No, it's not open sourced...Yet. We will decide if it's needed at all for a platform like this. It's a domain site interfaced to the steem blockchain. This way sbd/steem payments will be rapidly processed via an escrow feature. We believe that dStors, a for profit business, will enable a platform where STEEM and SBD can easily be spent for merchandise listed. There is no such platform currently available that allows easy spend of STEEM/SBD.
It'll very much be like ebay in usability for both buyers and sellers. Auction process as well as fixed price sales. Except, once a transaction completes, both buyers and sellers will be rewarded STORS tokens proportional to the value of the transaction.
These STORS tokens can then be spent for an upvote from @dStors or sold on the Bitshares Exchange for FIAT or any other crypto.
The business and token model aims to allow buyers and sellers to monetize their shopping.
We need shopping platform but after dlive drama I don't think Steemit, Ned or other whales will delegate SP to closed project.
If you haven't noticed, Ned is powering down his wallet.
dStors is offering a ground floor opportunity to capture STORS tokens which will almost only be released as rewards to completed shopping transactions to both buyers and sellers.
These tokens can then be spent for upvotes on either Steemit or Whaleshares. The demand for STORS is expected to rise. Bitshares Exchange will also have STORS trading for market buy/sells.
We have plenty of WLS balance to provide rewards. SP will be called for as delegations but we also have plan to organically fund our own SP. Just about ALL profits will be plowed into organically funding our SP. We will strategically establish multiple accounts of 4 Mil SP putting out upvotes when holders of STORS token send for them. And at current prices, seven figure SP account funding is not only a tremendous investment back into the Steem community but also wise as we'll be buying at the bottom and not top.
So, have I answered enough of your questions to earn your SP delegation? Yes? Great! No? Moving on.