Introducing ProtoL: bring web3 to life

July 19th, 2022

Imagine your day in 2024

10AM, enter your favorite coffee shop and claim a free cappuccino from your Coffee Lovers membership

2PM: visit the Museum of Modern Art and collect a summer NFT featuring Monet, which could be turned into to a ticket to an exclusive exhibition

When you are back home, with the NFT communities/DAOs tokens you own: you are eligible to a variety of discount opportunities from flight bookings to grocery shoppings.

So you decided to book a flight to Honolulu and take a short break!

If you are interested in the future that we have outlined, please continue reading how this will happen.

An official introduction

Many innovative products have been built since the beginning of Web3: I can trade DAI with ETH through DEX such as Uniswap without any censorship; Turn my writings into a digital collectible that anyone can own and share the future profit. But isn’t it even more exciting if the tokens I own can be used in my daily life?

let’s imagine how web3 will enter our lives, starting from NFT memberships powered by ProtoL.

What is ProtoL

ProtoL is an all-in-one platform for e-commerce stores to build NFT-based coupons & memberships, etc. On the other hand, consumers can seamlessly claim utility NFTs and enjoy discounts & exclusive perks during checkout. Advertising via NFT is the next big trend for the new generation of consumers. It is time to bring e-commerce to Web3.

How does ProtoL work?

Token Distribution: For each brand, build a customized Mint Token storefront and let the customers claim the NFTs without an effort

Utility: NFT holders can apply their NFTs for discounts during checkout or access exclusive products.

Integrations: ProtoL offers rich integrations with existing e-commerce platforms such as Shopify. In addition to that, ProtoL connects with existing CRM tools.

What’s more?

CRM dashboard to directly interact with customers and track NFT membership effectiveness
A Web3 user facinhg landing page for all NFT campaigns and discounts. Discover what’s new in the web3 lifestyle.

Why do we build ProtoL?

To create true real-world utilities for Web3 technologies

In the past crypto cycle, we have seen tremendous innovations in spaces such defi, storage & infrastructures. However, the outreach of Web3 is still limited to the Web3 community itself. For all the infrastructure innovations to be consumed, Web3 has to start serving everyday use cases.

To free small business owners from the platform trap

Currently, businesses & consumers are trapped by the big platforms, and fighting against platform domination is precisely the mission for Web3.

Imagine a hotel brand listed on Bookings.com, it will be charged at least 10-15% fees by the platform. What's worse is that the hotel brand does not truly own the customers(they are bookings.com customers, not the brand's).

However, NFT & Token ownership is platform independent. It is the perfect epitome of the merchant<>consumer relationship. For more details, read the article written by our CTO on the platform.

To reshape business<>consumer relationship

ProtoL transforms and redefines a seller-buyer relationship to a owner-participant one.

Let’s take the example of a coffee shop(you can tell I am a big coffee lover), if the coffee shop issues limited amount NFT membership that can be obtained based on spending: 100 cups for silver 200 cups for gold, 500 cups for platinum(easily achievable by me).

For now, let’s assume the NFT benefits include certain percentage off, eligibility to join the coffee lover communities in my neighborhood and be invited to exclusive coffee tasting events.

Then the relationship between me and the coffee shop would become one of me being an owner/participant versus just as a consumer. I would start caring more about the business and share the beautifully designed 3D NFT membership card on social media and let all my friends to know about it. I would also be able to meet other people who are equally interested in coffee culture through their Discord server.

NFT creates communities and communities would in turn power the business growth.

The future of ProtoL

e-commerce3

We have already seen brands such as bore ape breakfast club that create unique communities centered around NFT. In the foreseeable future, more brands will join forces to launch creative NFT-based membership systems. Let's name this trend e-commerce3 and ProtoL is dedicated to becoming the best tool to help brands achieve this goal.

The entry point for Web3 Lifestyle

As ProtoL onboards more business to the platform, we plan to eventually build the largest decentralized utility NFT service platform and create a universal membership system for our customers.

Just like how Amazon built the Amazon Prime membership, imagine ProtoL one day will issue the ProtoL Legendary NFT membership that allows you to enjoy membership benefits everywhere you shop within our merchant networks.

ProtoL plans to be the entry point for a Web3 Lifestyle and build an interoperable membership system.