CARDSTACK: The Trendsetting Platform for Every App Developer

gwensarah1 (43)in #blockchain • 6 years ago (edited)

Much has been said about a decentralized web and the use of decentralized applications or "dApps". The nascent tech ecosystem is aptly dubbed the next stage of the internet revolution combining features of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud computing, blockchain with interoperability and smart interactions.

Decentralized apps are innovative in the sense that they connect providers and users directly to create peer-to-peer transactions. Unlike today's native apps, like Gmail and YouTube, dApps don't really require centralized platforms to function. This feature allows an open-community in a digital environment.

The Problem

Nowadays, software application development has become so complex. In fact, many app developers are faced with the arduous challenge of inventing both unique and matching designs compatible with existing Cloud and blockchain protocols. Also, the user-experience must be integrated with the technologies for a cohesive and friendly experience.

For one, blockchain technology and dApps require users to acquire and also manage a range of utility tokens for individual functions in their software stack. This has turned the noble idea of a decentralized tech ecosystem into a complicated web of motley app coins on sundry smart-contract platforms with anomalous requirements. This is likened to a situation, in which an average man in Switzerland, for example, is required to keep and manage currencies from all over the world (euro, dollar, pound, Yuan, etc) in order to buy, sell and engage in other normal financial activities. Again, this is as difficult as setting up your own Linux desktop, by yourself, to host everything from your blog to your own chat server- and this complexity is bound to grow as the block chain community expands.

How feasible is that in our real world?

Honestly, mastering this induced complexity has proved to be daunting to even the most tech-savvy individuals. This trend has also discouraged many talented developers and investors from hopping onto the vehicle of innovation.

The Solution: Cardstack to the Rescue

Fortunately, Cardstack is a new platform designed to plug the holes in the dApps ecosystem.

Cardstack is basically an experienced layer of a decentralized internet to foster cohesive user experiences throughout the digital landscape.
Again, Cardstack is such an economic model that ensures a fair distribution of rewards among the community of developers and miners.

The Cardstack platform offers an innovative approach to application development. With its unique "Software Development Kit", developers don't need to create modules for their apps but just need to plug in and add ready-made features to develop the apps. This makes it easy for developers with only a basic knowledge of blockchain and Cloud technologies to create dApps.

Smart contracts and reward pools based on well-defined incentives make the innovative platform user-friendly, economically sustainable and powerful enough to dislodge the tyranny of centralized platforms.

Ease of Use and Proven Benefits

● This decentralized platform is simple to master and use. You don't require advanced software development skills to participate in the project. All what you need to access the Cardstack SDK is a basic knowledge of the blockchain technology.

● Cardstack Token or CARD form the basis of all smart contracts in the community.

● With Cardstack, users no longer have to maintain 15 different app coins for 15 digital transactions.

● These tokens are staked for any user to access his/her desired dApp.

● The staked CARD tokens are subsequently shared as rewards among the relevant stakeholders.

● Users benefit by being in control of their specific central "hub" which incorporates all their dApps in one place and allows "stacking" them together for easy flow controls.

● In addition, developers are encouraged to keep updating their projects by a fair incentive system based on actual usage statistics.

● There is no hiding anything from anybody. The Cardstack platform is an open-source and open-community.

In simple terms, the important benefits to be enjoyed for investing in Cardstack include:

Ease of paying app developers with a unified token within a reliable and secure community.

App developers are provided the platform to receive users' feedbacks regarding app usage and the opportunity to effect necessary adjustments.

Opportunity to make huge profits from investments as the dApps are showcased to a much larger audience worldwide.

Cardstack provides cross-chain functions, communications, and interoperability to deliver a great user experience.

On Cardstack, multiple payments, as obtains in native apps, are eliminated totally. With this function, there is no reason to pay more for an already accessed feature, thus reducing user cost.

Unified and Seamless Transaction

CARD is an app token which allows users to access apps which interact with cloud services, dApps, block chains, and even decentralized protocols with just a single transaction fee. Wow!!

To illustrate this, an end-user converts the tokens into nontransferable Software and Services Coupons or SSC tokens with values pegged to the almighty US dollar. The coupons are then deposited into the retainer contract of an app.

In the meantime, the tokens are included in the community reward pool. Whenever the app is opened, these coupons are burned to create a transaction history which helps to calculate the appropriate allocation of CARD to reward makers.

Cardstack Beats Similar Projects With Trendsetting Features

A lot has been said about the similarities between Cardstack and a few other projects like Essentia and AION. While it's true that Cardstack is developed to also help decentralize the web, as the next step in the internet revolution, this innovative platform is also unique with unmatched attributes like:

The adoption of horizontal layers, instead of the hitherto vertical silos, to allow blockchain dApps, Cloud apps, and our native apps combine to form a software stack with enhanced interoperability.
Making users the main orchestrators of all digital transactions to suit individual tastes (recentralization of user experience).
Turning services into inter-chained, bit-sized, and tangible cards to create an open-source platform.
Gradual decentralization of the web to accommodate stakeholders with different levels of expertise.
Inbuilt economic sustainability which has sustained the 3-year plus project and made it the prime project to embrace for tech investors.

Great Team of Developers

Cardstack was developed about 3 years ago by a versatile team of designers and technologists Led by the multi-talented tech guru Chris Tse.
Chris Tse is a renowned software developer who has participated on many projects in composable UX design, distributed software architecture, and data analytics system developments for close to 2 decades. He has an extensive experience as a leader in R&D teams for numerous Fortune 500 companies. Furthermore, he co-funded Dot Blockchain Media and Monegraph.

Cardstack also had the inputs of other experienced professionals who share in the project's vision of decentralizing the web. For example, Ed Faulkner (the Lead Developer) brings valuable experience from the MIT Media Lab and the Open Source project called Ember.

Some other notable members of the team are:
Hassan Abdel-Rahman (Senior Blockchain Developer formerly of the Sun Microsystems); Justin Thong (Data Scientist); Ken Rossi (Lead UX, former Creative Director of USTA/US Open); Chris Gardella (Lead Designer) and other worthy contributors.

All the team (both the listed and non-listed) collaborated to pool their resources together to create the revolutionary Cardstack project.

A Project Worthy of Investment

Cardstack has proven to be a project like no other. Within just 3 years, it's attracted more investors than any other similar project.
Its ultimate selling point is the inherent economic sustainability as an open-source Software Development Kit (SDK). It's user-friendly with a Cohesive User Experience (CUE). Developers and investors are also fairly rewarded on the proportionate incentive-based platform.
The tokens are clearly defined and the reward based on correct dApps usage statistics unlike what obtains on centralized systems like Amazon and Microsoft.

Above all, investors from various sides of the digital divide are attracted by the desire to eliminate the monopoly of centralized platforms and participate in the next fortune-spinning stage of the internet revolution.

To learn more and join the community of smart stakeholders on the Cardstack platform.

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