CROWDLY - By Team Xcalate

A Decentralized social media platform that combats misinformation through crowdsourcing

Getting Started

First, install the dependencies:

npm install

Update your Portis Wallet credentials in secrets.json in ethereum directory. Then, Compile and deploy contracts using truffle:

truffle migrate --network matic

Run the development server:

npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.

Problems we aim to solve:

Misinformation is a major problem in a world where there are many sources of information on the internet which may or may not provide the right information. This ultimately results in users losing faith in every internet source altogether.

We aim to solve this problem of misinformation by means of crowd verification and independent source (News Organizations) verification of the news shared. We aim to incentivize people to provide right verdicts on each piece of information by allowing them to bet on what they feel is correct. They receive their fair share of profits once the news is verified by the independent sources.

Goals:

• To provide a trusted source of information.
• To incentivize and reward users for providing the right verdicts on each piece of information.
• To reduce spam and misinformation.
• To help users get news efficiently and effectively.

Use cases:

• As a primary source of news on the current affairs.
• Generating personal profits.

Technology Stack:

• ReactJS.
• NodeJS
• Solidity

Packages used:

• Matic (For reducing the gas transaction fee and processing time).
• Portis (Seamless authentication).
• Truffle (for developement)

Demo video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgnWxPEjBoo