PageDAO was founded in 2021 by a community of Web3 enthusiasts who wanted better-quality publishing tools for use on Web3 payment rails. Three years later, the concepts have taken on a life of their own. Numerous teams work quietly together on a handful of objectives calculated to change the very course of the publishing industry. These teams use the $PAGE token to distribute value to reward the people doing the work in a trustless, coordination-oriented way. The present job of the DAO is to build a technology system, a community, and a value network for transacting assets.
Over the years, PageDAO has built various technology stacks and platforms, each emphasizing different features in decentralized publishing. Readme Books features a Polygon NFT-gated minter and beautiful flipbooks the whole world can read for free from the web browser. Readme Books are decentralized assets, meaning there’s no website that users need to use to access their content. These assets are also tradable on OpenSea and other marketplaces via the Polygon blockchain. Readme 2.0 launched in 2023, offering gated assets to secure content and emphasizing the user's need to purchase the work to view it.
Now that it's 2024, PageDAO is releasing an entirely new technology stack built with Secret Network's assistance, guidance, and encryption. Leveraging technologies ranging from ThirdWeb to Lit Protocol and Dynamic, the new platform is still in the late phases of construction and development, but it already offers users everything the prior instantiations did, as well as a marketplace to facilitate transactions between users on the platform. Due to the level of focus by PageDAO team members over a period of years, the application also incorporates a wide swath of access and linking technologies to enable Web2 accounts to mint assets to Web3 destinations. It even has support for the US dollar as a transaction currency.
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