patron
patron - The patronage platform for artists, creators, and free speech on the web3.
About
patron leverages the synergies of classical web2-based patronage platforms with the key characteristics of the blockchain: anonymity or identity (whichever desired), financial support, immutability of content, non-fungible collectibles, and decentralized architecture. Why do we need patron? For the ease of use and for the independence of artists and creators! Use cases: - Independent artists and creators sharing their work with the world. - Journalists (even anonymous), yet backable by crypto, sharing independent news. - News curators compiling domain specific news from around the world. Features: patron is an attempt to empower creative individuals to share their work and creations with the world. The goals of the platform are: - Ease of use of blockchain technology. - Anonymous or identified financial backing of artists and creators, anonymous or identified roles for artists and creators. - Decentralized content delivery. - Immutability guarantees that digital content cannot be altered or removed (think of independent journalism). Discovery: How do you ensure artists and creators get discovered? A classical portal website will be the interface to the content and work of creators where patrons can customize their feed by up- or downvotes, similar to reddit or hacker news.
How it's made
This is a noob's project based on Scaffold-ETH. An idea. Aside of the great Scaffold-ETH jumpstart nothing else works, yet. Scaffold-ETH is an incredible starter package to get a project off the ground. As for sponsor technologies, the following uses are planned: - TheGraph for indexing and finding news posts, work artifacts, and documents. - Xmtp for publishing messages between patrons and creators. - Push for notifications of replies, favorites. - IPFS/Filecoin to store bigger attachments linked to messages (PDFs, archives, documents). - Livepeer for video attachments and live video chats. - WorldID for world-wide verified identification (this is optional, both for patrons and creators). - Uniswap to implement token swaps between creators and their patrons. - 0x - like uniswap - to implement token swaps between creators and their patrons. - polygon to publish work on the network. - skale to publish work on the network.