Why ‘The Dawn’ of Opoch? 🤔

Dharamveer Singh Chouhan
Opoch
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4 min readJul 16, 2018

‘The Dawn’ is Opoch’s pre-launch competition towards driving crypto adoption. Before fantasising about the world where everyone uses cryptocurrencies like we use internet today. We must look at broader picture and see our immediate next hurdle for winning this marathon 🏃🏻🏃🏼️

If you would have had a chance to go through Opoch’s whitepaper, you would have realized we are decentralizing Fiat-crypto exchanges at scale via P2P marketplace. Building an experience of exchanging fiat currencies for crypto assets without 3rd party intermediary, that’s comparable to centralized entity, is the herculean battle ahead.

We believe Opoch can achieve decentralized Fiat-Crypto exchanges under a minute at scale via P2P marketplace and community for mainstream adoption.

For building this early pioneering community we have launched the global crypto adoption competition, ‘The Dawn’ 🔥

Awareness vs Trust

85% of Canadians have heard of Bitcoin

60% of Americans have heard of Bitcoin

65% of Germans have heard of Bitcoin

Building Trust 🤝

A great trading experience without centralised entity is paramount for not just showcasing the power of decentralized technologies, but also build trust in the overall ecosystem. As people trade, do commerce with one another directly, without any centralised Parties, exchanging value with another individual, trust will be built.

Centralized entry into Decentralized world? 🤔

If we cannot even decentralise the very first aspect of interaction with the decentralized technologies, we must ponder deeper on what are we building?

Opoch strikes at the elephant in the room, and ‘The Dawn’ helps us bring to life a great seamless experience with the help of individuals like you 😎.

A random screenshot of under construction ‘The Dawn’ website so that the article doesn’t look boring 🤷‍

The first step is the most difficult they say. ‘The Dawn’ is Opoch’s first step 👣.

Where should we launch?
Which communities we must work with first?
What language should we launch the fiat-crypto marketplace first?
What currencies should we build for?
What payment methods should we integrate first?
Which global city should we launch Cash exchanges first?

We need answers to these and many more trivial questions for our next steps. A delicate balance between product experience, market dynamics and evangelising community has shaped ‘The Dawn’ competition.

Bootstrapping Opoch

‘The Dawn’ competition will end only when Opoch gets its 1st Million users.

We will use this duration to determine the answers to above questions and global winners of ‘The Dawn’.

The Dawn will be won by ‘Countries’ and ‘Individuals’.

Individual: All community members would be competing with each other via Karma out of a total of 500 to top the Individual leaderboard available publicly.

The top 10 would win close to 30 Million OPOC tokens among them. 5 Million for the winner of ‘The Dawn’, it’s a big number and considering the future we envision, it’s hard to imagine how would that transfer to tangible value. We have elaborated on this dimension of The Dawn competition in the blog below.👇🏻

Country: As soon as any country receives 10,000 Votes 🔥, the countdown for Opoch’s Fiat-Crypto Marketplace launch 🚀 begins. Feel free to have a look at current leaderboard positions for countries.

We will rapidly move all resources to work with the selected communities to make cryptocurrencies truly peer to peer and mass adoption friendly in these countries.

There would be several Individual OPOC Token rewards as well for users who help their country win. We have shared detailed summary in the blog below 👇🏻.

Summarising, as Opoch does not hold Digital or Physical assets anytime during the trade it makes a fiat-crypto exchange truly peer-to-peer. But, for a great experience of every new user, we must have the early pioneering community using the product on a regular basis powering the marketplace.

‘The Dawn’ not just enables this, but makes these early pioneers a part of history with collectible rewards. For us, though it means a lot more as you will become a part of Opoch via OPOC tokens!

The journey for true information age is long and hard, having another crazy individual who believes in our vision join the cause is paramount for success 🙏🏻

OPOC tokens can be won by anyone, we hope they are earned by everyone. We have worked to design the competition fun, engaging and worthwhile your time, we hope you have fun with ‘The Dawn’, do feel free to share any feedback with us at dawn@opoch.com

We’ll close of with a quote we like to say internally about ‘The Dawn’ of Opoch,

A small crypto adoption competition, one giant leap for Mankind

Let’s win this Information age, together, now \o/ 😎

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Dharamveer Singh Chouhan
Opoch
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Co-founder & CEO at Opoch. Bringing Future Closer. Cultures win before companies. Past: Founding CEO at Zostel & ZO Rooms.