This article is digital collectible and can be owned at tokenblogs
Think of Tokenblogs as like Medium but all articles are tradable digital collectibles that can be purchased and owned by readers.
This press release itself can be purchased at tokenblogs.
Ever owned a press release before?
This is probably the first one ever to written as an NFT in the way we have done it and certainly on the Algorand blockchain.
The contents of the article: the text, title, tags, images are all uploaded to IPFS to safely link the article to it’s unique corresponding digital token represented on blockchain.
This means that readers can own key moments of their favourite creator’s works, notable achievements, important news headlines or simply purchase articles for their own websites — all on Tokenblogs.
- Connect your Algorand Wallet , you can make one here at MyAlgo Wallet — you will need a few ALGO tokens to start, please ask founder, Milo for any help getting some ALGOs to initiate your blogging journey on Tokenblogs.
- Once connected click the Profile icon and press Post– you can start writing your blog straight away!
- Time to Mint your post to blockchain. Once you are finished and satisfied with your article you can cement your content on chain.
- Now go to Sell Blog in your user dashboard menu and select the article you want to list along with your desired price in ALGO. Click sell and confirm all the transactions it requires, there are a few.
- Share your post with us on Twitter where we will aim to put it on the curated homepage and amplify it.
Tokenblogs’ value proposition applies not only to writers but also to readers.
Conceiving ways for anyone who engages with our platform to earn without confusing them with “blockchain” jargon is of the utmost importance to us.
Thats why we made the user experience as simple as possible.
- Writing blogs and listing them for sale
- Royalties from future payouts from secondary sales (10% fixed)
- Tips , writers will keep 80% of tips (20% to the post owner, if sold) Soon
- Ad revenue share from banner ads placed along side their articles. Soon
- Reselling articles on secondary markets
- Earning tips from articles they have purchased from other writers (20%). Articles stay up on the site even after they are sold for new users to read the content.
- Low Income
- One off fee for content
- Income ambiguity/ finding work
- De-platforming & censorship
- Credibility and being fact checked
- Create an information marketplace for writers to sell their articles direct to readers.
- Writers can set the price of the article, on their terms and provide content for other publishers to purchase their works along with the commercial rights.
- Enforce this by turning all articles into tradable NFTs with the contents of the post embedded on blockchain and IPFS.
- Create a framework for royalties on resold posts to compensate the creators, accept tips in cryptocurrency and also provide an attractive advertisement revenue share with creators.
- Conceive ways to encourage sales such as tip shares with new owners, exclusive 1/1 content and the distribution of commercial rights.
We have made the writing and user experience as simply as possible, we will even price everything in your chosen fiat currency and offer a hosted wallet with a Google log in, for our web2 native users.
Tokenblogs is a just blogging platform, but you can buy and own the content you love. Simple.
- Content moderation will be ran by the community allowing users to vote whether to ban reported users and remove articles. Users will be rewarded with ALGO or USDC.
- No two articles can be the same, for example no one could write “Tokenblogs” as an NFT if it already existed before.
- Tips in crypto and other ASAs on Algorand
- Hosted Wallet with Google Sign-in.
- Ad revenue share from banner ads guaranteed by smart contract payouts.
- Job Board for publishers to connect with freelance writers and post content requests for articles and purchase them in app.
Tokenblogs could evolve into the platform for any contract work to be transacted on blockchain.
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