Cardstack The Experience of the decentralized Internet

März 08, 2018

Cardstack The Experience of the decentralized Internet

Cardstack — the application framework and the team behind it — is ready to organize this community, in order to build an alternative app market with open-web technologies, guided by the open-source ethos and enabled by a one-in-a-generation breakthrough of blockchains.

About Cardstack

The Cardstack Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in the Canton of Zug, Switzerland. Its goal is to promote and develop the Cardstack software, architecture, protocol, and applications. The Foundation can support and finance research and development activities that promote the Cardstack software, architecture, and protocol. It will be responsible for the planned fundraiser and ensure that the funds raised are budgeted and allocated to fulfill its founding charter.

Foundation Charter

Act as steward for the continual development and improvement of the Cardstack software, architecture, and protocols
Encourage the publishing of open-source code, data formats, and documentation within the Cardstack ecosystem
Facilitate a well-functioning market that encourages adoption and usage of the Cardstack software, architecture, and protocols
Develop and refine economic and statistical models, which guarantee a fair allocation of rewards to the participants of the Cardstack ecosystem
Educate the world on the value of the Cardstack approach through advocacy, training, events, and all other means of communication
Fund pioneering research initiatives that can unlock the potential of the ecosystem
Support the Foundation’s continuous operation through direct or indirect contributions from users
Design and implement cryptography-based trust models that reward good-faith actors and resist attacks from bad actors
Foster an inclusive, welcoming community of contributors who believe in tolerance, respect, inclusion, and hard work
Delegate the responsibilities to carry out the functions of the Foundation through the selection of competent

Technology

Cardstack is a leap forward for blockchain at every layer of the software stack — providing a toolset that unlocks the potential of the decentralized Internet for everyone.

APP FRAMEWORK

Cardstack Framework is a comprehensive SDK for building powerful, cohesive blockchain apps. At the core is Cardstack Hub, which orchestrates data and value transfer across multiple blockchains and the cloud.

AGGREGATION PROTOCOL

Cardstack-powered dApps can tap into the Tally protocol, which gives dApps the power to perform complex computations to organize large networks of users — such as batching payments, counting votes, and rewarding good work.

ECOSYSTEM TOKEN

Developers can monetize their Cardstack- based apps via the smart contracts powered by the Cardstack Token (CARD), an Ethereum-based ERC20 token designed to fairly reward Cardstack- powered communities.

Features & Benefits

For End-users

Mix and match multiple dApps and cloud apps
Create amazing new workflow and app combinations using Cardstack Hub
Use one token (CARD) that forms retainer agreements with all the services you need
Keep your data sovereign, or transmit it anywhere easily, with our card-based user experience
Get started quickly with fiat currency: no crypto expertise required

For Developers

Use our comprehensive SDK to build powerful, beautiful, extensible apps
Access a deep library of powerful drop-in functionality
Improve your app experience using Cardstack’s off-chain aggregation
Get paid fairly by our community-run payment and governance algorithm
Get reimbursed for your material costs
Keep things 100% open-source

For Analytic Miners

Do the useful work of powering community-run algorithms that create a fair distribution of wealth
Help protect the system against outliers, bad-faith actors, and spam
Earn fees in the form of Cardstack Tokens that can be held or circulated back into the ecosystem
Get compensated via a sortition scheme that prevents single parties controlling the reward function

Cardstack’s approach to decentralizaton lets self-sovereign users act as their own hub, so that interactions with applications and services running on networks of different topologies flow through a software stack controlled by the users.

Token Mechanisms

Our ecosystem is governed by smart contracts powered by the Cardstack Token (CARD). With this single token, users can pay for their entire mix of software usage, verified by our off-chain consensus protocol. The result is a seamless experience for consumers, and fair rewards for makers and miners.

Cardstack Token (CARD) is a utility token allowing end- users and businesses to use applications that interact with multiple blockchains, decentralized protocols, app-coin-backed dApps, and cloud- based services while paying a single on-chain transaction fee.
In this specialized settlement network, software makers earn tokens from a reward pool, proportionally allocated based on usage data, code dependencies, user feedback, and transaction history — which is crunched and verified by analytic miners.
Software and services need predictable pricing. To get started, a user converts Cardstack Tokens into non-transferrable tokens called Software and Services Coupons (SSC) which are pegged to the US dollar, before the coupon is deposited in an application’s retainer contract. Meanwhile, the Cardstack Tokens are added to the reward pool.
When the app is used, coupons are burned to form an on-chain transaction history that helps determine the allocation of Cardstack Tokens to reward makers.
A smart contract under the user’s control can top-off an app retainer when tokens run low, while another contract operating at the network-level can exchange Cardstack Tokens to other utility tokens as needed, all without user intervention.

Introducing Cardstack Token

Cardstack Token is the fuel and catalyst for the global movement towards a sustainable software market built on open-source code and powered by crypto-economics.

UPDATE: Details about the Cardstack Token Generation Event have just been published: Read the Medium post

Token CARD

Price 1 CARD = 0.0175 USD

Platform Ethereum

Accepting ETH

Country USA

Our mission is to build an economically sustainable software ecosystem that fights back against the rampant lock-in mechanisms of centralized platforms.