What is the imagination of protocol-based docusign?

When we racked our brains and tried to get external traffic into this niche paradise, we hoped to find a way out from the derivation of technology. For example, we would pay more attention to In terms of decentralized finance, it is expected that this financial paradigm shift can introduce hundreds of millions of people from traditional finance.

Of course, the blockchain is inherently related to finance, and bookkeeping is the original function. And perhaps, we can change the way of thinking to look at the out-of-the-box applications of the blockchain, trace back to the source, and look back at the most essential functions of the blockchain.

Be the recorder who will never be deleted.

The 48 Hours of "Small Agreement"

In fact, in 2018, someone once made an application for the recording function on the WeChat applet. This applet invested by ZhenFund caused a sensation in the VC industry as soon as it went online. But it only lasted 48 hours.

In this application called "Small Agreement", both users can make an "informal agreement" Validate and constrain. User A writes a paragraph and shares it with user B. After B confirms, the small agreement will write the content together with the signature constructed by the WeChat IDs of both parties on Ethereum.

Using the undeletable feature of the Ethereum network, a paragraph may be a verbal sentence, which has become a a certainty.

But it is such a simple application that has resonated in the industry, even completely unexpected circle scene. Overnight, the number of visits to the small protocol reached 120,000, and tens of thousands of people experienced it. It can affect tens of thousands of people within a few hours of its launch, which itself is a huge gap in the market.

Unfortunately, this sensational small program was permanently banned by WeChat official 48 hours after its launch .

Source: Public Account "Super Wang Dengke"

In hours, small agreements only trigger a small part of application scenarios, because what drives users is freshness, and the scenarios are more life-oriented. A large number of needs are driven by curiosity from the perspective of families. At the same time, starting from problems that cannot be solved by previous technologies, the demand exceeds expectations.

The application scenarios of small agreements not only exist in life, but also in more demanding business fields. The need for recording or third-party audits of verbal agreements is far greater than imagined. That’s what Taraxa’s daily agreement tracking platform, Marinate, is doing.

Scene requirements for information to be recorded

I believe that many people had the experience of telecommuting during the worst period of the epidemic, and this is also the brightest moment of telecommuting software such as zoom. But the contradictions caused by telecommuting are becoming more and more obvious.

Especially in non-Internet companies, the emergence of various collaboration tools makes the coordination work more complicated. In a multi-team collaboration project, everyone’s tools are not uniform, which leads to a large amount of information not being recorded, and can only be delivered through verbal, WeChat or SMS, and there will be a lot of important messages delayed or lost.

This application scenario can also be expanded outwards. In daily life and work, there is too much information to receive and Disordered information directly leads to confusion and disputes. This phenomenon is especially obvious in the cooperation between different teams. Although there are collaboration tools, it cannot be forced to use consistent tools for all collaborations. The information transmitted between different tools is lost, forgotten, or delayed, but in fact these can be solved by blockchain records.

Marinate of Taraxa

In Taraxa's network, Marinate is a daily protocol tracking platform. When users use the most basic daily communication tools (email, SMS, WeChat, slack, etc.), any piece of information can be confirmed through Marinate. User A sends an email to B. For the content of the email, both parties can choose to confirm or not and @Marinate, choose to confirm or not and sign with the private key at the same time. This behavior and email information are automatically recorded on the chain.

It seems that Marinate seems to have similar functions to the "small agreement" a few years ago, but from the perspective of open source and signature Look, there are different imaginations.

Marinate’s imagination

In 2C field , It is already possible to use Marinete directly to track daily informal agreements. In the construction industry, Marinate has helped solve pain points for construction contractors.

Due to the characteristics of the construction industry, a project may be completed by different construction teams at the same time, and the teams do not There is no perfect collaborative work.

Due to the complexity of the construction industry, a large amount of information is transmitted orally every day, which leads to a large number of cooperation Confusion, delays and disputes occur. Through Marinete on the Taraxa platform, workers communicate through basic communication tools while using Marinete as a third-party credential. Taraxa has worked with construction contractors in the United States to solve this pain point that previous technologies could not solve.

Extending further, Marinate can have more room for imagination in the 2B field. Because after open source, Marinate has become a "protocol" application.

We can use social media as an example. Recently, various incidents have made everyone’s discussions on social media more intense. TikTok was blocked and Twitter was blocked at will. more and more. Protocolization means that this is a completely decentralized product.

In the scenario of signing a contract, docusign is the most well-known application. Through docusign, users can generate contracts and write them by hand or directly Generate a signature. The open source Marinate is a "protocolized docusign" in the field of informal contracts. In vertical industries, the application of Marinate can be optimized to be more suitable for the use of the corresponding industry.

It is still a remote office scenario, and the project party can use the open source protocol of Marinate to optimize it into a " Protocol Tracking". Different teams use basic communication tools such as emails or text messages. Both parties confirm any message at the same time. With the help of Marinete, this behavior is permanently recorded. In case any problems in follow-up work lead to disputes between the two parties, Marinete can export this information. Behavior records become third-party evidence.

The "certificate" attribute of blockchain technology

In the perspective of imagining the application of blockchain, there are many ideas of data on the chain, or the imagining of physical objects on the chain. It is emphasized that users must know that blockchain technology is being used. It seems that this can really solve some problems in the Internet today. some questions.

But the technology that can really spread on a large scale should actually be unfeeling to users. If the user has no barriers to use at all and solves the problem at the same time, this is the attribute that a technology should have when it lands or even goes out of the circle. This is also the characteristic of Taraxa.

In cooperation using Taraxa technology as a solution, blockchain has always appeared as a third-party audit role , Taraxa will not change the user's usage habits, users still follow the usual operations, but follow Taraxa as an additional product, and when users need it, it will be used as a third-party audit and as a certificate. The same logic applies to the Marinate platform.

We see the potential of going out of the circle. Products with similar functions have proved the existence of usage scenarios many years ago. At the same time Marinate also allows us to see the expansion of more scenarios, the possibility of Web3.0 applications going out of the circle, and the correct posture of the blockchain to truly solve the pain points of the Internet.

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