I'm hoping that the criticisms I heard regarding Arise on a post to @stan are false (namely that Arise's signups and systems aren't working properly, indicating a possibly poorly tested implementation or worse, a scam). Watching the CEO's mannerisms, my gut tells me not to trust him. The sale price of the ICO coins are $1.40 each.

I'll wait for them to hit the secondary market and see where this goes. I hope it all works out positively because I'm a big booster for BTS and want their partnerships to work out well.

On that note, it is not clear how the BTS/Arise partnership will work. I also haven't been able to find what type of coin you would be getting to start with. Is it a BTS smartcoin? Ethereium EC20? A native coin on a native blockchain? If native, what are the deets on the nodes/decentralization of the blockchain?