Talking about the contextual marketplace, I've read in Tokenomics paper that "product and service suppliers include fintechs, banks and insurance companies" and in the whitepaper that we will be able to "acquire, exchange, and sell non-financial assets (e.g. electricity, data, telephone minutes, knowledge) relevant to the users’ personal economy as if they were money".
I know the platform is in its very early stages, but, after getting 400k users, when 2gether's marketplace started, every user could offer services and products in the app with 1 or 2 clicks only or suppliers will need to assign or pass through a screening to assure the existence of their services or products?
Suppliers would have to pass a screening to assure the existence of their services — all for the sake of the security of our community.
However, how could an user "acquire, exchange, and
sell non-financial assets (e.g. electricity, data, telephone minutes, knowledge) relevant to the users’ personal economy as if they were money" if it won't be easy as make 1 or 2 clicks only in the app? Are the products and services meant to be traded between users?
The way a user can acquire, exchange, and sell non-financial assets will be through tokenization. We'll link real assets to its digital representation (in token form) with corresponding modules (proof of reserve, taxes, pricing, business rules, etc). The user will be able to redeem the token through 2gether. Imagine a Telco company that tokenizes gigbytes. For example, we will create a Telco coin which values 1 gb. The user will buy gbs and, instead of paying the Telco in EURs, he/she will pay using the Telco coin based on consumption.
For another example involving gasoline, a user pre-buys liters of gasoline and pays at the gas station with 2gether. At our Authorization Center, we receive the request that the user wants to pay 50 EUR worth of gasoline and we detect that the user pre-bought liters of gasoline and, instead of taking EUR from the user's account, we take the equivalent in the "gas" coin (with each coin equalling 1 liter of gas).
Through 2gether, you will also be able to exchange an excess of gasoline with a user that has an excess of kilowatts. We will have exchange rates between liters and EUR, and between kilowatts and EUR so that we can calculate liters/kilowatts in real time — making the exchange possible.
The basic idea is that instead of having the token EUR, which represents everything, users will have real asset-backed tokens (1 gas coin = 1 liter of gasoline)