Whitepaper Copied From https://republicprotocol.github.io/whitepaper/republic-whitepaper.pdf
No information about the team running this ICO plus a copy pasted whitepaper. Only indicates towards a scam. They have a youtube channel as well with a lot of subscribers but no content on their channel making it suspicious that they are having fake subscribers there.
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5328509.0