Due to the two-level structure of the token as a structural financial product and the Vaultbank leverage used, the real level of risk to which investors will be exposed is not obvious, since it will be necessary to rely on the objectivity of the rating of ABS tranches, and obviously will not match the declared reliability level of instruments with fixed yield. The positioning of Vaultbank's investment product as an opportunity to diversify investors' portfolios - in particular, to protect a part of the proceeds from interest rate risk, is also not particularly relevant because of the opportunity to participate in ABS insensitivity to interest rate dynamics through ETF - a much more traditional and liquid instrument, than potentially VB. Vaultbank's payment solutions even conceptually lose to the market products and concepts of competitors, both in terms of product economics and functionality, even conceptually. To date, the company is not ready to provide any of the services/products / services described to its potential retail customers, nor does it provide a coherent product development roadmap with prescribed time frames.
The business model of the project is trivial and quite typical for its sector - it does not provide the company any competitive advantages, it is easily replicable. The owners of the token do not have the opportunity to vote, i.e. influence decisions made by management, could potentially affect the stability of dividend policy. Soft cap at the level of 10 million USD and a hard cap of 100 million USD seem excessive in comparison with the pre-money valuation of the company, which was received at the stage of work with venture investors, in the amount of 7 million USD. The amount of token distribution to the team - 32.5% of the total offer of tokens - seems excessive.
The absence of specialists from the team with experience in trust management in collective investment funds. The unbalanced structure of the team is an obvious bias towards financial market specialists and, as a result, a shortage (in the official documents of the company there is only one person with a suitable background) for successful development of payment and retail solutions of Vaultbank. Parallel employment of members of the management core in other companies / projects is a risk of a spread of attention, which may affect the quality of management decisions. The team and its individual members lack the experience of deploying a project of this scale.
