The number of existing social media networks is on the rise, the top 10 platforms hosting more than 500 million users. The influx in usage raises a new question, are the existing platforms well equipped to cater to the rising demand? The answer lies in the quality of services offered by the media today. Social networks fail in almost every service provision aspect, including security, quality, and privacy; these platforms give more problems than social media solutions. Apollo fintech CEO Stephen Mccullah brings a new solution, Stratus.
Stratus is a blockchain social media platform that merges services from all social networking in the same dashboard. It is the first social media platform to vouch for freedom of speech. Moreover, it will implant end to end encryptions to all transactions and communications. The forum will replace all networks by giving the services offered in the current social networks.
Facebook
Stratus is set to replace Facebook by introducing all features that make up the platform. Foremost, Stratus will feature the ‘friends functionality’ that has attracted millions of Facebook users. The friend feature will allow individuals to connect with people around them, including workmates and fellow students.
Moreover, Stratus introduces the group and page functionalities. These widen the reach of advertisers and influencers. Stratus also implants events functionalities; with that, users can inform their friends and groups of upcoming events and allow them to participate.
Amazon and eBay
Amazon and eBay are currently the most prominent online stores. For instance, the Amazon platform has over 300 million monthly active users.
Stratus implants an online buying platform akin eBay and amazon. The forum will provide the marketplace functionality where users will choose from thousands of products.
Influencers will get product endorsement opportunities and earn extra commissions in the process. Stratus, therefore, eases the shopping hassles and gives profiteering opportunities to its users.
Youtube and Tiktok
Youtube and Tiktok are today the best tools for marketing, entertainment, and education videos. For instance, there are more than 2 billion monthly active youtube users.
Stratus merges youtube and TikTok video functionalities. However, Stratus provides the best services by allowing content creators to yield maximum returns from their content by offering the VIP content option.
VIP content has a minimum fee charged per view. If an influencer decides to charge $1 per viewer, they will earn $1 million for a million views. This income is exceptionally high compared to Youtube’s profit rates of about $5 for every 1 thousand views. Influencers will enjoy the maximum airing time and maximum value of their content.
Instagram and Whatsapp
Instagram has a current usage of 1 billion people every month. Whatsapp, a Facebook company product, also enjoys a wide adoption of close to 1.6 billion monthly active users. The two platforms enjoy wide usage because of their best features.
Instagram, for example, has the stories feature used by close to half of its users. Whatsapp gives the options of direct messages, audio, and video calls, all of which streamline communication.
Stratus encrypts all communications; thus, all users interact freely without fearing leaks of their information. Aside from Instagram and WhatsApp features, Stratus will replace the platforms wholly.
Medium
Medium is a platform that allows users to post short articles about products. Various blockchain companies, including Apollo, use this venue.
Stratus will embed services similar to medium. It gives bloggers and influencers a platform to post their articles and advertise their goods and services. The forum will have a broad reach; therefore, many will access and read the educational articles. These blogs will focus on everything from medicine, technology, finance, e.t.c. Stratus will have a significant impact on the education sector.
Twitter
Twitter, as a social media platform, has features partly unique to it. Among the features is the hashtag feature. Hashtags are standard functionalities that aid in social media campaigns. They are codewords that begin with the # symbol. Stratus will feature the hashtag functionalities, and thus users will readily engage in social media campaigns.
Coinbase, Paypal, and Robinhood
Coinbase is currently one of the most popular crypto exchange platforms. Robinhood, on the other hand, gives users investment opportunities, including investment in gold and stock.
Stratus is reforming Coinbase by embedding a universal crypto exchange platform. The platform will allow any crypto users to exchange the cryptocurrency of their choice, including Apollo currency 24/7.
Apart from crypto investing, Stratus will offer fiat investment opportunities like Robinhood. Investors will get a chance of saving in stock, gold, and other assets. Unlike any other social media ecosystem, Stratus merges the features of PayPal to ease payments between individuals.
Conclusion
Stratus, the blockchain social media ecosystem, will unveil in the 3rd quarter of 2020. The platform features functionalities of the currently existing social networking systems. The hashtags, stories, groups, events, articles, and other features will attract billions of people to the ecosystem.
Stratus will manage to replace the existing platforms by ending all issues clouding the current systems. These include censorship and data selling practices. Since the platform’s basis is on the blockchain, it will enjoy the best blockchain features, including adaptive forging and database level sharding. These algorithms will increase the scalability of the blockchain and ensure the fast completion of communications.
Graviton Web3 Accelerator’s digitally simulcast Demo Day event saw participation from VCs and angels around the world, focused on a cumulative raise of $10Mn for their first cohort.
Graviton, a web3-focused accelerator for emerging markets backed by global VCs such as Hashkey Capital, Moonrock Capital, NGC Ventures, 369 Capital, Ascensive Assets, Stacker Ventures, MH Ventures, G1 Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC), and GravityX Capital, recently organized its first-ever digitally simulcast Demo Day.
The event saw participation from over 70 global investors from 16 countries, with all eyes converging on what the six teams at Graviton are busy building and scaling. These teams have emerged as outliers from a pool of 300+ startups that had applied to get accelerated through the Graviton ecosystem.
Graviton’s uniquely designed accelerator program arms a limited cohort of promising early-stage web3 founders with a healthy infusion of institutional capital (marked by a seed investment into each team), technical grants and integrations from a vast partner ecosystem, mentorship from proven industry experts to help the teams with business strategy, tech fundamentals, growth marketing, and fundraising, as well as expanded networking opportunities to help them raise serious capital in the long run.
“While the ongoing ‘bear market’ sentiment fosters a conservative investment mindset around the world for crypto platforms, we at Graviton believe that world-class technology products led by visionary founders are always ahead of the curve, and always lucrative to serious investors”, remarked Arpit Nik (Founder & CEO at Graviton and a General Partner at GravityX Capital). Arpit and team have been hard at work since December last year, to identify India’s strongest founders with a penchant to build for the decentralized web.
The six teams that emerged frontrunners amidst a plethora of applicants, include:
Spydra – An enterprise grade blockchain solution that is helping large organizations migrate their existing tech stack from web2 to web3, making the transition as frictionless as possible. Led by the seasoned and suave Manish Tewari (with massive previous exits at Koovs.com and Pokkt), Spydra is powering the largest status-quo migration in enterprise tech, since the advent of AWS and cloud-computing. They’re already clocking an annual run rate of $100K in revenue, servicing clients such as Raymond, Myntra, and the National Payments Corporation of India.
Wall – This team is solving one of the most significant challenges of web3, i.e. community building. Wall helps businesses acquire and take community members through beautifully mapped custom user journeys, helping them claim rewards (such as Airdrop tokens), while completing platform-mandated tasks across multiple touch points (such as Twitter, Telegram, Discord, etc). It offsets the community moderation costs for emerging web3 platforms, and after helping 40+ projects design custom reward pathways, Wall is fast emerging as the go-to community building solution for L1 and L2 ecosystems. Wall is helmed by Anuj Kumar Kodam (ex IIT Kharagpur, IIM Calcutta, and formerly part of the founder’s office at Ola Cabs).
Strive – Global opinion on the utility of NFTs is divided, and Strive is here to change that. With a proprietary layer that facilitates the sharing and trading of NFT utilities, the team is expanding the possibilities of what one can do with NFTs today. Using Strive, any business, brand, or artist-led community can monetize their audience and influence with ease. Kartik Mehrotra (ex UC Berkeley) leads the show at Strive Network.
Zoth – Crypto users of today are struggling to find secure and passive income generating opportunities, despite the total value of crypto finance having breached $1Trillion as of 2022. Pritam Dutta (ex Ab-InBev, Mahindra & Mahindra) and team Zoth are on a mission to democratize global access to affordable capital, through the tokenization of real world assets. They’ve already deployed $500K in capital, and have a little under $10M in their managed assets pipeline.
Fetcch – The motto and creed at Fetcch is to make web3 payments as simple as Venmo or Paypal. Mandar Ray, CEO at Fetcch, explains that they’re building an abstracted middleware layer that removes the complexities associated with wallet addresses, which in turn is a giant leap towards the mainstream adoption of web3. Recently, the team has opened up beta access to Fetcch Pay, their flagship payments product.
GG Nation – eSports is booming, and team GG Nation has done a stellar job of capturing the mindshare of student gamers across 250+ Indian colleges in 18 cities. Today, GGNation has more than 200,000 gamers on its roster, with an aim to onboard India’s first million gamers. Abhinandan, the founder and CEO, has a remarkable track record with two of India’s biggest sports IPs, Indian Racing League and Premier Futsal, achieving impressive media value, viewership, and live attendance.
Over the last 16 weeks, these teams have been immersed in interactive workshops with a team of 50+ remarkable mentors – all of whom are established thought leaders in their respective domains. And in exchange for their time and imparted wisdom, Graviton has created a circular rewards model, with each mentor acquiring nominal equity in these teams, proportionate to the time they spend nurturing each product. Arjun Kalsy (ex-Growth lead at Polygon), for instance, has a vested interest in the success of each of these six teams, as one of their growth mentors. The same is true for Parth Chaturvedi of Coinswitch Ventures, Vijay Pravin of bitsCrunch, and many others who have become an integral part of the growth journeys of all 6 teams.
The success of Graviton’s Demo Day is owed largely to the efforts of Program Director Jeffrey Broer, who is a seasoned web3 investor at Mulana Capital, and a highly sought-after blockchain mentor and speaker.
“Supporting visionary entrepreneurs on their transformative journeys in the web3 realm brings me immense joy. I extend my heartfelt gratitude to the nurturing Graviton ecosystem for promoting an inclusive culture of progress. May the six teams embark on a remarkable path of growth and achievement!”
– Vijay Pravin (CEO, bitsCrunch & Growth Mentor at Graviton)
“All hands aboard is the philosophy that drives us to help startups and founders. We’re glad that this team of web3 disruptors came together at Graviton, and forever indebted to our invaluable mentors, who have helped craft this journey together. With everyone’s hearts set on building sustainably for the decentralized internet, we’re just really excited about what the future holds for the Indian web3 space”
– Vishal Sanap (Head of Portfolio Growth & Development at Graviton)
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LedgerFi, a leading decentralized web 3.0 secure communication platform built on the XDC Network, is excited to announce that their token sale will commence on March 14th, 2021 on XDC Sale. The token sale will offer investors the opportunity to purchase the native $LFT tokens of LedgerFi and join an innovative ecosystem of Decentralized Communication Service integrated with Decentralized Finance for enabling the seamless exchange of digital assets through a unified platform.
LedgerFi has envisioned to become the world’s first Decentralized Digital Asset Exchange (DDAX) platform through which users can transfer all types of digital assets with a military grade security, cryptographic encryption, privacy and prevention from cyber attacks using the power of Blockchain technology.
LedgerFi is a one-stop-shop for DeFi users that provides access to various communication protocols and services in the industry such as Ledger Mail which is already live in the market and it has 750K users exchanging 2M+ emails,and upcoming products like
Ledger Chat: The Decentralized Instant Messaging Solution enabling users to instantly chat with peers without worrying about centralized governance. LedgerChat allows users to seamlessly communicate with each other without compromising their Digital Identity & Data Sovereignty. It’s in beta at the moment.
Ledger Live: The Decentralized Audio & Video Call Platform allows individuals & businesses to connect with each other in real-time. The centralized access point utilized in conventional VoIP solutions is eliminated with blockchain based communication technologies. Eliminating the hassle of handling centralized, cumbersome & hackable legacy platforms with the high-performing next-gen solution. Instead, a blockchain based communication system sends the signal from the calling party to a receiving number, which is then replaced by a dispersed network shared by all network users.
Ledger Pay: The Decentralized Cross-Border Remittance platform providing human-readable, interoperable & lightning-fast payment transfer capabilities for financial inclusion of the unbanked individuals.
Ledger Mint: Metaverse Interconnected NFT Transfer Hyper-personalized social connectivity for transferring, exchanging & showcasing NFTs and other digital assets through an interactive & interconnected platform.
LedgerFi provides a web 3.0 communication service built on blockchain technology for secure communication through email, chat & payment applications. LedgerFi provides blockchain based Decentralised communication service & Decentralised Digital Assets Exchange for secure communication.