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the sticker protocol prints digital stickers, imbues them with value, and facilitates the swapping of stickers across the web
stickers are frxETH-backed non-fungible digital objects that can be traded IRL and around the social web as collectibles, memorabilia, and visual reactions to posts/dms/streams/etc. because stickers communicate emotions and not explicitly value, the traditional mental transaction costs associated with social micropayments are eliminated and financial value piggybacks on natural emotional reaccs.
when people receive stickers as reactions to posts or messages in chats, they can choose to keep them—perhaps this sticker is from a dear friend, or perhaps it’s from a rare early set—or burn them for their backing frxETH, realizing the monetary value embedded within.
as non-fungible stores of frxETH, stickers have an insane monetary premium and therefore increase the monetary premium of frxETH itself. yield from the frxETH embedded in the sticker protocol is automatically redistributed amongst participants and stakeholders by the protocol.
stickers are an adhesive art form—a unique medium of creativity and social expression—that helps the p2p web stick together.
in a perfect world we’d like to launch the stickers protocol at a conference like ETH Denver with the following experience: attendees onboard using our mobile-optimized PWA and receive many duplicate editions of a single sticker from the genesis sticker pack. they’re then incentivized to trade between other attendees to collect the full set:
users scan another’s QR code to open a trading interface between each other where they can swap stickers in real-time (imagine dragging and dropping a sticker at the top of your device where a wormhole catches it and teleports it to the other person — they receive it moments later and the new sticker places itself gently into their collection).
assembling a full set of the genesis pack also grants them an event-exclusive set of stickers that will surely be a massive flex in the future. all gas will be sponsored and account-abstracted away for the world’s smoothest experience.
one of the many matts—the guy with the NFT-dispensing chip embedded into his hand—will have some matt-specific stickers to give away to those who meet him IRL.