Plats Network - A prize-winning project

We are a Near-based Metahub, aiming to establish a sustainable playground to transform the conventional models such as in-game ads, passive learning, etc. into Blockchain-empowered dapps.

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Inspiration

Blockchain is proving itself to be future technology, with potential to boost the regular application up to a completely new level. The current blockchain projects, like NEAR, are trying to build up backbone infrastructure for other applications to live on. It is undeniable that those projects did gain remarkable achievements and did create a healthy environment for developers. Nevertheless, it is also a fact that applications served for real-life purposes have been left almost untouched. Developers are themselves trying to found a group together, either small or big, to develop a project with hope to successfully widespread it among communities. Whereas, for entrepreneurs, real-time interactive feedback for an interactive marketing campaign is not easily obtainable by traditional methods. And for the users, they do play, watch or learn, but they do not actually earn anything economically right there.

What it does

Plats Network is a NEAR-based platform to create a sustainable playground to connect Clients, Creators, Referrers, and Users inside a Metahub – a scalable Hub including Game Hub, Learning Hub, Action Hub, Video Hub, NFT Hub and Metaverse Hub, where all above stakeholders can benefit via networking in the platform. They earn for the roles they play in the network.

  • Creator: The developers to create digital interactive content (such as games, video, app) on the Metahub and tailor their contents upon Client's request to result in a market-ready application at an initial token-paid fee mutually agreed and/or recurring token charge.
  • Client: Entrepreneurs desiring to promote their brands or products in-app and select the diversified products from various creators on the ub at cost.
  • Referrer: An individual, group or organization that helps introduce the digital interactive content that Creator & Client created over the community and enjoys recurring token rewards.
  • User: Individual in the community to experience the digital interactive content on Plats Network with token rewards. Our Hubs can be characterized by their nature such as Learn to Earn, Play to Earn, Action to Earn, etc. (what-so-called “Plats to Earn”) which relatively describes our expectation of how that hub can motivate users.

Among those, Game Hub is the global environment where Client and Creator meet each other and result in a game with Client’s trademark, ready to be introduced by the Referrer to the Users in community. In an ads campaign, Plats token will initiate from Clients, distributed to Creators, Referrers and Users via smart contract as a reward of their active participation in the network. The detailed workflow is shown in our video as submitted.

Whereas, Learning Hub shares a similar workflow with game hub, but focuses on learning activities. Interactive Video Maker (IVM) is the very first tool alive on our Learning Hub, which supports transforming regular video into interactive video (with numerous appealing functions, such as real-time feedback, pop-up quiz, royle battle study, friend refer bonus and transparent certification, etc.). IVM has already been online, with a basic training course for NEAR platform created, which is a demo for several blockchain courses to come, to help widespread blockchain awareness and knowledge in Vietnam and SouthEast Asia in the coming future.

How we built it

Several tools are utilized to realize our idea into a working network:

  • NEAR SDK to model functions of “Plats to Earn” in smart contract, automatically, transparently, securely, and quickly.
  • Web-based system for user interaction is built by Laravel/PHP framework.
  • NEAR-API-JS (JavaScript Library) is used as the conjunction between off-chain and on-chain data of our Plats Network.

Challenges we ran into

During our development, several obstacles, technically and economically, are faced and we are trying, step by step, to overcome:

  • It is not an easy task to gather a strong team sharing the same vision and define steps, from huge to tiny, to develop the project.
  • Several NEAR Protocol techniques and technology needs to be learnt to realize our idea with a limit in time.
  • Build up a stable economic model for the whole network.

Accomplishments that’s we’re proud of

It takes only 1 month from the very first idea to team up and win the first prize of Vietnam Blockchain Innovation (VBI) 2021 and only after 02 months then, our team is capable of completing MVP for both Learning Hub and Game Hub. Shortly after the first prize, we participated and won the second prize in mini hackathon NEAR Coding hosted by GFS Venture/ Vietnam Blockchain Innovation (VBI) /Vietnam Blockchain Union (VBU). Above all, what we can achieve is the result of close cooperation and transparent discussion among the dev team, marketing team and so on. We are proud to say that “Be united, we are the Champions”.

What we learnt

Over challenges and accomplishments, we recognize the emerging potential of NEAR Protocol, especially for development of our Plats Network. Certainly, lessons learnt from challenges shall push us forward:

  • The most valuable thing that we can take is how we can establish a strong team of close cooperation, and transparent and effective communications.
  • For the dev team, we complete our knowledge to build dapp on NEAR, understand the operation procedure of NEAR blockchain (obtainable and friendly for both users & developers).
  • In the smart contract viewpoint, the system should be composed of centralization and decentralization, with the concept that just crucial information to be stored on-chain, to save gas fee. Cross-contract calls to be tight, with clear call back; code of a smart contract should be analyzed carefully, production-oriented.
  • Caring for all our stakeholders of the network is what we are aiming at and putting our efforts on. That, we believe, is the key approach for a sustainable economy of the network.

What is next for Plats Network

To complete our idea for sustainable development of Plats Network, with a thorough & detailed roadmap & marketing plan.

Learning hub is the prioritized hub in our next step, the strategic ace for Plats Network to explore the market.

  • Training courses shall be created then introduced to communities of dev, trader/investors, etc.
  • Royale battle study livestream shall be the next app on live. All is to gain user/dev experience & feedback via Learning Hub, to improve our network and get started with project awareness and community growth.

Game Hub is the next hub on the list of priority, with the very first gamefi on Plats Network

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