What is Santiment Net (SAN)? | Beginner’s Guide

What is Santiment Net?

Santiment Net (Santiment for short) is a cryptocurrency data feed for investors. The goal of the Santiment team is to become the Bloomberg of the crypto market.

The current investment landscape is riddled with misinformation, and verifiable resources are few and far between. Because the industry is largely unregulated, you have to commonly deal with market manipulation through fake buy/sell orders, nefarious promotions, insider trading, and news cycles that either push up the price of a coin to unsustainable levels or crush a project through FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt). It’s difficult to find reputable sources to pull data and information from.

Santiment wants to help beginner and expert investors alike by providing an objective feed of market data, sentiment analysis, and blockchain activity. All this in the hopes of helping you make more informed investment decisions in an industry that can be ripe with BS.

In this Santiment Net guide, we’ll go over:

• How does Santiment work?
• Santiment Network Token (SAN)
• Santiment team & progress
• Trading
• Where to buy SAN
• Where to store SAN
• Conclusion
• Additional Santiment resources

How does Santiment work?

The Santiment platform includes a few different information hubs for you to access objective, reliable information. The information in these hubs is curated by blockchain experts and sourced from only the most accurate data.

Content Streams

Santiment content streams include regular, up-to-date market content similar to a newsletter. The content covers ICO analysis and major coins as well as worldwide regulations and market research. As an investor, you get to choose which content you subscribe to.

Because this type of information can easily fall into the subjectivity trap, Santiment uses the collected analysis of industry experts to expose content providers with questionable intentions.

Santiment Database (SANbase)

The SANbase is a crowdsourced database of cryptocurrency projects. It includes relevant project information such as the team’s history and the economics behind it. Although the SANbase is crowdsourced, Santiment once again uses a panel of experts to ensure that the information is accurate. Over time, the team hopes to figure out a way to further decentralize this information without sacrificing its quality.

Datafeeds

The final piece of the Santiment puzzle is in its datafeeds. Santiment combines market information from numerous sources into three datafeeds:

• Sentiment datafeeds: These measure how the community at large feels about different coins. This is the main driving force behind the “shill” and “FUD” cycles commonly seen in projects.
• Blockchain datafeeds: These feeds monitor the activity across different blockchains. You can use these to see which coins are seeing the most volume as well as track the movement of large investment “whales”.
• Crowdsourced datafeeds: All of the other feed types fall into this category. These feeds allow users to contribute information that may have been previously unavailable to the public.

Santiment Network Token (SAN)

There are a total of 83,337,000 SAN tokens that exist with a little over 62,000,000 currently in circulation. The majority of the tokens (72%) were distributed to presale and crowdsale contributors during the ICO. SAN is an ERC20 token.

The SAN tokens serve three functions on the network:

• Payment. To access premium feeds, you need to pay SAN. You do so through either a subscription service or data auction.
• Stake. As a SAN holder, you can also stake your coins to access some Santiment services. This encourages institutional partners to stake large amounts of SAN and give access to their own user base, further growing the ecosystem.
• Reward. If you contribute data to the network, you receive SAN as a reward. This is what powers the crowdsourced datafeeds.

To receive core subscriptions, though, you need to pay in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or fiat. The team wants SAN tokens to be mainly used for staking and/or accessing exclusive content.

Santiment team & progress

Maksim Balashevich founded Santiment in August 2016. Not your typical blockchain founder, Balashevich spent 7 years studying meditation, yoga, and you probably wouldn’t have guessed it, modern financial systems. Although no team members have any other notable blockchain projects under their belt, CTO Valentin Mihov won the silver medal on the International Olympiad in Informatics in 2004.

In July 2017, the Santiment team held an ICO in which they reached their 45,000 ETH goal. The team refreshingly believes in project transparency, even dedicating an entire page on their website to it. Check it out to see how exactly how they’ve been spending their funds.

Santiment has already built an alpha mobile app with historical pricing data and some sentiment analysis. The team is also partnered with Iconomi and the Blockchain Research Lab to help bring their project to life.

A few other projects are tackling the same problem space as Santiment but with different solutions. Signals Network is relying on machine learning in combination with crowdsourced data to help traders. Cindicator is gamifying predictions to produce the wisdom of the crowd effect. And, Enigma Catalyst is working to improve quantitative trading.

Trading

Post-ICO, the Santiment price remained relatively flat at around $0.20. Starting in November 2017, though, SAN tokens began drastically increasing in value reaching an all-time high of close to $8.00 (~0.0005 BTC).  This followed the rise of most altcoins during that time.

With that, the SAN price also fell dramatically in the middle of 2018 along with the majority of the market. The price has yet to stabilize but currently resides at a little over $2.00.

The team is planning on releasing a number of alpha and production-ready feeds throughout 2018. It wouldn’t be surprising to see the price jump with each of these releases. Additional partnership announcements should also have a positive influence on the price.

Where to buy SAN

SAN tokens are currently traded with the most volume on the newly created Ethfinex. Ethfinex is a hybrid decentralized exchange operated by and connected to Bitfinex. You can trade BTC, ETH, or USD for SAN on the exchange.

You can also exchange BTC, ETH, or USDT for SAN on Liqui and OKEx.

Where to store SAN

As an ERC20 token, you have a multitude of wallet options to store your funds. For the most security, use a hardware wallet like the Ledger Nano S. MyEtherWallet is a great, free option for you to use as well. Any wallet with ERC20 support should suffice.

Conclusion

Santiment Net is an all-in-one feed source of objective cryptocurrency information. It includes unbiased news, project analysis, and a boatload of other data. Still in its early days, you can check out the Santiment product by visiting the team’s Telegram channel and you can mess around with their portfolio configurator here.

With the amount of misinformation and unethical promotion currently in the industry, the Santiment team is taking steps in the right direction in their mission to better inform traders of all experience levels.

Additional Santiment resources

Slack

Telegram

Reddit

Twitter

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