An Open-Source & Decentralized system
where users can use their NFTs to stamp on websites, games, articles, posts, videos, anywhere on internet. differentiating from the commonality.
public can use this to add value, authenticity to their content while creating a decentralized-social-networking.
THE DREAM.
The goal of Cryptostamping is to introduce authenticity & transparency in the digital world, a new system through which people can stamp and add value to their content, certify, show support, talk or comment.
The internet grows endlessly, and it is in much need of a system which can organize all this jumbled content, filter the spam & bot-gen, push up what is user-valued.
And our goal is to make sure this power rest with the users, in a transparent & decentralized way.
Thanks to the blockchain technology, all this is made possible now.
Join us in building a better web experience.
THE HOW.
The project relies heavily on smart contracts and NFTs to achieve this goal.
People can buy an NFT and use it to stamp on any particular webpage, either adding value, or showing support, or commenting upon the content. They can do this either with the browser plugin or through the embedded button in site.
There are also many other use-case scenarios for stamping, please check https://cryptostamping.org/into to learn more.
ECS (ETHEREUM CRYPTOSTAMPING STANDARD)
We will be introducing a new standard called ECS which extends from ERC721 and it will take care of all stamping related basic functionality and regulations.
As we grow, there will be iterative of ECS1, ECS2, ECS3.. that adapt to the latest needs of the stamping industry. All NFTs that need to be recognized as stamps must be written in `is ECS1` instead of `is ERC721`. There will be a linking system available for already deployed NFTs and contracts.
PUBLIC EMBED
An opensource iframe that you can embed. primarily used to lets visitors to add their NFT stamp, users can embed this anywhere from articles to videos, to collect public opinions or gather support or any other use-cases mentioned here.
The embed creates a standard for all other layered utilities of NFTs in future, making sure the button is safe. There are also plans to make this hosted on IPFS completely decentralizing it.
BROWSER PLUGIN
When internet started, people made or created platforms that can get you to content (google), to share content (Facebook), to pay (PayPal), all in separated individual platforms, in webpages or apps, but with the on-set of blockchain technology, people are going back & starting a new trend where the functionality is in a place between the user & the commodity (metamask connects users to apps to pay stuff)
And this is the motive cryptostamping stands for, to only act as a middleware between the user & digital content. The plugin will let you stamp & comment on any webpage and similarly view all stamps on any webpage. The entire functionality exists on the browser side in user control.
Working & Authenticity
When you stamp, metadata would have to be signed specifically by the current user, it will collect the nft token address & id, your wallet address, and store it along with signature from metamask. When someone opens the site or post, it will verify whether the stored stamps truly do belong to their owners, maybe the stamp got transferred or burned or something. It does this through the transaction history of that stamp, and check if the wallet address in stamping matches the current owner. In this way, a stamp will be displayed only after it’s verified.
ETH 2.0 & ON-CHAIN STAMPING.
Currently, we are building and working using off-chain signing standard, much similar to how snapshot.org works, but in Q3/Q4 2022, we will be moving everything to on-chain stamping, the gas costs will still be considerable (~0.06 USD), though with techs like zk and shard chains, we believe the transactions will be much cheaper in future.
A NOTE FOR THE CONTRIBUTORS.
We have deployed the first NFT stamp collection -> Cut Outs -> and we will be giving the first 29 stamps to the top contributors on this grant, with a floor-price of 0.3 ETH for normal stamps and 0.5 ETH for Prime numbered stamps. The rest of the contributors will be given cutout badges to represent your contribution. Owning a badge means you are part of the team, the spark, the movement that will restructure the digital world for years to come.
All Cut Out holders will also have rights to make proposals in DAO. More details on DAO will be detailed in future. Note that Cut Outs is a limited collection of 999 stamps and will be closed for sale now and only opened for auction when cryptostamping requires further funding in the future.
cryptostamping.org for more details.
