Two big improvements: User Experience and Contracts
User Experience
Objectives
- Facilitate sales → enable better discovery of minted time
- More high quality mints → filter for spam
Solutions
- UX that is centered around creators
- Lazy mint of creator availability
- Search by ENS or Lens Profile NFT to see calendars
- Marketplace that shows creators, not individual time
- Discovery
- Profile link that people can share (will show calendar)
Figma:
More targeted focus of time sold
- Web3 Lessons [the most likely scenario]
- NFT collection design
- Solidity best practices
- Crypto-native lessons offered
- Bookings
- Events
- IRL services (e.g., barber, yoga classes)
- Fundraise to bootstrap creating an IRL business
- Like Kickstarter for an IRL service
Contracts
Aika v2 contracts will become a full-fledged protocol with the ability to add modules — similar to Lens Protocol — to make it as flexible and scalable in its applications.
Modules for redemption, pricing, and dispute management:
- Redemption:
- Currently has upfront payment
- Newt will build 50% upfront, 50% at delivery of time
- Others can build different redemption mechanisms
- Pricing:
- Newt will build the fixed price module
- Others can build the auction module — for standard auction, Dutch, reverse Dutch, etc
- Dispute management
- Newt will build a 5-star rating and review system
- Other ideas
- 2/3 multisig on both parties calling something redeemed
- Third signer is an arbitration body (e.g., a DAO)
- Stake collateral
- Kick out to Kleros court system
**Can set up bounties for additional modules to be created by developers
Other contact features:
- Lazy mint
- Creators ‘list’ their time, and buyers mint the time on the blockchain
- Assume it’s redeemed when it’s past the point of
AvailabilityTo - Editions of ERC 721
- “Group” time together so that multiple people can buy the same time (e.g., an online class)