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How Can Blockchain Technology Become the Next World Wide Web?
The blockchain community is still very small relative to the size of communities on traditional social media platforms. The acquisition of cryptocurrency tokens, largely driven by the promise of short-term speculative gain often feels unattainable to smaller players who will be the actual users of the technology and ultimately encourage its mass adoption. But then how is crypto to eventually achieve the status of say, the World Wide Web? The fact that, at this moment in time, the evolution of blockchain technology is predominantly driven by speculation is not a bad thing, since speculation fuels the growth and progression of the technology. At some point however, the technology has to become functionally useful to a broader demographic, and something that society at large will not only wish to use in their everyday lives and interactions, but will feel compelled to use. In the end, if the technology is not providing a useful service, it will not create demand.
The solution to this dilemma lies in progressing beyond the use of decentralized technologies solely for the generation and exchange of digital currencies, and exploring the promise that blockchain technology holds for a wider variety of applications.
BOOSTO Brings the Blockchain to Influencers and Businesses
BOOSTO is a decentralized app marketplace that aims to make the efficiency and accessibility of blockchain technology a reality for businesses and social media influencers everywhere. BOOSTO allows influencers and businesses to customize their own dApp stores for their unique needs. A major benefit of the platform is the ease with which this can be accomplished, as the BOOSTO marketplace matches up developers with influencers who would like to build their own customized platforms. Gone in this environment are any apprehensions that creators may have previously had about funding the development of a conventional app, or lacking the technological know-how to build and implement one, both of which call for skill sets that stretch the capacities of many influencers and businesses.
An influencer wishing to create a presence will now have the capability to build her own dApp via the BOOSTO platform, picking and choosing the features most suitable to her business’s needs. The transparency of relationships on the blockchain makes it easy to open up more channels of income due to the increased trust between creators, followers, and marketers. The simplicity with which influencers can monetize their talents in this ecosystem eliminates the need for the traditional income streams provided by sponsored content, which often leaves followers wondering if the influencer is sincere or simply hawking wares. Influencers further benefit from this system in that there is no need to pay developers up front. Developers receive payment for each transaction made via the dApp for as long as the application runs.
Another advantage in this environment is that it virtually eliminates dependence on advertisements and referral links, which in the current conventional model directs a large portion of the revenues to the platform and away from creators and developers. BOOSTO optimizes the experiences of influencers, users, developers and marketers by allowing all to communicate and transact with a greater level of confidence than previously possible. Influencers can easily launch their own online shops to sell goods and services that enhance and deepen interactions with followers. How about a private cooking demonstration from your favorite chef influencer? Or a consultation about personal finances from an influential financial advisor? The relative intimacy of the BOOSTO platform opens up possibilities for interaction far beyond traditional likes and comments, allowing influencers to personalize relationships with fans.
With BOOSTO, influencers can even access the data of existing users to facilitate the launch of crowdfunding campaigns, using smart contract-driven agreements that assure the safety and transparency of each transaction.
Ultimately all of the problems faced on this road to mass adoption of blockchain technology, including questions about how cryptocurrencies should be regulated, will be addressed out of a pressing need prompted by consumer demand for blockchain-based dApps and services. As more companies provide utilitarian, blockchain-based services that surpass those that are currently available in enhancing convenience in daily life and commerce, the mass adoption of the technology will have to happen — obstacles be darned — simply because the demand exists. BOOSTO is helping to pave the way for this evolution by making blockchain technology useful and accessible to a much larger audience.
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BOOSTO is an influencer driven decentralized App store, aims to empower global influencers and developers through unleashing the full potential of influencer led communities, by using blockchain as a foundation of trust and tokens as incentives to build various interactive decentralized applications.
Technical Lead at Pfizer
6 年I'm was actually at that meetup (in the photo), sitting at the back :p