Topic: Cool dApps with a real world purpose! (Read 210 times)

Indeed! That's what rubs me the wrong way about EOS and they have already done this in the past, I don't know if you remember this?
https://www.ccn.com/eos-decentralization-questioned-once-again-as-block-producers-freeze-27-accounts

I'm just waiting until they reverse the wrong transaction...

Sometimes I wonder why they made a lot of tokens in the first place. If in the end it wasn't used, then there's no need to mint it right?

Or is that just the tactics to create short-term hype so their coin can get pumped every time there's a burn announcement?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/2019-year-dapps-oron-barber-/

With its launch in 2017, TRON received tons of praise from the community and has often been proclaimed as “ETH killer”. TRON’s original purpose was to enable users to share and spread data without any restrictions. Through content-based funnels users are able to upload and share their data in terms of videos, audio, images, and texts, and the blockchain ecosystem incentivizes them with digital assets each time they do so.

In June 2018, TRON mainnet was launch and it immediately gained traction by reinforcing the creation of decentralized applications (dApps). The so-called Delegated Proof-of-stake (DPoS) consensus bestows the power of block validations to 27 Super Representatives to produce the blocks and verify transactions. To top it all off, TRON network is able to process up to 2,000 transactions per second, with great likelihood of scalability.

dAppRadar provides a perfect insight into TRON protocol. Even though there are only 220 TRON dApps currently ranked on dAppRadar, the top performing dApp generating the biggest transaction volume on a day-to-day basis is precisely based on TRON blockchain — TRONbet. TRONbet is an all-in-one gambling dApp focused on Dice, Moon, and Ring games on top of having developed its own exchange also available on the spot. TRONbet is opening a way for developers to interact with the TRON network by creating a set of APIs (TRC20 & TRC10) that can be utilized for producing dividend pools, mining protocols, DEXs, TRON wallets, account & social systems, etc.


In the battle for stability of the network, inflation circumnavigation, and TRON holders rewarding, Justin Sun, CEO and founder of TRON has conducted 8 coin burns amounting to more than $1 billion in worth. The purpose of the token burn has been aimed at creating artificial scarcity thereby increasing the value of the token.

CoinPoint has allied with an ample of TRON dApps in order to achieve the common goal of their wider application and user base. Using different type of dApp marketing strategies and tools tailor-made for specific dApp type, CoinPoint team has already established unique market approaches and tools required for successful outcomes.

I sure agree that 2019 will be the year of DApps. There are hundreds of them poping up, some of them do actually have a lot of potential, especially gambling dapps.

2019 is definitely the year of dApps!

However, dApps with real life purpose (application) are quite scarce. Recently, however we have witnessed a growing amount of Social dApps who are finally solving the problem of huge corporations taking it all for granted. Social dApps are rewarding its users with various benefits. Wanna know how? Check it here!
"The value generated by users is given back to the users who created that value!"

an acronym for remembering the five qualities for effective goals of Dated, Achievable, Personal, Positive and Specific. Dated: Effective goals have specific deadlines. these things're making it attractive for ppl

Yet another example of "cool things" that have completely lost their way... You have an arbiter and call it decentralised at the same time?

Bitcoin has no problems for mass adoption *because* it doesn't allow spends to be reversed. That was a problem that needed to be solved with existing money and systems. If you can't see the danger in allowing to cancel transactions, then you need to go back to the drawing board, just like all these projects.

If hackers attack the network or there is a mistake in the code (I'll ignore that there have been countless found, embarrassingly for a multi-billion ICO) then they fix them, not leave a backdoor open like this.

That's right. ECAF (EOS Core Arbitration Forum) is responsible for resolving all controversial situations. It is decentralized as well.

Remember DAO hack in 2016 when $60 mln of ether were stolen? On EOS this transaction could be reversed.
Nobody would agree to lose his money due to hackers' attack or a mistake in the code. Thus, EOS has more chances for mass adoption as it allows to cancel such kind of transactions.

There are very few realistic use cases for Dapps - the ethereum framework is very immature even at this stage. I read an article on coindesk - https://www.coindesk.com/7-cool-decentralized-apps-built-ethereum/ explaining some of the POCs that have been developed - they seem great in theory but the main question here is whether the vast majority of them even require the decentralized functionality. One cool Dapp is the AMPLIATIVE ART, the guys are developing a pretty cool project. They are using Eth which is the only concern here.

This means EOS transactions can be reversed?

Let me give an answer to both of these remarks. Please, check these stats:
arewedecentralizedyet.com
With the most popular cryptos, >50% of voting/mining power belong to 1-5 entities. What kind of decentralization can we talk about?

With the things said above, EOS is more decentralized than any other crypto. Here are the plain numbers.
20 active block producers + 1 more that is selected from the reserve 188 producers.

If you check the stats at eosnetworkmonitor.io you may see that apart from the main 21 producers, ~20 more have already taken part in the production as well. This increases the total number to 40.

Also, without the possibility to return money in case of fraudulent transactions, there will be no mass adoption for any dapps. So far EOS is the only project that allows doing this.

The founder of EOS is doing a good job in Crypto space. However, we should be a bit concerned about the direction he is taking us to. It seems they don't care so much about decentralization and privacy otherwise nobody would have reminded them that EOS isn't decentralized. 
How can posts be manually approved on decentralized platform?

Steemit even ask me few months ago to agree on some of its anti-privacy policy.

Please don't build if it's not Decentralized , Censorship proof, immutable, anonymous etc. We cannot afford to deviate from this important values of Cryptocurrency.

I've signed up with Trybe a couple of days ago, it's a blogging platform similar to Steemit, but built on the EOS chain.
It does work a bit different than Steemit though, seems like your articles are manually approved and rated, your rewards are given out according to the rating of your article.

This could be interesting in the future, but it's currently lacking a lot of features still.

https://trybe.one

One that's a little bit more interesting would be Steem Monsters, which is a trading card game on the Steem platform.
They've had huge successes, making more than $200.000 in their first month(s) after launch.

You can buy card packs and you'll get trading cards with varying levels of rarity.
One of the rarest cards in the game has been sold for close to 350 dollars, I believe.

https://steemmonsters.com/#

Thought they say EOS Proof of Stake is elitist/Centralized... has that been fixed?

Notwithstanding...
Everipedia does not work for me. It shows Internal Server Error . Wonder if the problem is from my side.

 I love "Scatter" idea. It's an identity and reputation system on Blockchain. It can be a Gamechanger.
Hopefully it works as described:  https://get-scatter.com

Scatter Interfaces:
https://t.co/Tt4HS6VgKj

https://t.co/wWqW928bOx

All Dapps (yes I know it can be spelt many ways) should have a real-world purpose. But very few have actual real-world use. A recent meetup in Germany claims to have been managed and operated 100% with Dapps. Ticketing, live streaming, raffles. I suppose that's a demonstration that you can already use Dapps today for the real world.

I've personally only tried one for ID verification. Civic; it's a really old project and has a tagline of "blockchain-powered decentralized authentication solutions", among others. You can try see if it works for you.

Didn't work no matter how many times I tried, the back service eventually had to reroute me to a web service, which completed fairly quickly.

Always welcome! BTW, here's another EOS dapp collection.
https://eosforum.org/t/eos-dapp-collection-31-listed-currently/309

Some of these dapps coincide with those mentioned on the pic I sent above.
The list is being kept up-to-date. When I last visited that article a couple of months ago, there were only 25 dapps in the list. Now there are 31.

Thanks for sharing EOS dapps

On which blockchain are you building your dapp? Ethereum network is not the best solution as it is slow, glitchy and pricy.
EOS suits this purpose much better. Here's the map of dapps that are currently developed on EOS. However, most of them are still in beta/idea stage.
https://i.redd.it/w1535cvwqz911.png

Decentralized apps are definitely intriguing. Key advantage is the distribution of essential components, a move that improves fault tolerance and makes it practically impossible and expensive to attack such a network. The backbone of Dapps-blockchain-ensures fast, reliable and secure applications to enhance the customer experience. We are currently working on a dApp which is like eBay, but instead of buying goods, its an online marketplace for services, that's decentralized. What are some cool dApps out there with cool features and concepts? Pls let me know :p