Thread by @ktrap

One of the most exciting things I'm a part of in Web3 is the Bcard network @Bcard_eth founded by @008_eth

Happy to see several of my fellow @NeoTokyoCode citizens joining in lately

What is this Web3 social movement called "Bcard" and why is it important?

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Bcard is many things, but to me, it's a working form of a decentralized social network, facilitated in part by #ENS domains

Connections within the network are memorialized on-chain by the exchange of personalized "business card" NFTs on Polygon

So how does it work?

Essentially, if you desire to join the Bcard network and free-mint your own set of Bcards, you need to be verified by 3 members of the network

You do this by reaching out to existing members to ask them to send you their Bcard

In this sense, each Bcard member serves as a sort of "validator node" in the network

Thus new members of the network have at least passed a 3-person human verification step

But why would you want to collect Bcards?

It gives you the opportunity to connect with other Web3 pioneers

In the process, you end up gaining new friends along with access to their knowledge & connections, and vice versa

What other benefits are there to collecting Bcards?

Once you collect 50 Bcards, you've basically been super-verified by the community

This grants you the ability to publish "Bpapers"

What is a Bpaper?

With Bpaper, you can write fully-customizable information directly on-chain

Bpaper also provides the capability to use token gating and create subscriptions, the possibilities are endless

One potential example of Bpaper use-case:

The Web3 builders network I'm a part of, @NeoTokyoCode, has a news arm that is seeking to publish their articles on-chain via Bpaper

https://twitter.com/ZeHI77/status/1581006565573767168?s=20&t=Jp5aUi4MIn4eLJs3BQTuww

One of the more intriguing elements of how Bcard & Bpaper are manifesting is via the .photos project

To me, this is an early proof case for a functioning decentralized social media profile

Bpapers can then be like posts, stories, or tweets you want to share with your followers

By the way, anyone with an #ENS name can append .photos to the end of their .eth name in any browser to see how the template is set up

I used @008_eth's 008.eth.photos profile as an example above

Bcard describes itself as "web3 native, no discord, even bridging away from Twitter"

Bcard members meet daily in the metaverse from 5-7 PM EST via Oncyber

There the Bcard community has developed art stores, music bars, and more

oncyber.io/station

There are a ton of impressive factoids on the tech side I don't have space to dive into here

To learn more, check @Bcard_eth's pinned tweet here for a list of key threads including all the how-to's:

https://twitter.com/Bcard_eth/status/1575541315646857217?s=20&t=Jp5aUi4MIn4eLJs3BQTuww

Looking to get into Bcard, or are you a Bcard holder and we have not connected yet?

I'd love to connect and send you my Bcard

DMs are open 🤝