Background to SportsPodium - ICO to be announced!
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime - Babe Ruth
Background to SportsPodium
SportsPodium is a next generation incentivised social media network focused on the sporting community around the world. Our aim is to introduce a non-technical audience to the world of Blockchain and Crypto Currency with an easy to use mobile application.
Originally launched in 2014 for a 2 year period of research and development two further versions of the application was released. During this period around 7000 upcoming sports people registered on the platform in the Proof of concept stage of the project.
Since the start of 2016, we have been investigating the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency environment, and we solved a number of key problems faced in the Web 2.0 approach we have been pursuing. Key challenges faced was in driving a solution that will actively reward the community for behaviours and participation, as well as dealing with one global solution and multiple currencies (many of these in the third world where there is large currency uncertainty).
By using our proven approach to utilising social media backed up by clever algorithms, as well as the incredible opportunities the blockchain and crypto currency gives in decentralising information and structures as well as sharing rewards for being part of the community, the platform can now truly fulfill its aim to make talent identification and selection truly broad-based.
The next step in our journey
The next step in the evolution of the product is to rebuild the application as a decentralized application (DAPP) on proven underpinning Blockchain Technology. Crypto Financing, (Initial Token Offering) will be used for growth capital, as we have developed the product over a number of years..
We ultimately look at SportsPodium to be the LinkedIn for the sporting community combined with some characteristics of Facebook for the sport supporter all baked into one blockchain based incentivised social media decentralised application. On top of this we will build a clever advertising engine and shopping mall that will earn the participant and community revenue.
End user of systems are also accustomed to receiving and taking action on mobile notifications. Our system will drive our process through smart contracts to ensure everybody takes the actions required from them in the process.
As users participate in the process they will receive incentives in the form of a crypto-tokens which will be tradable on various crypto exchanges. Most importantly we are looking at ways for the end-users to easily convert these Crypto Tokens into Fiat money as the core of the user base will not be Crypto and Blockchain literate.
We are looking forward in engaging with the sports community on various levels and aim to enhance an already flourishing industry by adding the latest technology and a new way of incentivising every player, team, club, school, coach, administrator and supporter in a meaningful way.
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When will this platform be releasing?
We have set the dates, but are not able to release the actual dates yet as we are still finalising contacts with various stakeholders, including Olympic and Professional Athletes. All I can say for now, is that we have a very strong Executive and Advisory Boards. Please follow us as we will be announcing more information very soon. Are you an athlete or where the interest?
I am Canadian and have a strong interest in Althletics in my country. My son is an elite athlete and so are many of his friends. I am from a small community and have a few athletes that have gone to Olympics so want to follow all that I can in sports, and hey I am and will always be a dire Hard Montreal Canadians Fan, and of course my Blue Jays, and Red Blacks. So bring this platform on. Thanks
Excellent, you will really enjoy the platform. Our whole team are massive sports supporters. Please follow us and we will update you as soon as we can. We might have a few questions about the sporting industry in Canada if you do not mind?
Yes of course. I can tell you one thing about our sporting industry. The Canadian Universities are only allowed to offer a max scholarship for sport at $7000 so we lose a bunch of our athletes to the US who offer so much more, and it is sad.
Much of our money is stolen by administrators as corruption is rife. One of our team members is an olympian and sits on a major sporting body in our country and the information she gives on what is going on is scary. Also, across the world much of the sporting world is controlled by a few. Many are excluded as they are not in the inside circle, or known to people.
One of the reasons for our Blockchain initiative is to ensure we can assist athletes from all ages to earn revenue by just doing what they do on a daily basis. We have a solid business model and we will be able to do so with the help of loyalty tokens which can be traded on a Crypto Exchange.
At Steemit you blog to earn, On SportsPodium you will earn by enjoying your sport training :) Let me not say to much at this point.
PS: You are the first person we followed :)
Thank you. I am so stoked to hear that this is coming. I just spoke to my son today, I only get to talk to him once a week, and I explained about the promise of this platform. He will be a driving force for my posts etc. As he is an elite athlete. Totally sharing the info with my Olympian friends. I also know a few sport trainers for the Olympic team who would help promote this platform easily. Thanks
Hi There
I too have young kids that are sports people (competitive swimmers). It is even worse in our country (South Africa) as we have far less than that available for sports stars, and depending on your demographics you need to fund all the money yourself (my cousin was a to 30 ATP tennis player and our country's No 1 and had to pay all coaching etc herself). Also many of our athletes get poached at a very young age, and thus our teams and national bodies battle against the lure of stronger currencies.
my kids are competitive swimmers and runners. It truly is sad that there is such a mis representation of the level of athletes going to the Olympics. If you have money then you get to develop and attend the higher ranked events such as the Olympics. We need to collectively change how sports is funded and level that playing field for all to compete. Thanks for the post.
Strava style segments and GPS tracking would be awesome, is that something you're planning to implement?
Welcome to family :)
Welcome to family :)
You spoke about including the spectators and teams into the network. A few questions.
-Is there a particular market you are starting with? I.e college, local amateurs or professional.
-And what are your thoughts on adding Esports?
Hi @swolesome,
Thank you for the comment.
We will be announcing more in the near future.
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