I believe this application is a great opportunity to move crypto into the real, physical world!
Why a Token Curated Registry
A catalog of available POAPs already generated could be very useful for many reasons. I will not list them all here but I will give a few examples as idea starters:
Pokemon-go style POAP collection. In a new city? Pull up the POAP-GO game (yet to be done, who wants to take that on?!) and view available POAPs near you. Great way to learn a new city or even learn more about your own.
Meetup groups available only to local members identified by their owned POAPs. Exclusivity is not guaranteed since anyone can mint a POAP, but it could be an easy way to get a starter collection going.
Social Media (think instagram for one) style updates and history. With EPNS (Eth Push Notification Service) users could follow friends by their eth address and get notified when a new POAP is received. Imagine visiting the Leaning Tower of Pisa and snapping that infamous selfie, nabbing the Leaning Tower of Pisa POAP and forever cementing your selfie to that NFT via ipfs. Meanwhile, your soon to be jealous friends back home receive a push notification to their phone that their buddy GraspOnCrypto just got a new Life Achievement Unlock (POAP) and bam, there's my instaPOAP post. Take that further, looking back at memories could be as easy as visiting the scan.poap.xyz and reminiscing about all the memories by looking at your POAPs available.
NOW! Why a TCR - I know, i really digressed - why a TCR? If you have a registry of available stock, whatever that stock is, someone needs to maintain that. Store owners maintain their stock of groceries, librarians of their books, so who maintains a community database owned by nobody but by everybody? The community does. So in order to prevent abuse, such as store owners creating POAPs in the registry for their store (real world spam) to muggers creating fake ones in easy to mug parts of town (real world phishing), we must create a mechanism which encourages good behavior while punishing bad. thus a TCR.
The Idea Takes Shape
ACCOLADE would be a governance token for the POAP Community Registry. The Registry will be a collection of perpetually available POAPs created and submitted by users to the Registry and curated by ACCOLADE holders. Initial distribution of ACCOLADE token would be up for debate, but likely to be largely revolved around distribution to current POAP holders.
The Mechanics
POAP.xyz team and project already have available a mechanism for creatings POAPs. From what I can tell, its mostly a hosted front end with the NFT portion being rather light and trivial. Unfortunately this complicates things a bit from the district side, as there is no frontend. It should all be onchain or on ipfs.
Some other ideas and caveats
POAP combined with EPNS and a curated list of available POAPs could be an early onset kickstart of web3 social media. With EPNS users could sign up to get push notifications when addresses they wished to follow were granted a new POAP. Likewise they could use the POAP mobile app to view the POAP, the associated description and picture, just like receiving a notification via twitter, facebook, instagram or any other social app, when a friend or follower has a new event.
The ACCOLADE community could provide a great seeded database of events for users to follow, in order to not be notified any time someone spammed the network with a random distribution of POAPs in order to trigger alerts or notifications in a spammy way.
Why I'm So Excited About This Project
I believe this application is a great opportunity to move crypto into the real, physical world!
Why a Token Curated Registry
A catalog of available POAPs already generated could be very useful for many reasons. I will not list them all here but I will give a few examples as idea starters:
NOW! Why a TCR - I know, i really digressed - why a TCR? If you have a registry of available stock, whatever that stock is, someone needs to maintain that. Store owners maintain their stock of groceries, librarians of their books, so who maintains a community database owned by nobody but by everybody? The community does. So in order to prevent abuse, such as store owners creating POAPs in the registry for their store (real world spam) to muggers creating fake ones in easy to mug parts of town (real world phishing), we must create a mechanism which encourages good behavior while punishing bad. thus a TCR.
The Idea Takes Shape
ACCOLADE would be a governance token for the POAP Community Registry. The Registry will be a collection of perpetually available POAPs created and submitted by users to the Registry and curated by ACCOLADE holders. Initial distribution of ACCOLADE token would be up for debate, but likely to be largely revolved around distribution to current POAP holders.
The Mechanics
POAP.xyz team and project already have available a mechanism for creatings POAPs. From what I can tell, its mostly a hosted front end with the NFT portion being rather light and trivial. Unfortunately this complicates things a bit from the district side, as there is no frontend. It should all be onchain or on ipfs.
Some other ideas and caveats
POAP combined with EPNS and a curated list of available POAPs could be an early onset kickstart of web3 social media. With EPNS users could sign up to get push notifications when addresses they wished to follow were granted a new POAP. Likewise they could use the POAP mobile app to view the POAP, the associated description and picture, just like receiving a notification via twitter, facebook, instagram or any other social app, when a friend or follower has a new event.
The ACCOLADE community could provide a great seeded database of events for users to follow, in order to not be notified any time someone spammed the network with a random distribution of POAPs in order to trigger alerts or notifications in a spammy way.
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