qiibee: Loyalty on the Blockchain

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Introduction

Let's go to continue this blog with another project. First of all, for who missed previous entries, what's a crypto money? To be fast and concise, it is a digital medium of exchange. And the next question would be... What's your use? It is also easy to guarantee the security, integrity and balance of your financial statements by means of a network of agents (segmented file transfer or multisource file transfer) that verify (untrust) each other called miners, which are, for the most part, general public and actively protect the network (the web) by maintaining a high rate of algorithm processing, in order to have the opportunity to receive a small tip, which is distributed randomly.

Today there are thousands of coins on the market, already in operation, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, etc., but there are many thousands more that are about to leave. The former are called cryptocurrencies and can be purchased on many websites such as Coinbase, Localbitcoins, Kraken, etc. The others are the so-called ICO's (Initial Coin Offering), which can be obtained with significant discounts and price runs through small contracts and transfers through Ethereum. But there exist others those that have just been born, which are not even in the ICO phase, which launches campaigns to attract the public attention, these are the Airdrops. With this, we can get thousands of coins for free. I emphasize these because it's a way to win crypto coins even if the market is as it is. In this way, you never lose money.

However, not all of them are worth it. We have to read well what each project is dedicated to, what is its whitepaper, its qualified advisors, etc. As we all know, blockchain technology has gained popularity due to the hype about cryptocurrencies which has shaken many startups to launch their own cryptocurrencies even without convincing fundamentals. This trend has emerged because new entrants have been agiler in adopting emerging technologies compared to incumbents who are hampered by legacy systems. However, this competitiveness and this advantage enjoyed by the new players may be short-lived, as no economies of scale are taken into account. For this reason, that is why I choose the best of them through an exhaustive study of the main characteristics.

After this brief introduction to the broad topic of Blockchain and Smart Contracts, we can already see that this technology opens many doors to new decentralized businesses and eliminates the need for expensive third parties. Many new companies are now working on this technology, and large companies are testing it in closed networks to collaborate directly with each other without the need for intermediaries. For that reason, there is a lot of projects that are starting to use this new technology. Nevertheless, not all of them are worth it. We have to read well what each project is dedicated to, what is its whitepaper, its qualified advisors, etc.

The blockchain technology has gained popularity due to the hype about cryptocurrencies which has shaken many startups to launch their own cryptocurrencies even without convincing fundamentals. This trend has emerged because new entrants have been agiler in adopting emerging technologies compared to incumbents who are hampered by legacy systems. However, this competitiveness and this advantage enjoyed by the new players may be short-lived, as no economies of scale are taken into account.

Moving on to today's proposed topic... On the one hand, current loyalty programs trap their customers by not offering them any exchange option. On the other hand, loyalty in itself is related to high customer acquisition costs for brands. In addition, the loyalty landscape is characterized by low levels of commitment and redemption, operating risks and inefficiencies inherent in loyalty programs, and a highly fragmented market with a large number of loyalty programs.For this reason, I want to introduce you Qiibee (QBX) (https://qiibee.com/), the blockchain-based application that is revolutionizing the loyalty market by offering a blockchain-based loyalty ecosystem, on which every brand can build its very own loyalty application.


Definition

As I said before, Qiibee (QBX) (https://qiibee.com/) revolutionizing the loyalty market by offering a blockchain-based loyalty ecosystem, on which every brand can build its very own loyalty application.

The idea continues to be to encourage brands to build their programs on the same foundations, thus making it possible for brands and customers to relate to each other throughout the ecosystem. With this ecosystem, quiibee is addressing the problems that prevail in the current loyalty market, which have already been explained above.


Goals

The main objective of qiibee is to establish a loyalty ecosystem for hundreds of brands that serve thousands of clients helping to execute their loyalty programs in the blockchain. Basically, its objective is to offer brands and customers the possibility to participate easily in blockchain technology, directly and indirectly, without the need for costly integration for brands or an initial investment for customers.


Application

To make platform possible, qiibee team has created ÐApps. Firstly, what is a ÐApp? A ÐApp is a decentralized application, i.e. an app that does not depend on a central system, but on the community of users that use it. The decentralized application can be a mobile app or a web application that interacts with a smart contract to perform its function. If we remember briefly what was an intelligent contract or smart contract, we will say that it is a computer program that runs itself when the conditions that were programmed in its code are fulfilled. To make it clear, I put it below a comparative between Apps and ÐApps.

App ArchitectureÐApp Architecture
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The qiibee application is one of the ways in which our loyal customers can interact with our protocol. It would be the "gateway" for customers to experience the whole qiibee ecosystem:

  • Customers only need to create a wallet once, which can be used for all loyalty programs.
  • All collected loyalty tokens will be displayed in the summary section. Information on ecosystems
  • The user will obtain additional information about new and ongoing loyalty programs within the qiibee ecosystem.
  • The user can see the development of the value of the portfolio of tokens in tokens qiibee (QBX), FIAT and other cryptocurrencies.
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Benefits and Techs

The qiibee protocol provides a reliable, secure and demonstrable way of issuing loyalty tokens backed by a cryptographic asset through different blockchains. It also guarantees liquidity by allowing easy redemption, traceability and exit options. One of the main responsibilities of the protocol is to establish communication between the public chain Ethereum and one or more different loyalty block chains, which can guarantee a cryptographically secure release. The qiibee protocol is, therefore, agnostic to the blockchain, since it does not depend on a particular blockchain.

The key components of the LoyaltyToken Protocol are the loyal customers, real value, usability, freedom Decentralized Loyalty Apps, brands can build Dapps for qiibee-based loyalty tokens: Plug & Play, Higher engagement, Remove liability, cost and risk, Software Development Kit, Web wallet and dashboards for loyalty token transparency, Blockchain Plug & Play, LoyaltyToken protocol, smart contracts for minting, staking, exchanging and transferring of loyalty tokens.

In the case of brands, the high costs of customer acquisition, the low level of commitment and redemption, the high outstanding obligations and operational risks and inefficiencies prevent the success of the commitment to customers. For customers, the fragmentation of the loyalty market, the "lock-in" effect and the low usability of the points, the lack of real value of the points collected, as well as the absence of ownership of personal data, make that it is less desirable to be active in loyalty programs.


Bounty program

The project gives the opportunity to earn Qiibee (QBX) tokensQBX contributor and start acquiring tokens. It is also a referral campaign. The following video explains how to participate in it! performing some social media tasks and doing simple steps from the bounty program explained into the Bitcointalk Webpage. Here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4598098.0) you can access the link in order to see what are the conditions to become an early


Doesn't that sound interesting? If you are interested in this airdrop or basically in the ICO, you can read their Whitepaper here (https://static.qiibee.com/qiibee-White-Paper.pdf). You can also stay tuned in their official Telegram group (https://t.me/qiibee%20x). I hope you liked the post and soon I'll send you new ones.


Roadmap
DateEvents
2015 - 2016Our journey started with our own off-chain loyalty app.
35m Data sets created.
100k Active users.
6m Customer activities.
900 Brand partners.
2017Made strategic decision to build loyalty on the blockchain based on learnings from off-chain app.
Created smart contracts on Ethereum and published white paper.
Q1 2018Closed our seed round with approx. 3.2m USD.
Invested in team expansion, product development and brand acquisition.
Q2 2018Conducted 2 brand roll-outs in 7 countries reaching 2m customers.
Opened crowd sale to fund the qiibee journey.
Q3 2018Publish our developer kit, exchange and transfer functionalities.
Onboarding of 6 more brands to the qiibee ecosystem.
Q4 2018Conduct loyalty on the blockchain conference and hackathon.
Onboarding of 9 more brands to the qiibee ecosystem.



Token details

The LoyaltyToken Protocol has been developed to offer brands an easy and secure way to issue their own loyalty token in the block chain. By storing the reward and exchange transactions in the block chain, companies issue real value tokens that can be combined and negotiated.

Token: QBX
Platform: Ethereum
Type: ERC-20
Price in ICO: 1 QBX = 0.071 USD
Tokens for sale: 395,000,000


Token distribution
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Author Details

Telegram username: @clauming

Bitcointalk username: adriaparcerisas

Bitcointalk profile link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1870482

Ethereum address: 0xC6AB45541006D53D31E25b41c7d245c5Ad99BF71

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