IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 17, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Future City Holding Inc. (OTCQB:FTCY) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, GX-Life Global, Inc., has sold $3.5 million of premium membership interests in its marketing program. GX-Life’s marketing program supports a line of consumer based products, including beauty, energy, nutrition and tea products, and may be viewed at its website www.gx-life.com. Subject to certain conditions, members can use their status reward points to buy products or eventually convert to GX Coin (upon completion of its technology development).
GX-Life Global is also finalizing a Technology License Agreement with GX-Coin, Inc. under which GX-Life Global has licensed one of the first digitally-based blockchain supported currencies, into its membership compensation plan, to further support its marketing activities by providing additional financial incentives for its members. GX-Coin is affiliated through common management, but is a separate entity focusing upon technology development to support digital currency creation, deployment and trading.
Ning Liu, CEO and President of FTCY stated, “We are so pleased with the overwhelming support from our community of members who recently joined our membership program and provided us with such positive feedback. So far, we received raving reviews about our website, which provides not just a consumer friendly environment graphically displaying our entire product line, but also offers password protected access to real-time easily understood compensation and downline activity. We are presently aggressively pursuing market opportunities in Asia and the United States.”
About Global Future City Holding Inc.
Global Future City Holding Inc. is a holding company focused on implementing an EB-5 immigrant investor program for foreign investors who are interested in acquiring lawful permanent residence in the United States, and the marketing and deployment of its loyalty-based membership program. The Company plans to focus its initial efforts on acquiring qualified investment projects that are aligned with its EB-5 Regional Center and launching the digital currency-based membership program. Additional information on the Company may be viewed at http://www.gf.city.
About GX-Life Global, Inc.
GX-Life Global is in the process of developing a robust, scalable platform to support its membership program throughout the world. GX-Life Global is supported by “GX-Coins” which is a digital currency that functions as a store of value and a medium of exchange. GX-Life Global plans to deploy the GX-Coins it acquires from Great Coin by distributing them to members of their membership program community as loyalty points for the members’ participation in the membership program. Members of GX-Life Global will be able to redeem their status points, reward points, and status reward points for GX-Coin at 100% of their points’ dollar value. Additionally, users of GX-Coin will be able to use their GX-Coins to purchase products offered by GX-Life Global.
About Great Coin, Inc.
Great Coin, Inc., a Nevada corporation, is a technology company in the process of developing “Great Coin” or “GX-Coin” which is a digital currency that functions as a store of value and a medium of exchange. Great Coin intends for the GX-Coins to be freely transferable on an online trading platform, and the price of a GX-Coin once on the trading platform will be determined by market forces through trading activity. As a digital currency, GX-Coin’s ownership and transfer will be recorded on an encrypted, secured distributed ledger system using technology similar to the distributed ledger technology used for trading digital currencies.
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