical focus is to fork
Ethereum codebase and improve based on this, it includes:a. DBGP- after maintained a certain level of security, then making a dynamicchange for Block based on needs and requirements. This way it saves
many storage space and system recourse cost. On the other hand, thisprotocol helps VeChain network to have 3 times better of efficiency than
Ethereum after maintaining the security level.
b. DMBSP- combine with the traditional safety technique to cooperate with
Blockhchain’s mining system in order to give enterprise level Blockchain
application to provide data security protection.
c. DGIP- Implanting the data within the same category.
d. Under Development- -BLACP- storing Blockchain data with classification
and use to differentiate saved data with different time and value.
e. Under Development - - PBCP- to distributed implanting and reading datawith the same blockchain category.
f. Under Development - - DCCP- Syncing the data with different categories
of Blockchain.
2) The upper level is the smart contract abstract layer for building a standard
and modularity smart contract module (SSCU) in order to combine further,customized to face different industry, enterprise and smart contract for
application scene (ASCM). Currently the smart contract inventory (VSCL)
includes VID registration, data connection, status data implement, digitalownership, ownership transfer, authorization declaring, authorization transfer,
multiple authorization and so on.
3) Building a Blockchain connector standard protocol (BGAP) to connect withupper business application layer based on the foundation.
Business application abstract layer:1) In this bottom of this layer is the basic service abstract layer. The purpose ismainly to do a secondary operation for the smart contract of the bottom layer
to build GBSM. It includes –hashing Storage service, a service model for
CHAOS through URS. Meanwhile, this layer contains a special customized
module for the data from the bottom layer. It includes index service for
Blockchain browser, UDAS, HDMS, DCASS, CNS and DGS which includes
the standard basic functions for smart contract on VeChain to save the timeon deploying customized smart contract.
For this layer in the future, people will develop tools for visualized smart
contract and through the service to build connections with smart contract. Soeven developers from different industries, or with no Blockchain experience17

can deploy and develop smart contract in order to push the application for theindustry.
2) On top of this, the interface between the basic service layer and the businessapplication layer is implemented for the two level application interface layer.
The core of the development is standardization and to build the connection ofbusiness system that faces different types of data. In addition, accumulating
more standard types by using application for many big enterprise that faces
SAP, WMS and Salesforce, etc. As well as some common used website andmobile application connection.
3) The top layer is business application abstract layer. It has standard application
process module for different business scenes, different business practicaldeveloping module. So it can make the delivery and deployment for thedevelopment of the final application more convenient and fast. The developerof this layer does not even require to have any knowledge of Blockchain
development so this can make more developers and technical service
providers to use VeChain as the application of final customer development for
Blockchain.

2.4 Achieve the Technical Details
VeChain’s Blockchain is forked and improved based on Ethereum codebase. The
basic technical index can see Ethereum’s whitepaper as reference.
Below we are going to focus on discussing the technical application feature of
VeChain.

2.4.1 VeChain ID Creation and Hashing
VeChain IDs are created by using a sha256 function which generates a random
ID which is hashed before being written into a NFC, QR Code or RFID tag(s) to
be used for each product.
All IDs are hashed by using a sha256 function which goes as follows: SHA25
6(domain + '.' + ID)[12:]. In which the domain is the qualified name of table that
the ID settled. e.g. “com.VeChain.dbname.tablename"18Figure 2.4.1 the creation of VID and hashing

2.4.2 Storage of VID on Blockchain
As previously mentioned, the hashed VeChain ID is written into tag(s) dependingon the client’s needs. After the tags are ready, they go to a testing process andare “activated”. Activation is done by using a custom-made software called “VOperation” which can either run on Mobile or desktop operating systems. Upon
activation, the ID is then written into Blockchain and replicated among all nodes.

19Figure 2.4.2 The storage of VID on Blockchain

2.4.3 Digital Ownership on Blockchain
VeChain uses a custom-tailored Smart Contract which enables authorizationbased digital ownership management. The ownership of objects, represented
by VeChain ID is linked to an account with the key pairs combined with public key
and private key.
The public key is public and known as alias email address which can berecognized and accessed by anyone. The private key is to represent theauthorization and access, just like a password, to the objects with thecorresponding public key. The ownership management is to set a specific linkage
between the objective ID and the public key of owner who controls thecorresponding private key.

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Figure 2.4.3 Digital ownership on Blockchain

2.4.4 Data Hashed Storage (proof of data)
VeChain accepts any type of data: (strings, numbers, booleans, etc). Data is
identified by its hash (SHA256). Sample for accessing data via RESTFUL APIs:• Store data
• POST https://domain/hss/• Retrieve data
• GET https://domain/hss/{hash}
The data is self-verifiable. When the data is retrieved, it can be verified bycomparing its hash to the hash provided.

Figure 2.4.4 Data hashed storage

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2.4.5 API Gateway
Universal application architecture interface designed for complex processes. The
API gateway is the main entry for all API requests, it encapsulates the internal
structure of the application, and the client only needs to interact with the gateway
without calling a particular service. When the internal structure of the upgrade or
new features, the client is completely transparent, the client does not need toconsider too many changes in access, only need to ensure that the exchange
protocol is correct.
The following is about the network topology graph of the API gateway,
deployment graph and functional graph.

Figure 2.4.5-1 API Gateway-1

The resources of a server are limited, and the characteristics of the horizontal
expansion make it possible for large-scale access. Different instances of thesame service can guarantee a service request shunt by API Gateway. In API
Gateway we can use different access policy like consistent-hash, ip-hash,random access or priority access. At the same time, API Gateway and Service
Discovery Service also can be scale out on-demand.
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Figure 2.4.5-2 API Gateway

2.4.6 Service Discovery (SDP)The API gateway needs to know the location (IP address and port) of each microservice that it communicates with. In traditional applications, it may be hard toconnect this location, but now that it is based on cloud-based micro-service
applications, which is not an easy problem to solve. Infrastructure services
typically have a static location that can be specified by the OS environment
variable. However, determining the location of an application service is not that
simple. The application services are dynamically allocated, and a set of instancesof a single service can also change dynamically with automatic scaling or
upgrades.
Service discovery has two major modes: client discovery mode and server
discovery mode. We are using the server-side discovery mode. The client makesa request to a service through the API gateway, the API Gateway queries theservice registry, and forwards the request to an available service instance. The
biggest advantage of the server-side discovery model is that the client does notneed to focus on the details of the discovery, simply sending the request to the
API gateway, which reduces the discovery logic that the programming language
framework needs to complete.
The service registry is the core of the service discovery and is the database that
contains the network address of the service instance. The service registry needs
to be highly available and updated at any time. The service instance we uses theself-registration mode. So the service instance needs to be responsible forregistering and logging out in the service registry. In addition, a service instance23also sends a heartbeat to ensure that the registration information is not obsolete.
We choose etcd as a backend high availability, distributed, consistent key store
for shared configuration and service discovery.

2.4.7 Micro-Service
Micro-service is the generic term for all backend VeChain services. This type ofservice can be customized according to the actual business interface to keep the
separation between different businesses. Micro service can guarantee the service
gray scale release, fast service upgrade or downgrade level. In our API Gateway
ecosystem, the micro-service should provide below basic functions.
1)

Register& UnRegister
Micro-service must be the initiative to register self to Service Discovery
Service (SDS) when start up and must be unregister self when shutdown.
SDS has 30sec to hold instance states, if unregistered when shutdown,
after 30sec it will also be removed from service registry.
2)
Report service health
SDS never know whether instances at backend are still available forserving. So microservice must report self-healthy in time and report intervalmust less than 30sec.
Micro-services are more complicated than traditional service, especiallycommunicating between service and service at the backend. Currently
service discovery service need instance to register self, so all instanceneed a logic that register to it. In the next time we should consider a 3rdparty of register service for leverage. These service can deploy an instanceof micro-service, and can config some information for it, can check instance
health and report to SDS. So micro-service just can be consider a pure app
for serving API.

2.4.8 Hashed Storage Service (HSS)
Hashed Storage Service (HSS) is a distributed storage service, which provides
services such as digital files, pictures, text data and any other object-oriented
reliable storage. Through the combination with VeChain, stored in various typesof objects, HSS will ensure that the data cannot be tampered with. At the sametime, the uploaded object, unless authorized by the uploader, otherwise it cannot
be obtained and modified by improper means.
The HSS is mainly composed of two parts: object storage service and basic
storage service. Object storage service is responsible for external interaction,
save the object, access to objects and authorized object access; Basic storage
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service is responsible for computing the object storage footprint, cut the object
and the actual storage.
With the development of service scale, in order to system reliability, Data often
need to be backed up. The number of backups per data is at least one copy, oreven ensure the reliability of the backup, the number of backups may be two or
more. This makes the storage utilization rate of only or less, each TB of data need
to occupy at least 2TB of storage space. As data grows, the cost of replication
becomes more and more obvious, with traditional replicas equivalent to at least
100 percent more storage overhead. Why distributed storage can help you setup
a highly-available storage system with a single object storage deployment. With
distributed service, it can simplify the data backup program, reduce disk space,but also make services available, improve data’s availability and durability.
Erasure Code & Reed Solomon In the storage system. The erasure codetechnology is mainly through the use of mathematical algorithm to verify theoriginal data to be verified to achieve the purpose of fault tolerance. It can beused to reconstruct missing or corrupted data. Reed-Solomon (RS) code is astorage system that more commonly used in an erasure code. Our Storage
Service use RS algorithm to shard objects into and parity blocks. You can lose as
many as drives (be it parity or data) and still reconstruct the data reliably from theremaining drives. Amazon S3 Compatible the APIs In the low level is compatible
with the Amazon S3 API.
Compatibility will lead to data access bonuses. Most developers are familiar with
Amazon's S3 service and are familiar with how to use its API. A compatible
interface reduces the possibility of external access.

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Figure 2.4.8 Hashed storage service

2.5 Blockchain and IoT
In 1999, the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) is proposed by a British Scholar
Kevin Ashton in MIT. After discussed with many senior level managers fromdifferent enterprise, Ashton defines IoT to:“A network containing all ‘smart’ devices with some sort of sensing mechanism thatcan communicate via the internet with other smart devices or the cloud, without
human interaction.”

We can see IoT with mainly two parts – Perception and Connection based on thisdefinition.

Perception is the idea of digitalized the real world data, like temperature,humidity, similar environment type data and personal ID.
Connection is sharing the digital information through Bluetooth, WIFI andmobile internet.
In the future, he trends of IoT will be widely used, more different types, high sales
and fast development. It will have a huge impact on the global industries. By
quantity, the sales amount of IoT equipment will increase as a rate of 15% to 20%
in the near future. IDC predicted that sales amount of IoT equipment will hit 45
billion in year 2020.

2.5.1 The Issue of IoT
The issue of IoT technology has been discovered in the nineties. Until June of
2016, 3GPP announced “release 13” and defined the IoT connection standard.
This solves the four issues of IoT: Limitation of the connection capacity, limitationof coverage area, low standby time and high cost. Since September of 2016,
every mobile device manufacturers released IoT connection plan for business.
This focus the concept of different application can choose eMTC, NB-IoT, ECGSM and other different technology.
With the new IoT standard, it has the feature of great connection, huge coveragearea, low energy waste and low budget cost. Since then, IoT industry started to
grow rapidly. However, we believe there are still three major issues for IoT:
fragmentation of the standard Communication protocol, high cost of development
and maintenance and lack of privacy, but these issues can be solved by
Blockchain perfectly.

2.5.2 Blockchain and IoT
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Currently, there are many exploration on different IoT and Blockchain application
on smart system. When those are applied on IoT, the concept of IoT opened upa road of innovation with unlimited possibilities. The Blockchain technology canbe used as tracking the usage history of different equipment. It can also help tocomplete the trade with different equipment. This technique can provide the datatransaction within different equipment that makes IoT equipment independent.
Blockchain will realize the self-management and maintenance of the equipment.
It saves the huge maintenance cost of cloud system and reduce the maintenancebudget for IoT equipment. The private key that made by the equipment will ensure
personal data won’t be stolen by strangers. It increases the safety level of IoT and
the economic effectiveness with the combination of these two concepts.
We believe that the IoT technology and the Blockchain technology cannot be split
in the application. From the view of self-development for IoT, IoT wants to build aworld with everything connecting to each other and this process requires threesteps:
1) It requires a unified communication standard between one thing and another.
It means the equipment can communicate with the same language no matter
where this equipment was built. IoT standard that published by 3GPP provides
a physical channel for thing. In addition, the Blockchain technology provides
logic language for thing and this makes different types of IoT equipment
communicate with one unified language.
2) With the foundation of the unified language, personal Identification will be
required during the communication between different things. Then it needs astandard identification code system to support the unified language. Thismeans the Blockchain technology is the best solution to unify different
manufacturers and the identification code will not be controlled by anyone.
3) With unified language and personal identification, the connection between
those two will require more cooperation and business activities. This means
smart contract needs to be built and digital currency will become thetransmission carrier since the value needs to be transferred during thecooperation at the same time.
As a technology that provides the service of trust, Blockchain can ensure the true
effectiveness of data on the Blockchain network, IOT is the key to ensure the true
effectiveness of data when it’s been uploaded from the first time from the original
source.
On the one hand, IoT helps to establish the congruent relationship between thereal physical world and Blockchain world. On the other hand, the IoT technology
can reduce the disturbing factors from the source to ensure the true effectivenessof data.

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2.5.3 VeChain and IoT
VeChain technology team contains a very important component – the IoTtechnology team. They focus on the responsibility to coordinate the IoT
development with Blockchain application, which includes:
1)
Encrypted chips tag technology development.
2)
The identification of IoT sensor and data security.
3)
Security and authorization module of NB-IoT.
IoT equipment is very complexed and we need to classify them with different pointof views:
From the point of view of power supply
 Equipment with power source: equipment with battery equipped, like
temperature sensor, GPS.
 Equipment with no power source: equipment with no battery
equipped, like NFC.
 Mixed equipment: Equipment with battery equipped and can also
get power from other places.
From the point view of communication distance: Close range distance equipment: resolve the communication within
10 meters distance, like NFC(1 meter), RFID(10 meters),
bluetooth(10 meters), etc.
 Middle range distance equipment: resolve the communication within
1 kilometre, like WiFi, sub 1g, lora, etc.
 Long range distance equipment: resolve the communication withmore than 1 kilometre, like NB-IoT, etc.
We upgrade traditional IoT equipment on the chip layer and put personal
identification with asymmetric key algorithm.
Personal identification: Every IoT equipment requires a unique
identification on the network and this ID can be identified by otherparticipants within the network. We enciphered each different equipment
or object to ensure the code is unique and cannot be recognized.
Asymmetric key algorithm: asymmetric key algorithm is the foundationof the internet and the important feature of Blockchain. It can identify andauthorize the equipment based on the identification of equipment.
Through public and private key algorithm, we can identify if theequipment could connect to the network, if the digital data source werereliable, or if smart contract can be operated. To ensure the safety levelof asymmetric algorithm, we will put the private key in the safety area so
it cannot be read. In addition, asymmetric algorithm runs with theprocessor’s safety mode and it can ensure the safety during the processof calculation.
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Figure2.5.3 NB-IoT safety module

2.6 Technical Testing
VeChain team follows the procedure of professional software testing. Software
should be predictable and stable and meet the standard of the product so there
should be no unexpected results. With the digital information keep expanding,complicating and smart, the development of software testing is improving as well.
With the maturation and systematizing of theory and practical, it shows more
impact during the software quality check. General experience suggests that in a
typical coding project, software and system testing cost about 50% of project timeand over 50% of total cost.
The most concerned question that software testing care about is in which subset
we can find the most problem during all the possible testing. We can put thetesting into three category: White box testing: also named structure testing. This method regards
testing software as white box. Based on the internal structure and logic,
software is designed as testing sample to proceed a testing for the
program’s path and process. White box’s main technique includes
statement coverage, branch coverage, design coverage and elementary
path coverage.
 Black box testing: also named functional testing. This method sees testing
software as black box. Without considering of internal structure and29characteristic to test software’s external’s characteristic, black box
technique mainly includes equivalence class partition method, boundary
value analysis, cause and effect diagram method, status mapping method,measurement method of outline and many typical malfunction model.
 Gary box testing: This is the test between white and black box testing. Graybox testing mostly used on integrated test phase. It focus not only the validityof output and input, but also program’s internal condition. In addition, Graybox testing is not detailed and completed like white box testing, but focus
more on internal logic than black box testing. It usually estimates theoperational status through certificate of phenomenon, event and symbol.
Team VeChain sets a special testing team and take on the role of “quality
management”. The purpose is to make corrections in time and ensure thesmoothly operation. Thus software testing is mainly for verification andconfirmation. The target for software testing is not just program testing, but also
includes all the documents from different phases of development, such as testingguidance book, testing project plan and testing report.
 Testing guidance book: describing the testing requirements and theories
 Testing project plan: describing testing sample and testing methods
 Testing report: output testing results
Testing is a process of convergence step by step and it strictly follows PDCA
quality circle. The testing process from the description above is only one part of
the PDCA. PDCA is acronym for Plan, Do, Check and Adjust. The PDCA
circulation perform the quality check and it will keep going like this by using thisorder.
 P (Plan) includes the confirmation of the testing plan that contains unit
testing, integration testing, system testing (function, performance, safety
and compatibility) and examine testing.
 D (Do), based on the testing plan to perform the test.
 C (Check), the final testing result and reflect the feedback to developmentteam.
 A (Adjust), development team improve and fix the original code based on
the testing results.
The goal of VeChain’s software testing: Lower computer(PLC): Embedded software of IoT parts
 Client: PC end, mobile end (ios, Android)and terminal software Cloud Server: software on Website and server
 Blockchain part
 Smart contract part
 Interface part30

For individual and interface between different parts on the four goals, we haveprofessional testing team defining the testing guidance book, testing plan, andoutput result report. In addition we will use quality management methods by
PDCA to complete the software testing and ensure the quality of VeChain’s
product.
This is part of the pressure test data result:

Figure 2.6: Part of the pressure test data result. Testing environment is using the lowest cloud server
configuration with different locations from global. The basic set up is single core 2G server.

2.7 Technology Development’s Path and Plan
The development of VeChain technology has been through two years and thecore of development focuses on three areas: application, standardization and31

safety. VeChain team will keep following these three basic ideas to continue thedevelopment.
VeChain technology team has three units:

1)

R&D – focus on the bottom level of the technology and development, as
well as with the newest technology analysis and experiment. In addition,
they will make plans for the next generation’s possible path and feasibility
analysis.

2)

Development – Based on the result of R&D, to perform and complete thedevelopment and get the initial testing result.

3)

Testing, deployment and maintenance – Based on the development
result, R&D need to improve and correct the test result as well as taking
care of related deployment and maintenance.

Below is the path of the VeChain technology development and future plans:

Figure 2.7-1 Technology development path32

Figure 2.7-2 Future technology development path33

3. The Industrial Application and Expansion
In the past two years, VeChain has gained great amount of experience from manydifferent fields of the work and some clients are world famous firms. The figure
below shows the application structure of the VeChain:

Figure3-1 Industrial application structure

Based on the bottom structure of Blockchain system, VeChain loaded a platformthat is convenient to use for the business partner and a one-click deployment
Blockchain Platform. Users only need to select the industry they are in and thesolution plan they want, the system will allow the user to manage their own
Blockchain nodes, smart contract and generate related API setting.
Meanwhile, together, VeChain and cooperative partner are developing a third
party application which is focused on Blockchain to serve VeChain’s customers.
For instance, VeChain is developing a unique Blockchain audit service with aworld famous accounting firm. It provides data auto-collection and audit
suggestion on Blockchain overall operating states, smart contract status,
business operation status.

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Figure 3-2 Third party service application

In addition, the application structure of VeChain also includes self-developed
distributed encrypted database service- CHAOS, user private key management
and smart contract authorization, etc. This modular service model makes
customers and service provider’s development more convenient and flexible.
VeChain plans to use these successful cases as template to expand and develop
more quickly. VeChain wants to let more enterprise and business activities
operate based on the VeChain platform. In addition, establishing the connection
with these business activities step by step. At the same time, through developing
related business smart contracts to promote the circulation of VeChain
Token(VET) in order to complete and expand VeChain’s distributed businessecosystem step by step.

3.1 Fashion and Luxury Industry
According to the survey from year 2015, it costs fashion and luxury brand ofEurope 9.7% of the total sales every year, about 2.87 billion dollars, for anticounterfeiting. Due to the overrun by the fake goods, it costs Europe lost 363,000
jobs in fashion, manufacturing and retail industry each year.

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Figure 3.1-1 the impact of fake good to the Europe fashion industries

VeChain aims to focus on this industries by following production management,
production channels, anti-counterfeit and the connection with customers. The
third party makes product based on the order plan and at the same time, thebrand party can “activate” this product when verifying it. This is the process of
Chain to verify the enterprise’s SAP order form and authorize the real thing fromthe beginning of the process.
Meanwhile, VeChain establishes the data connection of WMS with the enterpriseand complete the Blockchain process with dealers and retailers sales channel, inorder to achieve the management to the sales channel. For the customers,
VeChain provides a digital ownership to build a bridge between the brand andcustomers and keeping the transmitting to CRM and after-sales service. In orderto establish a customized individual service, after-sales service and customer
care for customers. It can even track the trends of the second-hand market. At
the same time, the anonymous privacy protection feature of Blockchain perfectly
fits the safety rule of EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).
VeChain makes business with famous Europe luxury brand by putting IoT
encrypted chips that is based on the Blockchain technology into product. As themedium of the data collecting for Blockchain, the chip records the every “logistics”,
warehousing and transmission. After the customers get the product, they canscan the chip behind the tag through the APP and they can know the “history” ofthis product. So the customers can identify the authenticity of the products, andmaking a statement of the product’s digital ownership at the mobile end.

3.2 Food Safety
Food safety directly affects people’s health. Since the budget of being healthy has
growing all the time, both producers and customers would care a lot about foodsafety. However, traditional food safety relies too much on the process control and36

entrepreneur’s sense of responsibility. So it is pretty hard to ensure the safety offood by using automated methods. It is quite difficult to track the original source if
any problem occurred.
Yet the Blockchain technology could bring safe and reliable solutions to the foodindustry. The Chinese government has already confirmed that food certificationand tracking through supply chain are the key steps to find and eliminate thesource of pollution in a very fast way.
The Liquor tracking platform in Waigaoqiao free trade zone, which built by
VeChain, can track the liquor product from the very beginning of the process, evenwhen the liquor was still in the overseas winery. This is the first successful casein domestic. Every details about the bottle of red wine is marked and recorded at
the beginning of the process. This way company can use smart contract to track
the whole life period of the red wine, from the warehouse in the free trade zone
to for the first time. From the distribution center and finally reach to each different
sales channels and stores.
Customers can identify and track the information of the wine through the in-store
touch-screen or even customer’s own smart phone. High-end wine are also
equipped with IoT Chips with the feature of safety and convenient. Customers
can use their Cell phone to check these information as well which increases the
security level.

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Figure 3.2-1 VeChain application in the wine Free trade zone: background management system, smart
front terminal, mobile showcase

For the next part of the plan, we are going to let more oversea wineries andwelcome more imported product providers to join into our platform, so customers
can feel safe about the product. We are also going to open the connection andstart the cooperation, let the customer see more information about the product.
On the other hand, the product that VeChain is following right now is one of themost focal point product: dairy, dairy food safety is a hot topic that people payhuge attention to. The regulation requirement is stricter, especially when the news
about domestic milk powder contains melamine and makes the milk powder toxic.
Mengniu Cooper has to increase the breadth of the product sale and the multiple
security check to ensure the source of the dairy product is safe. This is what they
paid for the huge loss of customer trust. In 2007, Mengniu corporate spent 3.302
billion Yuan in sales and distribution cost, and the number increased to 4.428
billion Yuan in 2008. The advertise expense in sales percentage has increasedby 2.1 percent to 9.3%. This is merely the cost for losing trust of one single
enterprise. Although this event has passed for so long, the dairy industry is still
paying for this. We can definitely make more example of this, it shows that thecost of trust is almost unbelievable.
VeChain provides the standard adding Chain function that let all participants
upload the data by using the permission to complete a Chain. (Like Figure Below)

Figure 3.2-2 The process of Dairy industry and ID code38

VeChain can help Dairy Company by providing farm information, including
Fertilizers management, the audit for feed supplier, the healthy condition of the
livestock and the drug use on the cow and environment report. This processensures the food safety from the very beginning the milk source. VeChain canalso help the production supplier to check the receiving time of the raw milk, thestorage condition of the raw milk, production reference number, and the detail
information of processing personnel and people who are responsible. In addition,
Package storage can use the technology methods to tracking the temperatureand humidity while transporting. Moreover, the production’s loading information of
distribution center and data information can also supported by VeChain. Finally,owning these information cannot just prevent counterfeit product but it also
increases the product supplier and customer’s faith for the industry.

3.3 Car Industry
Industry Chain for the Car industry is very complicated. There are many
participants, like manufacturer, different agents, regulator, financial service
provider (Insurance, Bank) and personal account. In the life circle of a car, there
are a big portion of the “user data” are never owned by customer, instead thesedata are separated in the pocket of different participants. This causes manydifficulties of car information collection and verification.
VeChain and Europe strategic partner Visco, Microsoft invent a verification idea
for many international car enterprise together. In the project, VeChain team is
responsible for completing the Blockchain deployment on Azure, developing anddeploying smart contract and provide standard API to the upper level developers
to complete the final product.
Digital maintenance principle: Every car can build their own digital record andbuild the authorization of the ownership. After car owner bought the car, they canuse authorization and non-authorization feature to give permission by the server
maintenance suppliers. So every single maintenance data is recorded to theBlockchain. This way the data provided by different maintenance service provider
can build the real grouping record step by step. For instance, insurance, bank andother financial service provider can provide fast insurance and value assessment
based on the data supplied by this trustworthy network. The operating expensethat saved by this can be returned to the car owner.
“Green Driving”: Green driving is the shared electronmobile project provided bythis car enterprise. Every customers can record related driving records by internal
computer in car and upload them to the Blockchain and connect the data together
which owned. In the future, these data can proves the beneficial information of
the certain project like “carbon emission” and even customer data can be used as39

individual creditability.

Figure 3.3 Showcase of VeChain usage by a famous car enterprise

3.4 Supply Chain Industry
Traditional supply Chain includes: original material supplier, manufacturer, agent,logistics, customs inspection agency, storage, retail and finally customers.

Figure 3.4-1 Traditional supply chain

Traditional supply chain industry is facing many problems includes:
1)
It is quite difficult to track supply chain since its cross-region2)
It lacks of transparency between different supply chain and information
3)
Data security vulnerability in different enterprise of supply chain
4)
Money flow transport has bad timeliness40

VeChain provides Baas (Blockchain-as-a-service) service to one of the biggest
freight forwarders K+N to track and manage all the products from many world’s
famous brand. To ensure the data protection and privacy as the precondition,
VeChain completed the connection with different customers through a common
service platform. The operation staff can complete related business work bydirectly using the handheld terminals.

Figure3.4-2 The showcase of logistics issue solution by the famous freight forwarders

In the late period of the plan we are going to make connection with more related
cooperative partners, service provider and regulators.

3.5 The Agricultural Industry
The Chinese market is facing many critical issues like the scale of the agriculture
41which is too small and separated, the quality of the product is uneven, the lack of
the safety level of the product, low productivity and environment pollution. It isquite hard to fix the issue completely by simply using a certain technology fromthe internet or a law regulation provided by the government. We can only change
the thinking model by using the technology like the special Blockchain cloud
project that is exclusive for the verification of the green organic agricultural inorder to use industrial management to build modern agricultural.
China is promoting Agricultural Cultivation Management Plan by using IoTtechnology, agricultural planting process management, the Blockchain technology,
big data and AI (artificial smart) to complete the management of the process
before, in the middle and after the agricultural production. In this way, good
currency drives out the bad currency to achieve standard agricultural market.
With this background, VeChain is cooperating with PwC, China Unicom andLiaoning academy of agricultural sciences to develop the special Blockchain
cloud project that is exclusive for the verification of the green organic agricultural.
In this project, VeChain has registered the greenhouse for every farm by using
the Blockchain tech to build a data model to record the functional data of every
greenhouse. Data source has two main parts: the first part is the production
operation data which recorded by the famers directly; and the second part of thedata comes from the IoT sensor in the greenhouse. Based on the combination of
the data and risk assurance service from PwC, it will establish the foundation of
the trustworthy data for the green agricultural verification by the academy ofagricultural sciences. In addition, with the support by the IoT equipment, it
improves the efficiency of the farm work by about 9 times.

Figure 3.5 Application of agriculture combines with IoT technology

3.6 Blockchain Government Affairs
Government agency shows interest in the Blockchain technology. China ministry42

of industry and information technology has released a white paper about theapplication and development of the Blockchain technology. The State Council
underlined that Blockchain can bring a world with trust.
The science office of British government has reported the potential qualities andadvantage of Blockchain technology in the recent report: “Distributed ledger
technology has the potential to transform the delivery of public and private
services. It has the potential to redefine the relationship between government andthe citizen in terms of data sharing, transparency and trust and make a leading
contribution to the government’s digital transformation plan.”
VeChain has signed strategic cooperation agreement with local government with
big data collection to build case project for Blockchain Government affairs.
VeChain has a targeted plan in some very typical application area of theBlockchain technology.
For instance, commodity inspection is always reported by manpower to theinspection agency, then agency will inform the client for the material of random
sample. Because of the system that agency use is so different than the others,
also agency and client are only using manpower to report and delivery every
information transaction. This may cause the unmatched information, very longprocess, low efficiency, and even the risk of data manipulation.

Figure 3.6-1 Blockchain Government application

VeChain will share related data on the Blockchain platform, agent and the client
both can check the random sample date through VeChain’s APP. This makes thewhole process paperless and complete the connection between Blockchain ID
and waybill number, data ID and waybill number, then finally smart contract ID
43and the related operation function. The goal is to reduce the paper use from 2030 pages to 2-3 pages per file. This will increase the efficiency by 80%.

Figure-3.6-2 Blockchain Government Application

The Blockchain technology has shown significant meaning to the government. It
represents the quality of government of open, public and transparent about the
information. At the same time, as the “coordinator” of the whole commercial
environment, government focus more on how Blockchain can improve theefficiency of the resource distribution in different industries.

3.7 This is just the Beginning
In the past two years, team VeChain has faced many big challenged. It’s not thetechnical consensus, but the consensus of how to achieve the business modeland change from the traditional business. However, we have been through theworst part already, and we thank so much for the cooperation partners andcustomers who dared to step into this field with us, so we can develop and verify
the practical use of the Blockchain.
VeChain ICO is not just a beginning, because we have the experience from the44

past two years. VeChain ICO is also a beginning because in front us, we still havea long way to go in this business environment. The challenge is we still need toinvent new business model and promote them in order to complete building thethoroughly connection within the team VeChain, enterprise participant andcommunity.

4. Governance Structure and Management Philosophy
In the beginning of the discussion about ICO and the preparation for the laterstage, VeChain team has many heated debates and a long night talk, but wealways have a consistent pint of view:"ICO is the beginning of everything, not the end of everything. All the so-called‘successful’ ICO, in fact, is only a good starting power. And when the ICO stops,
then it’s really the time for the beginning of everything. The main theme is always
about how to speed up, how to run on the right track, and how to avoid ‘dying’
during the process. Meanwhile, the team cannot just celebrate because of the
ICO initial funding, but this should be regarded as the team bearing the hope ofthe community/business world and proceeding with great cautions. “
Therefore, maintaining the sustainable development of a team is also a
proposition that the VeChain team has been discussing and thinking.
The corporate governance structure from the company system, is used toconstrain the enterprise strategy, risk management, operation principle, humanresources and legal compliance program.
Although the Blockchain technology utilizes decentralized concept as the starting
point and establishes an efficient collaborative community platform, in order toimprove the efficiency of collaborative Blockchain community and its operation,
the team can still learn from the experience of corporate governance structure.
The VeChain is also a framework of "non-traditional" community. In addition to
the individual participants, there are more business users from different enterprisewould agree to a reasonable corporate governance structure.
Of course, the structure concept cannot be applied mechanically. It is necessary
to seek a dynamic balance between community culture and traditional enterprisemanagement culture. This treatment method is combined based on our
experience in the Blockchain industry during the past few years with the constantadjusting and optimizing in the future development.

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4.1 The Establishment of VeChain Foundation
The VeChain Foundation (will refer as the Foundation hereinafter) is a non - profit
entity established in Singapore in July 2017. The foundation will act as VeChain
sponsor entity, who committed to support VeChain’s development, construction
and governance, transparency, advocacy and promotion work, as well as
promoting the safety and harmonious development of the community.
The standard Blockchain community aims at a high degree of autonomy ordecentralized as goal, allowing community participants to diversify their decisionmaking advice and usually use “vote” on important matters. However, such
behavior is inefficient or unresolved because of the diversity of participants'
opinions, which is not conducive to the continuous iteration and evolution of theBlockchain technology.
Moreover, because of the bifurcation behavior of the Blockchain, it causes serious
divergence of opinion. The solution of "hard forking" has made people question
the idea of "de-centering" of” Ethereum” and even "Blockchain". This way of
governance is not so much a "democracy" but an "anarchy."
VeChain development team highly recognized Blockchain’s “decentralized” asthe construction of the essence, while absorbing the essence of the traditional
corporate governance structure, and improving the efficient formulation andimplementation of the VeChain development strategy. At the same time it also
prevent the serious Blockchain design philosophy differences and irreconcilable
issue from showing up again.
The VeChain team commissioned a trusted third party organization to assist theteam in setting up foundation entities in Singapore and to maintain the day-to-day
operations as well as reporting the entity architecture. After establishing theFoundation, it selects the appropriate members of the community to join thefunctional Committee of the Foundation to participate in the actual managementand decision-making.

4.2．Governance Principle
The design objective of the VeChain Foundation governance structure mainly
focused on the sustainability of VeChain platform, the effectiveness of thestrategy formulation, the management effectiveness, the risk control and theefficient operation of the platform economy.
1) The combination of centralized governance and distributed
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Although there are arguments advocating that Blockchain is a de-centralized
or distributed self-governance community system. We believe that theabsolute de-centralized may bring the absolute "fairness" but more likely to befurther “inefficient". Therefore, the core idea of the Foundation is to absorb theconcept of in the management structure of central governance, including thehighest decision-making authority strategic Committee and major issues of thecentralized procedure to improve the efficiency of the whole operation of thecommunity.
2) The function of Committee and functional units coexist
The function of Committee and functional units coexist in the Foundation fordaily affairs, which will set up permanent functional units, such as R & D
department, marketing department, operation department, financial andhuman resources departments to handle daily affairs.
At the same time, a functional Committee is set up to make decisions on theimportant functions of the Foundation. Unlike the functional units, functional
Committees exist in a virtual architecture where members of the Committee
can be from any place of the world and do not have to work full-time. However,it must meet the requirements of the Committee's expert qualifications and beable to undertake to present and make comments when the Committee isrequired to present. The functional Committee will also set up a regularmeeting system to ensure the effective promotion of major decision-making
matters.
3) Risk oriented governance principles
The risk management will be the most important element in the process ofstudying the strategic development of VeChain Foundation. As a computer
technology with great on-going revolutionary, the development of Blockchain
is still in its infancy, so it is very important to grasp its development trend. The
principle of risk management, when making sure the Foundation makes
important decisions, takes full account of the risk factors, the possibility andinfluence of its occurrence, and makes corresponding countermeasuresthrough decision-making. Thus, the development and iteration of theBlockchain is on the right path.
4) Technology and Commerce Coexisting
Any technology that is divorced from commercial applications is often difficult
to develop. If the technology lack the practical function, it will stop and evencome to the end.
From the creation of the VeChain, it always adhere to the close integration withthe business as its purpose. The VeChain Foundation also follows thisobjective. Even if the Foundation will present as a non-profit organization, but
the Foundation wants to get the maximum possible recognition of the businessworld. To get the business application of revenue, feedback to the Foundation47

and the community, while further promoting the Foundation as well as the
VeChain’s development and upgrade. The VeChain Foundation also takes fullaccount of this principle in the selection of talent and its architecture. It focuses
on attracting experts with technical expertise, including industry experts who
have a deep understanding of business.
5). Transparency and supervision
Referring to the governance experience of the traditional commercial world,
VeChain Foundation also intends to set up special monitoring and reporting
channels (Whistle-Blower). Designated by the strategic decision Committee
as a window and we welcome the community participants to join in the
management, supervision and the operation of Whistle-Blower channel. Those
include, but are not limited to, new breakthroughs or recommendations thathave significant implications for the Foundation or the Blockchain technologies,
community operations issues, crisis information and fraud reporting or fraud,etc.
The Foundation will publish a unified information collection window, while
ensuring the privacy of the information collected. At the same time, theFoundation publish periodic reports and irregular news releases in the form ofcommunity participation in all parties to disclose the Foundation operation anddevelopment of VeChain. Meanwhile, the main contacts of the Foundation
management will be fully open, and accept the supervision and liaison of theparticipants.

4.3 VeChain Governance Model
The organizational structure of VeChain Foundation raised a combination ofSpecialized Committee and functional departments, which will deal with daily
work and special matters. This section will discuss the functions of thefunctional Committees of the Foundation as well as the functions of the major
functional departments.
With the reference to the operation of traditional entities, the Foundation will
set up functional Committees, including the strategic decision-making
Committee, the technical audit Committee, the remuneration and Nomination
Committee and the public relations Committee.

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Figure 4.3 VeChain functional Committee structure graphic

4.3.1 Strategic Steering Committee
The strategic decision-making Committee is the highest decision-making
Committee. The main objective is to negotiate and solve VeChain’s decision
making matters faced in community development include, but are not limited to:1) Modifying governance structure of the Foundation.
2) The formation and rotation resolution of the policy-making Committee.
3) The appointment and rotation resolution of the Secretary General of theFoundation.
4) The appointment and dismiss of the chief executive and the head of eachfunctional Committee.
5) Foundation review and amendment of the constitution.
6) The strategic decision of VeChain development.
7) VeChain’s core technology changes and upgrades.
8) Emergency decisions and crisis management agendas.
The members of the strategic decision Committee and the president of theFoundation will serve for two years and the chairman of the fund shall not bereappointed for more than two sessions.
After the expiration of the decision making Committee term, VeChain will vote 50
community representatives by the consensus mechanism of next generation andthen vote for the 7 core personnel of the decision-making Committee. Thoseelected representatives of the core staff will do emergency decision making, andaccept the wage and salary investigation during his tenure, and the public theirsalary status as well.
These important matters need to be decided by the decision Committee with anopen vote. Each member of the policy-making Committee has one vote, and thechairman of the Foundation has two votes. Decisions made by the decision
Committee must be approved by more than half of all members of the Committee.
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In addition, the person in charge shall convene the decision Committee to holdan interim meeting within 5 working days at the time of the following
circumstances: The General Secretary of the Foundation considers when it isnecessary.
 More than 1/3 of the decision Committee members jointly proposed.
The decision Committee meeting shall be attended by the members of theCommittee. If members are unable to attend, they may entrust the other membersof the Committee in writing. Failing to delegate is deemed to have given up theright to vote at the meeting.

4.3.2 General Secretary
The general secretary is the highest responsible person of VeChain
administration. The responsibility is to make guidance and coordinate the daily
operation of Foundation, technology development, community maintenance andpublic relations, as well as connecting various business unit with the governancestructure of the functional Committee. The Secretary General will regularly reportto the policy-making Committee.

4.3.3 Technical Audit Committee
The audit Committee comprises the core VeChain technology developer, who is
responsible for the technology research, development direction of Blockchain, theunderlying technology development, open port development and review,
technology development and patent examination.
In addition, members of the technical review Committee regularly learn the
dynamics and hotspots of the community and industry, communicate withparticipants in the community, and hold technical seminars on a regular basis.

4.3.4 Remuneration and Nomination Committee
The remuneration and nomination Committee is responsible for determining theselection and appointment of key managers of the Foundation. The Committee
shall establish rules of procedure, assess the competence of the management,
and authorize the appointment. At the same time, the Committee sets up acompensation system to encourage people who have important contributions to
the Foundation.
The remuneration and Nomination Committee regularly reviews the performanceof all the Foundation staff, advice on the human resource structure and raise50different incentive measures to attract talented experts.

4.3.5 Public Relation Committee
The public relations Committee is responsible for technically promoting the
VeChain within the Committee, business alliance, the establishment andmaintenance of the VeChain involved in each alliance party, and publicity
regarding community crisis and other social responsibility.

4.3.6 Supervisory Committee
As a highly independent and autonomous form, the supervisory Committee is set
up inside the Foundation as an independent risk control for the overall operationof the Foundation. The supervisory Committee conducts day-to-day guidance of
the Foundation's legal and compliance departments. At the same time, theFoundation will set up a mechanism for reporting transparency and supervision
to receive internal and external reporting issues, take corresponding
improvement investigation and treatment, ensure that the Foundation operationis the perfect legal compliance, and continue to move forward in the acceptablelevel of risk.
The commission reports directly to the Committee on strategic decisions anddoes not have any conflicts or overlaps with other functions of the Foundation.

4.3.7 Other Functional Department
The Foundation refers to enterprise system framework and sets up day-to-day
operations such as human resources, administration, finance, marketing,research and development (or laboratory) units, etc.
The functional departments maintain the normal operation of the VeChain
Foundation, and directly deal with the relevant parties in the commercial society,such as enterprise customers, suppliers, regulators and the three party service
organizations.

4.4 VeChain Human Resource Management
VeChain is committed to creating the world's most influential open source
community ecology. To ensure the smooth development of the technology andthe continuity of the Foundation operation, the Foundation will focus on recruiting
excellent technology developers and managers with deep understandings of thebusiness.
Talent Recruitment
Based on the characteristics of "Blockchain without borders", the Foundation51

welcome talented people from all over the world to join the Foundation. In
addition to the individual posts that must be recruited locally (e.g., logistics
managers), recruitment is not limited to the place of work or the form of work.
VeChain Foundation will, at the same time, follow the best practices in humanresource management, develop appropriate human resources plans,
recruitment procedures and review procedures to ensure that Foundations
attract the right people.
As an open source community, VeChain will not only recruit full-timedevelopers, but also employ well-known industry technical adviser. Relevant
hiring and salary payment is required for discussion and decision, and signed
the terms of cooperation by remuneration and Nomination Committee.
Performance Appraisal
VeChain will do the performance appraisal based on commercial company’s
best practice that comprehensively consider technology development,
business expansion effect, economic operation, fund risk control management
etc. The performance appraisal award will be submitted to the remuneration
and Nomination Committee and the Strategic Decision Committee for review,
and an optimization plan shall be worked out.

4.5 Risk Assessment and Decision Making Mechanism of VeChain Foundation
As an innovative technology, Blockchain is not only a disruptive breakthrough incomputer core technology, but also a challenge to the traditional commercial
society. Therefore, the importance of risk management system is self-evident.
The VeChain Foundation is committed to build a risk oriented sustainable chainof block communities. It will continue to operate risk management of thefoundation which includes the establishment of risk system, risk assessment, risk
response and a series of activities.
For major risks, the strategic decision Committee will discuss and make decisions.
It will classify risks based on event characteristics, such as event impact, extent
of impact, probability of tokens and probability of occurrence, and decisions basedon priority. For priority events, the relevant Committees of the foundation shall beorganized as soon as possible.

4.6 VeChain Foundation Economy
In its economic operations, the Foundation promotes the following major
principles:1) Take the nonprofit as the main principle, and give back to the community;2) Sustainable development
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Financially, the Foundation will seek the financial balance between expanding
and community development. In addition to the initial funding received during the
ICO, the Foundation will be able to obtain digital asset income through community
eco operations. Under the arrangement of the third party trust institution, it will betransparent to distribute all the benefits to all operations and community
development.
The Foundation will set up a full-time financial management team to maintain its
financial and digital assets. The financial management team reports directly tothe strategic decision Committee, and regularly prepare the financial reports anddisclosures of the Foundation.

4.6.1 Funding Sources
The main income of the Foundation can be divided into two areas:
1) Non-operating income comprising the initial ICO's funds and the return on
digital assets.
2) Regular operating income, including R & D, product sales, patent transfer
or licensing, academic exchange and contribution, etc.
The following is a detailed description of the main sources of income:a.

ICO initial startup funds.

VeChain tokens totaling 1 billion VeChain Token(VET). The allocation plan is
as follows:
Ratio

Distribution Plan

Details
The income of VeChain Token(VET) crowdsale

41%

VeChain Token(VET)

will be used to VeChain Foundation operation,

crowdsaleincluding development, marketing, finance andlegal advisory.
Private investors are very influential in the9%

Private investor

community, and they will help a lot in technology
and business development.
Enterprise investor refers to an enterprise in
VeChain distributed business ecosystem or a23%Enterprise investors

service provider for these corporate customers or
end users; these enterprise investors will use thefuture

VeChainToken(VET)

as

a

key

development target in their business activities.

5%

Cofounder,
team

development

To

bedistributed

to

the

founders

anddevelopment team of the VeChain Token(VET) as
their rewards.

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Ratio12%Distribution Plan

Details

Continuous operation and

To be reserved for various operating costs andtechnologicaldevelopment of the VeChain.

development
Business

10%

case

developmentb.

c.

To Choose the suitable industry, using VeChaintechnology to the strategic deployment of theindustry, project support and tokens replacement.

Digital asset investment. During continuous operation, the Foundation will
allocate about 5% to 10% of the funds or digital assets to invest in the
Blockchain industry, such as start-ups and incubators, angel investment
in emerging scientific and technological investment.
In the process of building the ecosystem, VeChain will serve as anunderlying architectures provider of VeChain and receive a certain amountof digital assets or funds. For example, community participants,
enterprises and other VeChain Token(VET) purchasers for GAS, as wellas the Foundation. It will provide technical sharing and licensing gains.
For this part of the proceeds, the Foundation will continue to invest in thecommunity, form a community constantly expanding, and increase thepositive cycle of influence.

4.6.2 Fund Budgeting
As mentioned above, the Foundation's funds spending mainly includes day-today operations, technology development, business development andreinvestment. The main categories are shown in the following table:
Classification

Percentage

Content

Technology
Development50%

It mainly includes reward for initial team,recruitment of experts and developers,
technical patent and protection of
intellectual property rights

Business
Development

35%

VeChain business development andtraining, technical exchange andsharing, periodical publication, allianceestablishment or participation, etc.

Reinvestment

10%

Blockchain, new technology and newteam investment or absorption

Daily Operation

5%

Foundation daily logistics management,
transportation and office, financial andreporting needs, etc.

See the foundation’s initial forecast for the next four years of its operations:54

Figure 4.6.2-1 VeChain Foundation's 4 annual revenue forecast (000 RMB)

Figure 4.6.2-1 VeChain Foundation 4 year cost forecast (000 RMB)

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Figure 4.6.2-1 the VeChain Foundation's 4 year retained earnings forecast (000 RMB)

To sum up, the VeChain Foundation is expected to obtain start-up funds throughICO activities, which took about 3-4 years to achieve:
1)

2)

3)

4)

Foundation scale and influence continues to grow. This includes
headcounts increasing to around 100. The Foundation attracted thebusiness world continuously joining with than 150 billion yuan of goodsin the VeChain flow.
Foundation completes the self-circulation. The Foundation relies on
initial ICO start-up funds to get commercial value from the communityand feed back to the community. The Foundation guarantees that thegains will be balanced with the expenditure.
Focusing on R & D and commercial promotion. According to theFoundation and VeChain concept, Foundation has always attachedimportance to the Blockchain based research and development, andbusiness promotion and expand the influence. Most of the annual
expenditure will focus on these two aspects.
Adhere to the nonprofit principle. The Foundation promises not to
distribute profits, nor does it call dividends". Foundation operating
income, in addition to the basic expenditure of the foundation, will all be
put into the expansion of the community, to promote the community
growing.

4.6.3 Fund Use Restriction
The use of VeChain assets is in line with the principles of openness andtransparency. According to the principle of distribution and budget, VeChain will
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institutions to digital assets supervision and regularly share to the community. The
principle of the use of revenue from public sale: Exceeding the value of 1 million yuan (or equivalent digital assets)requires approval by the head of the financial unit and the Secretary
General.
 Over 5 million yuan (or equivalent digital assets) will need to beapproved by the policy-making Committee.

4.6.4 Financial Planning and Implementation Reports
Each quarter, the financial and personnel management Committee prepare thefinancial planning, and summarize the last quarter financial performance. The
formation of financial reports will be submitted to the decision-making Committee
for approval.

4.6.5 Digital Asset Management
The digital assets belonging to the Foundation are appointed by the strategic
decision Committee, and the full-time financial personnel are responsible for thearrangement. Digital assets and transaction currency are arranged independently
and timely financial accounting. Following the best practices of financial control,
the Foundation adopts multiple signatures to ensure the safety and accuracy of
the assets. All the collected coins will be the timely transfer to digital assets anddigital wallet. Foundation assets are not deposited in individual accounts.

 Digital wallet management
Based on the principle of independence, VeChain Foundation's wallet adopts
4/7 multi signature. Added Signature is subject to the approval of the strategic
decision Committee. Large tokens is cold saved, and small tokens use multiple
signatures.
 Disclosure matters
Each year, the Foundation will inform the community of chain development,
operations, business promotion and the Foundation's operations. For thefinancial situation of the Foundation, the financial statements will be performed
quarterly, and the work of the annual audit will be disclosed as well.
The Foundation establishes a public relations Committee, which serves as anexternal window for regular and irregular meetings and releases important
information to the public.

4.7 Legal Compliance Matters and Other Matters
 Legal affairs
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VeChain team commissioned a trusted third party organization to set up aFoundation entity in Singapore. All operations are subject to local laws,
regulations and regulatory requirements. If there is a need to seek legal advice,
it needs to be confirmed by local counsel.
 Exemption clause
VeChain Foundation insists the nonprofit nature of the unit's operations.
Whether or not to obtain only chain tokens, Users who participate in the only
chain community, can hold token or give up token rights. Holding tokens
simultaneously means the holder's own rights to consume and use smart
contracts on the Blockchain platform. Buyers should understand that within thescope of the law, VeChain foundation does not make any express or implied
warranties and benefits. In addition, buyers should understand that there is norefund or refund after purchasing only chain tokens.
 Settlement of dispute clause
When a dispute arises, the parties concerned shall settle it by consultation inaccordance with the agreement. If the settlement cannot be solved bynegotiation, it can be settled by law

5. Introduction of the Team and Team Member

Team VeChain is a pure internationalized team. The team member is fromdifferent industries and countries, but they follows the same dream. The
composition of the team is well balanced. Business, technology, operation andsupport are all important.

Sunny Lu ，Project Leader
Sunny was graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, majored in Electronics and Communication
Engineering. He has been served as IT Executive in
Fortune 500 companies over 13 years, former CIO of LV
China.
He started VeChain project in 2015, and committed toBlockchain technology and business implementation.

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Richard Fu, PR & Marketing Director
Richard has over 20 years' working experience in multinational enterprises such as Shangri-la Group and LVHM
specializing in sales and marketing.
He joined VeChain as director of PR and marketing

Chin Qian, Channel & Sales Director
Chin worked for HP from 2004 to 2016 and accumulatedrich experience in marketing and project management.
He joined VeChain in 2017 as director of business partner
recruitment and management.

Jay Zhang, Finance Director
Jay has worked for PwC and Deloitte as senior manager
over 14 years.
He joined VeChain in 2015 as the leader of Blockchain
governance framework design and digital assets
management framework establishment.

Scott Brsbin，General Counsel
Scott is a well-known lawyer from the United States. Hisclients include Rolling Stones and lead singer Mick
Jagger, Disney, MGM and so on.
He graduated from the University of California, Los
Angeles in 1978, he joined the MSK law firm, and since
1989 began as a legal partner. In the company's legal
affairs and patent maintenance, he has an absoluteauthority on the experience.
Scott joined VeChain in 2016 and worked for VeChain's
legal security, organizational structure and property
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escort.
Jerome Grilleres, Business Development
Jerome holds an MBA from London Business School anda MSc in Computer Science. He is from Barclays France
and has 8 years’ experience in Business Strategy andDevelopment in Retail Banking and 6 years in Developing
Real Time trading application in Investment Banks.
Jerome joined VeChain in 2017 as Business Director ofEurope.
Jianliang Gu, Technical Director
Jianliang was graduated from Shanghai University withmaster degree majored in Cybernetics. He was working
in TCL communication technology as Technical Director.
He has more than 16 years' experience in both hardware
and software of embedded system development andmanagement.
He joined VeChain in 2017 and commit to marry IoT and
BlockchainPeter Zhou, R&D director& Scientist
Dr. Peter Zhou obtained his Ph.D degrees in Computer
Science from the University of Southampton. He wasinvolved in projects funded by the European Commission
and Academy of Finland when working as a postdoctoral
researcher at the University of Kent, UK as well as asenior research scientist at the University of Oulu,
Finland.
He has had more than ten years of scientific researchexperiences and published papers in top-tier international
journals and conferences.

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Bin Qian，Blockchain Director
Bin has over 10 years' experience in Mobile application
development industry, specializing in developing Internet
applications based real-time communication system. He
is definitely P2P network technology expert.
He joined VeChain in 2016 and is in charge of theBlockchain development.

Tony Li, Application development manager
Tony’s majored in Information Security. He has 5 years’
experiencedeveloping
softwareandprojectmanagement. Took part in numerous projects, including
financial industry, insurance industry, luxury industry, theautomotive industry.
He’s interested in Bitcoin and Blockchain technology
since 2014, and has two years’ experience developing in
the Blockchain product development.
Sherry Li, Product Manager
Sherry was graduated from Jiangnan University majoredin Information Security. She has over 4 years ofexperience in application development, project
management and product planning, including SAAS
service platform, O2O platform and user oriented
application.
She joined VeChain in 2016 as Product Manager

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Jack Wu, Project Manager
Jack was graduated from St.John's university (New
York). He has over 3 years iOS development and project
management experiences. Took part in numerous
project, including luxury goods industry, government
agencies, the automotive industry
He joined VeChain in 2016 as Blockchain ProjectManager.

Harvey Shang, DA Facilitator
Harvey was graduated from University of Florida majoredin Computer Science. His study focus in distributed
systems and advanced data structure.
He joined VeChain in 2016 and continued working inresearching digital assets management area.

Lingbo Li, Risk Controller
Lingbo was graduated from Chinese Academy of
Sciences with master degree in Finance Engineering.
She has over 11 years' experience in credit risk
management and assets management.
She joined VeChain in 2016 and is responsible for digitalassets management and related risk control.

Cissy Chen, HR&Admin Manager
Cissy has over 6 years' experience in human resource
management and worked for sub brands of Unilever
before join VeChain in 2015.
She is in charge of human resource management,
recruitment, staff training, compensation and otherrelated strategies and policies establishment.

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