CARDSTACK - The experience layer of the decentralized internet
Cardstack is a platform for integrating mobile applications using blockchain technology. According to the technical documentation of this project, a decentralized system for purchasing applications will significantly increase the attractiveness of blockchain technology. This will make the interaction between the user and the developer easier. This is enough to understand what the goals set by the leaders of the team Cardstack, what ideas they pursue. Let's study the facts of this project in more detail.
The development of a full-fledged integrated system based on blockchain has been ongoing since 2017, however, individual components of the product (the system interacting with the user) are created for 4 years or more. This means that Cardstack is not just a "startup", but a system with a real technical base, constantly tested and improved.
"External" view Cardstack is a system reminiscent of CMS, integrating such simple and understandable things to the user as Search, Publication, Settings, Analysis, Store and so on. With the help of the interface, many decentralized users distribute "credit", expressed in tokens. Tokens pay for the purchase of software, but other types of transactions are possible. After the operation, the balance is adjusted.
A smart- contract "buyer-seller" is the Cardstack ecosystem. Conventional software development implies the following chain: the seller - the advertiser - the intermediary - the venture capitalist (invested and waiting for the profit from the investment) - and, finally, the buyer. The project makes this interaction as simple and straightforward as meets the philosophy of blockchain.
A critical approach to Cardstack is to evaluate the effectiveness of the system on blockchain technology against a similar project that is customary in an "office", commercial environment. Such graphics and smart plans you could see earlier if you were in the development department of any software. However, Cardstack is qualitatively different from any other distributed development system thanks to the blockchain. There is a place for three players - a miner, a software buyer and a software developer. The process of "lending" and buying is instant. This is one of the important differences from the usual commercial version of the program acquisition, the web interface, "protection", and so on.
Idea and concept
The main application of Cardstack is the development and implementation of software. The problems solved using the Cardstack protocols are:
• Secure sale of software;
• Realization of the product without intermediaries;
• Real-time interaction;
• Platform availability for all user groups;
• The ability to buy, sell, maintain and develop software is profitable and fast.
Problems:
• The release of software is expensive, you need funds for a license;
• Many applications with a homogeneous functional are combined into one;
• Dissemination of blockchain technologies in a professional environment.
Features available after the release of Cardstack:
Software Buyer:
• Single currency - you can pay with one coin with different developers;
• Integration of multiple applications into one;
• Clear, affordable product with the "interface" function;
• Work with fiat money;
• Protection by blockchain technology.
Software developers:
• Many customers at one point;
• Possibility of a secure sale without fraud;
• Communication with the user - creating close contacts without intermediaries.
For mining:
• Income from working with Cardstack;
• Product as the ultimate phenomenon of investment - a stable profit through the purchase of real software.
The Cardstack Team
• The developers of Cardstack - what do we know about them? The project's leader is Chris Tse, who distinguished himself with diverse experience in the development of mobile applications. In addition to working on software for mobile platforms, Chris is improving his own crypto-project management. Next - Ed Faulkner (Ed Faulkner) - Leading Lead Developer Cardstack.
• Faulkner gained fame in professional circles through cooperation with government agencies. Indeed, he was a specialist writing code for government organizations, as well as for business and social networks. Edward Faulkner's parallel work is consulting the business about creating and equipping companies with software. Today, the efforts of Lead-developer are concentrated on Cardstack. I think this choice is not accidental! It is expected that the integrated approach to work on mobile platforms and ICO is the basis of modern cryptoprojects for the next 3-5 years.
• The team also includes: Chris Gardell, Venkat Dinawahi, Aaron Saike, Will Bugby.
• The Cardstack office (development and design) is based in New York.
Stages of ICO:
Sale in a closed group - only for "enthusiasts" with a 20% discount (popularization, early interest);
For participants who invested $50,000 - sale at a discount of 10%;
Free implementation for all comers.
Assignment of collected funds: own funds in the Cardstack system; development of the project (reservation of tokens).
Barriers to investors:
• You are immediately at stage 2 ("threshold of entry");
• The project under development is not young, but not realized until the end;
• The probability of issuing a counter-product (similar) outside the blockchain;
• Investments through Ethereum.
Cardstack today
Pluses Cardstack: a single sentence inside the niche; stable project, with a strong technical base; the relatively low cost of the CARD and the available threshold of entry.
Cardstack problems: there is no final product implementation, system upgrade, selective test of individual product components outside sales.
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