General Idea
Our vision is to facilitate donations around the world. Everybody should be able and be allowed to donate and to receive donations, no matter who he/she/it is, no matter where he/she/it is located at. It should be as easy as making a few clicks on the web and/or mobile and extremely secure and fail-safe. Blockchain technology is the perfect new medium to enable this.
Our conviction is that the world could become a much better place if more people would donate to people, projects, companies, foundations, non-profits and everybody else. If everybody would donate regularly just a little amount to entities he uses often, to entities he profits from or entities he simply likes for whatever reason, love and aid could be spread around the world. By all for all.
With bdonor we want to go a step in this direction and make the world a little bit better. We try to achieve that by offering a platform and an app (website and mobile app) that connects beneficiaries with donors on a single place. It enables people, companies, and organisations to publish donation requests which contain information about themselves and their projects or the work they have done. Donors will be able to browse, sort and filter that list of donation requests and donate with only a few clicks little (or much) money to projects and entities they want to support.
In the future we want to add features that will allow automatic regular donations, decentralized crowdfunding, micropayment services.
We believe in the growing sharing- and giving-economy and want to be a significant part of it.
bdonor
bdonor is a platform that connects donors with recipients of those donations in a secure and decentralized way, using blockchain technology. This means that all relevant information about the donations and the donation receivers is stored transparently and secure on the blockchain. Because of the pseudonomity of the blockchain, no private data is needed nor published.
The value proposition of bdonor is:
- Very easy to donate, using only a single place that connects beneficiaries with donors. No need to crawl the whole internet to find donation addresses, no need for centralized third parties like banks, charity organisations, etc…
- Censorship resistance. Everybody is able and allowed to send or receive donations. No censorship or manipulation is possible. Nobody can prevent anybody from donating or receiving donations.
- Total transparency on both sides, the sender and the receiver of donations. This makes it possible to use the platform also for tax purposes and for transparency reports of political parties and organisations.
- An extremely easy to use, and beautiful interface makes donating only a matter of a few clicks and seconds.
In the beginning we assume that bdonor will be used mostly by community members and delegates of Lisk. This means that somebody who organizes a meetup, creates a tool or published a medium post or news article about Lisk can create a donation request. People and delegates who want to support and acknowledge these efforts can use bdonor to browse all these created requests and donate to those they like, with only a few clicks.
In the future also people like artists, musicians, bloggers, etc… who are not directly involved with Lisk will use bdonor to receive revenue for the work they do. Additionally also regular people will start using bdonor to donate to people and projects they like.
People will realize that they can make a huge impact on other peoples future if they donate little amounts .
In the far future websites will also put a bdonor-link on their website to receive donations, big organisations like UNICEF, Wikipedia, LibreOffice, WWF, etc… will be present on our platform. Additionally, people will be able to use bdonor to start crowdfunding projects and also micropayments will be possible.
Current Status/Features
bdonor is currently in the development phase. We want to release a first version as soon as possible. This version will contain just the basic functionality like creating a donation request, browsing, filtering and sorting a list of existing donation requests, donating, etc…. Even in this first version we put a lot of effort in the look and usability of the platform. If you check the screenshots section you can see that we are already pretty close to this goal.
Future Features
The end goal is that everybody can donate on a regular basis, thanks to bdonor. bdonor will allow regular, repeating and automatic donations, micro-payments and decentralized crowdfunding. Even big organizations will be able to use the bdonor platform to receive donations. A regular website and a Progressive Web App will be available.
Different statistics will show how much the platform is used, which are the most supported projects or users, etc…
Stay tuned for other ideas and features.
Roadmap
Our roadmap heavily depends on the progress of the Lisk Platform. Because we build bdonor on top of the Lisk Sidechain Technology, we can not yet give a clear roadmap. Lisk is doing great progress and we are confident that it will be possible to go live with bdonor next year. Everybody who is interested in testing bdonor will be able to do so soon, just contact us for more info.
Main steps towards a working live version are the following:
- Finish the first first version on our local development systems and network.
- Release an initial version to people interested in helping to test and improve the app.
- Release bdonor as an official sidechain app on the Lisk Testnet, allowing delegates to secure the chain
- Release bdonor as an official sidechain app on the Lisk Mainnet.