Please describe your proposed solution
Our research:
Football is the most popular sport in the world, with 250 million players and 4 billion fans, creating an economic industry worth hundreds of billions. With major tournaments take place every year, the sport is spreading to other countries and regions where it was not popular before, and it is also increasingly played by women - who often seem to dislike it. However, there has yet to be infrastructure that provides the following capabilities:
- Using their real skills to play physical football with others worldwide.
- Improving their soccer skills instantly and intuitively.
- Creating and joining global challenges.
- Having the freedom to trade and bet.
Our solution:
bitSphera dApp receives and analyzes data from the Titã smart ball to showcase players’ skills, create 3D videos of ball-playing situations, and calculate tokens that players receive. Users can then utilize these resources to interact with others through the following utilities:
- Built-in training: Players improve their ball control and shooting skills with a virtual coach who will guide them instantly and intuitively to adjust technical factors such as touch point and shot power…
- Move and Earn: Each time a player interacts with the Titã smart ball, they will earn the utility token (HPC token). If players practice regularly every day, they are also rewarded with the governance token that allows access to game creation (KAT token).
- Play to Earn: Players can use the tokens they earned to easily create and participate in many different physical challenges in the following six-game genres: Battles, challenges (Skill-Pool Games), Superstar challenges, Club competitions, Team tournaments, Online Live events
- NFTs: Users can create avatars, sportswear items, stadiums, clubs…
- Marketplace: Users can trade NFTs, create and sell technical exercises
- Peer-to-peer betting: Its betting mechanism allows users to bet against each other legally.
<u>How do you perceive the problem you are solving?</u>
Even though they want to play football globally, players cannot do so because of differences and shortages such as geographical distance, lack of participants at the same time, discrepancies in skill levels, and not having common financial means… Football fans also encounter these problems when they want to interact with each other.
<u>What are your reasons for approaching it in the way that you have?</u>
We offer this solution because it solves these problems thoroughly and comprehensively. By combining the advantages of IoT and blockchain, our solution does that and more; it brings limitless possibilities to users through the following advantages:
- It eliminates geographical distance
- It removes the financial barrier by giving the move-to-earn mechanism to players
- It motivates users to practice regularly to improve their skills
- It gives the right to create games to anyone
- It gives users the power to create and trade NFTs
- It has a mechanism to satisfy users' betting instincts
<u>Who will your project engage?</u>
Our project will attract football players and fans who want to participate in a football economy without borders
<u>How will you demonstrate or prove your impact?</u>
We will measure it through the following indicators:
- interaction on our website, social networks, and forums.
- demand for our tokens when we IDO it.
- number of smart balls we sell and are connected to the system.
- number of transactions measured on our system
By uniquely combining IoT and Blockchain, our project brings unprecedented benefits of our Decentralized Football Ecosystem to users. In response, it also attracts a significant number of users from the real world to Cardano.
This proposal is to build an interactive prototype of the bitSphera dApp on Cardano to collect feedback from users and the blockchain community, to perfect its design and functionality.