The OST KIT⍺ Phase II program is now two weeks underway, and we’re thrilled to see such a diverse selection of POC projects. We’ve already covered 42 projects in this series of blog posts: Check out Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.
Just as a reminder: We’ve accepted 142 projects out of more than 250 applications. Developer teams providing a successful POC submission will be rewarded with 50,000 $OST. There’s also a Grand Reward of 250,000 additional OST + an extra four reward categories, each with a prize of 25,000 additional OST.
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In today’s post we’re introducing projects 43 through 57: Enjoy!
NAMEFACE
NameFace calls themselves the “Unsplash for editorial photos”: The company covers events and distributes visuals in real time through their international network of news outlets, bloggers, and social media creators. NameFace wants to build a tokenized marketplace for photographers and outlets.
— United States
PLAYX
PlayX (project name) is building a companion app to Twitch and YouTube to improve the engagement experience between the broadcaster and participant. Their app focuses on rewarding user engagement with broadcasters and brands. They hope to demonstrate a small number of features: Likes, Bounty questions, and donations leader-board.
— Australia
LIFE LINE
Life Line’ is a Social Network Application, that wants to use Branded Tokens to gives users greater incentive to participate in the app. Its core functionality is to allow anyone to connect with other users around the world — in various fields of study — to get clear and concise answers to their questions. It aims to incentivize users to provide each other with critiques, tips and suggestions.
— United States
TRADERVIET
An only community that focuses on forex and cryptocurrency trading, investing and educating. It wants to create its own branded token to incentivize editors and users for contributing valuable content, commenting and sharing. TraderViet expects advertisers to pay with crypto for placements on their portal.
— Vietnam
AUCTIONS
Auctions wants to allow government and private organisations to invite third parties to pitch for assignments on a contract basis (called a “tender”). After a specified duration, the best tender will be chosen and all transactions related will be governed under their Branded Token, called AUN. Auctions wants to bring Blockchain into play in an effort to battle corruption.
— India
INDOORA
Indoora offers an accurate indoor positioning solution that provides the best way for end users to navigate inside large venues such as airports, shopping malls and exhibition centers through their mobile applications. The company is planning to use a Branded Token to integrate a reward program on top of their indoor location services. Users will be able to earn tokens upon completing location-based micro tasks inside venues and spend them in affiliated stores.
— Turkey
TREES REWARDS
A reward points app for a chain of cannabis dispensaries (Trees). The company draws parallels between McDonald’s Monopoly and its own platform. Trees has 7 or 8 locations on Vancouver Island, and is “growing fast with the impending total legalization of cannabis” across the country. Their POC will focus on creating a sustainable rewards system.
— Canada
ERC20 DROID
The project currently is a financial portfolio app that uses api’s to load in token values, and then help display graphs of your token portfolio. In the future rendition, Bryan would like to drop a ROBO token based on OST. Users would be able to exchange the ROBO token for investment advice or unlocking new features in the platform.
— United States
KIDS READING PROGRAM
The developer team behind this POC wants to incorporate a blockchain-based distributed database where the “BOOK” token will represent 1 minute worth of reading.
A future website will provide Parents public access to view their children’s reading progress.
— United States
GoCryptoMe
GoCryptoMe™ is a web app that enables patrons to support the causes they care for using cryptocurrency. This introduces various advantageous factors (e.g. anonymity, no fees, etc.) which will improve the adoption rate. The web app will demonstrate an integration between OSTa API’S and the web app, allowing GoCryptoMe™ to base core functions upon the OST API’S.
— Switzerland
KOBOGO
Kobogo is a platform to book or host learning experiences, workshops and classes all over the world. Hosts will earn tokens for providing great educational experiences and thus increase their reputation. Learners will be able to pay for workshops with tokens and get workshop attendance certifications.
— Portugal
COINTOSSBOT
This ambitious team wants to demonstrate the ability of the OST Kit API to work within the FaceBook Messenger framework. Their project will demonstrate bridging transactions between FaceBook Messenger and OST Kit for use in various FB Messenger application and chatbot rewards.
— United States
OWN A WORD
This simple but nonetheless interesting POC is about creating an Ethereum-based web application which enables users to purchase their favorite words on the Ethereum blockchain. The team adds: “This is a very small project which will simply prove OSTa API’S are able to support simple, meaningful transactions.”
— Spain
MEMBER TOKEN
This project is aimed at creating a token economy for professional sports clubs and their (typically tens of thousands of) paying members. Features will include, amongst others, an online shop for discounted items, a P2P ticket exchange, and the use of tokens for the purpose of voting at a club’s general assembly).
— United Kingdom
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About OST
OST is building the complete blockchain toolkit for business.
Our ambition is to be the blockchain technology partner of choice for businesses of all sizes and levels of technical sophistication, enabling any business to create, launch, and manage their own branded digital token economy powered by OpenST protocols and OST blockchain management software. The OpenST protocol enables companies to launch branded token economies on highly scalable, open, cryptographically auditable side blockchains. OST is actively investing in an ecosystem of developers and apps built on OST, to help drive requirements from actual use cases.
