Arcade City: The Decentralized Uber
"Goodbye Uber! Hello Arcade City!"
The future of rideshare has arrived.
Arcade City is decentralized Uber. Peer to peer everything, with networks built by local communities not corporations. The brainchild of a disgruntled Uber driver, Arcade City began based off a simple idea... "Maybe a rideshare company should be run by its drivers." Since then, Arcade City has successfully launched its decentralized rideshare service in more than 25 cities and has ~70,000 active users around the globe, with their most notable network operating in Austin, TX.
Drivers
Uber likes to talk a big game about allowing drivers to be their own boss, but Arcade City actually delivers. Unlike Uber, Arcade City is returning the power to the drivers and encouraging them to build their own network of repeat customers, set their own rates, select their own payment options, join driver co-ops, and choose their own hours. Better yet, Arcade City let's drivers keep 100% of their profits, while Uber takes nearly 25-30% of every dollar earned. Offering true economic automony to all participants within the network and encouraging community building, entreprenuership, and voluntary, peer to peer, interactions and mutual exchanges.
Riders
Arcade City's decentralized peer to peer model is not only beneficial to drivers, but also returns control to the riders. Do you want to take a chance that Uber's algorithms match you up with the a creep of a driver at 2am when leaving the bar? Or would you rather have your friend Alice pick you up with a smile, in her clean new SUV, and take you safely to your destination? Arcade City gives the riders the freedom to select their own driver right from the app, pull up their profile, and send them a private chat message! Riders also have the ability to schedule rides, avoid surge prices, and negotiate payment - Pay your driver in cash, credit, bitcoin, tacos, or Arcade Tokens — whatever you both agree to. Enjoy their service? Grab their contact info and request them again!
Gamification
The competitive advantages dont stop there! Arcade City also features a gamification layer to the ecosystem with reward and reputation systems built directly into the app, soon! This rewards system will act to incentives network use, positive behaviors, and growth of the Arcade City network. To allow for easier integration of a gamified reward system in the app and to help scale their successful model globally, Arcade City has issued their Ethereum-based Arcade Token ($ARCD). Arcade tokens can be used to pay for goods or services on Arcade City's peer to peer marketplace, like rides. Or they can be used to unlock feature within the app, like forming a local driver guild. Not only will the eventual in-app integration of the $ARCD token grow the network exponentially on a global scale, but it will also act as a seamless bridge for the mass adoption and use of cryptocurrencies.
The Power of Community
The decentralized revolution is here and Arcade City has fully embraced it. What they've created in Austin, and around the World, is the first-ever group-forming network for the ridesharing industry. Anyone familiar with "Reed’s Law of Group-Forming Networks" will see the inherent power of this decentralized, community-centric model. The value of a group-forming network — a network built on peer-to-peer transactions while also allowing groups to rapidly form and flow in accordance with market demand — is exponentially higher than a pseudo-peer-to-peer network like Uber and Lyft.
That is why Arcade City will give Uber and Lyft a major run for their money, despite their huge head start and billion-dollar budgets. Arcade City has something they don’t have and never will: an energetic and properly incentivized community.
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- Read this blog to learn more about the Arcade Tokens
Help me climb the Arcade City "Referral Leaderboard" ladder! Follow the 3 simple steps listed below, then use this link to track my progress - (ArcadeCityJudd)
- Download the Arcade City App and create an account
- Click on the drop down menu in the top left corner, then click on "Redeem Code"
- Enter my referral code - RpArb
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