Protect your next virtual meeting with a token
In a digital world of spammers and video meeting fatigue, token access of video meetings is a high-tiered alternative that enables greater security and efficiency in managing digital meetings.
What is token gating or access?
A token is a cryptocurrency unique to a community or creator.
Gating is setting up a wall to access online content.
Token gating is placing a wall behind content using a creator or community’s cryptocurrency.
Ownership of a token acts as a digital key for a user to access exclusive online content — whether it is an invite-only video meeting link or a private behind-the-scenes video. Tokens act as a membership to exclusive digital clubs.
Use Case of Token Gating Video Meetings
Meeting hosts encounter numerous challenges as they suddenly must accommodate everyone in online meetings on platforms meant for occasional online meetings at best.
Spammers and bombers
Even with existing security features, such as passwords and waiting rooms, video meetings risk getting spammed if invitees accidentally share meeting links and passwords.
Token access requires invitees to own or purchase and hold a threshold of tokens to access a link.
Managing multiple email lists and invites
To invite only a specific group of people to a meeting, meeting hosts must manage different email lists and generate invites to different emails.
Communities and groups can instead distribute tokens based on membership thresholds or specific only to an event.
Groups can distribute 100 tokens to group leaders and set up a gate that requires only users with at least 100 tokens to access the meeting link.
For example, Panvala League token gates their monthly member calls with $PAN, a cryptocurrency that Panvala League members must hold to be official members.
The DSGN community held a Figma whiteboarding session that only allowed top-tier designers, designers who held a certain amount of $DSGN tokens for interacting and designing for the community, to join.
Lack of participation and engagement
Meeting hosts of large group meetings struggle to generate high conversions between the number of RSVPs and the number who actually attend. They also struggle to incentivize those to attend to actively engage during the call with many attendees refusing to turn on their camera or contributing through vice or chat during active discussions.
At MintGate, we reward tokens to all RSVPs of our community calls to actively remind them to attend. We reward additional tokens to participants who stay and actively engage the entire time.
How to Get Started — Our Solution
We partnered with Huddle to bring this token gating video meeting experience with additional features optimal for creators and influencers to host classes and calls and record your next video.
Huddle is a decentralized video conferencing solution that allows people to talk better, listen better, and work better. You can create a meeting link for free here and review the MintGate docs on how to set up the token gate here.
In addition to token gating, the current Huddle platform offers these features that improve the experience of video conferencing for creators:
- Low latency video allows creators to have near picture-perfect video quality and allows creators to reach fans and audiences in areas with slower Internet speeds.
- Recordings stored on Filecoin — means storage of recordings is completely decentralized and cheaper. You can expect to store 5x the amount of recordings than on existing video meeting platforms.
- Built-in whiteboarding with Miro (one of the world’s most popular whiteboarding platforms) allows creators to join their fans or other creators on collaborative sessions.
In the future, we will work with the Huddle team to fully mask the meeting URL, as well as an attendance tracker that will provide statistics on users and their active participation (including when they joined a call, percentage of time they had their camera open, etc.).
To learn more about Huddle and to create a meeting link, go to https://huddle01.com/.
To learn more about MintGate and to create a token and/or token gate, go to https://mintgate.app/
