Seeing people fall prey to scam news on so many different levels. Being the go to person for a lot of people to discuss crypto, I observed that the news content consumed by everyday users was really bad. If we want non tech people to adopt crypto we need to not ask them to fall and learn.
What it does
Any user can connect their wallet or make one and connect it to read articles curated by the community.
Anyone can submit an article, article media is uploaded to Storj and pinned to IPFS, with the response details of the IPFS URL recorded in the article meta data.
Submitted articles are mad available only to Sapien News Publisher NFT holders. They can curate, publish or censor these submissions then by voting.
Anyone can become a publisher by purchasing publisher NFTs made available on the platform.
Challenges you ran into
Developing the platform to handle very heavy traffic and be highly scalable, while remaining low cost yet effective and also be able to govern itself fast enough that content loses very little time on its shelf life.
Anything else?
IPFS pinning is done using a custom gateway and plugin for Storj storage with IPFS pinning(currently in beta). This is effective in reducing costs while improving UX and performance.
Team Name
Sapien
Team members (if changed)
Member #1 Name: Abhinav Sharma Email: abhinavsharma2689@gmail.com Twitter handle: @meabhinavsharma Discord ID (with #tag); @abhay1239#7144
Member #2 Name: Deekshit Dsouza Email: deekshitdsouza@gmail.com Twitter handle: @DeekshitDsouza Discord ID (with #tag); @deekshitld#4171
Member #3 Name: Dhruv D Jain Email: dhruv@iamsizzling.com Twitter handle: @dhruvdjain1 Discord ID (with #tag); @Dhruv D Jain#3233
Project Name
Sapien News
Contact Details
community@sapien.news
Project Track
Community
Sponsor Bounties
IPFS Filecoin
Link to project GitHub public repo
https://github.com/Sapien-news/sapien-solana-wallet, https://github.com/Sapien-news/sapiens-server
Link to project website
https://sapien.news
Link to demo video
https://www.loom.com/share/3236895355a649c3bc120afbab186d62
Contract address
6mdT7qYCStq6RoRaVpJ3s8NnM4Le4aDkEh5zKQn1vKYH xpqf8AFoskZT2AfYUdSjvWRn2niqEcvTS1wrKQpuBia
Inspiration
Seeing people fall prey to scam news on so many different levels. Being the go to person for a lot of people to discuss crypto, I observed that the news content consumed by everyday users was really bad. If we want non tech people to adopt crypto we need to not ask them to fall and learn.
What it does
Any user can connect their wallet or make one and connect it to read articles curated by the community.
Anyone can submit an article, article media is uploaded to Storj and pinned to IPFS, with the response details of the IPFS URL recorded in the article meta data.
Submitted articles are mad available only to Sapien News Publisher NFT holders. They can curate, publish or censor these submissions then by voting.
Anyone can become a publisher by purchasing publisher NFTs made available on the platform.
Challenges you ran into
Developing the platform to handle very heavy traffic and be highly scalable, while remaining low cost yet effective and also be able to govern itself fast enough that content loses very little time on its shelf life.
Anything else?
IPFS pinning is done using a custom gateway and plugin for Storj storage with IPFS pinning(currently in beta). This is effective in reducing costs while improving UX and performance.