VAID | Devpost

Integration of our widget
How it works

Inspiration

We identified a huge problem: monetization for websites is quite hard today. People are using adblockers to get rid of these distracting and attention seeking ads, the popups of our time. Only a few per mille even click on them. Ads are mostly standing between the user and his needs...

What it does

Vaid replaces the traditional banner ads with a small widget that uses the processing power of the user during the session. It uses blockchain technology to calculate hashes via a distributed multithreaded network ;-)

How we built it

Using sweat, tears and a couple beers ;-) The web app is built using nodejs in the backend to serve the web content and act as a web socket server. VAID is integrated via script and replaces all ads with an opt-out possibility for the user to disable ads and enable monetization via VAID. If VAID is enabled it works it’s magic as a web worker in a background thread(s) and doesn’t interfere with the user's browser experience. Much unlike traditional banner ads. Each web worker computes hashes for our own exemplary implementation of a blockchain implemented with plain JavaScript. We implemented a simple optimization strategy to distribute the computation of the nonce for the hash via all connected clients. The communication between the server and all the clients is real-time and controlled via web sockets.