Table of Contents
Overview
- We're building a Social Community Platform on Solana.
- Starting with our Discord bot, we're enabling payments for all of Discord's 140 million active monthly users and 6.7 million unique servers via $USDC and other SPL tokens on Solana.
- Long term, we are building an ecosystem for communities, owned by communities, powered by the $STAR protocol.
Roadmap
Phase 1 (June) - SolStar Discord Bot
- May / Early June - SolStar Discord Tip Bot released.
- Transact $SOL, $USDC and all SPL tokens easily with our Discord bot.
- Venmo, for Discord. Adding commerce ability to all of Discord's 140 million active monthly users and 6.7 million unique servers via $USDC on Solana.
- June - Launch the $STAR token. Airdrops to early supporters.
Phase 2 (June/July) - SolStar Community Platform
- Tokens for Communities - Free Tokens and Star Tokens
- Free Tokens - Free to mint and play around with, gets people into the ecosystem having fun.
- Already seen great engagement on Discord.
- Star Tokens - Grow in value with the ecosystem, gain rewards, have extra perks.
Phase 3 - SolStar Community Unleashed
- Fully engage your community with exclusive channel access, perks for top fans, and more.
- Reward top contributors with your own community token and build the community you want to exist.
- Expansion to other platforms - Satellite.im, Twitter, Twitch, YouTube integrations.
- Later this Solana summer!!
Tokenomics
Edit 6/30/21
Tokenomics has been moved to the white paper here:
Founders Background
Ryan Endacott / 🌞 @RyanEndacott
- Senior Software Engineer - Loon Mission Control (Google X)
- Full Stack Software Engineer with focus on user experience, distributed systems, and team management. Previously worked at Google, Facebook, and Clever
- Created solfaucet.com
Drew Wetherington / 🧙♂️ @DrewWeth
- Senior Full Stack Software Engineer - Well Principled - YC Startup that builds AI Software for marketing and supply chain optimization
- Previously Senior Engineer at Cibo Technologies, building agricultural data science and mapping tools.
- Cat-lover and React Frontend Wizard
Daniel Holmgren / 🕺 dholms.github.io
- Fullstack/P2P/Cryptography Engineer at Fission (https://fission.codes/), building a framework for end-to-end encrypted, distributed, user-controlled filesystems
- Previously, co-founded Axon (http://axon.science/), building a p2p collaboration protocol for scientific data
- Ex-ConsenSys Engineer & Inaugural ConsenSys Academy grad