Ask HN: Thoughts on applying blockchain token features to web/mobile apps?
To help visualize this, imagine a digital concert ticket with blockchain token characteristics. At a basic level, it is now authentic, traceable, and secure. It is on chain. What if you could add app-like features to it, make it do things when someone redeems it at an event? Some tickets could transform into backstage passes with exclusive content and could be considered a collectible. These collectibles are rarer than the tickets themselves and can be sold on an exchange to a “superfan.” You start to see that layering an ordinary ticket with blockchain characteristics greatly enhances its potential.
I would love to open up a discussion to see if anyone had thoughts/ideas on the matter, whether or not they think standard apps could benefit from blockchain?
Full disclosure: I currently work for a company called vAtomic and we have been working with BlockV and their “Virtual Goods” protocol like the one I just described for a few months now.
Take a look at their github if you’re interested: https://github.com/BLOCKvIO/documentation