Purpose

HQ is a decentralized design and innovation platform on a mission to dramatically improve how freelancers work and how entrepreneurs build businesses.

The consulting industry, like most professional services, is being attacked by rent-seeking centralized networks. Companies like Upwork, Toptal and Gigsy threaten the IDEOs and the McKinseys of the world. But those freelance marketplaces derive their value primarily from the network effects generated by their members.

As a decentralized network owned by its members, HQ can compete with consulting companies and freelance marketplaces using content, courses and workshops that freelancers are already making.

HQ for Entrepreneurs

• HQ.design features high quality content about design and how the design process can be applied to creating businesses, products and services.

• HQ offers courses and workshops on how to using the design process to create businesses, products and services.

• HQ provides free account management services to help entrepreneurs develop a creative brief for their project and get connected with the right talent.

HQ for Designers, Developers and Creatives:
HQ helps freelancers run their career like a business, not a job.

• HQ members use our platform to sell workshops, courses, and consulting services.

• HQ enables members to create ad-hoc teams that can be spun up for one project and then dissolved when the last .01 ETH is distributed.

• Members have a public reputation fingerprint that is a product of their activity on the network.

• Each member brings their own audience to the network and with that audience a stream of potential job leads. Members can pay/stake tokens to get more job leads or can give their job leads to the network to earn fees.

• A reputation system ensures members maintain a level of quality in their work and can safely refer work to other members.

HQ was inspired by successful creatives cooperatives like Pentagram and Stocksy, modern web platforms like Dribbble, Upwork and Medium, and innovations around decentralized applications.

Description:

HQ helps freelance designers and makers attract an audience to their work and build systems and processes to sell their services. For entrepreneurs, we provide access to a trusted network of designers and creators and an easy way to grow design capacity and build new value for your company.

When you're a freelancer you run your own business, which is amazing and liberating. You also run your own business, which is quite a bit of work. Many freelancers, overwhelmed by the sales and marketing part of their job, fail to do it or they outsource the job to an agency or platform. At best this costs X% of their total earnings. At worst they end up working like full time employees but without benefits or job security.

On the other side of this market, entrepreneurs looking to buy design services find most agencies charge 4x the hourly rate one would pay a freelancer, simply to cover overhead. But those higher fees don't always equate to more effective outcomes.

Competitive Landscape

There are many successful professional services companies like WPP, Omnicom, Kyu Collective, Pentagram, Teague, AKQA, Goodby Silverstein Partners, McKinsey, Bain, Accenture and others. They attract talent and clients through their good reputations. People work at those places, are 'proven' as experts and then go off on their own to charge high prices as independent consultants.

Now platform companies are disrupting consulting companies. At the low-end of the market, companies like Upwork, Freelancer.com, Design Inc. and Crew are putting downward pressure on prices for consulting services. At the same time, platforms like LinkedIn, Medium, Behance and Dribble are making it easier to rapidly create a reputation and audience.

Independent Consultants are Underserved.

Despite the growth in platforms and freelance work, the cards are still stacked against independent creatives. Most have few options to solve their most basic business challenges. One could join a consulting company, go to a placement agency, or join one of the platforms, but each will take a large portion of your earnings in exchange for some kind of certainty or ease of use.

Decentralized networks offer an appealing alternative to those models.

About our team and the HQ project:

Our current team which we are actively looking to DIVERSIFY and GROW is...

Alex Ryan
Amadeo DeSouza
Tracy Deluca
Jasper Speicher
Kai Hsing

HQ was inspired a project that Amadeo and I built in 2014, Talkshop. That (now inactive) project taught us a lot about networks and how to sell creative services.

You can join us on the HQ community Slack here

We are working on a prototype of the app and will share here as soon as it is ready.

We look forward to your feedback and collaboration!

username on district0x Slack: alx

etherAid – A Decentralized Local Charity

Purpose

Share the wealth.

The etherAid network will connect local charities directly with donors across the world. The network will provide immediate funding to those most in need, all sourced from the thriving crypto economy. Charities are held to high ethical and fiscal standards using the etherAid Reputation System (eRS). Donor funds are managed by a smart contract system that gradually releases funds based on the charity's reputation.

[ Look for sections in italics where we need help from the community! ]

Description

In today’s world, charitable programs receive a great deal of international attention and support, particularly in the aftermath of terrorist attacks or natural disasters. In these times of need, the world is eager to provide support, however obstacles stand in the way. Traditional financial systems do not allow for real-time transfer of funds. Lack of transparency into operations force donors to rely on trusted centralized organizations like the Red Cross. At best, the current system is highly inefficient; at worst, it is susceptible to corruption.

Individual donors do not have the choice of how specifically to allocate funding. They may decide to support “improving education in Oakland” for instance, but they cannot decide whether to pay for teacher education or for improved technology in schools. Again we rely on centralized organizations to handle this decision-making.

With etherAid, local charities will be able to set up comprehensive budgeting proposals and lobby directly to a pool of potential donors. Donors will decide which charities to support based on (1) need, (2) track record of execution, and (3) current funding status.

Stakeholders

The EtherAid network is made up of 2 stakeholder groups:

1) The Charity – The local charity is the primary beneficiary of the network. As a local charity, you will register a project on etherAid with a basic profile including cause, budget proposal, and funding goal. The success of your charity relies on building positive reputation through transparent use of funds and effective communication back to your donors.

• Budgets can be built around any ERC-20 token
• [ If you know of any local charity programs that would be interested in joining the etherAid pilot launch, please reach out. Early adopters to the platform must be progressive enough to accept funding in crypto and have a solid history of managing donor funds. ]

2) The Donor – Individual donors are the heart of the network. They want to support their communities. They do not wish to blindly throw money at a large organization, but they want to actively participate in the management of their funds. The success of the network relies on donors maintaining a level of engagement in their charities and holding them to a high standard of quality.

• Over the long run, donors will ultimately dictate the future direction of funding models, minimum standards of quality, and budgeting best practices

Funding mechanisms

Charities establish detailed budgets to which donors can pledge funds. Once the budget parameters are met, donor funds will be locked in a smart contract that governs their release. Releases are dependent upon the charity maintaining a minimum level of reputation in the etherAid Reputation System (eRS).

eRS is a system that gives the donors a way to govern the funds locked away in contribution smart contracts. Donors are able to influence the reputation of charities, and charities must maintain an acceptable level of reputation in order to spend donor funds.

To begin, charity budgets will have very slow release schedules dependent on very high charity reputation levels (high eRS score). Over time the standards will be adjusted by the community using free market mechanisms.

[ We are currently looking for someone with technical experience in implementing reputation systems to assist with the build out of eRS. If you are interested, please contact mrponcho. ]

In future iterations of etherAid, emergency funding will be possible by utilizing eRS. Multiple high reputation charities and donors can cooperate to approve a particular budget to receive accelerated funding releases. This is a vision that will enable etherAid to one day meet the needs for disaster relief funding.

Utilization of district0x features

etherAid is a perfect fit for district0x.

• Posting & Listing: Charities post detailed budgets, long term funding roadmaps, and measurable goals.
• Searching & Filtering: Donors can find charities by searching by name, location, purpose, description, or keywords.
• Ranking & Reputation: Charities must maintain a level of reputation in order to receive funding from pledges locked in a smart contract. Donors collectively influence the reputation of charities.
• Payments & Invoicing: Pledged funds are sent to a smart contract. The contract releases funds to the charities if certain parameters are met, including operational goals and reputation.

etherAid's future roadmap

In the near term, etherAid will be focused on building eRS, onboarding local charities, and fostering support across the crypto community. We will begin with simple, conservative funding contracts based on reputation. As the community grows, we will build more complex funding mechanisms, allowing us to meet more needs.

• Emergency relief funding mechanism
• Dynamic eRS based on external inputs
• [ If you have any other ideas about how to improve or build upon etherAid, please reach out! ]

In summary

The etherAid network is a way for local charities to leverage the power of the decentralized web for the good of society. It connects donors directly with local charities, bypassing inefficient intermediaries. The etherAid Reputation System (eRS) creates incentives that ensure funds are used ethically and in line with donor expectations.

Overall, the etherAid network will take overhead cost and skepticism out of the global aid market, freeing up more capital to quickly move to those most in need.

Message me on district0x slack @mrponcho !

Name

BlockSchool

Purpose

This district will allow people to enroll in courses that teach blockchain-related technologies. Someone could also set up, design and publish his own course that other people can enroll in for a predetermined fee. This district can also integrate with ethlance so that people can offer to work with their newly learned skills.

Description

The purpose of this district is threefold. One of the most common problems companies have when hiring blockchain devs is actually finding good candidates that know what they're doing, are well-versed in the industry and understand the technology. This is partly because blockchain technology is fairly new it's developers are limited. Another purpose is that many people are interested in starting a career in blockchain technology and need to know how to start, what to learn and how to learn it.

In a nutshell, this district will:

• Allow people that are interested in blockchain technologies to learn about it (ie: Solidity and smart contracts).
• Allow people with knowledge in blockchain tech to teach others and get paid for it.
• Allow companies to easily find blockchain developers as they increase.

This is a win-win-win scenario. Companies find developers, developers offer their expertise to teach and people get to learn how blockchain technologies. Thus enlarging the ecosystem and spreading the knowledge around.

Course curriculum will be left to the teacher to decide, students can check the curriculum and other course info before enrolling. Teachers can decide on how they want the course to operate (ie: number of students, duration, pricing, assignments, etc).

Purpose

This district will bringt Ethereum developers a sleek toolbox to get help writing the future of Ethereum.
ToolShed will host code snippets in solidity, as well quasi standards. The content will be completely decentralized in matter of hosting and governance.

Description

ToolShed is inteded to help developer to reach a very high quality standard, as well as spark new ways of thinking and allow every users to participate in the development of Ethereum.
ToolShed would feature a StackOverflow like voting strucutre, as well as an reputation system. These systme will work for coders as well as snippets. This leads to well-written code snippets reaching the top of the queue and could feature a way of standardisation. Well rated snippets are deployed onto the blockchain and can be used from there without the furtner need to reimplement / redeploy them (DELEGATECALL for the win).
Users may ask questions and offer some reputation as a reward. Experienced coders will then answer those questions and the reward will be added to the snipped and to the personal score of the coder.
Users can use their reputation to upvote snippets and discuss flaws / improvements.
If a snippet reaches a certain threshold it will be promoted to a standalone tool and will be availabel from the frontpage.

Benefit for users

Expert-Coder:

Ability to earn reputation and to influence the future of Ethereum. Technical plattform to exchange ideas and to avoid pitfalls. With a high enough density ToolShed can kickstart every development endeavour and even provide whole project templates. Reputation values your inpout and knowledge and enables you to participate and make you voice heard

Adept-Coders:

Ask questions and get the right answers. Look up best practices and learn from standards. Drive Ethereum towards a unified platform, with interoperability and a collective effort to make the best applications become a reality.

Machines:

With enough snipped machine learning can be used to construct contract automatically, allowing even non-programmers to create their ideas on the blockchain. There was a prototype doing this with Stackoverflow a few weeks ago, which I need to find again. Basically you would formulate a task and the AI would grab code from SO and compile your program, worked well for simple tasks

EDIT: Slack: @floAr

DP #47: True-Live (co-living lifestyle marketplace)

Author

@nicozuj

Name

True-Live

Purpose

Could you imagine to experience a new way of living?
With True-Live you can join interesting people in interesting places for some days or a year.
True-Live is a network of global coliving spaces that provide everything you need to feel at home and be productive the moment you arrive. Great wifi connectivity, a coworking space, chef’s kitchen and a diverse community.

Community

Find supportive and friendly faces wherever you are.
Show up and find community anywhere. Each Roam location is much bigger than a house, so that we can comfortably support a large, diverse community with plenty of gathering spaces for events, meetings and classes, for both members and neighbors.

Step-by-Step how to:

4 easy steps:

1. User #A submits a potential location to be part of True-Live and goes through a reviewing process in order to validate his location meets all the criteria needed (strategic geographical location, quality accommodations, co-working space, extra services, etc). This process will be refined by letting the current citizens vote on the Criteria.
2. User #B applies to become a citizen of True-Live by paying a monthly fee.
3. User #B submits a request to stay at User #A True-Live location by checking availability and the community profiles (optional public listed) on that place being able to contact for common interests.
4. User #A confirms availability and prepares for the welcome process.
   Reward mechanism
   As we understand the biggest challenge will be breaking the marketplace two sided parts (owners and clients) is very tough task, we will set up the next rewards to incentivize both:
   Becoming one of the first 20 owners around the world (the plan is covering all the major cities of the world during the initial stage) will reward with a % of all the tokens received from every other location added after those initial 20 ones.
   Becoming one of the first 1000 citizens will get a lifetime discount of 50% of the monthly fee after the first year.
   For every new location that you recommend and get accepted by the community you will get a 1% fixed income of the tokens generated by that location during its lifetime.
   For every 5 new citizens that you recommend you will get a 25% discount during the period the are active within True-Live.
   How would it work long term
   We will operate as a decentralized franchise, adding value to each location of the community.
   That way we will be able to provide a continue revenue stream to the decentralized organization governed with the help of Aragon and owned by the same location owners and citizens who benefit from it.
   We would add services like marketing, listings, advertising, how-to’s, etc. to each location part of the community in exchange of a % monthly fee based on the amount of tokens earned by citizens hosted monthly.

Name
SecondBlocK, SBK, Decentralized second hand Marketplace

Purpose
You can exchange / buy / sell physical and digital assets at the price agreed upon by the participants. Even you can follow the sellers you are interested in and see which items they put on sale instantly.

Description
General use of the district
The district works following the next steps:

• A person (F1) join as a member of the district.
• A person (S1) is a member of the district and upload an article to put it on sale (digital or physical assets).
• (F1) is looking for an article that (S1) did put on sale and check the price and asset features.
• (F1) and (S1) chat and agree on the sale price of the article and the form of payment.
• (F1) makes the payment in the agreed way and leaves a positive feedback to the seller

E.g: In that case it was a CSGO steam account, because the person (F1) couldn't managed to get the Global rank ;)

Back-end
The back-end of the district uses the next functionalities:
• Posting & Listing
• For upload and content delivery in list formats
• Search & Filtering
• Making it easier to browse and find advertisements
• Ranking & Reputation
• For rating advertisements, and for users to gain trust and positive/negative feedback

The back-end will include integration of the decentralized advertisements storage platform.
This will enable users of the district to upload advertisements.
Smart Contracts and open-source libraries will contribute to control and automate everything from decision making to user voting.

The SecondBlocK Token (SBT)
The SecondBlocK Token will be used throughout the whole district and every transaction.

The Future of SBT
The next step is finish the project and let the people know about how it works. After that, It will be launched in the contribution period agreed.

Secondblock aka slack user: angelfcc

slack name: a.bonneau
Name: Circular Economy Platform: Data Infrastructure for Increased Resource Flow Efficiency
Purpose:
This Circular Economy (CE) district is designed to fill a void in circular economy development by providing a digital infrastructure by which resources can be traded more efficiently. In order to frame the purpose of this district and the utility of District0x in meeting these demands, a brief background on the circular economy concept will be provided.

The linear way of producing and consuming goods is under pressure. As the population approaches nine billion people by 2050, and, as cities continue to urbanize and become increasingly important centers of innovation and economic output, their demand for resources will increase. This demand, combined with a finite supply of resources, will likely lead to increased scarcity and damaging price fluctuations. As such, more and more companies are opting for the transition to a circular economy, which offers opportunities for innovation and the export of new business models and production techniques. The core tenet of the Circular Economy concept is the preservation and enhancement of natural capital via optimized resource yields and increasing economic system effectiveness through efficiency improvements. This last point, regarding the economic efficiency of a system, is where District0x provides tremendous utility.

Currently there are numerous resource streams which go unused in our urban environments (e.g., material wastes in the construction sector, food and other biological wastes, etc) due to incomplete market information on production and process outputs. By providing a digital layer to the economy which provides information on the availability of these resources, opportunities arise for the reprocessing and re-purposing of these underutilized resource streams.

Description:
Two core modules are necessary to utilize District0x as an infrastructure for a circular economy initiative:

1. Material Registration Platform: Businesses, importers, or other entities can register materials where key characteristics are attributed (usage, availability, other pertinent qualities). This information will be made available in the Material Marketplace. The purpose of this integration is to ameliorate the problem of knowledge asymmetry between stakeholders regarding the availability and quality of resource streams.

The CE district provides a portal through which stakeholders can post the availability of resources along with information on pricing and other characteristics. Opportunities for business creation can be realized by tagging available resources by location (value creation in areas by locating available resources). Searches aided by filtering should be designed to produce results for such queries as, “find 2 waste plastic suppliers and plant-based biowaste within a 10km radius of X.” Additionally, this module would include functionality to rate and rank users of the system based on the quality and accuracy of the received goods.

2. Material Marketplace: Platform by which entities can trade resources. Stakeholders must be able to search for specific resources and their availability as well as connect with traders to exchange these resources. Here, registered users can access the database of available resources and place an interest via token deposit held in escrow for the seller. This will initiate a communication opportunity whereby buyer and seller work out the details of the transaction - including the transfer of the resource. Confirmation by both the buyer and the seller of a successful transfer will result in the token being taken out of escrow and distributed to the parties involved. While exact functionality is of yet to be determined, it will be reliant on District0x’s capabilities as a platform for sending invoices and collecting payments.

3. Expandability and adaptation through a governance procedure whereby new modules can be implemented. The utility of Aragon in this regard would be to manage a voting system for users of the district, including the submission, voting, and timeline procedures for district initiatives.
   
   A number of auxiliary modules could address other opportunities that arise when economic intelligence is increased regarding resource flows:

4. Resource statistics - computes the usage of resources registered in the system and their associated flows. This information has the potential to aid policymakers when developing strategies to reduce waste and increase the sustainability of their regional economies.

5. Environmental Performance - automation of environmental indicators such as carbon footprinting can be built into resource transactions such that sellers can certify savings and carbon offsets due to the recycling of wastes.

6. Flagging mechanism for takedown removing spam and non relevant content.

7. Currency exchange automation, whereby transactions can be done in ETH and exchanged with the local currency of the physical district. In this case there is potential for partnering with altcoin exchanges.

Ultimately, a CE district powered by District0x provides an avenue by which core tenets of circular economy can be realized. The nature of District0x, as an Ethereum application tied to the blockchain, provides a robust and transparent platform for the trading of resources. Should hierarchical functionality be integrated, it is possible that physical regions (e.g., Amsterdam metropolitan area) are nested within larger districts (e.g., the EU). This would allow the overall system to capture a greater percentage of the economic market and increase the network effects of its impact. For the purposes of this district proposal, an initial district would make the most sense in a region where fundamental support already exists. Therefore, a district for material waste flows in Amsterdam provides the best test case for this technologies utility.

Regarding the question of how funds will be raised to maintain this system and pay for new development, there are two main avenues that I can currently envision:
1) Purchasing of a network token to join the district (The incentive being that joining a network will provide valuable market intelligence). Such tokens could be purchased by individual stakeholders (i.e., businesses, individuals, etc) or purchased by city governments for distribution to test of the efficacy of this system. I encourage readers to check the resources below, particularly the paper on current circular economy initiatives in Amsterdam to really appreciate the momentum behind initiatives like this. There are currently multiple calls for proposals in the EU for digital platforms with functionality that District0x can provide.
2) Trading fees or fees to access modules which provide additional functionality (such as environmental performance calculators or modules which provide data on resource flows in a friendlier format than can be gauged from the blockchain alone).

Potential Issues:
The strength of this district, as with any, is the networking effect of the users in creating value. In this case, it is heavily dependent on stakeholders utilizing the system and sharing their information regarding resource availability. However, there is considerable political inertia behind the circular economy concept. Cities such as Amsterdam are already implementing policies which seek to create a digital economic intelligence layer to increase the resource efficiency of their regional economies.

Maintaining system use after initial contact. Should two entities set up a valuable partnership in trading resources, would they still be active in the CE district? It’s a possibility that there could be a dropout of stakeholders after setting up an initial business relationship unless new and attractive offers continually emerge. Dynamism in regards to the material registration and marketplace activities is thus critical.

The relationship between a digital district and the physical world is one that may at first seem abstract and daunting to potential stakeholders. An inviting user interface is important, as is security and streamlining the system for payments. Blockchain technology in general still lies within murky waters for most of society; that being said, a well developed CE district would undoubtedly be an asset in showcasing the value of such systems.

Resources:
Circular Economy Overview: https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-economy/overview/principles
Amsterdam Initiative: http://www.circle-economy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Circular-Amsterdam-EN-small-210316.pdf
District0x White Paper: https://district0x.io/docs/district0x-whitepaper.pdf

Name: Around the Block

Purpose: Connect local travelers going to the same relative areas (grocery store/airport/shopping mall) without the need for hiring a "taxi" type service (Uber/Lyft)

Description: The rise of Uber and Lyft has shown there is a great need for transportation within local areas, but what about the costs associated with those services? Paying full time drivers and benefits is expensive and ultimately passed on to the consumer... But what if there were a system where people in your local area could indicate where they needed to travel to, and by connecting them with locals in the area who are already going to that area could eliminate the high costs of contracting a "taxi" type service? Without needing to pay a part/full time driver and only paying a relatively small fee for participating in the ride (small share of gas cost) two or more people can effectively "carpool" to the same location. Smart contacts can be deployed which indicate the destination and the requested fueling amount which then can be approved or denied by any potential travelers. Identification and rating services could also be implemented to help provide safeguards to travelers.

Purpose

Give venues a platform to interact with their guests and members. These venues can range from nightclubs, museums, hotels, even sports stadiums and hospitals.

Description

When a new Venue is created, different types of personas would be able to interact. Guests, Managers, Employees. Most Venues will benefit from :

• Billing of tickets, services or products.

• Ranking systems for employees / official members of the venue, tips.

• Event Planning / Execution

• Reward Programs

• Decentralized interactions with guests/patrons/customers. No need to give all your information to part of the Venue/Community.

• Marketing Channel (coupons, discounts, announcements, etc)

Many of these venues also need internal management and maintenance. That could be another type of district : #51

slack name : alphathree

Name: The Restaurant District

• Submitted by Slack user fastdraw07

Purpose:

What if we could decentralize the entire restaurant business, where anyone could run a restaurant out of their home through the blockchain, with no government licensing needed? A peer-to-peer restaurant solution, managed and facilitated by the blockchain, lowering costs and increasing supply and choices. At the Restaurant District, anyone could run a restaurant out of their home, or they could rent out a location, like a regular restaurant. Within the Restaurant District, people could BBQ steaks on their front porch, set out tables on their front lawn, and serve people at night to make extra cash, or they could do it full-time. Anyone in the district could open and close their restaurant at any time, serve what they want, and charge what they want. And, what restaurants are serving, will be listed for any local citizens to view. Cut out the middleman, the high cost of managing a traditional restaurant, and the choices for what's to eat in town, just got a whole lot more interesting. The Restaurant District would turn the business of restaurateuring into a real community event.

Description and Features:

Reputation

A restaurant's reputation will grow with the more happy customers they serve. And, their reputation will be there for all to see.

Pricing

Top chefs could host dinners at their nice homes, and a bidding process could determine who gets to eat that night. A top chef could rake in the cash, especially during big events like the Superbowl or the World Cup Finals, a bidding system could set the price. The top bidders would show up, pay, and the transaction would be recorded on the blockchain.

Without bidding, restaurant owners could set their own prices at any time. The price of their menu items is entirely up to them.

Insurance

Reputation is really helpful, but insurance against food poisoning or bodily harm to others (e.g. incase of a fire?) could be displayed on a restaurant's profile to give increased confidence to customers. If the insurance is purchased through the blockchain, say through, Etherisc, then all the better.

Cleanliness Checklist

A cleanliness checklist could be provided for restaurant owners to submit to show that they are ready and clean for business. Customers could provide feedback saying if the cleanliness checklist submission was honest, in their opinion. This feedback could hurt or help the restaurant owner's reputation, and they would have an economic incentive, to be honest with the checklist.

Delivery

Restaurants owners have the option of delivery as an extra charge, or exclusively, if they don't want people coming to their homes. The app will have map capabilities like any delivery app would.

Putting the Kids to Work

Certain neighborhood, Peer-to-peer restaurants could have a big, cost-saving advantage: Kids. Parents could do the cooking, set the price, and all the adult stuff, while the kids help clean and serve. And, parents don't have to pay their kids minimum wage! 

Community

The community could vote for the best restaurants on a monthly basis. Categorized awards could be given out and automated payouts could be given to restaurants who serve their customers the best.

Opportunity

With no direct blockchain startup competitor to the Restaurant District, this idea of disrupting the restaurant business through decentralization is an excellent opportunity for district0x. The Restaurant District would be newsworthy, valuable on both, the business and consumer side, and would get people excited about the district0x.

Initial Restaurant Features

• General profile description
• Picture upload of seating area and staff (optional)
• Menu item listing
• Menu item pricing
• Hours/days of operation
• Set location of the restaurant if allowing in-home dining. (optional)
• Set max # of seating (If location is set)
• Set first come, first serve, or reserve seating only. (If location is set)
• Options for delivery: Price, Radius
• Option for accepting to-go orders
• Rate customers
• Set how many seats are currently taken. Customers will see this as Seats Available.
• QR code that restaurant owners can post in newspapers

Initial Customer Features

• Searchable and browseable menu items
• Filter by radius
• Purchase delivery
• Reserve seating (Funds in escrow)
• Restaurant rating
• Map integration for locating restaurants
• Ability to leave a tip
• Select to-go order option

Use Cases

• Sally, from Louisiana, opens her Jambalaya Delivery Service. She sells her delicious Jambalaya in small, medium, or large pots. Her sons do the driving, and they do a great job, getting the cajun food there, hot and fast.
• Award-winning chef closes his restaurant and opens his own in-home restaurant within district0x, serving his delectable creations only twice a week, using a bidding process. He attracts the most affluent of the city, making as much in one night, as he made in one week at his restaurant, working for his old boss. He has an 80-inch UltraK television he uses to show the big events, where he typically makes a fortune in one night. 
• Pizza Master Joe goes to school during the day and makes the most wonderful pizza using his uncle's secret sauce at night. The neighborhood kid gets a cut, delivering around the neighborhood, using his bicycle.

• Submitted by Slack user fastdraw07

Name

User Scoring and Rewarding System

Purpose

Users with District0x.io in the User Scoring and Reward System spend more active time on the site. They are encouraged to create more ideas than supporters. We can give a great and convenient tool for everyone.Many communities gather ideas or suggestions using different tools. So you're not using District0x.io itself? We can give everyone a great and useful tool.

Description

Users who are members of District0x.io in the Zone, User Rating and Award System,
He should present his ideas and ignore them. There must be a system of points and rewards. District0x.io is the most profitable one. Because you can use very good ideas and use a good idea better. This system will also be useful for District0x.io. Users in the district should be in District0x.io to be happy to share their ideas with others.By using the District0x.io area, we have access to the ability to make money with these skills; So we can strengthen people to improve their lives and do things they love.

Platform will be. The platform will use the core functionalities of district0x

Ranking and reputation

Users in the District0x.io one should have a scoring and rewarding system to allow them to spend more time on the site and generate new ideas.

For example ;

It could be the rank system.

20 positive ideas. 1 star or jr member
40 positive ideas. 2 stars or warrior
80 positive ideas like 3 stars or heroes ..

Rewards can be awarded when each level is skipped or with a brilliant idea that will work for each District0x.io.

For those with good ideas, you can pay for ether addresses.

Features

Subsystem can be created.

Tools for every idea to bootstrap: participation, roles, project management, crowdfunding, etc.

the conclusion

Depending on the network system, you can apply this system differently in each district.With District0x.io, you will get maximum efficiency from the manufacturers in the counties.

To the community and District0x.io

Purpose
As more blockchain startups launch their own token sales to fund their operations, token sale investors need a way to assure the legitimacy of the company they're investing in. Due diligence into the founders background and experience, and smart contract quality insurance will be needed going forward or else token sales will remain a breeding ground for scammers looking to make a quick buck.

ConsenSys, knowing this, has launched their own due diligence service.

The problem with this is that we're entrusting ConsenSys with evaluating the legitimacy of the latest token sales which defeats the whole purpose of decentralization within the Ethereum community. The power to make sure a company receives adequate funding or gets flagged as a scam shouldn't be held in the hands of one company but should instead be left to the people.

That's where Bona comes in.

What is Bona?
Bona is a decentralized site for curating the latest token sales and determining their legitimacy powered by the District0x network.

**How does it work? **
When a company decides to raise fund through a token sale they post an announcement to the Bona district announcing their token sale. People can either comment their findings or their opinion on their legitimacy or upvote a token sale announcement by staking their DNT as a way to back the company's token sale proposal. If you believe in a company or trust a person's assessment of an ICO you can back them with DNT to make it more visible in the community.

Companies can showcase legal compliance by demonstrating SAFT compliance. The SAFT is a new open source legal document meant to help token sales be legally compliant and accountable to ensure the security of the average investor's investment.

Companies can also reward people who check their smart contracts with their own tokens or in ether, so bug bounties and payment for tasks completed can also be completed on the Bona district (also powered by Aragon).

My Slack username is ghiliweld.

Name:

(the) Leading Edge

Purpose:

To quickly identify the state of a technology, its use, applicability, future, etc & to identify which technology in a field are promising or important.

Description:

A lot of times developers, and management, face the question of which tool to use for a project, and with it come questions of stability, growth, community support, future and a slew of others; A curation market and reputation system would quickly help cut through the chaff and noise to find out what the industry thinks matters, and what its actually showing matters with hires etc. Another question developers have is "What should I learn/make/contribute to" where sometimes the the answer can seem obvious ("I'm interested in kernel developement") to being a quagmire ("Which js library do I use"); And again such systems would allow people to put their money/reputation/stake where their mouth is, and allow exploring things that are still maturing but have potential.
Additionally, up to date resources on bleeding edge projects are hard to come by, but it is evident that people invest their time and effort into creating them. It's possible that providing a financial/reputational incentive to keep them up to date and/or available could work, leading to an environment where the community can petition experts to provide educational resources and/or reward them for keeping them up to date.

slackname: kingcocomango

Name: Memreez.io

*Submitted by Slack user fastdraw07

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RSp6FIp02Qstc16Y5SSXNWssAeJa2jsjrsm9MqxLK0I/edit?usp=sharing

Elevator Pitch - A decentralized, searchable, geo-temporal (place-time) address book of people and information.

How it works:

Memreez.io is a unique approach to reunions that centers around a geo-temporal (place-time) method, rather than limited friends-of-friends databases. Everyone you have ever known, you have known at a place in time. More reunions and more data about the past could be collected through this geo-temporal approach than ever before. What happened at Apple during the startup days? What happened during the Vietnam War? What happened during your childhood in your local neighborhood could be recorded and stored forever in a decentralized way. No central authority to own the data. It's there for you, forever.

Memreez.io WILL be an eye-witness account of history validated by “remembered” users who were actually there at the time. The platform will utilize IPFS and blockchain for decentralization.

Details:

Users will locate a place on the map they have lived, worked, played, worshiped, entertained, etc. They will establish that they were there, when they were there, and why people would remember them. Then, they are free to post memories, invite other people who were there at that time, receive alerts when people "return", and invite people back into their current life if they so desire.

Where can reunions take place?

Any place that can be located on a satellite map! Homes, neighborhoods, basketball courts, churches, workplaces, elementary schools, libraries, public parks, bus stops, vacation getaways, cruises, conferences, and more. As Facebook reunions are limited by the connection-of-friends factor, there is no limit to who you can reunite with on Memreez.io. If they were there with you, you can reunite and reminisce with them.

What was their name?

With Memreez.io, names are not required to reunite with anyone! Do you want to know what happened to the neighbor kid down the street? Maybe you had a question about their sister, but don't remember their names? Maybe you owe them money and want to pay them back? No problem! Just search a neighborhood in Danville, Kentucky in 1972, using the phrase: "lemonade stand". You can filter the results by Memories (Posts) or People. Yes, you can now reunite with old neighbors, even if you don't know their names, where they are now, or who their friends or family are. Want to find the nice man that played Santa Claus at the local mall in 1968? Search that mall, back at that time. Memreez makes hopeless reunions possible and simple.

Are you Remembered? Recognition that you were there.

In order to validate the existence at any place and time, people will be . . . Remembered! When browsing memories or people, you can click "I remember you!" and the corresponding user will get a notification: "Mario remembers you at Danville Elementary in 1972." Mario can remember you back, and now you can reminisce, either privately or publicly. The more “remembered” people are, the more people will trust their posts.

It stays where it all happened: A more private way to reunite

At Memreez.io, there is no need to give out any personal details about your life now. All the interaction with the people you have known, all the memories, can happen back then and there and stay there. Give your personal contact information out at your own discretion. And, the app will have private messaging.

Any point in history can be followed

You can take advantage of Memreez.io to reminisce and reunite, but you can also use it to learn about what other people experienced anywhere in the world through any time-frame. You can search a place in time and follow the memories that are posted there. You could follow Yankee Stadium in 1950 through 1957 and receive memories from the fans who attended, the employees who worked there, and the players who won championships. You could even follow famous people, like the baseball players, if they allow it. You could follow the Woz's time at Apple. It is endless what you could learn and share.

Full presentation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RSp6FIp02Qstc16Y5SSXNWssAeJa2jsjrsm9MqxLK0I/edit?usp=sharing

*Submitted by Slack user fastdraw07

# Name:
Web 3.0 Help District

# Purpose:
Get acquainted with the knowledge of web 3.0. {Similar to Coursera.}

# Description:
With so fast moving space, there are loads of enthusiast group yet to enter web 3.0 world. Although there are lots of resources online (Slack, Google, blogs etc.) but finding and validating them make process cumbersome. What if, on supply and demand perspective --> District is made where there are the service provider (who provide information) and newbies learner to come to engage and learn. E.g. I want to learn how to start with NMR data analysis, how to setup my storage for filecoin, how to become delegates for cosmos, how to get started with solidity etc. the list is huge with the high volume of basic question (thus I am the consumer). Meanwhile, I can consult for how to set-up MEW, JAXX, how to participate in ICO etc. Point ---> There is an untapped community where one can teach and one can learn web 3.0. And maybe after learning they can apply for Job market via "Ethlance" and get hired or become a consultant based on there learning and teaching

Purpose

Best Of Lists (BOL) is a crowdsourced platform where users create curated lists on a wide variety of topics. The goal is to create decentralized and trustworthy lists that showcase the best X of Y.
Lists are one of the easiest and fastest ways to gather information online. Currently a “Best Of” list is created by one individual/expert with his/her own opinions. By giving users the ability to propose, vote and discuss the list items to be included, the output content benefits from the pool of different opinions and thus is a more optimal source of knowledge. Articles become outdated fast, and message boards or social media data is too fast-paced to be meaningful or have a long-lasting effect. With BOL, lists could be constantly updated and up-to-date staying relevant longer.

Description

Structure

BOL would have a similar structure as reddit with “subreddits” created by users for different topics. Most active stay relevant longer or may even make the front page. In BOL’s case, the search function is crucial to use the platform as relevance is broader.
Users can be “experts” in up to 10 categories which will make their votes in lists more valuable in those categories. The more comments “karma” a user gets also increases their voting value throughout the platform.

Lists

Any user can create an initial BOL proposition which would include a title, a description and list features such as format (it could be a list of links, a list of pictures, videos, title + content… ), length of list (top 5, 10, …) and votes per user.
After a list is created, any user, including the list owner, can add up to 3 new items to each list.
Users can vote as many times as specified by the list owner. Votes can be reassigned at will to make sure that a BOL is relevant and up-to-date.
Below the list there is a discussion panel than can help users decide what to vote, change minds...
Lists should have version control, to keep track of changes, and optional visibility to all the items that didn’t make the top.

BOL tokens

To make sure that value is fairly distributed among the community, rewards would be distributed in 2 different ways. When a vote is cast, 80% of the generated BOL goes to the user who added the item to the list, while 10% goes to the list owner, and the remaining 10% goes to the BOL District to provide for resources, development and maintenance.
The other way BOL can be generated is by upvoting comments. A comment upvote would reward 80% of the generated BOL to the user who commented, 10% to the list owner and 10% to the BOL District.
Upvoting a list item would generate 10x more BOL than upvoting a comment.
A brand/company can decide to sponsor a list for a certain amount of time/votes. The BOL paid by the sponsor would be distributed proportionally as specified before.

List examples

• The 10 ethereum tokens most likely to succeed.
• 5 best crypto twitter accounts.
• Top 20 movies of the 21st century.
• 7 best sushi restaurants in New York.
• Top 100 Albums of the year

slack name: xavils

Name: Ethpat - District for expats

Purpose: For expats to come together, share information, exchange values, gain companionship, support each other and lead meaningful lives in their host country.

Description: Expats have unique needs that creates the tendency to come together and support each other especially in countries that are vastly different from most "developed" countries. Various Expat communities have come to exist loosely and organically in online groups (like google/yahoo groups) today to fulfil their needs. I believe District0x district can serve them better. As far as I can see, the use-case for having a District0x district couldn't be more perfect for the invaluable properties it has in serving their needs. Rather than explain further how this could work I am going to link here an example of a thriving and vibrant community that I have witnessed.

KTMKTM is an expat community based in Kathmandu, Nepal.

• This is the about page which lays out the story perfectly. http://ktmktm.org/about/about-ktmktm/ -- google group integration seems to be not working, please visit the group directly.
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ktmktm

Note: It is not clear to me whether each expat community, in possibly each of the 195 some countries are a district of their own, or all come together under the Ethpat district. Could a district be a collective of similar districts? More exploration on this idea heartily welcome!

Slack Handle: @yalu

Name

District World

Purpose

The greatest trouble for man is time, space and money. If people are not interested in what they love, it is essential. Of course, not only the poor ones but also the other wealthy do not have time for things they want to do, even if they do not have the opportunity. We have limited possibilities. The world of the region will take us outside these boundaries. That's why we have the District World. To do this, the project must be developed and marketed
What is needed ,

Description:

District0x management, the project for 'District0x World' must pass the test. It establishes a funding system for this. Investors and willing donors will provide the necessary financing. District0x management can generate money on its own economic power and investors by running the money in the decentralized economy. The project, will work well for projects that need financing.

Without permission from any state, Members will freely implement the projects, ideas and financial transactions they wish to make. Actions such as activity or organisation are not inconvenient.

Members are trained to use this project. District0x determines the duration of the training, its purpose, its qualities in the direction of the user's request and in his / her own request. It can create a funding for education.

needs

Distict0x World

A network and subregions

Profile

membership

voluntary donors,

investors

A Functional Mechanism

**Example **

Mike is so bored in his daily life. He wants to play tennis at work, but friends do not want to play games with Mike no matter what the days are. Mike was alone. This is not a problem for Mike. Because Distict is a member of the world, it gives an advantage in real life. Mike enters District0x world membership and enters the nearest sub-region. She introduces herself by phone to play tennis with herself. The District0x World member sees 2 people and Mike. One of the guys wanted $ 10 and the other $ 5. Mike chooses the person who is asking for a more affordable fee. There is no support Mike wants to do on this count. With District0x World, Mike has won new real friendships.

Example 2

John is working on a project. There is a problem. There is not enough graphic information about the project. There is no one with graphic information around. John, District World calls someone who wants to help him. It connects to the lower part and reaches a graph named Selena. John accepts the money and has Selena do the graphics work.

Name: Blockies Bazaar
Purpose: This district will enable users to openly exchange "identicons" or "blockies" associated with Ethereum addresses.
Description: When sending ETH, or any other tokens under Ethereum, identicons act as visual confirmation of the verity of the receiving address to prevent mistakenly sending a significant amount of one's fortune to the wrong address; a tragic, irrevocable error. For this reason, one may conclude that the possession of an easily identifiable identicon is desirable and, perhaps to some, necessary. Others may also be interested in "vanity identicons" which look strikingly similar to faces, animals, items in popular media, or any other recognizable image. In Parity, you can generate a line of identicons at once to facilitate your search for something of your liking. However, it takes time to find anything even remotely interesting. Hence, in order to supply this demand, there is value in establishing the Blockies Bazaar District.
In this district, users can generate identicons that can be sold without compromisinng the identity of the identicons. After users generate what they deem to be a good identicon, they can choose to use it for themselves, or have it be listed for purchase. The public and private keys associated with listed identicons will be hidden and sealed; neither the buyer or the seller or the generator. Once they choose to open it, it can no longer be listed in the market.

Introduction

Within the very near future (5-10 years), fully autonomous vehicles will quickly go from great ideas to actual reality, very quickly disrupting our current transportation models for the better. The confluence of technologies that will enable this reality is explained in spectacular fashion by futurist Tony Seba. The result will be a dramatic 5-10x decrease in the cost of transportation.

At present, ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft are already salivating at the prospect of a business model that eliminates the most expensive component of their service, the driver. They are expecting to control massive fleets of autonomous vehicles (AV) which we will happily use every time we choose to get around, with the company and their investors reaping the profits.

Yet I see another way. Instead of allowing these corporations to own fleets of AVs designed to maximize their profits, a decentralized AV sharing marketplace would allow anyone to maintain ownership of their own vehicle, while keeping costs down by allowing others to use it the 96% of the time its not needed by the owner.

Purpose

The purpose of this district would be to take the underlying functionality provided by the district0x platform and develop an underlying protocol that would allow any AV owner (well except for Tesla, given that they will only allow paid sharing on their own network) to connect to the network. Car owners would be able to set up availability times and customize prices, while users would be able to choose their rides via a variety of factors, including cost, vehicle type, and so forth. I could also see 3rd party services such as car cleaning as part of the ecosystem as well.

Monetization

I would expect that this project would take a significant amount of capital to launch and popularize, given that it would be competing against serious competition. Token stakers would provide the initial capital in exchange for the rights to the profits coming from the district, which would charge a small 0.5-1% transaction fee for providing the marketplace.

Feedback desired

I'm sharing this idea as a non-tech person, so I don't have a concrete basis for understanding what is and isn't possible from a coding prospective. Obviously this isn't something that needs to be created tomorrow, given that AVs aren't yet in use, let alone common use. Still, I see this as just the type of real world problem that can be solved via a decentralized crowd-based platform.

I look forward to elaborating upon my initial idea based on questions and feedback.

Reach me on the District0x Slack @aureo11

Name of District

Portare
/por·tà·re/

Purpose

To explore a new opportunity for the creation of a decentralised, trusted, ad-hoc marketplace for the, legal, importing / exporting of luxury or hard-to-come-by goods.

Description

If you have ever been an Expat or just travelled for a reasonable amount of time, then you might be familiar with the feeling of missing some item, a creature comfort, from home that it is not possible to buy where you are currently.

Or perhaps you have found out that a friend is travelling to/from a country where a, luxury, non-perishable item that you desire can be found at a much cheaper price; so you have asked them to purchase that item on your behalf and bring it back with them e.g.

• Perhaps you are travelling back from Norway (where the items in the airport are completely tax-free) to say Sweden (where alcohol has to be bought from the government-owned, monopoly of Systembolaget shops at an inflated price) and a friend is having a party, so they ask you to buy some alcohol (using your, generous, legally allowed quota) on return journey.
• You might live in the UK and a friend is travelling back from America (where it is possible to buy Apple products at a substantial discount), so you ask them to bring one back with them.

Maybe in a far off country, you have seen that there are exotic items (handcrafted trinkets, artwork, collectables etc.) that it is normally either too difficult, too expensive or takes too long to import the item across half the globe in order to justify purchasing them.

What I am proposing is that given the amount of flights or cross-continent journeys that happen every day, that there is an opportunity for those people travelling to provide a service, as part of their journey, and be paid for it.

That the cost in terms of both money and time for providing the service of purchasing and delivering an item could be cheaper than through traditional mechanisms.

That since these journeys are already being made, that there might be some reduction in terms of pollution and carbon footprint as well.

Why District0x?

A marketplace built upon Ethereum helps to solve some of the inherent problems with global, distributed, trustless systems - for example

Introducing Trust

The courier initially takes on a lot of risk when they offer to buy an item on behalf of someone else. With a Smart Contract escrow account, a customer can show that they have the available funds and make clear that they are serious about the transaction - without the need of a third party.

When we get to a point where the use of cryptocurrencies becomes ubiquitous, it may also be possible for the courier to prove to the customer that they have carried out the purchase - and are following the steps to carrying out their end of the bargain (a similar mechanism to how a provenance tracking system works).

Reputation and Identity

Both the customer and the courier take on some element of risk when they enter the agreement, but a cross-platform reputation system based on an Ethereum address or Public key could be used to mitigate some of this risk.

Challenges

• Import duties might apply to the good and this would have to be factored into the Bids / Offers.
• There will need to be further thought put into how to add trust, and safety, to the final delivery of the goods to the Customer.
  • The reputation system could play a part in the solution.
  • In a similar way that parcels can be left in Amazon Lockers, at Doddle booths, shops etc. a third party could help to resolve some of the issues.
  • To avoid the illegal use of the platform - it becoming another Silk Road

stevejaxon

Name:

Spend.eth

Purpose:

Allow people to spend ether more easily or turn gift cards into ether.

Description:

It's a lot easier to consume with bitcoin than ether, and we should catch up. Purse.io is a popular bitcoin use-case, and many more meatspace businesses take bitcoin than ether. I'd like to see it become easier to turn ether into consumption. We could substantially increase the utility of ether with either a Purse.io-style Amazon purchasing service or a simple gift card marketplace. I think this is an obvious use case which someone else will do if we don't. district0x seems perfect for it, and it would likely give us a marketplace generating significant revenue early on.

"@GregFoley" on Slack

Name: The True Tonic

Purpose: Provide public engagement to achieve our mission of better harmonizing with the rhythms of nature.

Description: The True Tonic is a public band owned via shares traded on an ERC-20 smart contract on Ethereum, and (when on the mainnet) governed and paid out as an Aragon Organization.

By structuring our band as a district, we can raise funds for startup and growth expenses, while giving fans and investors a stake in the future of the band. It also allows us to be totally transparent and allows for easy profit sharing on a regular (hopefully monthly) basis.

And FYI the slack username for this proposal is @thetruetonic -- feel free to reach out to me with any questions. Thanks, all!

Name

Description

The idea is to make a simulation game with players being able to manage their own football (or other sport) team that is currently sweeping in the male gender for a few years and bases its strategy on organizing virtual leagues whose scores will depend on the authentic results of football matches . (Or whatever sport).
This online game is conducted through an App within the district and among a group of users or friends who are equally members of that district. It tests the ability of each one to lead a football team (or the sport in question), to get the best players and sell the ones that offer less performance in terms of football. (Sports)

Step-by-Step how to:

4 easy steps:

1. User #A creates a community in order to start a league based on some rules defined by his specific creativity and each sport.
2. Users #B #C #D... joins the community till all slots defined by user #A (admin) are filled
3. The elague performance is based on the real league results, meaning, if a real world player performance is high and you got him as part of your team you get more points within your community. This process happens with every player that is on your team so at the end of the league your overall score is based on all the players together.
4. Based on the end results you will get a score, and each ranking position will get a reward or punishment written on the bylaws of each community

Rewards vs punishments

We will detail an example so we can all have an idea of what we can do with this gaming marketplace.
Example 1:
A community of 10 simulates the “Uk football league”.
Initially each member adds 1000 DNTs to the community fund with the intention of accomplishing something remarkable at the end of the league rewarding the winner.
Each week the last two on the ranking adds extra token as a penalization rule. On this case 100 DNTs each so we encourage the constant performance of each member during all the league (season).
At the end of the league, the first and the second with higher scores will get a free flight to Thailand and the rest will need to pay for their ticket. The last two members will go dick dressed during during the flight..

Note

These examples can be done with carting, weekend trips and even small gestures as dinners and so on. So the main purpose behind the project is to encourage the members interaction enjoyment, so you are almost forced to 1) compete and 2) Meet in real world events, based on a similar interest/sport.

Slack user: andee

## Name
Chekin

## Slack Username
@kalisto

## Purpose
Marketplace for people who rent their houses can outsource the check-in process of each rental through an APP that scan the traveler passport, submit the info to the police and store the legal docs required by authorities for the 3 years required.

## Description
General Step-by-Step of the functionality of the district
The district works by these 4 easy steps:

1. User #A becomes a citizen of the District
2. User #B, which is already a citizen, uploads a check-in offer
3. User #A submit a request to complete the check-in plus reward
4. User #B agrees and User #A completes the check-in getting the reward plus rating

## Back-end
The back-end uses the next functionalities:

• Posting & Listing
  For upload and content delivery in list formats
• Search & Filtering
  Making it easier to browse and find check-ins
• Ranking & Reputation
• For storing the legal docs, Swarm integration. This will enable users to keep a legal copy of the
  documents for legal purposes.

## The CheKin Token (CHK)
The CheKin Token will be used throughout the whole district. It will serve as the following 3, and maybe more to come:

• To Pay users who perform the Ckeck-ins in the properties
• Secure legal docs storage

## Future Goal
To be the piece of every other distric0x airbnb like project that uses the Chekin mobile APP to complete travelers registrations.

## Extra credits
We are a launched and awarded project (by Vodafone) and we are already testing the mobile APP in Barcelona and Seville getting a fantastic feedback. It will be amazing to test the marketplace functionality inside distric0x universe.

Name

Bridge - P2P Blockchain Consultancy

Purpose

Although promising, blockchain technologies - including Ethereum - are still in a somewhat inaccessible stage in what regards the layman. While there are many arguments for why such technologies will make things easier for entrepreneurs, businesses and the general public, at large, people who prioritize affordable and simple solutions to their problems have not yet experienced the benefits of decentralization.
On the one hand, this probably happens because most of the "web 3.0 technologies" are in their infancy, with relatively few fully functional protocols being widely used. On the other hand, solution-driven adoption is still difficult, since it involves some learning curves (new environment, possibly new language, etc.) Therefore, development of specific blockchain web solutions for businesses and the general public remains costly.
Fortunately, such gaps seem to be bridgeable given the open characteristic of the web 3.0. As new tools are put forward by early developers, a horizon of possibilities is created for good lego builders - d0xINFRA being a good example of this. Thus, theoretically, these people have/will acquire the skills to assist in any blockchain project/solution that any layperson might need. Put both parties in a marketplace with an incentive mechanism and you have Bridge, a Peer-to-Peer Blockchain Consultancy.

Description

Perhaps one of the turning points for web 3.0 adoption will be accessibility in terms of project development - for each web business running on the blockchain, a few more people will be familiar with the benefits of cryptocurrencies, etc. However, for such a thing to happen, the general public must have means through which they can bring their ideas into the blocks - with our without development knowledge.
In order to facilitate that, Bridge would seek to connect those with the needs to those with the know-how. This would work through a digital marketplace, where "consultancy seekers" can post their blockchain related projects and/or unsolved problems, and meet a community of "consultants" that can help in bridging their ideas into the blocks. The marketplace would be built upon d0xINFRA, which is already generally understood by this community. Additional changes should be made to accommodate for optimal GUI and communication with Dapps (see below). As with Ethlance, matching would occur based on synergy and rating systems for both sides.

Payment

Forms of payment should be left open for mutual agreement between the parties. Leveraging the flexibility of standard ERC20 tokens, it should be possible for payments to take the form of ownership. That way, if it is in the interest of both parties, a service can be conducted in exchange of ownership over the final product. For that, one possibility is to enable the creation of an Aragon entity whenever a match happens (similarly to the creation of a district). That way, not only would the requested project be developed into the blockchain, but it would also kick off as a DAO.
It is also advised the creation of a payment timeline that describes under which conditions (e.g. project development milestones) the specified payment(s) will happen.

Coordination

In order to foster collaboration and successful projects, Bridge could be set up in a way that the information inputted by the "consultancy seekers" can be exported to a Colony entity, where coordination with "consultants" will happen. This would potentially allow for multi-collaboration, where more than one "consultant" can jump in to help.

Challenges

As previous district proposals listed here, Bridge would encounter technical challenges regarding cross-Dapp communication. However, the biggest challenge foreseen is, ironically, user adoption. Bridge seeks to provide a useful way to connect the layman with problems and potential blockchain solutions. However, as with any other bridge connecting two places, its path must be attractive. Otherwise, people might as well take another route or not cross at all. That being said, this district should be designed for the layman. That is, simple, easy to use and effective. And as an aspiring developer, I know these are the greatest challenges a project can ever have.

Author's slack name: @Danilo

Name: [Buddy System]- this is a placeholder for a better name, suggestions welcome!

Proposer: Bitbytes on Slack

Purpose: Crypto is growing rapidly as we've reached an inflection point for wider awareness and adoption, but the barriers to getting started are still high and the environment is highly volatile with daily changes that make keeping up difficult. We early adopters (all of us that use crypto now, actually) remember that initial rush of drinking from the firehose of information on how to actually use crypto, how to secure it, where to learn about it and what might be done with it in the future. At the same time, we've spread the word to family and friends, sharing our excitement. This District would be a mentoring community for bringing newbies into crypto safely and easily, crowdsourcing the best resources we find to help our friends so others can use them for their friends, hopefully with the latest and best tools, techniques and information sources.

Examples of the types of information I've help friends with where this would be helpful:

• How to transfer money to GDax instead of paying Coinbase fees
• How to set limit orders on exchanges
• How to create a wallet with MEW and how gas works
• How to register an ENS name
• The best mobile apps, eg. Blockfolio and how to add your holdings
• How to pick passwords, setup 2FA and what tricks scammers are currently using

The idea is that things are rapidly changing, so it would be great to leverage what others are doing to help us do our job with our own friends better.

Description: There would be 3 components for this community:

1. A network graph of mentors and friends/followers, this might have a points system for measuring influence or value contribution, to be developed.

2. A private communication channel to serve as a consistent protected messaging area for questions and answers - maybe similar to Slack but for a small number of users. This is the one place you can go to remember what that advice on what was said before or ask then next question. This is where integration with Status.IM would be very helpful.

3. A publicly accessible area for the best resources crowdsourced and rated by mentors and maybe also by followers - this could leverage information from the Help District as proposed, but also from around the web. I think the best initial configuration for this might be Reddit like, with resources linked and ranked, with a comment area for debate and nuance. The idea is not to try to create a best of the web infomercial, but to continually surface the best tools, techniques, explanations and ideas because mentors need them to help their followers.

Over time mentors can develop their brand as experts and develop public followings, but the main purpose here is to help all of us introduce our friends to this new world based on the trust we already have in the real world, and communicate personal information securely but not in emails, texts, etc that results in a disjointed stream of hard to find information. Obviously this would not include sharing private keys or personal data.

I just think this is an amazing time to get involved but the info overload is almost impossible. This community could be a step in the right direction to mass adoption as tools get better and world events make the value of cryptocurrencies more apparent. And of course for any holder/believer in crypto, any step towards mass adoption is a step towards increasing token value, usage and ultimately freedom in finances and expression.

Token Issuance: I am proposing a two tier model for this District to encourage both groups of participants to get more engaged. When joining the community, all users will receive a large amount of small value ERC20 tokens for play/practice token like Dogecoin. Because I don't like the feel of tipping/begging, I'd like to propose a cross-District cooperation with MemeFactory with newbies using their play currency to collect and trade a special series of unique digital collectibles. The reward token for mentors would have governance responsibilities, and other benefits to be determined, as these users would have invested time and effort to build the community and should have a voice in the District's decisions.

Expansion Possibilities: This type of mentoring system does not have to be limited to learning crypto, it could also apply to other areas as well. At first I envision this to be an aid to mentoring others, in both online and offline contexts, for areas of passionate interest. Ultimately, if enough areas of interest could be developed, I believe this could become a community based About.com with guides leading others into the fascinating intricacies of their particular areas on passion.

Name:

Dynamic Network

Purpose:

The most beautiful aspect of my decentralized system is to use a dynamic network system. In this system the main center will appear to be missing. Any sub-network will be the main zone when necessary. The purpose here is district0x, which owns a dynamic network of control structures, ideas, materials, and money to be sold. With District0x, customers will be able to get what they want. A dynamic network system will be set up for this. The system to be established will create a dynamic network for customers and sellers by creating a dynamic network. Sale, and transfer will be supported without any problems. The important thing is to provide satisfaction of the parties. In this way, the reliability of District0x will increase.

To be able to do all that, organizations and investors can create the District0X Dynamic Network zone by investing in the network zone.

Description

With a dynamic network, a decentralized economy will be created. Organizations, buyers and sellers will not be exposed any more and this area can be a good starting point for making money.

The dynamic network system will work like a mechanism. This mechanism works well when the marker is needed for funding, but it is not absolutely necessary for the functionality of the project.

Organizations must secure the environment for Dynamic Networks in advance. The money order must be fully supervised to prevent resource usage in the District0x currency that will control it.

Payment

Which is the best option to determine payment?

There is no restriction on the payments between buyer and seller. Credit cards, secure payment methods for virtual money transfers can be selected.

Responsibility is between buyer and seller. District0x is not responsible for fraud caused by people themselves.

Features

District0x Dynamic Network,

Dynamic region,

investors,

institutions,

Receivers - sellers

Example

District0x created a Dynamic Network for the purchase and sale of a range of commodities in East America. We made a statement to support this Network. The money for the Dynamic Network provided the support of investors and organizations.

Region District0x can determine who can enter this trade network(North korea, india etc ..). District0x sets up the dynamic territory for the buyers and sellers, buyers and markets of the goods.(İndiana, New york, Florida etc..)

The seller entered the Florida network. Sub region visited the servers.

Example

East America

District0x - FLORİDA

server : >Distict0x - F - server 1 (Car)
server 2 (game)
server 3 (Products)
server 4 (finance)
server 5 (Computer hardware)
server11 (transfer) etc..

(Example) The buyer entered the car server and bought a car. The buyer who paid the price of the vehicle paid 1 million coins from the virtual transaction. District0X makes small interruptions in purchasing ( %3 - % 10 etc.. )

District0X makes small interruptions in purchasing, selling and transferring.In other words, District0x can achieve the required monetary volume and remove investors' money. You can even make a profit.

Name:

Altruistam

Purpose:

Most of us want to make a difference. We see suffering, injustice, and death, and are moved to do something about them. But working out what that ‘something’ is, let alone doing it, is a difficult problem.

Which cause should you support if you really want to make a difference? Which charities will use your donation effectively? If you don’t choose well, you risk wasting your time and money. But if you choose wisely, you have a tremendous chance to improve the world.

Taking advantage of the opportunity we have is challenging. If we don’t think carefully about how to do good, we risk wasting our time and money doing things that don’t actually work.

Description:

The purpose of the district is to have a common place to give effectively to achieve the biggest possible impact with your charitable donation. It is also a new approach to teaching people about charitable giving.

During the voting period, participants get introduced to the covering basic concepts of effective giving, learn about several pre-selected charities, think about and discuss the relative merits of each, and choose which charity will receive the money at stake (which could be pre-donated by the participants or sponsored by an outside party).

By framing giving as a choice between good options, the district encourages people to be intentional, informed, and impactful in their giving.

https://www.altruistam.com/

Resources:

http://www.givewell.org/
https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/Giving-Games

update 11/26/17

We've reached our $250k pre-sale cap.
Main contribution period started on December 15.
We have screenshots from our latest alpha.bounty0x.io redesign. For more details visit our blog.

update 10/30/17

We launched our main website bounty0x.io
alpha platform improvements
https://blog.bounty0x.io/october-29-weekly-development-update-7bfa49e50fad

update 10/18/17

We've launched our teaser site, bounty0x.io

update 10/15/17

We've launched our alpha platform at alpha.bounty0x.io
Bounty hunters can submit completed bounties and receive payments and startups can post bounties
Learn more by visiting our blog at
Blog.Bounty0x.io
Upcoming dates
December 15 BNTY token main sale

update 9/28/17

Bounty0x.io is being developed into a full bounty campaign management platform which will be governed as a district on the district0x network. The bount0x platform will enable startups to easily host bounty campaigns, and bounty hunters to complete bounties.

If you are a start up planning on holding a bounty campaign, message us to learn more about how to use our platform.

If you are a bounty hunter and interested in learning how to earn money by performing bounty campaign tasks, message us to learn more.

As always view our white paper and let us know if you have any feedback.

bounty0x.io/whitepaper

Bounty0x — September 21st weekly update

Bounty0x has the following announcements to make for the week of September 21, 2017. As you may recall, last week we announced the addition of our CTO, as well as commencing development of our bounty0x alpha platform which will be ready on October 1st, 2017. This week we are announcing among other things, the addition of two new members to the bounty0x team.

We've rebranded as bounty0x.io

A brief summary of our September 21, 2017 update:

• Entered into contract with the amazing web design firm Griflan, who have begun working on the bounty0x ICO contribution website. Our splash page will be ready October 10, and the final tokensale site ready November 1st.

• First bounty campaign will begin on or about September 25, 2017 for our first client Pumpcoin. Bounty hunter submissions will be manually approved and submitted at pumped.bounty0x.io.

• Second bounty campaign will begin on October 1, 2017 and coincide with the launch of our alpha platform.

• Hired Chang Zapata as a part time community manager to manage Pumpcoin’s community and social media channels.

• Hired a front end developer Rahul Singh to work alongside Deniz for the alpha platform launch on October 1, 2017.

• Smart contracts for the initial contribution period are completed. We’ve submitted our smart contract for security audits at Zeppelin.

• Bounty0x new team member announcements

As mentioned in the intro to our weekly update, for the second week in a row our team is expanding. Last week we brought on our Technical co-founder, and this week we are adding two new members to the team, Chang and Rahul. We are excited to begin working with them and making progress on the bounty0x platform.

Chang fills our need for a community manager. Bounty0x is overseeing community management for a startup holding their ICO in beginning September 25, 2017. To that end we have brought on a community manager named Chang Zapanta to manage our clients upcoming bounty campaign. Chang worked for Mercedes Benz as an accountant prior to moving to the UK and is currently pursuing an advanced degree. She will be managing the day to day community management activities for our client, including daily blog posting and moderation of our client’s Slack and social media channels.
Our second new team member to join this week is named Rahul Singh. Rahul is an amazing full-stack web developer with expert Javascript skills and skilled in NodeJS, ReactJS and AngularJS. He will be working full time with our CTO Deniz, to prepare the front end of our alpha platform for October 1 in preparation for the second bounty campaign we will be managing.

• Platform Development

Since our last post, we have made significant progress on platform development. Not only have we submitted our token sale contract for security audits, and hired Griflan to begin working on our website, but we have also started development of our alpha platform the backend of which initially will be centralized.

Alpha phase of the platform is coming along as planned. At current stage we are pleased to announce that fundamental foundations of the Alpha API has been developed alongside the database design. We are currently in process of building up on the foundations to add further capabilities to the API and have commenced work on the frontend of our platform. As set out in our initial plan of development the above updates are inline with Alpha and will evolve to a more decentralised backend on the Ethereum blockchain as we proceed.

-Bounty0x Team
Join the Conversation on discord where our team name is Bounty0x.

update 9/13/17

Bounty0x — September 13th update

• Bounty0x has the following announcements to make for the week of September 13, 2017. Notably, * Bounty0x has started software development of the alpha bounty management platform, which will automate bounty campaign management by enabling bounty sheriffs to review bounty submissions and receive distribution of bounty rewards in lieu of startups needing to hire a bounty manager.
• A brief summary of our September 13, 2017 update:
• An Alpha version of our platform will launch on October 1st.
• Smart contract development for tokensale is nearing completion.
• Deniz Dalkilic has joined Bounty0x as CTO and lead developer. He is a software developer at Thomson Reuters and has initiated work on the back-end of our Alpha platform as well as preparing the smart contracts for our ICO.
• In the process of adding a front-end developer to our team.
• Three confirmed clients. In talks with three more potential clients, one of whom is an ICO Incubator firm managing over ten startups with upcoming ico’s.

Platform Development

Bounty0x currently plans to launch the alpha platform on or about October 1, 2017. The repo is available for review on bitbucket. The alpha platform will contain a mechanism for bounty hunters to submit completed bounties and initially support a review process whereby reviews are manually conducted by bounty0x team members instead of by bounty sheriffs. Following the tokensale and launch of our BNTY token we will incorporate bounty sheriff functionality which will enable BNTY token holders to perform a reviewing function. Simultaneously we are finalizing our tokensale contract for our upcoming tokensale which is scheduled for November 2017. We are also in the process of hiring a security auditor team to perform a review of the token sale contract.

Bounty0x Clients and Partners

Bounty0x is proud to announce the first client has been signed on to use the bounty0x platform for bounty management campaign management. Their ICO is scheduled to kick off on October 1, 2017. We are adding new clients every day, and are engaging in partnership agreements with multiple blockchain startups. Finally, we have entered into talks with an ICO incubator to manage the bounty campaign for five or more of their startups.

We are negotiating agreements to manage the upcoming bounty campaign for multiple startups in anticipation of their respective ICO’s. In light of this, we are expanding our team and will be hiring community managers to join Bounty0x to perform additional community management services.
Bounty0x new team member announcements

Bounty0x is proud to announce that Deniz Dalkilic has joined the Bounty0x team as a co-founder and lead developer. Deniz is currently a software engineer at Thomson Reuters and prior to that lead software engineer at Capgemini. At Thomson Reuters he has been preparing blockchain based solutions for pricing financial instruments. Bounty0x is also in the process of interviewing a front end engineer to develop the platform front end and expects to have a candidate onboard by the end of next week to begin front end development of the alpha platform.

Website design is progressing. We are negotiating a timeline to have our tokensale website live by mid-November so that we will have ample time to market the ICO in advance of the tokensale date.

-Bounty0x Team

update 7/9/17:

• slack member @eddy.metax has created a slick logo and UI Mockups. Big shoutout to @eddy.metax for the great designs, also recommend visiting his proposal: DP #18: influencer.io #18
• The proposal hereinafter is named Bounty0x.io per @eddy.metax.
  Eddy made the following contributions:
• simplified the name to fit the design: Bounty0x.io (it’s available)
• designed a quick bobba fett as the logo
• grouped bounties by projects, similar to commiteth.com and used them as examples
• used Ethlance’s categories as references, but of course everything can be changed.

Name of District

"Bounty0x.io" - Enabling startups to manage bounty programs, and users to receive payment for completing bounties.

Purpose

We believe in the decentralized economy and this district will push forward the vision of a decentralized future by accomplishing two keys tasks: (1) making it easier for ICO startups to manage bounty programs, post bounties, and disburse payments to contributors and (2) making it easier for users wishing to participate in a bounty program to search bounty listings being offered, participate in said bounties, complete tasks, and receive rewards.

Frequently blockchain startups use bounties in order to accomplish tasks, however the current options available are very cumbersome. Teams usually are required to post on bitcoin talk or slack what bounties are available. It can be difficult for users to locate which bounties are still available and see which projects are accepting bounties. The process is inefficient and time consuming.

This district will be a one stop shop for startups who are seeking to have bounties completed, and for users who want to complete bounties. The UI will be very intuitive, much like Ethlance. Users will be able to search through available bounties and select those which they want to complete. Upon completion of a bounty they will be paid out and receive rewards. Teams will be able to easily and efficiently pay disburse payments to contributors who have fulfilled the requirements of any bounties. A verification process will be built in to verify that each job was successfully completed.

User Interface

Description

A bounty program is an offer made by many websites and software developers by which individuals can receive recognition and compensation for reporting bugs, performing tasks, advertising on social media etc. Bounty programs are also a frequently used tool used by ICO startups. Examples of bounties frequently posted by ICO startups include translation of website text, articles, blog posts, social media posts, and software development.

The "ICO Bounty Management District" district will serve as a central hub for all bounties. It will enable decentralized and block-chain companies to post and list bounties, as well as distribute payments to contributors upon completing of said bounties. The district will also serve the purpose of enabling users to view, sort, filter and search all the bounty listings that have been posted. Users may submit completed bounties and receive coin distributions to specific addresses upon verification that a bounty was successfully completed. Blockchain companies holding ICO's will be able to post bounty rewards into an escrow system to be distributed upon completion of the bounty. A trusted third party may be chosen to distribute funds upon satisfactory completion of bounties. Users will be able to accept tasks, define completion dates, and submit completed bounties to the bounty listing page for approval by a trusted third party.

Monetization

The district can be monetized easily. Organizations might be interested in highlighting their bounties for greater exposure, and that could be a good starting point for monetizing the district. Sponsored posts could be purchased by organizations. Likewise users seeking to be selected for bounties could be given priority over other members by purchasing subscriptions or premium accounts. The mechanism could be similar to the Ethlance sponsorship mechanism.

Future Markets

Bounty0x.io will be best specialized towards assisting ICO's however the platform need not be limited to to ICO bounties, but can serve as a hub to any bounty ever!

Name

Service for sharing stuff

Purpose

In our consumer society everyone possess a lot of stuff most of which just gather dust on shelves most of the time. If someone needs a screwdriver for one-time need it's odd to go and buy one when her neighbor next floor already has it and is willing to give it for a couple of hours. Sharing is good both in terms of economic and environment costs and as a socialization driver.

Starting with just a simple service we can end up with a cultural phenomenon where people prefer to store all their shared stuff in a special semi-public spaces thus freeing their home space from 'useless' stuff. Or we can come to the entirely shared economy who knows.

Description

The service idea fits perfectly district0x in my opinion.

• There's a listing of things users are willing to share.
• There's a place for smart contracts as it's natural for stuff owners to ask (in some cases) for a deposit for their property and smart contracts can store that deposit until a borrowed thing comes back.
• There's a user reputation which also guarantees a fair play.
• Maybe an optional user verification for even higher security.
• And of course there should be a search box to find a nearby offers.

Here I stop my description. I have a more detailed view but IMO for the proposal that's enough.

// my slack username is uvizhe

District name: MMOMarket / MMO District / Virtual Shop / VR Shop / MMOHouse
Decentralized market for virtual currencies.

1. Introduction.
Sorry for my English, not a native speaker.
I'm familiar with the Virtual Currency market in online games for many years and have an interesting District idea.
There are a lot of popular multiplayer games that allow to trade virtual goods (World of Warcraft, Lineage 2 etc.) and almost every multiplayer game allows to provide some kind of ingame assistance (boosting, private lessons). This is huge market and what is more important, computer gamers are potential crypto currency and crypto technology users, fast learning young people, confident computer users. Gamers can help mass crypto adoption and crypto technologies can solve many problems for gamers.

I. Quick overview of Virtual Items/Services sector.
I can name 3 types of institutions for the operations with various types of virtual currencies and ingame services.

1. Forums. Seller and buyer meet directly. Forums sell pseudo currency that is used for buying/selling or varios forum services. Examples:
https://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php - they sell "Forum Gold" (FG) for real money and it's used for all kind of trades, it's prohibited to use any other currency
http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/mmo-trading-market/ - CoreCoins are sold for real money and are used for all types of advertising for sellers
https://www.elitepvpers.com/forum/black-market/ - they sell "elite*gold" that can help
https://www.epicnpc.com/forum.php

2. Marketplaces. It's some kind of a middle man service between seller and buyer that acts as a guarantee for both parties. They take commission from every sale. Examples:
https://www.playerauctions.com/
https://www.g2g.com/

3. Shops. Resellers, generate profit by adding to price. Examples:
https://titaniumbay.com
https://www.fastwowgold.com/
Just few examples, there's lots of big and small online shops.

II. Problem.

All 3 types of institutions has their own advantages and disadvantages.
1. Centralization of the trading platform. Owners of the business can rule all the disputes in their favor, delete negative reviews (posts, fix reputation of the forum user), do not complete orders or offer low quality services.
2. Payment centralization issues. Most popular payment methods (from my poing of view) are Credit Cards (CC), Paypal, Skrill, Webmoney. Problems with the traditional payment methods: very high fees (some cross region PayPal payments require 5%+ fee, usually the fee is 0.8-2%), weak security, risk of locking payment account, risk of chargeback or stolen funds used, cross-currency exchange problems
3. Dispute problems. If something went wrong with the deal, it might be difficult to resolve the dispute.
4. Anonymity. Usually buyers has to disclose personal information to make a purchase of Virtual good.

III. Solution. MMOMarket/MMO District structure.

This solution is a decentralized hybrid between forums and marketplaces.
-MMOMarket/MMO District is a Forum/List that will have many sections and will represent buy and sell mini-contracts (few parameters that are fixed by buyer/seller: price (fixed in Ether, for example), available quantity, delivery time, guarantee period). Every contract will include small fee (1-3% of a contract price) that will be a reward for the district participants’ activity (dispute voting, probably voting for moderator and moderator/middle man service activity).
-The district will put the funds on hold until the buyer confirms that the contract is completed or until the guarantee period is over or until the dispute is resolved.
-Disputes are resolved by MMOMarket/MMO District participatns voting or by moderator that is elected by participants.
-There will be a reputation/trust system that will help to choose a good seller/service provider.
-Participants can use any Ether tokens, they will be automatically converted to desired currency/token by 0x decentralized exchange solution, rate is locked when the seller and buyer start the contract.

This concept needs a lot of development. Possible to expand such district to more global Digital Goods market (cd-keys, computer program keys).

Slack name: cloudpost

Purpose
Make building management transparent and efficient for property owners.

Description

When a new "building" is registered, owners of that building can join and be part of the building community. Some of the activities these communities need solved are:

• Meeting scheduling

• Payments for Services

• Propose and vote on Budgets presented to the building.

• Voting on Admins, Chair Members if needed, Representatives, or any other role. Those roles would acquire certain rights in the platform.

• Claims to Administration, Maintenance.

• Roadmap Proposals of upcoming improvements to the property.

• Building Proposals (ideas to improve the property, pool, gyms, etc)

• Newsletters, Activity Updates.

• Rating system for companies engaged with the property. Rating of maintenance people or other services.

• Interface for renters

• Renting Mgmt

slack name : alphathree

Purpose

Peer learning originally is an educational practice where students teach other students. So that when university resources are stretched and demands upon staff are increasing, it offers students the opportunity to learn from each other. Communities like this one harbor people with all kinds of different talents. Whether it is someone who is good at coding, playing the guitar, photography, or cutting food like a chef. With District0x we can finally enable people to monetize these skills by using the same methods as peer learning, thereby empowering people to improve their lives and do the things they love. We call this learning circles. By decentralizing these learning circles, we will empower the peer2peer learning in a way that there is no need for a middle men taking a cut while not actually adding value to the community.

Description

Learning circles consists of teachers and students. The platform will use the core functionalities of district0x:

Posting and listing

Teachers can offer to teach their skills in the form of a project, a class, a workshop or online coaching for an extended period.

Search and filtering

The beauty about learning circles is that every skill is welcomed. Anyone can be a teacher and everyone can be a student. The different learning circles will be categorized based on category (i.e. business, technology, lifestyle, creative, etc.) and can be filtered on multiple attributes (e.g. ranking, language, type of offering, number of students).

Ranking and reputation

Teachers can be ranked based on the quality of their class, project or workshop. Based on the number of ratings and the grade they will be ranked accordingly inside their category. Moreover, depending on the type of offering (i.e. project, workshop, or class) students will be able to communicate with each other and their teacher inside a seperate community in order to learn from each other and/or offer the teacher the opportunity to optimize the learning experience.

Payments and invoicing

Students will pay the teachers in ether using the same method as Ethlance.

Conclusion

Learning circles offers a way for anyone to learn a certain skill regardless of their skill level or location, whilst enabling anybody with a certain skill to become a teacher and thereby earn extra income, launch their career with doing what they love, and giving something back to the community.

Name

Token News

Purpose

To create an online community centered around the curation of high-quality content related to Ethereum and the projects being built in the Ethereum ecosystem.

Description

Background

I've been a regular reader of Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/) for about 10 years now, and I think it's a great source of information for people who are "generally technical". People can submit links or create discussion posts, usually about programming or technology in general (although other topics show up regularly, such as science, literature, art, economics, etc.), and then other users can upvote particular submissions or post comments. I think the quality of the discussion is usually very high, much better than what you find in many other online communities.

The downside, in my view, is that there is a lot of skepticism around Ethereum, token-based sales and projects, and cryptocurrencies generally in many of the comments I've seen. And that's fine - people are entitled to their own opinions. But I think it would be great to have another online community, built in the same spirit, but with a focus on Ethereum and what I think is an amazing ecosystem being built around it.

Reddit is one source for such information, but the problem I have with that is that the Ethereum-related communities on Reddit are fractured - traders spend their time on r/ethtrader, miners spend their time on r/EtherMining, others spend time on r/ethdev or r/ethlaw, etc. General discussion takes place on r/ethereum, but many posts generate very little discussion. And pretty much every Ethereum-related project has its own subreddit, but that just results in further community fragmentation.

Proposal

What I propose is a simple web app, in the vein of Hacker News, where users can submit links or create discussion posts on anything Ethereum-related. The homepage would be a "leaderboard" of the top, say, 25 stories at that given time, based on an algorithm that considers things like the submitter's reputation score, upvotes from other members, time since original submission, etc. And every post can be commented on, with nested comment trees like Hacker News and Reddit. Obviously the idea here is not original - the goal is simply to create a new community with high community standards that is Ethereum-focused.

I believe this idea could be a good fit for a district0x district. The original members of the district could act as the initial moderators for discussions on the site, and new members could become moderators over time. A token mechanism or a reputation scoring system could be used as a governance layer. And ideally the site would be as integrated into the Ethereum ecosystem and web3 as possible - perhaps the static files for the site itself could be hosted in IPFS or Swarm, and there could be wallet integration if some sort of token does end up being used.

Note

Token News is a pretty generic name, so I'm open to other ideas if anyone has a suggestion! Feedback welcomed.

@ragnu on Slack

Purpose

To let the developers behind ICO's let users know which Ethereum addresses and webpages are legitimate through the distribution of a 'Trustcoin' which is kept on a ethereum wallet address This non-transferrable coin has no monetary value but would act as a symbol of validation, letting users know that this address is a valid ICO address.

Description

To help the crypto community know what is a scam and what isn't. We want to create a symbol of validation for ICOs, it would act like the twitter verification checkmark but for eth addresses.

We would create a zero monetary value ERC20 token named 'Trustcoin'. Address owners can verify that a certain ethereum address is connected to these email accounts, slack address, slack users, ethereum wallet addresses, website address and contracts by signing them to the blockchain using something like Keybase or Parity's email verification service.

They are then given a 'Trustcoin' for storing on their ethereum address once they are validated. The 'Trustcoin' is not able to be transferred. When a user on MyEtherWallet or MetaMastk tries to send to the ICO address, a validation check is presented asking them to confirm it is the correct address by displaying the various other accounts it is tied to.

MyEtherWallet and Metamask integration, MyEtherWallet checks the ethereum address to see if it contains a 'Trustcoin', and if it does not they would warn the user which the user can decide to proceed or not.

Slack Bot, ethereum addresses posted in channels are compared to known trusted addresses that the ICO submitter validates and a warning message produced by Trustcoinbot would warn users that this is not the ICO address.

How does one earn a Trustcoin? Here's where District0x comes into play. Create a 'Trustcoin' district, the people in this district act as validators who look at the information provided by the ICO submitter and confirm it is correct by visiting the website of the ICO and also confirm the other pieces of information manually. They vote yes that the information is valid. Each validator will be given a reputation score based on past validations and an equal percentage of proceeds earned through the district.

How can we trust the validators? They follow the same steps followed by the ICO Submitters but for their own reddit account, name, email address but instead of having that information publically viewable, they use zero knowledge proofs to cryptographically sign that information to the blockchain. This way we have can confirm its existence without viewing its contents. This way validators are putting their name on the line to verify the address is correct.

The 'Trustcoin' district will have an ethereum address with a multi sig, requiring 65% of the district inhabitants to vote if any changes are needed to the district. This address will also work as a donation address and will be presented in various places for when we help users avoid scams. These funds will be distributed among the validators after each successful ICO. ICO's can also donate to this address which will bump them to the top of the validators queue.

If the validators validate the wrong information then they are unable to validate another ICO Submission for X amount of days and forfeit the TrustBounty.

How does one become a validator? It will work on the buddy system, we get certain people within the crypto community to become the first validators, they then vouch for their buddy, that buddy is now able to vouch for others and so on. The penalty for validating incorrect information is steep though and will trickle back through the buddy system affecting the vouchers.

How this works from the ICO Submitters perspective

John Smith is the CEO of a up and coming ICO and he wants to ensure that users won't be scammed. He cryptographically ties his website URL, Ethereum wallet address, twitter, email address and slack address together confirming that this person controls all of these using something like keybase

He submits this hash to the TrustCoin District for verification which becomes a TrustBounty. The ICO Submitter has the option to donate Eth, or any ERC20 token to the TrustCoin District wallet, if they chose to do so, Validators would want to validate this TrustBounty first. After verification is confirmed, the TrustBounty is satisfied and a Trustcoin will be minted and sent to the Ethereum wallet address provided. This will act like a Twitter verified checkmark, it will let user know that this ethereum address is tied to an ICO.

How this works from the validators perspective

Validators are only as good as their word, and because we aren't staking funds, we want to stake our online identities. Using Zero Knowledge Proofs, validators can submit their reddit, facebook, and email account to the blockchain. This will create a hash which we can use as proof of existence, we are able to see that is there and confirm it is legitimate but not read its contents . Validators review the ICO Submissions, confirming each piece of data submitted by the ICO Submitter is valid. Once they confirm it is accurate, they can vote the submission as valid. Once an ICO Submission has x% amount of valid votes within the TrustCoin District then a Trustcoin is minted and sent to the ICO Submitters wallet address. Validators will share an equal % of the TrustBounty (if the ICO Submitter donated) and will share an equal % of donations to the TrustCoin District wallet address.

Questions:

• Can MEW and MetaMask query ethereum addresses for the presence of a certain token?
• How do you stop someone from creating multiple accounts, thus creating multiple validators?
• Can Zero Knowledge proofs work that way, when they will they be available in Ethereum?
• Can Trustcoinbot read messages in slack channels or would it have to be an IRC bot connected to slack?

Thank you for taking the time to read this idea! I'm very open to any suggestions and comments

Cheers

Slack Username = Adam

Purpose

Factori would provide an easy way for freelancers and DAOs (e.g. using Aragon) to finance their ongoing operations by factoring invoices created through Ethlance based on the invoice amount, their reputation, and the reputation of the invoicee within the district0x network.

Factori could be generalized to facilitate other types of secured lending off of blockchain assets including the factoring of registered ENS domains.

Description

Getting A Loan

There are four main steps to any Factori loan:

1. Loan request. Freelancers can post bids specifying the loan term, amount, collateral (initially an Ethlance invoice contract), and desired interest rate.

2. Price discovery. Funders choose offers to fund or present counter-offers. For example, a freelancer may be asking for a loan that amounts to 100% of the invoice value but the lender is only comfortable lending up to 70% of the invoice value.

3. Loan origination. Once both parties are comfortable with the terms, the borrower transfers the collateral to a smart contract and signs the smart contract. Once the collateral is received lender sends the specified funds thereby originating the loan.

4. Loan repayment. Since the loan is collateralized there are two possible ways the loan could be closed out. Either 1) the freelancer is able to repay the loan and does so by sending the amount due (principal + interest) to the smart contract or 2) the borrower is not able to repay the loan and collateral value is transferred to the lender. In the case of an Ethlance invoice the recipient for the invoice could be changed to the funder.

Factori Reputation

As borrowers and funders execute transactions in the Factori and other districts they gain reputation. This reputation can be used by funders to assess risk and should over time make it cheaper for freelancers that use the platform in good faith to post less collateral and pay less interest. This could eventually be formalized into a more robust credit scoring system based around a participant's reputation in the District0x ecosystem, which would be especially useful for unsecured lending districts.

Functional Requirements

Factori would leverage the District0x infrastructure that has been built for Ethlance to:

• Post and filter loan requests so that funders can easily find loans that meet their risk tolerance.
• Verify the terms of invoices posted as collateral.
• Create and manage the reputation of the funder, freelancer, and the Ethlance invoicee.

Other Considerations

Reducing Currency Risk Through Stable Tokens

As with other districts on the District0x platform the loan contract should support holding any ERC20 token including stable tokens like Maker's SAI/DAI stable token. The ability to use stable tokens should in theory increase use of the platform by reducing loan currency risk.

Implementing Additional Credit Criteria with Aragon, XBRL, and Oracles

Aragon's accounting functionality could be leveraged to provide a more precise credit risk assessment using a DAO's financial history along side their Factori reputation. The simplest insolvency predictor still used by business lenders today is the Altman Z-score, but plenty of other more robust scoring methods exist (for example, using random forests and other tree based models). For organizations with existing traditional financial statements XBRL data could be imported using an oracle to achieve complete financial transparency.

@andxor

Slack Username: eddy.metax

Name

Influencer District – influencer.io

Purpose

As US digital ad spend reaches $82.86 billion in 2017 and 47% of online consumers use ad blockers, advertisers have been turning to influencer marketing in order to successfully reach their target audience. Influencer marketing can be defined as paying an influencer to advertise your product throughout their social media platforms. Through the Influencer District, advertisers will instantly discover their product’s ideal influencer in order to reach their campaign’s target audience. All of this with no platform fee.

Description

As an Influencer – Meet Keanu

Keanu is fresh out of college with a massive social media presence. He has thousands of followers and subscribers across Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube. Although he already has a full-time job as a data analyst, he wants to utilize his social media presence to finance his crypto investments. He could reach out to brands individually and ask to promote their product, but he does not have the available time to do so.

Upon learning about influencer.io, he quickly signs-up for the district in the same manner he did for Ethlance a couple of weeks before. In the district, he provides his log-in information for all of his social media platforms and summarizes his previous influencer work on his profile. Instantly, his profile is made to display his follower count and data pertaining to his follower’s demographics.

As a Brand – Meet Penny Board

Penny Board is a skateboard brand that uses the highest quality raw materials to build awesome skateboards. They have a new line of skateboards scheduled to release this summer and are looking for ways to promote their release. Penny Board could spend their marketing budget on banner ads throughout Facebook (blocked by ad blockers) or they could utilize influencer.io and discover influencers to promote their product across Facebook (not blocked by ad blockers).

Upon signing up for influencer.io as a brand, they are quickly given access to thousands of influencers with various audience reach. The brand begins their search by filtering out influencers who do not match their campaign demographic. They select the age, gender, and location demographic they wish to see in an influencer and instantly find Keanu. After exchanging several messages within influencer.io, Penny Board signs a smart contract with Keanu to promote their new line of skateboards across Keanu’s social media platforms. Once Keanu executes on the agreement, he receives his preferred form of payment and writes a quick review within influence.io about promoting for Penny Board. Penny Board also writes a review about working with Keanu and successfully reaches their campaign’s target audience.

Both parties are happy with how easy the discovery, execution, and payment process was for the product campaign to run successfully.

UI

Please click on the following link to interact with the mockup:

https://invis.io/2NCIZH77S

Influencers are able to track their on-going campaigns, current conversations with brands, and overall success!

Influencers are able to filter all of the open campaigns in order to best find the one where he/she could contribute

Brands access this screen to find all available influencers.

Brands then do their due diligence in researching the influencer before spending their marketing budget.

Brands are able to track their on-going campaigns, message influencers, and quickly find new influencers to add to their brand

Con

• Influencers can have fake followers and thus inflate their statistics. There can therefore be a new stat added to their profile for brands to see.
  Like to Followers threshold where the number of likes per photo is above a certain percentage of total followers. (Greater than 30% or so)
  Ex. 2,000 Followers and 100 Likes on average/photo: 5% Likes
  Ex. 5,000 Followers and 1,750 Likes on average/photo: 35% Likes

Name

Idea sharing and crowdsourcing hub

Purpose

Lots of people have great ideas but have no resources to implement them. There are many people on the other hand in a search of better application of their efforts and talents. We may let meet them in a central place so great ideas become alive and people get satisfied with what they do.

Idea generators aren't always concerned with money and are happy to share their ideas with others. Idea is the goal and no matter who bring it to life: a group of altruistic enthusiasts or a greedy corporation. The world with expensive iPhone is better then the one without.

Many communities gather ideas or proposals using different tools. E.g. we use GitHub for this purpose so why not to use district0x itself?. We can give a great and convenient tool for everyone.

Description

Think of Reddit for ideas. A big space separated to subspaces by topic/community/project. Every subspace can form a DAO so to govern its internal rules for workflow/publication/etc., elect moderators, incentivize its members and so on. At the same time the whole hub is governed the same way by its district DAO.

Features

• Ad-hoc subspace creation through the district DAO methods
• Subspace DAO
• Optional content filters aka moderators reviewing and approving user submitted ideas
• Cross-subspace posts (each moderator should approve the posting to their subspace)
  • imagine I have a project idea for urban communities to be implemented by means of blockchain, so I want to post it to 'urban' and 'blockchain' subspaces
• User rankings(?)
• Tools for every idea to bootstrap: participation, roles, project management, crowdfunding, etc.

// my slack username is uvizhe

Name
Docset

Purpose
To start almost any project, you need a template, some kind of starting out point. From high school essays to startup legal docs to ICO smart contracts, you very rarely ever start from scratch. Online templates can range from well-done lists created by a community like the NVCA’s Model Legal Docs to malware asking for a $5 fee to download a contract that ends with an exe file on your computer. Creating a decentralized community for curating the best templates would both help people who need a template for one reason or other and help give recognition to those who create the templates.

Description
In it’s most basic form members could post templates for download to the community. A contributor could choose to put a download price on the template or not. As with other districts there would be the ability to upvote templates. As a template is upvoted it’s creator would gain reputation at the same rate as the template itself. As a contributor gains more and more reputation their new templates would start with greater reputation. This may allow a contributor to add a higher download price to the template.

However, the ultimate goal would be to have a curated searchable list of available templates that would be free to use for the community. In order to promote making templates available for free I believe contributors rating in this district could earn them badges or other certification to promote themselves on Ethlance. Service providers do this all the time on their own websites, see Cooley’s “CooleyGO document generator”. A reputation ranking that can be shown on Ethlance would be good enough but specific badges may be helpful in terms of differentiating a person’s reputation (a startup lawyer shouldn’t fetch a high price for a design template because they have a high reputation). This would incentivize template creators to publish on the platform so they can point to their rating.

Why on district0x
This marketplace at its core would utilize distric0x’s main features: posting and listings, search and filtering, ranking & reputation, and less so, payments and invoicing. The marketplace would also link directly to Ethlance and potentially many other marketplaces on the platform where people offer their services. I also believe this could be an early district as the it wouldn't require whole market adoption to start, in the beginning it may consist mostly of smart contracts.

Types of Templates
I’m sure there are many but these are the ones that got me thinking.

• ICO contract
• IoT smart contracts
• Service agreements (smart or not)
• Startup Legal Docs
• Financing Docs
• College Thesis Template
• Webpage design templates
• Cap Table
• Startup Financial Model
• Valuation Models

Potential Issues

• Verification of authenticity (who actually created the template vs who posted
• Needs a better name
• I'm sure there are many so I'm just starting this list here.

My Slack name is @leecarter. Please feel free to send me a DM there to talk about this proposal.

Name



TheEtherBay - A Decentralised P2P file sharing district

Slack username: @georg



Purpose





Most P2P file sharing services (such as ThePirateBay, KickassTorrents, MediaFire, etc.) is being seen as illegal by governments all around the world. Most of these sites are censored, blocked, and removed.
This makes it a perfect fit in an uncensored, unblocked and unremovable, decentralized network.
Even though TheEtherBay mimics the name and functionality of ThePirateBay, it will take further steps to legalize it with its curation market model, token, and more.



Description

General Step-by-Step of the functionality of the district





The district works by these 4 easy steps:
1. User A becomes a citizen of the district.
2. User B, which is already a citizen, uploads a file to the district and receives an amount of tokens as a reward.
3. User A search for the file, and downloads it.
4. User A enjoys the downloaded file and leaves a rating for user B


There are a lot more functionalities and pages. This is the site map of the district:



Users and Profiles



In order to remain online privacy, users will not need to log in, and will, therefore, be given a randomized user ID, and can browse the site anonymously.
But for the user to be able to comment, upload content, receive/pay tokens, vote, rank, and participate in the community, they will need to log in and create a profile.


With internet freedom and privacy in its core, TheEtherBay will not ask users for an email address (or any other personal information). When you create a user, you will be asked to remember your information, because if you lose your password, you lose your account, and we will not be responsible for any loss of tokens, money or files.

Guest User

If you do not want to create a user and join the community, you can visit the site as a guest. When visiting as a guest, you will not be able to receive tokens, upload, comment, vote, or in any way contribute to the district. Guests will only be able to download files.

Back-end



The back-end of the district uses 3 of the 4 core functionalities from d0xINFRA:
☐ Posting & Listing
For upload and content delivery in list formats
☐ Search & Filtering
Making it easier to browse and find files
☐ Ranking & Reputation
For rating file uploads, and for users to gain trust and feedback





The back-end will include integration of the decentralized file storage platform, Swarm ->
http://swarm-gateways.net/
This will enable users of the district to upload and deliver downloadable files.
Smart contracts (and open-source libraries) will contribute to control and automate everything from decision making to user voting.



The EtherBay Token (EBT)



The EtherBay Token will be used throughout the whole district, and be used for a variety of things.


As for back-end purposes, it will be used for:
☐ Data processing
☐ Authenticating and authorizing
☐ Secure storage


But most importantly, the token will be a critical part of our curation market model.

Curation Market Model

As a way to reward uploaders for their contribution, we will have a curation market model.
The model will work as the following:

When uploading a file, a user gets an amount of tokens.
Tokens are used to vote, contribute and joining chatroom communities.
When a user does not have any tokens left, he/she needs to upload a file in order to receive more tokens.
This will make people upload more constantly in order to get tokens, but also reward content creators for their hard work and as a thank you for uploading their content.

Update 2

TheEtherBay v2.0, as seen on the sitemap, will include some more, less important, but still critical, features to the district. The reason why these features will come later, in another update, is both because of time, priority, and to see wether or not the district becomes successful. If the district do become a success, v2.0 will come soon after v1.0.

Name

Creātus
The creative District

Purpose

To act as a market place for digital assets.

To easily source all of the digital assets needed for designing and creating an application. To be able to request the creation of bespoke assets if the existing ones don't meet the needs of the app creator.

Description

Currently, there is a fragmentation of digital assets across the Internet (with varying licenses) and it is difficult to determine the true owner of the digital asset.

Creative District is a truly decentralised marketplace for both people wanting to create a new product and people wanting to monetise their design abilities - without the middleman taking a cut of the profits.

The licenses used on the District will make it clear that the work listed on the platform could be bought in order to use it for commercial use, and potentially the asset could be modified.

The scope of the market place would be

• Stock photography
• Icons
• Logos
• Fonts
• Music / Sounds
• Videos (including 'explainer' and promotional videos)
• Brushes (to be used in applications such as Photoshop to modify other digital assets)
• Assets (other digital assets such as people, animals and items used in the applications)

This overarching district could be sub-categorised into the above districts, to make it easier to search for the specific type of asset that you currently need.

It should also be possible to find people that have created assets similar to what you desire and request modifications to their work to match your exact desires.

Further points to consider

• The use of Ether, or DNT, on the platform helps to ensure consistent pricing for both the seller and the buyer.

• Ethereum Smart Contracts could be used as an escrow without the need for a 3rd party.

• The community and the reputation system will help to ensure that the true owner of the work is the only one listing the digital asset(s) on the platform. Potentially, this might require some arbitration process to determine the true owners of the digital asset.

• It's very difficult to completely stop people copying digital assets. By making it easier to identify the true owners of the asset, making it easier for creatives to monetise their work and making it easy to purchase the license from them; we can hopefully increase the number of people that are paying for licenses - "the Spotify effect".

• A way to advertise/show that the license to use the digital asset in your application has been purchased through the Creative District.

Competitors

• Fiverr - A value-add over Fiverr would be not requiring a 3rd party to secure the funds during the creative process and not having to pay a middleman.

SteveJaxon

Name

Serv4u by eric11

Purpose

Our district will be a decentralized Marketplace for people who do any kind of services for a house: Cleaners, gardeners, handyman, small constructions…
the idea is to offer a marketplace of people that can do any kind of task to keep a house in good conditions. this marketplace would help not only to particular that need to outsource some task but also to professional that manage a lot of houses ( e.g. people who manage a lot of houses in a holidays rentals platform like AirBnB) and need the services.
We want to become a go to place for everyone that need a service in a direct contact between the supplier and the petitioner.

Description

The functionality of the district would be:

There are two kind of users:
Those who offer their services. Suppliers.
Those who require the service. Petitioners.

You can be part of both groups if you want.

Suppliers register in the marketplace and offer what they can do. They will show their fee per hour and the availability. They will have a rate depending on the valuation of the petitioners.

Petitioners register in the marketplace and choose a supplier who can do what they need. Petitioners will have a rating too. Depending on the valuation of the suppliers that did any job for them before.

Petitioners may seek a supplier based on different criteria, the fee, the location, the rating…..
Supplier can accept or not an offer.
There will be a ranking to highlight the suppliers with better reputation.

The Serv4U Token (S4U)

S4U will be used throughout the whole district. It will serve to pay suppliers and we will reward to any person who take part of the marketplace to generate a great network effect.

Proposal by @ouicho in district0x.slack.com

Name

Decentraland District

Purpose

Decentraland is an open source initiative to build a traversable virtual reality world. Within Decentraland, habitants can claim land as their own and build anything they wish upon it, from 3D artwork to fully immersive applications such as a VR poker room, for other inhabitants of the world to discover and enjoy.

As in the real world, land in Decentraland is scarce, non-fungible, and transferable; making it a logical asset for trade. Decentraland makes use of the Ethereum blockchain and a native token, the MANA, to implement a process for establishing claims over parcels of land within the world.

The nature of adjacency of land will lead to particular parcels becoming more desirable than others as a byproduct of their surroundings. A parcel which hosts a heavily trafficked installation will naturally enhance the discoverability of content hosted by neighboring landowners, leading to an appreciation in the inherent value of bordering plots.

The Decentraland District will establish a secondary market for land ownership and rentals within the Decentraland virtual world, establishing a focal point for the exchange of parcels and providing a means of price discovery and liquidity for LAND owners.

Description

The district will allow for owners of LAND to list their parcels for sale or rent, offering both auctions and fixed rate pricing options. Listings should contain the parcel's Cartesian coordinates, screenshots of its contents, and any other pertinent identifying information.

LAND for early adopters

We have reserved 700,000 MANA tokens (equivalent to 700 LAND tiles if converted to land) to be distributed to members of our Slack community following the completion of our planned contribution period in August.

Members of the Decentraland team will subjectively reward clear, well thought out proposals for Decentraland content (cinemas, games, museums, art galleries, markets, etc.), actual content creation and tech contributions, feedback on the overall project (white paper, economics, city planning, tech), thoughtful discussion, and other contributions made to the Decentraland project.

Be part of the conversation and claim your LAND in our Slack

See you in the metaverse!

Name: Fair and Secure Private Real Estate Sales

Purpose: Reduce cost and reliance on lawyers by automating many processes involved in a private sale of real estate, including escrow of funds. (This could apply to real estate in general, but the legal and business interests regulating public sales (i.e., through Realtors) is so entrenched and powerful, I believe it would have to start with private sales between individuals.)

Description: In most jurisdictions, private sellers are required to comply with the same disclosure and other laws as a real estate broker listing the property. A system of smart contracts could -- provably and immutably -- ensure compliance with these laws and even store the documents (e.g., using IPFS or Storj or similar service). It doesn't need to be all that fast: one characteristic of real estate transactions is they happen slowly, over days and weeks (even the closing takes hours). It's not like a POS system that has to process transactions in seconds.

The next part of the process is the bidding and negotiation. Again, sellers could choose the type of sale they wanted to have (auction, sealed bid, open bid, what policy for multiple offers, etc.), and contracts could accept bids (including escrowed hand money), and the seller could take action, for instance, accepting a certain bid, which would automatically refund the others and escrow the deposit funds.

Private sellers are still subject to fair housing regulations, just as brokers are, and a system like this, immutably recording offers, could eliminate disputes about who offered what and when, and why someone was denied. The contract rules treat every buyer the same, and don't know about age, ethnicity, gender, etc. It would be hard to argue that a contract was racist!

HUD and auction sites already do something very like this, albeit not on the blockchain, and not with real money. Using Oracles or Slock.it services, it would even be possible to vet buyers in some ways (e.g., checking credit).

The rest of the process could also be mediated through contracts, right up to (and possibly eventually including) the closing itself. For instance, the buyer could call a contract method to specify a home inspector and a radon inspector, who would have known public addresses (ENS would be helpful here). The contract would then accept reports from those addresses. The time periods could all be encoded into the contract so that, for instance, the buyer could call "terminateContract()," which would succeed inside the inspection time period (and release the escrow back to the buyer). After the inspection period, the call would fail.

The lender could also have a public address, and could send a transaction from that known address clearing the loan approval conditions. At closing, the title company could send a transaction saying all the documents were signed and the money disbursed, which would release the escrowed hand money to the title company. All these legal entities would still do their thing (conventional paper processes with legal backing), but at the end, they'd send the contract notification that all the "human/legal stuff" was done, and the transaction would move to a new state.

This would eliminate disputes about timing (I once almost lost $5,000 because I hand delivered a contract termination which they claimed they never received!), and the transaction data could always contain a hash of the actual document (and maybe a key to retrieve it from IPFS or Storj), so there could be no lost documents or disputes about what was signed when by whom. This could cut down on litigation considerably.

Note: I'm a Realtor with 15 years experience, very familiar with the industry and its challenges. I'm also thinking about a system based on the Quorum project (or maybe Hyperledger) for coordinating the various parties needed for a conventional real estate closing. Automation could reduce costs and errors (replacing reconciliation across multiple independent databases with consensus).

Purpose

Apps and websites like Yelp are good resources to allow residents to access reviews from others in their communities on places and activities in their local city. But the centralized nature leads to flaws, with advertisements competing for space and a focus on quantity of reviews over quality. For reviewers, there is limited pay off for putting together higher quality reviews. Some may even try to branch out to their own blogs/sites but then run into other issues getting value out of their reviews. For those looking to consume reviews, they end up with long lists of low quality reviews or struggle trying to find those community experts. This is where Localview comes into the picture.

Description

Localview would be designed to take advantage of key District0x features such as community voting, search and filtering, ranking and reputation, and payments within the district.

Community voting

A sub-district would be set up for each city or metro area and those interested in participating would be invited to buy in monthly. At the end of each month, this total pot of buy in money would be allocated to all who have posted a review based on a formula that takes into account both the quality (based on a simple thumbs up or down voting from district) and quantity of reviews posted.

Secondly, all members will also vote each month on what the buy-in for that district should be for the following month. For example, a smaller town may vote to have a lower buy in to the service due to the utility from it where a major city may have a larger buy in due to more reviews they utilize. The real advantage of District0x here is helping the district as a group find that optimal value point. If reviewers vote for too high a buy in, review consumers will not buy in and they won’t generate returns for their work. In the opposite case, if review consumers vote to keep the buy in too low, reviewers will not be as likely to leave the quality reviews they are seeking.

This feature also serves to help combat anyone trying to game the system. If you see one month a group voting up their reviews unfairly to gain more buy in, you choose to stop participating and the payoff is limited for the fraudulent actors. Restaurants may also try to game the system by buying in with fake accounts and pushing up reviews of their location. This though would again be naturally caught by the system, as users will see large amounts of fake reviews, discrediting the place and either leaving them to abandon their expensive tactic or the sub-district to start losing users increasing the cost to do so.

Ideally we would want to start small but here is the full list of items that could be considered over time to be added for users to vote on

1. Buy in for the following month
2. Changes to payout formula to suit that local communities needs/desires (do you value quantity or quality in different ratios?)
3. If advertisers should be allowed to purchase in and where they are placed?

Search and Filtering

Hopefully as the sub-district grows, the quantity of reviews will in turn and the ability to quickly find places you are looking for or filter out reviews over a certain time period will be useful to users. There is space here to allow customization to make this more powerful than existing review aggregators in the market place and prevents advertisements from being placed higher in results due to the decentralized nature.

On the topic of advertisements though, an idea could be to allow certain businesses to buy in at a higher rate (increasing return for reviewers and reducing buy in from review consumers) to place certain targeted ads in the sub-district. Each sub-district could vote to decide how intrusive these would be (one thread for ad's for that month or something more intrusive on the top of every result) or even establish buy in tiers with and without these advertisements. Another idea could be to set up a CPC type model, where each time a user clicks an add, they receive payment from the advertiser directly as a set rate.

Ranking and Reputation

A key part of Localview will be the formula to decide community pay outs. It will be important for it to be transparent and simple while also driving the goal of Localview. Some things that should be included

• An indicator on quality, either count of likes or percent of likes/dislikes to encourage good reviews
• Quantity of reviews provided as measure of work to supporting the district
• Use of prior reviews, most likely a decaying formula where reviews from prior months earn less over time

Features like leaderboards could also be included to inspire reviewers to try and be the highest paid and most respected viewer in their sub-district.
Also with the ranking and reputation, poor reviews with a low quality ranking should be removed from the sub-district and reviewers with a history of doing so could be converted into consume only users for a set time period to help preserve the quality of reviews.

A very rough stage example of the formula could be something like the below

Number of user likes on reviews posted this month + 0.5*(user likes on reviews posted from prior months)+bonus for quantity of "quality" reviews posted

The 0.5 could be adjusted but is intended to decay prior reviews as they get less valuable over time as restaurants change. Quality reviews would be defined with the % of reactions positive on a review over a certain threshold (e.g. 50%). For the bonus, there would be a table, with thresholds based on number of quality reviews posted.

Payments within the district

The buy in and pay outs each month will be automated within the sub-district to allow all parties involved to trust in Localview.

Pending questions

A few open items exist that would have to be locked down in order to implement this district

• What is the optimal formula to determine pay out to reviewers?
• Should we allow sub-districts to vote to allow local businesses to advertise?
• How do you incentivize both parties in the critical first few months as the value is being built up? Free buy ins with set pay outs for reviewers that is slowly funded back in future months?
• Is there a way beyond paying into a new city to be a “guest” in a certain city while traveling? E.g. if you buy into San Francisco but visit New York City for a weekend you can avoid paying full buy in to consume reviews in New York City.

Final Thoughts

District0x presents a unique opportunity in the local review space to bring the value back to the community, cut down on the number of irrelevant reviews and financially reward those who take the time and effort to write excellent reviews for others.

Please comment with any questions or feedback you have.

Author: Freight777

Name: Lotopia - crowdsourced real estate development

Purpose: Address urban blight and increase government/corporate transparency through disclosure of public real estate records and discussing/funding proposals to improve unused/underused property

Description: There is a growing trend (through efforts like OpenGov -- opengov.com/local-government) to promote transparency by releasing public records in a more accessible (and searchable) form. One big contributor to blight is vacant houses and lots. Deteriorating property increases crime, lowers property values -- and is just plain embarrassing.

Properties remain vacant for years on end for many reasons. Some are in legal limbo; perhaps the owner died with no heirs, or there is some sort of boundary dispute. Others were seized by the city for non-payment of taxes -- and then remain vacant because no one wants to pay the back taxes, or the bureaucratic red tape required to clear the title just isn't worth it.

But a big part of the problem is people simply don't know what's out there. Realtors can only sell properties with clear title and owners who can pay them, so no one is "advertising" any of these properties. There are "squatter laws" in some places that do some good; e.g., someone who occupies and materially improves a property has a mechanism to claim title, after which more extensive renovations make sense. Yet a vast majority of the properties remain vacant, slowly reclaimed by nature.

With Lotopia, local neighborhood districts will be seeded with vacant property data from public real estate records. Residents can then propose and vote on the highest and best use for a given vacant building or lot, allowing the best proposals to rise to the top.

One benefit of crowdsourcing real estate information is the potential to draw on the collective, distributed knowledge of the whole community. Say a group of young hipsters moving in wants the vacant building on the corner to be a pizza shop (probably gourmet or vegan or something, knowing hipsters). But maybe it was a pizza shop in 1973, and 1982, and 1998, all of which failed for some reason known to longterm residents -- but not to those proposing to do it again. Lotopia creates a mechanism for extracting this local knowledge from people who would probably never meet or interact in person.

Another use of the system would be what some might call "tax fairness." (Or "tax shaming" if you're less charitable.) Tax payments are also public record. Say a tax exempt organization (like the city, or a big hospital or university that gets tax breaks) owns a large swath of vacant land that is just sitting there doing nothing -- and also not generating tax revenue. Public pressure might build for the "squatter corporation" to sell the land off to developers who would make better use of it (and generate tax revenue for the city).

This could be done in a centralized fashion, as an "advisory" application (see below), but in District0x, using smart contracts, there could be real money behind the proposals. Housing projects could be directly monetized through what would essentially be crowd sales, and the contributors would then (for example), earn a share of the rent generated from the renovated building, or discounts at the hipster's vegan gourmet pizza shop if they build it anyway, etc. Funding could work a bit like ICOs, where the money would be returned if the city didn't green light the project. (Smart contract logic could require the city or other verified legal entity to sign a transaction authorizing release of funds; otherwise they'd be returned to donors.)

Alternatively, at least at first, district tokens could be used for voting/staking, as they are elsewhere in the system, so that it would be an information-gathering system, the results of which could be reported in the media or used to prove demand and justify projects to banks to get funding.

Other contracts could be used to automate whatever processes may be in place to claim city-owned vacant property. The city could hold smart-contract-mediated, provably fair auctions for properties (sealed or open bid), and perhaps eventually integrate these systems with deed registration and actually transfer property to new, more productive owners.

History of the idea
I didn't just make this up now; our team won a trip to the White House at a Hackathon in 2013 for implementing a similar mobile app for Pittsburgh :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix16BSQwvZQ

Introduction

The global security market is destined to growth due to the instability and uncertainty that remain dominating in the contemporary world. Just watching the daily news is enough to find that the terrorist acts and cyberattacks emerging every single day, unprecedented hybrid warfare (Syria, Ukraine), religious violence and nationalist hatred caused by enormous migration, a rash of street crime based on further polarization between the rich and poor, and the rising suicide rate related to overstressing due to financial and social problems constitute only a few of numerous preconditions and reasons of why people need a highly developed and easily accessible online security service.

B-Umbrella Mission and Structure
B-Umbrella project aims at creating a decentralized application based on the blockchain technology which can provide users with a possibility to find and hire the security guards of various specializations as well as the opportunities of sharing the personal and corporate security services offered by those individuals, groups, and companies whose security skills and capabilities can be in demand on the market. The application will provide peer-to-peer cashless transactions based on pre-designed smart contracts (templates) identifying the relations between clients and executors as well as the terms and conditions basing on which the security agreements are considered satisfactorily completed.

As the DApp implies the peer-to-peer interaction between clients and executors, there should be no any compulsory requirements to both communities. It means that everyone who is confident about his/her ability to deliver security service can register with the relevant section of the application offering oneself as an executor. It is up to the clients to select the most appropriate candidate from the pool of the executors. The executors in their turn are responsible for the information indicated in their profiles. In each particular case, the clients can make their choice basing on the “skills – fee”, “experience – reputation”, or “availability – location” ratio of the executors as well as on any other relevant and important characteristics indicated in the executors’ profiles.
In other words, the B-Umbrella application offers an online platform where clients and security specialists can find each other in order to sign security agreements without having to correspond any official authorization. Both the functionality of the app and the relations between communities of the clients and executors are to be built upon concepts of the self-governance and genuine freedom of choice.
The B-Umbrella DApp is intended as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) operating within the district0x Network as one of the districts under control of a corresponding entity created on the Aragon governance and management network.
The final version of the architecture and UI as well as the specification, number, and functionality of all sections and features of the application will be developed in accordance with suggestions and advices of both district0x Network and Aragon executives along with opinions and proposals of district0x Community Advisers.
Social Mission: B-Umbrella intends to reduce the global unemployment by representing new blockchain-based opportunities for those social strata whose environment, situation, and skills currently keep them out of the official employment for whatever reason. Besides, B-Umbrella offers a new level of accessibility to various security services for everyone who needs protection and security without being able to appeal to the conventional security service providers.
The Users' Audience
Everyone can create a profile on the B-Umbrella platform selecting a relevant security section of the application. The only formal procedure necessary to enter the service is an online registration. A potential executor will need to fill in a profile data including an avatar, a nickname and an informal description of skills and services he/she can offer. Besides, the interface of the app will propose selecting an appropriate type of available security services by adding to a profile specially designed icons identifying the types of services and some specific skills of the executors (possession of weapons, martial arts knowledge, remote service possibility etc). In addition, a candidate for executors will have to indicate his/her crypto wallet and buy some specific tokens to be able to use all B-Umbrella services. The rest functionality of the executors’ section of the app is to be similar to other various online freelance job platforms. Executors will be able to gather in groups (pools) basing on their interests, skills, locations etc. There will be a ranking system based on the clients’ feedback where executors can be classified with 1-5 stars. In addition, a special messenger-like section will provide executors with an ability to share their experience in two rooms – the “Walk of Fame” (for positive feedback) and the “Whipping Post” (for something negative). Clients will have a similar section too.
Potential Executors

• military veterans and retired personnel who face problems with official employment due to various reasons;
• former and actual athletes looking for extra earnings;
• unemployed bodyguards having no official opportunities to be employed by the conventional security service providers;
• white-hat hackers capable of delivering cybersecurity services on a private basis;
• martial artists and coaches looking for extra earnings apart from their training jobs;
• former inmates having difficulties in finding their way in society;
• taxi and truck drivers capable of providing confidential courier and delivery services of valuable assets;
• guides, survivalists, and traffickers capable of arranging safety visiting of various dangerous locations;
• well-trained and able-bodied students looking for some side business in their spare time;
• spiritualists, healers, and psychics whose extrasensory capabilities can deliver some atypical security services to those clients who feel vulnerable to the forces of evil from the beyond;
• actual officially employed bodyguards whose work schedule allows them to have a secondary job;
• everyone throughout the world who is confident in his/her ability to deliver a particular security service.
  Potential Customers
• business persons who operate within highly corrupted environments where appealing to official security service providers may likely entail persecution by governmental and criminal organizations practicing racketeering activities (former USSR countries);
• individuals whose business, political, or social reputation may be negatively affected when their contracting with security guards is widely publicized (discreet protection);
• people who need protection and security service for one-time situations (events, tourist and business trips, negotiations etc);
• people and organizations who suffer from cyberattacks having no sufficient financial resources to contract official cybersecurity specialists or being distrustful to their professional capabilities;
• people who want to arrange bodyguard service for their children, parents, relatives, friends, partners etc, on a confidential basis in order to keep their loved ones unaware about the service due to psychological, social, ethical, or any other possible reasons;
• individuals, groups, and communities seeking for security services while their official status (migrants, refugees, national or sexual minorities etc) does not allow them to be officially protected;
• people who need to visit some high-risk areas or criminalized districts where escorting by a local guide is necessary;
• people who need security service rewarded through the mutual exchange of another service (cybersecurity – hairdressing, security courier delivery – dental service, etc);
• individuals who believe in danger and threats rooting somewhere beyond the conventional physical reality (vampires, aliens, evil spirits, ghosts etc) and thus being unable to ask for protection of the conventional security service providers;
• individuals, groups, and communities who seek for remote protection of people or object locating in distant areas (memorials, cemeteries, cultural or business facilities, etc);
• everyone who feels vulnerable to the actual or imaginary threats without intend to publicly disclose any fear and vulnerabilities, however.

More detailed description of the project is here

Purpose

The 1Hive Funding platform would offer a standardized and accountable crowdfunding dapp on top of a curation market. Similar to Patreon or Kickstarter, an individual or group could champion a project and solicit support from the community to provide funding to bring the idea to market. The platform would support both funding milestones and time-based funding release mechanisms. In addition, early contributors to a project would benefit from the projects future success, so community members have the incentive to find the best projects early and shift their support to those. The result is that quality projects should bubble up and receive the most funding and attention from the community.

The platform would work well for projects that need funding, but do not necessarily have a practical application for a token. It would also work well as a standardized alternative to a traditional ICO, particularly, if a community forms around the project and opts to only fund projects that adopt the 1Hive model for crowdfunding accountability.

In the context of District0x, the funding platform could be used by aspiring district creators to bootstrap their projects. On a macro level, this will accelerate the growth of the District0x network as a whole.

EDIT 7/18 -- I expanded on the larger vision of this proposal as it related to District0x and DNT holders here: https://medium.com/@lkngtn/district0x-feedback-2-building-a-strong-network-effect-d629da10d5f6

Description

1Hive uses the curation market model to incentivize the initial support as well as the long-term success of projects within the community. If you are not already familiar with the concept of curation markets, which the Meme Factory district will be based on, I suggest reading Simon de la Rouviere’s introduction to the model, or the more in depth whitepaper.

In order to adapt the curation market model described in Simon's paper for the purpose of crowdfunding, we need to add some additional functionality. Specifically, we need to ensure that there is a way for both project founders and funders to set clear expectations up front with accountability mechanisms built into the system at the smart-contract level.

If the funding goal for a project is reached, an initial lump sum payment is made to the founder to start development. Any additional funding beyond the fundraising goal is locked into a reserve smart contract and released to the project founder over time subject to a vesting schedule. At any point, funders can opt to exit the project and withdraw their funds proportional to the remaining reserves.

If the community looses faith in a project or team, the reserve will go down and the runway for the project will shrink. If the community is confident in the project, the reserve will grow extending the runway for the project.

The reserve contract should support holding ETH and any other ERC20 compatible token, including District0x’s native DNT, Aragon’s ANT tokens, planned future tokens like Makers SAI/DAI stable token, or even other 1Hive project tokens. Founders should be able to specify which token should be used for the funding goal, and what the vesting rate is for each accepted token. This allows for founders to work on projects that may be specific to a certain ecosystem and be paid in that communities native token.

Eventually this could be integrated into the planned interface for district creation, such that district founders could easily solicit funding support from the community.

How it would work from a Founders perspective

A founder creates a new project proposal for the community, this contains a description of the project similar to an idea page on Kickstarter. The description would serve as the project’s pitch to the community. At a minimum the project would need to contain the following critical components.

• The Minimum Fundraising Goal ( This is the smallest amount necessary to reach the an initial milestone and is released as a lump sum)
• The Time-based Vesting Schedule ( This is the rate at which funds are released to the founder from the reserve)

Once the minimum fundraising goal is achieved, the goal is released as lump sum to the founder and should be used to fund the project.

If there are any remaining tokens in the project reserve contract, they will be slowly released to the project founder based on the vesting schedule determined during project inception. The funds can be used at the discretion of the founder, but should be used to further the goal of the project otherwise the community will lose confidence and empty the reserve contract.

The benefit to founders is the foundation of trust that is earned by using a standardized and accountable platform, which allows them to bypass significant hurdles related to ICO based crowdfunding.

In particular this mechanism works well in cases where the token is necessary for funding, but not strictly necessary for the functionality of the project, IE they are building an application, framework, physical product, or protocol that does not benefit from its own native digital asset.

Its flexibility allows for use-cases closer to Patreon (but with potential future profit sharing through token equity), or kickstarter (where funders can be given additional rewards based on funding tiers).

The tokens are ERC20 and can still be used for governance and be integrated into other services like Aragon that support BYOT (bring your own token) models.

Additionally, due to the standardized nature of the contracts, founders who leverage this process do not need to go through the expensive, and time consuming process of writing and auditing their own Crowdfund contracts, and as more projects utilize the same contract all of the participating projects will benefit from greater regulatory certainty.

How it works from a Funders perspective

A funder while be able to browse the district, search, sort, and discuss projects with the community. If the funder wants to invest or support a project they can buy into it and receive an amount of project tokens. The tokens operate as an equity tracking mechanism tied to the reserve and can be used at any time to exchange back to any token held in the projects reserve contract based on a automated market maker function.

If the funder chooses to exchange through the automated market maker the price will be determined by a formula. This may be something similar to the formula used by Bancor, or a different pricing function, a number of options for this function are described in the Curation Market Whitepaper. The formula that is used for the 1Hive funding platform will be standardized, but the specific formula used will be determined at a later date after testing several options. Likely, experimentation with different market maker formulas could overlap with development of the "Meme Factory" district.

Whichever formula is used will have the property of rewarding earlier investors over later investors, however, there may be an initial window where the formula is ignored in order to find the baseline market price and set the reserve ratio.

The benefit to funders using the platform is that they will have consistent terms that guarantee liquidity and project accountability. It also provides a standardized market driven reward mechanism for identifying quality projects at their earliest stages.

Functional Requirements

The district would leverage the District0x infrastructure that has been built for Ethlance and Meme Factory to provide the bulk of the required interface and functionality. In particular the following components would be necessary for the the project.

• Ability to post a project with a description including the funding milestones and time-based funding schedule (Ethlance)
• Ability to Search and Sort posts (Ethlance)
• Ability to buy into a project or “Meme” with built-in market maker formula (Meme Factory)
• Ability to Discuss posts (Meme Factory)

In addition to existing infrastructure the following new functionality would be needed.

• A Smart Contract Vault that stores funding (in the form of ERC20 and ETH) that enables the market maker functionality of the project and manages distribution of funds to the project owner based on the initial funding milestone and time-based vesting schedule.

Uncertainties and Pending Questions

This section describes some uncertainties associated with this project that may need further discussion or research. They do not all need to be decided up front and some may not be possible to decide on until additional testing has been done, or after development on Meme Factory has been completed, but they are listed here for reference.

If additional questions come up in the discussion, they may also be added as line items here to help keep things organized.

• What market maker formula works best for reserve contracts?
• What are the regulatory implications for founders using the platform?
• What are the regulatory implications for District0x or the 1Hive district based on the behavior of founders using the platform?
• What does the user interface look like for founders and funders?

Technical Clarifications

• The "Founder" may be a smart contract that represents a DAO rather than individual (perhaps an aragon organization or district0x district).

Final Comments

The 1Hive Funding Platform is a critical component for a project I’m working on (1Hive), but would also benefit the wider community and District0x in particular. If selected I would like to work closely with the team on the development of this district.

Please comment with any feedback or questions you have!