Are you ready for the next wave of social blockchain projects?
The blockchain/crypto space continues to heat up, and new projects are springing up every day. People are comparing this time to the early internet for good reason, and with the benefit of hindsight it's clear that social and multimedia will play huge roles in the blockchain-enriched internet of the future. Let me introduce you to some social crypto projects that might supplement or compete with Steemit in the coming years....
ZAPPL
Imagine if your Instagram or Twitter mobile app had STEEM built in. Zappl is a "Decentralized Micro-blogging Social Media" service with the first mobile app version of to be released any day now. It will allow you to blog to the STEEM blockchain directly from your phone, and will support private messaging, photo uploads, and much more.
Learn more about Zappl here..
DTube
That's right. We now have an alternative to YouTube for video content. DTube has tighter integration with Steemit, displaying reward information and connecting your account to your Steemit ID. DTube videos cannot be embedded in your Steemit post however. At least not yet!
Find out more about DTube here
Scrypto
Imagine if someone took the Steemit concept and tweaked it to support communities, messaging, and multiple currencies right from the start. Add a very ambitious and transparent roadmap, as well as very straightforward, dummy-proof usability, and we have a crypto community project best not ignored.
This is sure to become healthy competition for Steemit, and perhaps inform developers of the most urgent features required. Currently the SCRYPTO ICO is ongoing, so there may be investment opportunity there for the investors among you. Everyone else can sign up and get involved already. The community is still tiny, so you might be able to "landgrab" and establish yourself, or your community.
More into about SCRYPTO here..
Decent
DECENT is described as "a Decentralized Content Distribution Platform that is Open-Source and utilizes Blockchain to ensure security." Intended for creative people such as authors, bloggers, publicists etc, it allows "borderless publishing" of any text, picture, video or music content. It is likely to grow into a social community, alongside the multimedia features. The Decent App was finally launched at the end of June this year, after much anticipation.
LBRY
More competition for YouTube, and not unlike DECENT, with LBRY one can buy, sell, or share digital media such as music and videos. Early adapters get free LBRY credits. LBRY aims to become "Netflix for the blockchain generation."
More info about LBRY here..
Exciting times. Im sure the corporate social media companies are quaking in their boots. Like waiting for a bus i have been waiting for micro payment social media for ages and now many come along at once.Steemit will have to move fast to hold its crown
Informative stuff @condra, thanks for this.
Good post @condra
so many things happening in one life time. lol
i will definitely look up all of these. cheers man!
Survival of the socialest!
A lot of interesting projects! I'm really looking forward to Zappl and now I should check out these other projects you've written about.
I'm ready. Competition between platforms is always good :)
Agreed! Exciting times!
Valuable information. Thanks! Upvoted and resteemed!
Very kind of you. Cheers.
very interessting...
Cheers. I'm gonna spend the evening on Scrypto. Fascinating so far.
Thanks I had no idea what Scrypto was. What about Synereo? And to a lesser extent BAT (Basic Attention Token and Brave).
Honestly I haven't spent enough time looking at them to write about them but I'll be sure to check them out.
Cool, yeah BAT seems really interesting to me and it was started by the founder of Javascript and Mozilla.
I think BAT is a really good option if you want to invest for the long term. Its project is very interesting and as you say, having the founder of Javascript and Mozilla at the team is an awesome fact.
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Really good notices to Steem, first because most of this projects are built around Steem and secondly and most important because Steemit was the first social network with blockchain technology, and being the first at something is very very important as everyone knows.
I've never heard of these projects before but they all have some great concepts.
Thanks for letting us know about these coins @condra
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Great to sum it up for us! I'd appreciate someone summing up all the new stuff on Steemit haha!
many thanks for sharing this post
Thanks for this overview, @condra! There are a couple I haven't heard about yet. Will check them out!
Many Great Projects i came to know about
Zappl is amongst the fav one
I'm officially inlove with these project, totally hooked in for that. gonna use them asap.
This projects has a great future ahead!