Cherry - Deca12, TBlockicon & _AlexAstro Summary

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Summary

Cherry is a peer-to-peer collaboration platform presented at Edge City Lanna. It aims to solve the challenge of finding suitable teammates and project ideas for hackathons by providing a Tinder-like interface to match collaborators based on skills, interests, and availability.

The core concept is a mobile app with a Tinder-style swiping interface to match potential collaborators. Once matched, users can chat, share project ideas, and even make micropayments within the app using blockchain technology like Celo and Mantle.

A key innovation is the integration of decentralized identity solutions like WorldCoin and Talent Protocol to build trust and verify skills/experience. The app also utilizes Request Network for facilitating micropayments between collaborators.

The project was built during a previous hackathon and received positive feedback. At Edge City, the team is iterating on the concept, adding features like Privy Social login and expanding blockchain integrations. A live demo showcased the basic swiping, matching, chat and payment request functionality.

While still early stage, Cherry aims to streamline the process of ideating and assembling teams for hackathons and collaborative projects by leveraging blockchain for payments and identity verification.

Key Takeaways

• Novel concept combining dating-app style matchmaking with blockchain for team formation
• Addresses pain points around finding compatible collaborators and project ideation
• Integrates decentralized identity (WorldCoin, Talent) for skill/experience verification
• Leverages blockchain (Celo, Mantle) for secure micropayments between collaborators
• Live demo showcased core features like swiping, matching, in-app chat and payments
• Project is still early stage, with planned improvements to login, identity solutions
• Shows innovative application of blockchain for enabling new models of peer collaboration
• If successful, could streamline team formation for hackathons and distributed projects

Speakers

• Deca12 - Presenter, Core Team
• Demonstrated expertise in hackathons, blockchain integration
• Led development of Cherry concept and live demo
• _AlexAstro - Facilitator
• Highlighted Cherry as a community-inspired project at Edge City