patron

patron leverages the synergies of classical web2-based patronage platforms with the key characteristics of the blockchain: anonymity or identity (whichever desired), financial support, immutability of content, non-fungible collectibles, and decentralized architecture.

Why do we need patron? For the ease of use and for the independence of artists and creators!

Use cases:

• Independent artists and creators sharing their work with the world.
• Journalists (even anonymous), yet backable by crypto, sharing independent news.
• News curators compiling domain specific news from around the world.

Features: patron is an attempt to empower creative individuals to share their work and creations with the world. The goals of the platform are:

• Ease of use of blockchain technology.
• Anonymous or identified financial backing of artists and creators, anonymous or identified roles for artists and creators.
• Decentralized content delivery.
• Immutability guarantees that digital content cannot be altered or removed (think of independent journalism).

Discovery: How do you ensure artists and creators get discovered? A classical portal website will be the interface to the content and work of creators where patrons can customize their feed by up- or downvotes, similar to reddit or hacker news.

This is a noob's project based on Scaffold-ETH. An idea. Aside of the great Scaffold-ETH jumpstart nothing else works, yet. Scaffold-ETH is an incredible starter package to get a project off the ground. As for sponsor technologies, the following uses are planned:

• TheGraph for indexing and finding news posts, work artifacts, and documents.
• Xmtp for publishing messages between patrons and creators.
• Push for notifications of replies, favorites.
• IPFS/Filecoin to store bigger attachments linked to messages (PDFs, archives, documents).
• Livepeer for video attachments and live video chats.
• WorldID for world-wide verified identification (this is optional, both for patrons and creators).
• Uniswap to implement token swaps between creators and their patrons.
• 0x - like uniswap - to implement token swaps between creators and their patrons.
• polygon to publish work on the network.
• skale to publish work on the network.