Cryptea

Easily accept Crypto as a payment method, on the Fantom Chain.

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Inspiration

The inspiration to build Cryptea came in 2021, just after the Crypto boom. With the increase in popularity, businesses were left out of the revolution, having to accept Crypto payments manually.

What it does

Cryptea enables every business to accept Crypto as a payment method. We make this possible using payment links, which interact with the blockchain, using Solidity. We also worked on manual payments, which make use of generated addresses to enable successful payments.

How we built it

We made use of NextJS as our framework of choice, having gained some experience with it. This was an easy choice, as developing on the blockchain is easier with the framework. We complemented the frontend with libraries and packages which simplified our work; some of them include Wagmi, ethers, and a host of others. For styling, we went ahead with TailwindCSS, and a bit of custom CSS to complement it.

Over on the backend, we worked our way through with Solidity for the contracts, which enable literally everything. This helped us with the heavy lifting, pertaining to the Blockchain, and its interface. To complement this, we wrote a couple of scripts with Laravel and Javascript, to enable the smooth running of the project.

Challenges we ran into

One of the only challenges we ran into, concerns the contracts, and subscription-based payments. On the blockchain, recurring transactions aren't made possible yet, and we had a hard time working around that.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Pulling this off, with a good-looking MVP ready for use. The FTM chain has always been known for promoting DeFi and onboarding businesses, and we looked towards building a solution that also aims at doing just that.

What we learned

Firstly, we learnt how to deploy on the Fantom blockchain, which wasn't hard at all. We later got to ideating and writing actual code. Throughout the experience, we learned how to write better code, within specific time limits, such as the hackathon duration.

What's next for Cryptea

We have a carefully laid out roadmap, and this includes working on the project full-time, coming out of stealth mode, acquiring users, and serving the populace at large; doing our part to ensure the widespread use of the Blockchain technology. Over the next few months, we aim to perfect our features, work on our integrations, and fix all necessary bugs, while receiving feedback from users and potential users. Hopefully, we also gain access to an accelerator, or win a grant, from Fantom. This would steer us on the right path, and give us the right momentum we need to operate.

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