A decentralized commons to unite and unlock the value of online forums, creating trust and fostering great discussions
Identity
Reputation
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Tokenization
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Despite the popularity of centralized social networks such as Facebook and Reddit, Online Forums continue to thrive, but still have challenges.
Tapatalk bootstrapped forum adoption with just 22 forums at launch. Now over 200,000 forums have installed Tapatalk software and are participating in the combined network.
Tapatalk started as a mobile app reader for forums, Tapatalk built a unified Forum API that is now installed in over 200,000 forums.
Alexa.com estimates the Tapatalk Network of 200,000 forums has over six billion monthly page views with over 400 million registered users.
Just 3% of forum members contribute over 80% of new content. Forum activities can be significantly improved with a proper reward system in place.
Over 80% of Online Forum revenue is generated from display advertising, with over 60% of traffic generated from Google search results.
The Forum Industry has under-invested in improving user engagement and retention. Much of the energy has been spent generating more page views (from SEO) and higher ad revenues (primarily AdSense).
Online Forums need a common alliance to share community insights and technology know-how to prevent bad actors and encourage/engage quality users. While maintaining their independence, and user anonymity and privacy.
The Future of Forums will take a nostalgic turn to the original vision of the Internet (Remember NNTP?) via tokenization to make both commercialization and governance possible.
Tokenization of Online Forums can create all sorts of tools for members, moderators and admins to nurture great, engaging content and relationships among participants.
The Forum Commons, will provide truly decentralized governance on matters such as ecosystem seeding, reference implementation, token issuances and more.
A decentralized forum identity solution that will enable users to protect their identity at the same time making it easier to join and sign in to all participating TAPx Forums.
TAPx will create tools for forums to define content reputation and to allow members to carry their reputation across forums.
Local Reputation can be scaled using Forum Score and collected into a Global Content Reputation Score to enable users to build a collective reputation that reflects their efforts and good behavior on all forums across the TAPx network.
Forum Owners can improve engagement and retention by branding the TAPs Token.
Branded Tokens is a sub-token framework to encourage token usage within the forum with ability to fine-tune incentive and usage rules at individual forum level.
Incentive Schemes allow customization at the individual forum level and help forums to improve engagement and retention.
Members rewarded for creating quality content
Moderators rewarded for quality and timely moderation
Marketplace participants rewarded by quality transaction
The TAPx team consists of the original Tapatalk founders & engineers, product experts and forum owners
Founder & CEO Tapatalk
Co-founder & CTO Tapatalk
COO, Tapatalk ex-VP, Yahoo
Zetaboards.com Founder
A team of world-class advisors with the right mix of backgrounds make the TAPx project possible
Founding Partner Floodgate
Co-founder & CEO Civic
Co-founder Stack Exchange
Executive Director The Bitcoin Foundation
Founder and CEO Everipedia
Founder & CEO Crowdgather
Our investors are passionate about Online Forums and have proven track records of identifying the next big idea and helping startups to build great products
Top VC firm in the Silicon Valley with successful exits including Twitter, Lfyt, Cruise Automation
One of the biggest venture fund in China is partnering with Accel Partner to invest in top US startups
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