STKRS

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Inspiration

Vitalik Buterin wrote a paper a few weeks about a concept he dubbed Soul Bound Tokens, and we were inspired by the impact the concept could have and immediately started iterating. We believe there’s a lot of problems facing the industry today, with lack of trust online being the biggest cause. We want to solve this problem, and through the presentation we talk about how our product solves the issue of trust, improving the whole Web 3 experience along the way.

What it does

Each user is granted a “stkr wall” upon signup, where they can showcase NFTs in the form of “stkrs” that highlight their professional experience, communities they’re a part of, or fun activities that they like to engage in. “stkrs” are minted by organizations which get approved for stkr minting by the stkr DAO, verifying that organizations issuing stkrs are legitimate.

How we built it

We built Stkrs using Solidity and Vue.js. Our team has significant experience building PWAs with Vue.js and have been extremely happy with its reliability, ease-of-use, and ergonomics.

Challenges we ran into

This was our first time working with Solidity and the TRON network. It ended up being a pleasure to work with. We made heavy use of the Nile testnet. However, we did run into some challenges with keeping the cost of our transactions to a minimum. We ended up making heavy use of logs to help with cost issues. There’s still a lot of work to do to make Stkrs.me production-ready, but it was a really enjoyable experience.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Creating a custom STKRs protocol enabling non-transferrable NFTs on our platform
Building a completely functional, connected Tron-powered service that allows for users to comment, collect stickers, and browse other profiles
Creating a thematic, engaging & animated UX for exciting User Experience

What we learned

Through this whole process of both brainstorming and development, we learnt so much about the technologies that are currently powering the push forward with blockchain. Each one of us watched hours of videos and read a variety of articles so that we were well-versed in the three main issues we sought to solve and ready to create a solution.

Development-wise, none of us had experience with Solidity or TRON beforehand, so jumping into developing a full-stack application that integrates the authentication and the transfer/ownership of NFT’s was a tall task for us. Only after hours on end of reading documentation, stack overflow pages, and even source code, we were able to test and deploy our application.

What's next for STKRS

Short-term, we plan to clean up the backend, patch up potential security vulnerabilities, and start talking to organizations to see if issuing stkrs interests them. We also need to set up a DAO and a clear pipeline for organizations to issue stkrs. We’re really passionate about this project, and really want to see the product in the hands of real users and organizations.

In the grand scheme of things, we believe that there is immense potential with STKRS. From uncollateralized loans to job applications, there are many ways in which STKRS can be used that we haven’t explored as much and could change the way we use and interact with services we’ve taken for granted for so long. For example, currently, there is no way to take an uncollateralized loan in DeFi, limiting the potential of borrowing significantly. However, if we can start “verifying” identities through stkr walls (you would be more likely to loan to someone with a job, or maybe someone with a college degree), we can start small scale lending and as loan history is recorded through our app, bigger and bigger loans can be issued. What this means is we can eventually have a system to reliably gauge users' trustworthiness, recording positive and negative behaviors (creating a new stkrs wallet would mean starting your identity all over from scratch).

We see our application becoming THE OAuth application for Web 3, akin to Facebook or Google.

Check out our STKR walls!

Note: Make sure to use the TRON Nile testnet

Create a STKR wall of your own at https://stkrs.me (make sure to use the TRON Nile testnet). The first few users will get a limited edition TRON Hackathon stkr!