Kickstarter plans to develop new distributed protocol & migrate services

Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has announced plans to develop an open source distributed protocol and migrate services on top of the protocol.

The Future of Crowdfunding Creative Projects — Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/articles/the-future-of-crowdfunding-creative-projects?ref=section-articles-lets-build-whats-next-for-crowdfunding-creative-projects-article-body

Let's Build What's Next for Crowdfunding Creative Projects — Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/articles/lets-build-whats-next-for-crowdfunding-creative-projects

Kickstarter is a long-established crowdfunding platform established in 2009, and well-known products such as VR goggles 'Oculus Rift ' and action game ' Shenmue III ' have been funded by Kickstarter so far.

Such Kickstarter announced on December 9, 2021 'a plan to develop a distributed protocol that operates services on the blockchain and migrate the core functions of Kickstarter to that protocol'. According to Kickstarter, the distributed protocol to be developed will be open source and can be used by collaborators and competitors around the world. In addition, protocol development will be led by a newly established independent organization. Kickstarter says, ' You've probably heard of protocols like HTTP used to browse websites and SMTP used to send and receive email. These protocols make up the invisible infrastructure of the Internet. Imagine it, 'he said, highlighting that the distributed protocol to be developed will be a basic protocol like HTTP and SMTP.

In addition, Kickstarter said, 'Kickstarter.com is built on a distributed protocol. But the user's Kickstarter experience doesn't change. You can't see the protocol, but you can benefit from its improvements.' He emphasizes that Kickstarter's usability doesn't change after the move to a distributed protocol.

In addition to the organization responsible for developing distributed protocols, it has been announced that an organization responsible for strengthening governance will be established. The representative of the governance organization will be Camille Cannon , the founder of The Purpose Foundation, a specialized organization for governance models.

In the announcement, Kickstarter said, 'We will release the details of the protocol technology and development plan in the next few weeks,' and the future trend is drawing attention.