“Centrifuge - a machine that is used to train cosmonauts before they go into space.”
Gamification of the educational process and engaging people in project activities by creating tasks that reward participants upon completion is one of the most effective tools for developing projects and communities.
The growth of projects and communities has become closely tied to platforms for creating quests and tasks, with platforms like Zealy, BBlock, and Galaxy dominating in the launch and development of projects and communities. Initially, these platforms offered their services for free, but as their popularity grew, these services became paid.
Projects spend huge amounts to pay for the functionality and services of such platforms to retain users and maintain the activity of their communities. At the same time, many non-commercial projects, which play an important role in creating non-economic values (cultural and psychological values, decentralized governance, human rights protection, ecological and humanitarian education), have become hostages of this situation: their community development activities were heavily dependent on these platforms, but due to the commercialization of functionality, they lost the ability to continue their activities as they could not afford to pay for the functionality and services of these platforms. Moreover, there are no alternative open-source platforms for creating quests and tasks.
It is obvious that in the list of public goods, we lack a platform for creating quests and tasks... So let’s fix this!
Centrifuge is an open-source interchain platform for creating quests and tasks, which will enable the development of projects and communities! To connect to Centrifuge, a project or user only needs a crypto-wallet. Projects can create quests and tasks and set rewards for their completion. Users can complete quests and tasks to receive rewards. Posting and completing quests and tasks are transactions in the blockchain.
A user can connect to the Centrifuge platform as a Project and/or Cosmonaut.
When connecting as a Project:
- Projects can create their project profile
- From their profile, Projects can create and post quests and tasks, as well as set rewards for completing these quests and tasks
- Projects can specify rewards in experience points or crypto
- Rewards can be set for completing a single task or for a quest (completing a series of related tasks)
When connecting as an Cosmonaut:
- Cosmonauts can explore Project profiles and see available quests and tasks, along with the rewards for completing them
- Cosmonauts can choose a quest or task, complete it, and receive a reward for the completed quest or task
The Centrifuge platform allows Projects to create quests and tasks with automatic verification or manual verification (depending on the Project's preference). For Cosmonauts, the Centrifuge platform provides the opportunity to confirm the completion of a quest or task in the manner specified by the Project.
Creating a project profile, posting quests and tasks, specifying rewards, choosing quests and tasks, and confirming the completion of quests and tasks are all transactions in the blockchain, ensuring that the information is verifiable and provable.
Projects can be confident that their quests and tasks are completed, and Cosmonauts can be assured that they will receive rewards for completing quests and tasks.
Based on data from the blockchain, the Centrifuge platform creates ratings for Projects and Cosmonauts and displays these ratings to users in the format and by the metrics they choose.
Zealy is the cheapest quest- / task- hosting platform for now.
Zealy asks for their service minimum 549$ per month (6588$ per year) from each project, and this amount is higher the more users interact with the platform. A lot of projects and communities have a Zealy program, but they are not really happy with the price of service, but they can't stop to use it, because they don't have any real alternative to Zealy, and they don't want to lose participants.
All these projects and communities will be glad to move their activity from Zealy to the alternative service, if this service will provide the same functionality, but will ask for less payment.
All other quest- / task- hosting platforms are more expensive than Zealy. To use such platforms as BBlock or Galaxy, price starts from 15.000$
Centrifuge will have totally the same functionality, but the price will be much less:
- To connect to Centrifuge, projects will need to use not web2-services, but crypto wallets
- To create their own profile, the project will need to make just a one-time payment
- Another solution: Projects don't pay anything for creating quests or tasks, but every creation of quest and/or task - is a transaction in the blockchain, and projects need to pay a fee.
Projects always create new quests and tasks, so they always will pay fees, which will increase the amount of transactions in the blockchain.
And every time, when user take quest and/or task - user pay fee (for users it's very small amount), and when user return to proof that quest/task solved, user again need to pay fee, it means, that total amount of transactions in the blockchain will be increased in many times.
For example, if a project created 10 quests, and 3000 users took these quests, and after proof that they solved it - it will be an additional 60.000 transactions in the blockchain, just from one project. And it can be done in just 1 day! This is not optimism, this is how it works in Zealy or BBlock, and users solved many more tasks, so this is a pessimistic scenario!
So, with such a model, projects will be very motivated to move their quests from Zealy, BBlock and/or Galaxy to Centrifuge, because for projects it will be very cheap, and for users it also will be very cheap. Every user is ready to send much more than 10 trx per day to have a chance to win reward, we can see it by any airdrop campaign, where users send 100-200 trx everyday, to be eligible for airdrop!
6) Our market entry strategy is mass dissemination of information about the Centrifuge platform among the community, and for this we have several large communities and social networks, for example:
In addition, for projects it does not matter which platform to use, they proceed from the costs of paying for such services, and it is obvious that with the same functionality, but with costs hundreds of times less, Centrifuge will be more profitable than Zealy, BBlock or Galaxy.
For users, it does not matter where to complete tasks, they are motivated exclusively by the rewards for completing such tasks
- Centrifuge offers a more affordable and efficient solution for creating quests and tasks.
- With integration with crypto wallets, and economic benefits, it has the potential to become the leading platform for interaction between projects and cosmonauts, contributing to the growth of transactions.