More than 200 Developer Teams Start Tokenizing their Apps with OST KIT Alpha III
OST is building essential blockchain infrastructure and tools to enable businesses to transform their communities into dynamic ecosystems. The OST KIT Alpha program enables OST to build the technology side-by-side with the international developer community, to gather their valuable feedback and develop solutions that meet the needs of real businesses.
We’re thrilled to announce that more than 200 teams have signed up for OST Alpha III. Development teams have until August 10th, 2018 to integrate an OST powered Branded Token into their app, run token transfers triggered by in-app events, and showcase the new embedded wallet token balance and transaction history APIs.
OST Alpha III builds on our previous OST Alpha challenges:
- The first OST Alpha was launched in March this year, inviting teams to mint their own Branded Tokens. The program resulted in 1600 new tokens and over 18 million token transactions. The community’s valuable feedback from alpha I helped our team immediately improve OST performance and usability.
- OST KIT Alpha II kicked off in April, running for six weeks into May, challenging developers to integrate Branded Tokens into their apps by utilizing OST KIT APIs and SDKs. We shared all 60+ successful integrations on our Challenges page, with the Grand Award of 250,000 additional OST going to Kwanda.
OST Alpha III adds the first end-user wallet features for OST, called Wallet-Lite. The OST Ledger and Balance APIs enable developers to create embedded wallet features that enable end-users to view their token balances and transaction histories. This is an essential step towards making tokenization more real and tangible for mainstream audiences.
OST Alpha III Rewards
- Every team that successfully completes the 4 minimum requirements for an Alpha III POC integration will receive 75,000 OST. Please note: Only 1 project per person/team will be rewarded.
- All teams who submit a successful POC will also be in the running for eight “Best of OST Alpha III” rewards of 250,000 additional OST. Three Best of OST Alpha III rewards will be chosen by the community. Five will be chosen by the OST team.
Registration for OST KIT Alpha III closed on Friday, 20 July 2018. The two-week submission period resulted in over 200 Alpha III registrations!
Big THANKS to the amazing OST community for your overwhelming support!
Here’s a breakdown of all OST KIT Alpha III participants:
As a part of Alpha III, we also asked teams to author weekly blog posts sharing their feedback and progress on the challenge in real-time.
To date, we have over 90 teams providing blog posts updates. You can find them all in this Spreadsheet or follow along in real-time at the Twitter Hashtag: #OSTa3. We’ll keep adding blog posts as they get published. If yours is missing, give us a shout on Twitter and use the hashtag #OSTa3!
Also, feel free to post your Alpha III updates on our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ostdotcom/
To get a snapshot of the project updates so far, below you find a selection of project updates related to Education.
Happy reading and best of luck to the teams!
Sahayaam Scholarships
India
Sahaayam Scholarships wants teenagers from all walks of life to get a proper education. The platform allows non-profit organisations to sponsor scholarships based on every student’s individual economic situation.
Blog: https://medium.com/@durgabizi/part-i-introducing-a-token-economy-system-to-non-profit-organizations-as-part-of-ost-alpha-phase-3e72c73067d8
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Simple College Economy
Czech Republic
Simple College Economy is turning universities into ecosystems: Students lend money to their peers and buy/sell books on the university’s marketplace, while universities generate extra income through book sales and by tokenizing their cafeteria.
Blog: https://medium.com/@jakubwe94/simple-college-economy-ost-kit-alpha-phase-iii-1-32a8af713229
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Read It (Winner “Best Do Good POC” Alpha II)
United States
Read It is on a mission to eradicate child illiteracy: 10% of the world’s child population rarely read! Read It’s program encourages children to read by incentivizing them with tokens for every book read. These tokens can then be redeemed at (local) vendors.
Blog: https://medium.com/@jshinto2000/we-are-so-excited-for-simple-token-osta3-4f272d355f6d
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ANU University Token
India
Similar to the Simple College Economy project, The ANU University Token seeks to turn the Acharya Nagarjuna University in India into a tokenized ecosystem. Students will pay for their tuition, food, and books with tokens, while teachers and staff get paid out in tokens.
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TutorFind
India
TutorFind connects students in need of extra schooling with teachers. Pupils and tutors are brought together by finding a match between the student’s needs and the teacher’s expertise. Tutors get paid in TUT tokens, and students can earn tokens by writing reviews and sharing on social media.
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ThesisToken
Greece
ThesisToken wants to make it easier for students to gather survey responses for their theses. Using their platform, students reward respondents with one “T” Token, while they can earn own tokens themselves by answering their fellow students’ surveys.
Blog: https://medium.com/@errolb/introducing-thesis-token-ost-kit-alpha-phase-iii-3b9add9a0c4a
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Please find an overview of all published blog posts in this Spreadsheet, which we’ll continue to update as new blogs get published.
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About OST
OST is building essential blockchain infrastructure and developer toolkits to help businesses turn their platforms into engaging ecosystems. We strive 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 has offices in Berlin, New York, Hong Kong, and Pune. For more information, please visit: https://ost.com/
