QIIBEE - The Decentralized Loyalty Ecosystem
INTRODUCTION
The buzz about cryptocurrency is increasing, people have heard about it, and more and more people want to find more about it, and find a way to be a part of it. When blockchain technology came, so many things changed, for better, we say. So many businesses have improved, so many companies have started using crypto currencies in their work. The new ideas are coming every day. People want to invest in the new projects. We have the biggest tool in the world, and it is called the Internet. The internet is a enormous base of information where we can do anything. Internet has connected the entire world. One of these projects is Qiibee, a project banked on creating a loyalty protocol that provides a trustless, secure and provable manner for issuing loyalty tokens backed by a crypto asset across different blockchains.
ABOUT QIIBEE
Qiibee is creating a loyalty protocol that provides a trustless, secure and provable manner for issuing loyalty tokens backed by a crypto asset across different blockchains. The qiibee protocol provides a trustless, secure and provable manner for issuing loyalty tokens backed by a crypto asset across different blockchains. It also guarantees liquidity by allowing easy redemption, tradability and exit options. Qiibee provides an easy-to-connect means to start building loyalty programs on top of the qiibee protocol, an API that brands’s developers can use to easily communicate with the protocol and the blockchain. The alpha version is already live, and we’re always improving the API to deliver a smoother, more straight forward experience.
THE MISSION
The mission is to establish a loyalty ecosystem for hundreds of brands that service thousands of customers.
QIIBEE AND BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY
Blockchain provides an ideal framework for tackling the weaknesses of today’s loyalty market: points without a real value, trusted programs (weak data privacy), and highly centralized loyalty programs.
The first implementation involves an Ethereum-based loyalty blockchain. The Ethereum-based loyalty blockchain provides and ensures high-speed transactions for low or no fees. These characteristics are key for an ecosystem that wants to offer microtransactions and be made mainstream.
FEATURES OF QIIBEE PLATFORM
Decentralized loyalty apps.
The qiibee wallet is one of the means by which loyal customers can interact with the LoyaltyToken Protocol. The qiibee wallet directly communicates with our API which talks to the protocol.
Software Development Kit (SDK)
The SDK streamlines and facilitates application development running on the LoyaltyToken Protocol, which saves the time, money, and extensive know-how required to build it from scratch. Loyalty program owners can focus on their businesses and their applications, while we support them with our SDK. The bigger the community maintaining and building on the qiibee protocol, the stronger qiibee’s loyalty ecosystem.
Qiibee’s LoyaltyToken Protocol
Our protocol provides a trustless, secure and provable manner for issuing loyalty tokens backed by a crypto asset across different blockchains. It also guarantees liquidity by allowing easy redemption, tradability and exit options.
Real-time information
Check the block explorer to see real-time information about the blockchain where your token lives and the latest transactions.
Analytics
Need some numbers? The dashboard’s analytics section provides all the important information about your LoyaltyToken: how many accounts hold your token, peak times for rewards, etc.
There are four key benefits when considering the Loyalty Token Protocol from a brand perspective:
Reduced costs and risk.
Given that a brand’s program is built on the qiibee protocol, the set-up costs for a new program are very low. Customers are also responsible for their own wallets, so the risk of a massive data breach is mitigated.
Brands can “Plug & Play” with their loyalty program.
How does it work? In a first step, the brand’s marketing department sets the budget for the loyalty program, which needs to be converted into brand loyalty tokens. The qiibee protocol then creates the brand tokens and sends them to the brand. It is important to highlight that the brand still has full control of the interaction with the customer, for instance over its individual app’s interface. In addition, the brand can also determine exactly how it wants to reward its loyal customers and how it wants to configure the redemption process.
Increased level of engagement a brand can achieve.
It has full flexibility in the construction of its reward and redemption structure. The fluctuation of the brand’s token value in terms of FIAT also positively affects customer engagement, since customers are seemingly interested in the value of the tokens and are thereby incentivized to hold them for a longer period. On top of that, a brand can tap into a large loyalty community of existing customers on the qiibee ecosystem, which makes it easier to boost new loyalty programs and attain a wide customer reach.
Elimination of liabilities on the company’s balance sheet.
Since the tokens that it will give out are tradeable and have a “real” value rather than constituting a promise from the company to be delivered in the future, the tokens will not be accounted for as deferred revenue.
What are the Benefits?
There are four key benefits when considering the Loyalty Token Protocol from a brand perspective:
Brands can “Plug & Play” with their loyalty program. How does it work? In a first step, the brand’s marketing department sets the budget for the loyalty program, which needs to be converted into brand loyalty tokens. The qiibee protocol then creates the brand tokens and sends them to the brand. It is important to highlight that the brand still has full control of the interaction with the customer, for instance over its individual app’s interface. In addition, the brand can also determine exactly how it wants to reward its loyal customers and how it wants to configure the redemption process.
Increased level of engagement a brand can achieve. It has full flexibility in the construction of its reward and redemption structure. The fluctuation of the brand’s token value in terms of FIAT also positively affects customer engagement, since customers are seemingly interested in the value of the tokens and are thereby incentivized to hold them for a longer period. On top of that, a brand can tap into a large loyalty community of existing customers on the qiibee ecosystem, which makes it easier to boost new loyalty programs and attain a wide customer reach.
Elimination of liabilities on the company’s balance sheet. Since the tokens that it will give out are tradeable and have a “real” value rather than constituting a promise from the company to be delivered in the future, the tokens will not be accounted for as deferred revenue.
Reduced costs and risk. Given that a brand’s program is built on the qiibee protocol, the set-up costs for a new program are very low. Customers are also responsible for their own wallets, so the risk of a massive data breach is mitigated.
Customer perspective
When looking at the customer perspective, there are again four key advantages of using qiibee for the collection of loyalty tokens:
Overview of all their loyalty tokens collected from different brands in the qiibee ecosystem. Customers can still use their favorite brands’ loyalty programs and interfaces and later import the collected tokens into one common place.
Transactions with their loyalty tokens. They can trade them with other customers in the ecosystem, send or receive tokens from others and participate in the different brands’ redemption offers.
All brand tokens are cryptocurrencies tied to the qiibee token (QBX), which will be publicly traded. This way, the brand tokens have a real value outside of the brand context.
Cash out. The qiibee ecosystem offers the customer the ability to sell loyalty tokens for FIAT or other cryptocurrencies via third party integrations.
TOKEN AND ICO DETAILS
Token : QBX
Price: 1 QBX = 0.071 USD
Platform : Ethereum
Accepting : ETH
Hard cap : 28,000,000 USD
Token Distribution and Allocation of Funds
The Advantages of QIIBEE - WHY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE QIIBEE?
Transactions with their loyalty tokens.
They can trade them with other customers in the ecosystem, send or receive tokens from others and participate in the different brands’ redemption offers.
All brand tokens are cryptocurrencies tied to the qiibee token (QBX), which will be publicly traded. This way, the brand tokens have a real value outside of the brand context.
Overview of all their loyalty tokens collected from different brands in the qiibee ecosystem. Customers can still use their favorite brands’ loyalty programs and interfaces and later import the collected tokens into one common place.
Cash out.
The qiibee ecosystem offers the customer the ability to sell loyalty tokens for FIAT or other cryptocurrencies via third party integrations.
ROADMAP
2015 - 2016
Our journey started with our own off-chain loyalty app
35m Data sets created
100k Active users
6m Customer activities
900 Brand partners
2017
Made strategic decision to build loyalty on the blockchain based on learnings from off-chain app
Created smart contracts on Ethereum and published white paper
Q1 2018
Closed our seed round with approx. 3.2m USD
Invested in team expansion, product development and brand acquisition
Q2 2018
Conducted 2 brand roll-outs in 7 countries reaching 2m customers
API, Software Development Kit, Protocol 1.0
Q3 2018
Open Crowd Sale to fund the qiibee journey
Onboarding of 6 more brands to the qiibee ecosystem
Plug & Play, Dashboards
Q4 2018
Conduct loyalty on the blockchain hackathon
Onboarding of 17 more brands to the qiibee ecosystem
Protocol 2.0
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Till next time…
For more information, please visit:
Website: https://qiibee.com/
Whitepaper: https://static.qiibee.com/qiibee-White-Paper.pdf
Telegram: https://t.me/qiibee
Medium: https://blog.qiibee.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/qiibee
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/qiibee
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qiibee/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qiibee-ag/
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/qiibee
Github: http://github.com/qiibee
Author: TheMichaelMatch
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Disclaimer: This article was published in terms of the bounty campaign. I am not a project team member or its representative but a supporter of this incredible project.