Vibeo(VBEO)区块链项目白皮书.pdf
Table of Contents cutive Summary Vibeo Overview User Experience Instant Messaging apps Technology Development How we will build Vibeo v4 Vibeo API Tokenization New Features Business Model Financial Plan The Instant Messaging Market Major Competitors Token Sale Meet the Team Disclaimer How to Reach Us 02 04 05 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 23 29 33 38 39As a result of the increased global use of smartphones, which has surpassed the use of the conventional desktop and continues to increase, an increasing number of highly public social media networks are moving to private micro-networks to carry out their day-to-day communication. This group of people have adopted messengers as a primary means of digital communication, and with this increasing adoption comes the potential of making messaging plats the novel portals to economic transactions. Mobile messaging plats now have more users than web 2.0 social networks, higher retention rates than these plats, and have more smartphone users spend their time on the plats than with other mobile applications. This presents the opportunity for developing messaging plats beyond nodes for interpersonal conversations, but to communities of sub-cultures, economy and trends thrive. In China, WeChat pay is used by over 90 of WeChat users to make offline purchases in Chinese cities. The WeChat App has been developed to be highly integrated into the day-to-day living of Chinese people. From social life, banking, transportation et cetera, almost all s of payments can be made from within the messaging plat. One major problem however exists within the application. It is a closed-source, proprietary app which is subject to security risks, coercion and corruption as a result of its lack of a decentralised architecture. Other globally leading messaging plats have not embraced the economic gateway potential of the large user base of such plats like WeChat has and even if they do, they all face the same issue that results from their centralised architecture. Vibeo aims to mitigate the current inherent deficiencies of instant messaging apps by building a mobile messaging application that gives access to a Worldwide blockchain economy and community. It would create communities where merchants can receive payments from users securely via the application; users can carry out financial exchanges; merchants can securely interact with customers and carry out transactions, and; users and merchants can build a stronger community around the blockchain. The Vibeo protocol is designed to build the feeling of community among all users. The app incorporates a map location feature where you can discover a fully decentralized economy; find merchants and other Vibeo users in your locality and choose to engage with them. This motivates users and merchants alike to exchange currency, exchange ideas and even render services within the plat thus helping the movement for decentralization grow and develop more. The protocol also incorporates key security features, not only within the app s technology, but also in its application, to ensure that users can be safe both within the app and in real life. The security comes in sending payments within chats, and default encryption on all messages that is based on peer-to-peer protocols from decentralized servers. Key features such as the Safe Trip feature also ensures security in real life. cutive Summary 02 Vibeo Ltd. Whitepaper v2.3 – Jun e 2018.Merchants who sign up to be listed on the plat would have the benefit of being able to carry out transactions within chats, receive payments, and be listed on the map that would be within the application. In registering as a merchant, an annual fee of 29. The merchants could also get extra visibility features on the map and other advertising features in certain parts of the application at extra costs of between 5.99 to 10.99. In carrying out further developments on the application which has been in existence since 2017, the company would be conducting a Token Sale. The offering would be of tokens called VBEO. It is expected that 427 million tokens would be used in the Token Sale for a total supply of 950 million. The funds raised from the Token Sale would be used as a grant to enable the company to finance the development of the application, establishment of key partnerships, operations, marketing and customer acquisition. This document gives an overview of the technical protocol on which Vibeo operates, the instant messaging market, the expected growth of the company, financial forecasts for the future, and the capability of our team. The financial forecasts are conservative and are aimed to illustrate the robust simplicity of the Vibeo business model. Our expected revenue for 2019/2020 are 3 million, and we expect to grow at rates balancing out our background in the block-chain based industry, and the instant messaging market. 03 Vibeo Ltd. Whitepaper v2.3 – Jun e 2018.Vibeo is the most complete and advanced instant messaging app enabling access to a Worldwide blockchain economy and community. Users can send and receive tokens from their own wallets to the e-wallet integrated within the app, carry out exchanges within the community of Vibeo users and use crypto-currencies to make payments from within the application. Users can exchange crypto-currencies for goods and services with registered merchants around the world, and can even interact with such merchants such as making orders or bookings from the chat app. In communicating with loved ones, the Vibeo app gives much more functionalities than conventional applications with Advanced Location features that offer travel updates to selected loved ones or groups, currency transfer from one user to another, the creation of a strong community revolving around a decentralised economy using crypto-currencies to carry out transactions, and where the VBEO token gives plat users superior leverage in the use and development of the application. Vibeo Ltd. Whitepaper v2.3 – Jun e 2018. 04 OverviewVIBEO APP USER INTERFACE AND FLOW The Vibeo app is an already existent plat currently at Version 3.1. This version is available on the AppStore and Google Play. We also plan to add a crypto e-wallet and bring an entire crypto community inside a geo-localized map, this should be available from Vibeo app v3.2 coming in December 2018. THE LOGIN PAGE The first time a user launches the Vibeo app, the user will have to either authenticate if he/she already has an account or register one if he/she has never used Vibeo before. 05 Vibeo Ltd. Whitepaper v2.3 – Jun e 2018.TIMELINE There are two different ways users can interact with contacts. User Experience The first option is to slide over a selected contact where users would be presented with three possibilities. Those are considered the top 3 actions to interact with a contact; voice call, video call, or send tokens. Another option to interact with contacts is to click on a selected contact. The user would be presented with more interaction options such as voice call, video call, send token, chat, see his/her timeline, add this contact to a specific group. 06 Vibeo Ltd. Whitepaper v2.3 – Jun e 2018. The timeline is a mini blog where users can add videos or pictures and write some texts. The timeline will automatically be posted under the actual date and time. The user may choose to set-up authorization so only limited friends or family group will be able to access his/her feed Screenshots will be made available at a later date.The chat feature is very stylish, with a discussion area that is integrated into a well-designed bubble, and a view of the contact s display image. The design and colors have been specially adjusted to be tender on the user s eyes, so as to make long chat sessions much more comfortable and convenient. Push notifications are supported, meaning your contacts will never miss a message. Read receipts are also supported. Users have the possibility to login to another device in order to get access to their account, you can either login with your phone number or your Vibeo ID. You may also login using an iPhone or Android because Vibeo app is cross-plat. The only restriction is you can not be logged in from 2 devices at the same time. The voice calling option is very stylish as well. The interface has smooth zen colors, with wave effects around the contact s picture which come on while the user waits for the call to be connected. 07 Vibeo Ltd. Whitepaper v2.3 – Jun e 2018.TRIP The trip feature allows users to share their location when traveling. Users can feel safer with the Safe Trip option by sending location updates with exact coordinates to loved ones. The user can also adjust time interval of the location sending option from 5 minutes to every 30 minutes. The location can be sent to selected groups, or just individuals. Recipients of the safe-location feature would receive a map that looks as follows. The Vibeo interactive map is one of the most important feature of the application. The geo-location and other services are presented on the map. Users are able to see nearest friends or other Vibeo members if activated on the filters, they might also see points of interest, city guide members, merchants and other services to be added thanks to our API. 08 Vibeo Ltd. Whitepaper v2.3 – Jun e 2018. THE MAPGEOLOCATION Users can see where friends are located and their status on the map Moving either walking or on a car Stopped at the same position Pressed the alert button, something is wrong, the user might need help, nearby users should come quickly to assist Merchants 09 Vibeo Ltd. Whitepaper v2.3 – Jun e 2018. MERCHANTS Registered merchants will be able to collect Crypto currencies from the Vibeo user community in exchange of goods or services. WALLET The Vibeo wallet allows users to transfer crypto currencies such as Bitcoin or ETH from their wallet to the integrated Vibeo wallet. The user can use the wallet to send crypto currency to other Vibeo members, pay for goods and services with registered merchants and check the value of different currencies. POINTS OF INTEREST On the map users would be able to find points of interest such as museums, monuments, places to visit, et cetera. This feature is very useful for tourists and travelers. Agreements will be proposed to tourist locations and travel service providers to enable our Vibeo members to buy their tickets with crypto currencies. There would be more details on a travel package coming soon. 10 Vibeo Ltd. Whitepaper v2.3 – Jun e 2018.The use of instant messaging in online communication has trumped the previous major text communication s of SMS and MMS. Instant messaging offers real time text transmission between two or even more people. A major advantage of instant messaging is its free usage, the simplicity of their user interfaces ease of use and its extensive availability on all plats and mobile devices. There are so many instant messaging apps on across all plats that are available to users globally. These apps have inculcated features that redefine the texting experience, surpassing the abilities and costs of traditional SMS texts, and thus leading to an incredibly populated messaging market. With instant messaging apps, message lengths are not an issue, and there are diverse media that can be exchanged. The major factors that have influenced the development of the instant messaging market are as follows 1. The growing popularity and ease of use of internet-enabled mobile devices 2. Increase in use and adoption of social networking among young people. 3. The need and urgency to transmit ination in real time. 4. The growing interest in intimate forums and discussions. 5. Multiple features and communication media offered by instant messaging applications. 6. The popularity of p2p payments and e-commerce. Conventional instant messaging applications usually consist of three sides – the developer of the plat or the owner, the businesses that pay to use the plat, and the users that are the target customers of the business who only want to interact with other users. Instant Messaging apps 11 Vibeo Ltd. Whitepaper v2.3 – Jun e 2018. The major reason for why instant messaging has become very popular is the ease of availability of mobile devices with internet connectivity coupled with the need for the average consumer to stay connected with the world socially.The Ethereum blockchain was created for more than just creating and recording ledger ination of transfers of the blockchain s native tokens. Instead, it was created with more in mind – a gener- alised and public blockchain with a Turing-complete programming language. This gave anyone and everyone the ability to write programs with customised transaction ats and even specifically stated transition functions, basically specifying the rules they wanted to govern their transactions and allowing the blockchain to interpret these rules. This is what is called the Smart Contract. The public technology of the Ethereum blockchain made smart contracts to also have their own addresses and digital assets. In essence, a contract that owns its own digital assets only has the capa- bility of sending such assets to other parties using the rules that have been predefined within the programming code of the contract, and this transaction is visible to every party in the network. These smart contracts can be used across board to serve a variety of purposes, as they can enforce compli- cated rules and even automated incentive structures for not only cryptocurrencies, but also multi-party protocols such as auctions and more. These advanced features and the active ecosystem of the Ethereum blockchain make it the best fit for the Vibeo Protocol. Before the users of any technology plat can interact or carry out exchanges of any of ination, they would require a medium to do that. With traditional instant messaging plats, the trusted intermediary that acted as the medium for such exchanges was the “owner” of the plat. However, the creation of the Ethereum public blockchain and all its sub-protocols ed the backbone of the Web 3.0 – Swarm for decentralised file storage and Whisper for p2p communication. This has provided users with a medium of agreement that is decentralised with no interference, cryptographically verifiable, without permission and with fair access. The decentralised Ethereum network creates a fixed record of all transactions and ination exchanged for as long as most of the network agrees. The capacity of the Ethereum blockchain as a social technology is what creates the need for its utility to be maximised among all the potential non-technical users of the blockchain. The blockchain needs to be accessible anywhere, and be integrated into the day-to-day living of the users without compro- mising on the de-centrality of the medi