Vortex

Vortex ✨ is the first platform that allows you to give rewards in the form of a functional NFT using IPFS, minted on the XRP Ledger.

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Inspiration

We believe the Web3 comes with great opportunities to improve the user experience in many ways. But one of the main challenges, is the adoption of this technologies by the average internet user. In order to bring all this advantages to the people, we need to give them a reason to interact with it, this is where the brands and the influencers shows up. They are the main motivation to do things, like buying an item, watch a video, join a trend, and more. Therefore, giving them useful tools to interact with the general public will be a catalyst to reduce the adoption curve.

We have realized that thousands of brands and people around the world are proactively creating contests and promotions for their audiences, especially in order to increase its digital presence.

We at Vortex believe there is potential to make those experiences more meaningful and lasting with the use of functional NFTs.

We’re sure that with a global, fast and scalable tool that registers the winner on the blockchain, we will make the experience much more unforgettable for the players, as well as creating a collectible NFT that can increase considerably in value over time.

What it does

Vortex is the first platform that allows you to create custom contests, promotions and giveaways in the form of a functional NFT; minted on the XRP Ledger and of course using Web3.Storage (IPFS).

A company can create a campaign within Vortex and fill it with useful information, such as a campaign name, description, prizes, a collectible image and much more.

Once is created, the owner has the ability to generate a link that redirects to a campaign profile, from which the participants of the contest can add their XRP address and register.

So our platform allows you not just to mint cool images, but to interact with audiences and thousands of people in a way that only the Crypto space can offer.

With Vortex, everything from hoodies to VIP passes can be raffled off and bring the world of bits together with the world of atoms 🚀.

How we built it

We built Vortex using the amazing Javascript SDKs from XRP and Xuum. We use React.JS as our frontend library and Javascript as our backend lenguage with Node.JS. For some data that we need to storage we use MongoDB and of course for the graphic design stuff we used Adobe XD and Adobe Illustrator. We used Web3.Storage (IPFS) in order to store the NFTs in a more decentralized way.

Challenges we ran into

Probably the main challenge was to understand what makes a Functional NFTs "functional" and how to create a platform that takes advantage of this technologies. Besides that, working with the XRP SDK and was super easy because the Docs are very clear and concise, but of course, it takes a little bit of time and some prototyping to feel comfortable with a new library.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We feel very proud that we manage to create a very simple but powerful platform. Also creating an intuitive User Interface was a little bit challenging so we feel very proud of that too.

What we learned

  • We learned what a Functional NFT is.
  • How to use the XRP SDK.

What's next for Vortex

  • 🌎 In the near future we want to create a explorer that allows people from all over the world to find and join new contests.
  • 👾 We also want to create more experiences with the same idea, for example, simple games that could potentially make the whole platform more interactive.
  • 🥇 Additionally, we would like to create a marketplace that allows the winners of the contests to sell their NFTs, being special edditions, there's potentially an oportunity to create more value out of them.

Demo Credentials 📢

Email: acme@company.com

Password: acme09

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