Please describe your proposed solution.
PROBLEM:
Hosting a Cardano Coffee local event involves several steps and tools. Initially, event organizers must propose an idea to the Catalyst Fund, which may take up to 3 months for approval. There is a risk that established events may not receive a grant and may have to cease operations.
If the proposal is funded, the organizers need to use platforms like Eventbrite, Mailchimp, Facebook Event, or Luma to create event listings, sell tickets, and send invitation letters. Additionally, they need to utilize platforms such as Gleam to create social quests, like following someone on Twitter or joining Discord or Telegram. For interactive elements, organizers may employ tools like Kahoot for quiz games or random Lucky Draw Web Apps. They could use a random QR Code app as well, which might stop working or force users to watch an ad after 20 scans without notice.
Moreover, if the organizers want to distribute rewards in native tokens like ADA to attendees, it must be done manually.
Moreover, attendee data is collected and managed using spreadsheet apps like Google Sheets connected with Google Forms.
Hosting a hybrid event that combines in-person and on-chain technologies, such as a local educational Cardano Coffee event, can be time-consuming and necessitates the coordination of multiple apps.
Imagine they could do all that in one place.
SOLUTION:
Plats offers an all-in-one event platform for the Cardano Ecosystem that aims to streamline the organization of hybrid events for the Cardano Ecosystem, reducing costs and simplifying the process.
We will offer two main products:
- A Web Service for Event Organizers and Sponsors.
- Link to test our previous MVP: https://cws.plats.network/auth/cws (feel free to create an account and tinker with the MVP as you wish)
- MVP Included Event Creation, Tasks Creation, QR code Creation
(picture of previous MVP)
2..A Mobile App for Event Organizers, Attendees, and Sponsors.
- Link to test our Mobile App MVP of previous iteration: Android & iOS (with QR code scan, check-in at location) (feel free to create an account and tinker with the MVP as you wish)
(picture of previous MVP)
Detailed functions we expect to develop with Project Catalyst Funding
- CrowdSponsor in ADA:
- Organizers can create and customize a Sponsorship Section to attract sponsors within the Cardano Community. (ADA CrowdSponsor works globally in theory but will need to comply with the region's legal system before being applied.)
- ADA Depositing and Rewarding:
- ADA rewards are distributed on-chain. Organizers deposit ADA into a smart contract, and winners of minigames receive their rewards automatically to their wallets. Plats integrates with wallets like Yoroi or ADALite.
- ADA NFT Ticket Generation.
- Customized Invitation Links with Analytic Tools:
- Organizers can generate unique links for different communities, allowing them to assess community activity for future events. Attendees who register using these links receive Invitation Letters with QR codes as their tickets.
- Social Tasks for Marketing:
- Event organizers can set up social tasks such as Asking attendees to follow their Twitter, retweet a tweet, tag a friend, join a Discord, or Telegram Community. Organizers could also customize the eligibility of attendees to participate in the minigames via these social Tasks.
- In-person Tasks with QR Code Set up and Management:
- Organizers can easily generate QR codes for each session or booth. They can set conditions for attendees to participate in minigames, such as requiring them to scan a specific number of QR codes. This engagement strategy enhances attendee attention and involvement.
- Integrated Minigames:
- Plats offers in-app minigames, including Lucky Draw and Quiz. Organizers can define the criteria for participation, and eligible attendees automatically receive lucky numbers."
- Attendees Management:
- Comprehensive attendee management function including:
- Attendee list page
- Search attendee
- History of attendance
FUTURE DEVELOPMENT PLAN
We intend to apply for Fund 11 for the following functions:
- ADA Ticketing and Payment, NFT-gated events
- Standalone Sponsor Staking Pool prioritizing fast decision-making.
- Post-event Report/Statistics
- Matching between Event organizers and Venue owners
- Event Membership Card
How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?
Plats is closing the business gap between Sponsors and Event organizers, as well as promising to reduce the costs for Event Organizers by 50% while promising to bring more global users to Cardano Ecosystem.
Plats addresses the F10: Products & Integrations challenge because it creates value for the Cardano community and wider ecosystem by solving event business problems through a comprehensive set of event-specific tools, offering more use cases to ADA with the use of ADA as rewarding and sponsoring currency.
In details, the benefits that Plats will bring to the Cardano Ecosystem include:
Event platform with integration into the Cardano Ecosystem:
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Plats will help save a lot of time and effort to organize a hybrid event, integrating in-person event elements with Cardano Blockchain on-chain data access, for all classes of events from small (<50 attendees), to medium (50-200 attendees), and large events (over 200 attendees).
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Those who host Local Cardano Events such as Cardano Coffee Local events could use Plats as their one-stop solution for everything related to event-hosting and Cardano Blockchain.
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Currently, no other blockchain or blockchain community has an event platform dedicated to them yet. This would be a big plus for the Cardano Community.
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Our previous MVP iteration has successfully shown the capability of serving an event with over 1000 attendees.
Onboard more Web 2 users to Cardano Ecosystem:
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Billions of people are attending traditional events every day. With the capabilities of supporting both Web 2 and Web 3 events, Plats can reward native tokens like ADA, as well as NFTs, directly to new users' wallets without a hassle. This would benefit walk-ins, as well as those never heard of Cardano. This would increase the number of new users and new wallets.
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Aside from supporting a global audience and customers, Plats will be able to attract Vietnamese and Japanese users by offering the platform in Vietnamese and Japanese alongside English. The Vietnamese Market ( ranked #1 in Chainalysis Crypto Adoption 2022 Ranking) is a very potential market for Cardano Blockchain. Vietnam, yet the Cardano Blockchain community in Vietnam, namely Project Catalyst is not yet well-known to Vietnamese. Meanwhile, the Japanese Market is also where Cardano held its ICO.
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The Plats Team's CEO is also the founder and CEO of VAIX Group, an outsourcing company based in Vietnam with strong connections in Japan, South East Asia and East Asia region. Therefore, we have the resources to attract users in the South East Asia and East Asia regions.
ADA Usage in Plats Events will increase liquidity, trading volume and use case for ADA;
- The use of ADA as fuel for rewarding and sponsoring will increase the liquidity and trading volume as more participants engage within the platform.
Fluid and Uninterrupted Brand Recognition for Products built on Cardano Ecosystem as well as traditional non-blockchain brands.
- Plat's built-in Web 2 Social Tasks (QR code generation, minigames such as Quiz, Lucky Draw, check for Twitter follow, retweet, tag, Telegram, Discord onboarding…) and built-in Cardano Blockchain Tasks (NFT generation, native-token hold check, and reward distribution…) plays a crucial role in boosting brand value for products on Cardano Ecosystem.
- With Plats, Event organizers do not have to switch and use multiple, unreliable and fragmented platforms anymore.
Strengthening Cardano Communities Connection in all over the world
- Plat's ADA CrowdSponsor allows anyone to sponsor an event from anywhere in the world, as long as it accepts ADA. Interested parties from developed countries could sponsor Cardano Local events in developing countries, and vice versa.
If you are a business selling Cardano-related merchandise based in the US and you want to sell globally to customers in Vietnam, or in Tanzania, you could sponsor a Cardano Local Event in Vietnam or in Tanzania with ADA and showcase your company in that Event.
- By breaking down geographical barriers and facilitating direct connections, ADA CrowdSponsor strengthens the collective efforts of Cardano communities, fostering a vibrant and inclusive ecosystem that thrives on collaboration, innovation, and shared success.
Positive Perception and Reputation for Cardano Communities:
- The integration of ADA as fuel of all the system enhances the perception and reputation of Cardano Ecosystem. It showcases the platform's versatility and ability to be used in real-world applications, adding credibility to Cardano's ecosystem.
How do you intend to measure the success of your project?
Upon being funded, the brand of Plats Event Solution will go alongside the brand of Project Catalyst and Cardano Blockchain.
All of Cardano's logos and branding will be shown on our platform across our web service and mobile app.
We will track our success and contribution to the Cardano Ecosystem by the following specific metrics:
5 Main Quantitative measures:
For both Cardano Ecosystem and Plats:
- Number of global Cardano-related Events Organized using Plats MVP Globally
- Number of global Cardano-related Event Attendees using Plats MVP Globally
- Number of Cardano-related Events received sponsors via Plats MVP Globally
- The number of attendees received ADA rewards for the first time via Plats MVP Globally (increasing # of unique wallets)
- Costs saved for Event Organizers using Plats
1 Qualitative measures:
- Level of Ease of Use of Client Web Service, Mobile App and Event Feeds (Customer Reviews with and a sample scoring from 1 to 10)
The metrics are realistic because they are indicative of what Plats are striving to achieve as well.
Detailed final goals and monthly indicators to keep track according to each metric are available in the next question.
Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?
Project duration: 8 months
Target audience and customers:
- Cardano Community Members Globally
- Blockchain Early Adopters and Veterans Globally
- Traditional Event Organizers and Sponsors Globally
- New users curious about blockchain
Channels to publish our latest development updates:
- Documentations:
- On all of Plats's Social Media Outlets:
- Direct MVP public testing:
- Mobile App MVP: Android & iOS
- Web Service MVP: https://cws.plats.network/auth/cws
- Event Feeds Website: https://event.plats.network
- Online Report with video/audio on Zoom, Community Call:
- SWARM After Town Hall on the closest Wednesday after the end of a Milestone 18:00 UTC
- Or, Catalyst Town Hall on the closest Wednesday after the end of a Milestone 17:00 UTC
Results generated from the project in further research and development activities will continue to be utilized into the next phase of development. Fund10 does not mark the end of our product. We will continue development until we fulfil our goal of having a complete all-in-one event platform.