Enhancing the Utility in the Metaverse Using Open Technology
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Claim: connecting crypto to traditional rails increases real-world utility and inclusion by making tokens spendable. Built an open protocol called UnitSpend with 500 million products (Amazon/Shopify), 2,000+ gift cards and mobile money payout in Kenya, running on 5 blockchains (XRP Ledger, Celo, Polygon, Solana and EVM chains). Implementation uses XRP Ledger transaction SDKs and pathfinding, open APIs/SDKs on GitHub, and a noncustodial one-line iframe integration; the system processes live transactions and scales across chains.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:23Utility with Maslow's hierarchy
- 7:00Web3 token challenges
- 8:06UniSpend open solution
- 10:16Future of web3 utility
- 15:18Speculative token concerns
- 17:26Web2 to web3 transition
- 21:23Closing remarks
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