Cardstack Gives You Control Of Your Digital Life (Purpose and How It Works)

adekogbe (53)in #blockchain • 7 years ago

The Blockchain Needs To Work Together

Blockchain and decentralization since its inception till this moment have lacked that end-user usability that can promote mass adoption. There are a lot of projects that offer different solutions through the blockchain, some offer consumer targeted solutions like retail, shipping, banking, shopping, social media and many more. These solutions however stand's alone with nothing connecting them together.

On an Android or iOS device, a person can have all his normal proprietary applications like bank apps, ECommerce apps like Amazon & aliexpress, insurance apps, games and the likes. These apps and services have been integrated into the operating system of the device. It goes a step further with payment for services as a person in Nigeria can pay for a product to be shipped from the US with his naira card and have his bill automatically converted to USD.

Decentralization, however, has taken a different route with different projects creating their own personalized blockchains and tokens that cannot work with other services on different blockchains. This is an added commitment for anyone promoting decentralization because the blockchain is not unified in such an easy way like the centralized digital world and until this happens, a lot of people will prefer their centralized platforms to the decentralized solutions based on the ease of use and while some will adopt decentralization anyway the mass adoption of decentralization still has a big barrier to scale.

Cardstack Is Blockchain's Unifying Layer

Cardstack project has taken the initiative to create a decentralized unifying layer for blockchains and decentralized platforms. Cardstack provides the much-needed end-user usability that the blockchain lacks.

At the heart of the Cardstack platform is the idea that every user should be in total control of their digital lives be it centralized or decentralized, this means that every data, information, action or activity of a person should be within his convenience and he/she should be in the center of it all. A person shouldn't have to surf through tons of apps or dApps to get updated about his personal information be it in interactions with other people, fulfilling his financial needs, having fun his/her leisure or any other activity. Information and data should flow to users in a way that it is easily absorbable and they can easily take actions.

Taking Control With Cardstack

At the root of the cardstack interface are two basic components which are the Hub and the Cards.

Hub: This is a personal user interface for every user of the cardstack platform, it can be likened to a personal user profile on which a person integrates his dApps and services. On the cardstack users are able to receive information about different services from different blockchains, take required actions and make transactions using the CARD tokens.

Cards: Cardstack is probably gotten from the card functionality of the cardstack user interface. When broken down "Card-stack" refers to a stack of cards. So the question is "what is a card?"

A "card" is a user interface design pattern that groups related information in a flexible-size rectangular container full of inclusive images and texts which serves as entry points to more detailed information.

On Cardstack the cards serve Information from the blockchain and all the integrated platforms directly to the users quickly with a simple and responsive design that can carry any information or contain any functionality that the user needs.

All these actions and information flows into the users' hub in cards making it easy for the users to handle their data and take actions without being overwhelmed.

For example: By integrating my decentralized banking and multimedia services like BABB and Current.us respectively unto my Cardstack hub. I have been expecting a payment for a service rendered into my BABB wallet which I wish to use for the payment of a service in the Current platform.

When I open my cardstack hub I get a simple card as a notification for a payment received, clicking on it will give a more detailed information about who the payment is from and other details of the transaction. Within the comfort of my cardstack hub, I can initiate a transaction to pay for the multimedia service using my card tokens.

Its simple efficient and user-friendly, by using cardstack there is no need to be a crypto expert for anyone to use decentralized services. Every user will have complete and total control of their data and decentralized assets. CARD tokens are all a user needs to make transactions using the cardstack platform across the integrated decentralized services.

Conclusion

The cardstack project is in its ICO stage and CARD tokens are available on sale when the main sale opens on May 31st. The Cardstack project has a lot of reputation due its project, all-star team and good token metrics. The demand is high with over 70% of its $35 million hardcap already sold in the Presale. Interested investors should visit the official website, announcement threads and social media communities for more information about the project, token sale and how to safely participate.