The DCommerce Stack

What Is Boson Protocol?

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of [Boson Protocol](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-boson-protocol).

## What Is Boson Protocol (BOSON)?

Web3's Decentralised Commerce Layer.
Sell physical things as redeemable NFTs, everywhere, online, in-game and in-verse.
We have solved the hard tech problems of tokenizing and twinning physical items, so you can focus on creating innovative Web3 commerce experiences for your customers.
Our no-code, low-cost tools make it easy to tokenize and sell physical products as NFTs everywhere, including your own Web3 store, the Metaverse, or on NFT marketplaces.  
Redemption can be integrated into your own website, giving your brand full control of the customer experience.
With Boson, you can create phygital assets and token-gate purchases, allowing you to effortlessly develop engaging and rewarding digi-physical commerce experiences.
Buyers can redeem the NFT for the physical with the assurance that either they will receive the item or their money back- all without the need to trust intermediaries or sellers, just code and independent dispute resolvers.  Alternatively, Buyers can transfer, gift, trade or hold the NFT - just like any other NFT.
Boson is a groundbreaking technology recognized as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. As a decentralized protocol, Boson is built for the benefit of and governed by its users. Consequently, Boson only charges a minimal 0.5% per transaction protocol fee.

## Who Are the Founders of Boson Protocol?

Justin Banon is the CEO and co-founder of [Boson Protocol](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/boson-protocol/) (BOSON). An experienced entrepreneur, he previously created a [blockchain](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/blockchain) strategy consultancy called Meltfactory and a crypto native rewards platform, Redeemeum. He also formally headed the Travel Experiences Division of Collinson Group, a global loyalty and benefits company.

Boson Protocol’s chief technical officer (CTO) and co-founder is Gregor Borosa, a proficient engineer with a master’s degree in Business Informatics from the University of Ljubljana and an MSc in Digital Currency from the University of Nicosia. He previously worked at the Central Bank of Slovenia as a lead software engineer and served as blockchain technologist at VEVArica s.p.


## What Makes Boson Protocol Unique?

[Boson Protocol](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/boson-protocol/) (BOSON) aims to not only introduce decentralized technology into e-commerce but also to create an open, tokenized economy. The protocol features [ERC-20](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/erc-20) “Thing” tokens that are used to purchase specific, fungible commitment tokens on the platform. Thing tokens are transferred and traded using regular DeFi tools and can help to create liquid digital markets for the corresponding physical assets.

Boson Protocol advocates for the secure, privacy-preserving collection of e-commerce data and incentivizes users by offering them monetary benefits in exchange for voluntary data sharing. The platform utilizes [Ocean Protocol](https://oceanprotocol.com/) to build a Web 3.0. commerce data marketplace, which will help information buyers gain insights into consumer behaviour and carry out in-depth analyses of their business strategy.

Boson’s core mechanism is designed using game theory concepts with the aim of incentivizing honest behaviour among the parties involved in a trade. Built as a type of sequential game, it features a two-sided deposit structure, which automates the resolution of disputes and reduces reversal losses.

The platform is constructed to be community-owned and strives to ensure the fair distribution of control and value. There are three stages for the evolution of governance of the platform going forward: startup, scale-up and [decentralized autonomous organization](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-a-dao) (DAO). At startup phase, Boson is centrally controlled to achieve protocol-market fit. At scale-up, it levies minimally extractive fees to further develop the project. Finally, it will decentralize to establish a DAO and attain full community-led governance. 


## Related Pages:

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive into [Bosun Protocol](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-boson-protocol).

Find out about [Spacelens](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/spacelens/) (SPACE) — the native token for the d-commerce platform Spacelens.

Check out [Safex Token](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/safex-token/) (SFT) — the in-house token of a privacy-focused, open source decentralized marketplace platform called Safex.

Look into [Elysian](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/elysian/) (ELY) — the native token of a blockchain-based platform for online stores called Elysian.


## How Many BOSON Coins Are There in Circulation?


## The total token supply is 200 million [Boson Protocol](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/boson-protocol/) (BOSON). As reported on its official website, the allocation of BOSON tokens is as follows: 



* 43.4% allocated as network rewards 
* 25% held by the founders and team 
* 11.5 % set aside for SAFE and SAFT private sales 
* 7% given to early investors
* 5% assigned to advisers
* 5.1% devoted to pre-sale 
* 3% distributed through public sale


## How Is the Boson Protocol Network Secured?

[Boson Protocol](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/boson-protocol/) (BOSON) is an ERC-20 token deployed on the [Ethereum](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/) (ETH) [mainnet](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/mainnet).


## When Will BOSON Trading Begin?

The first [Boson Protocol](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/boson-protocol/) (BOSON) token sale took place in April 2021.


## Can BOSON Hit $10?

The price of [Boson Protocol](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/boson-protocol/) (BOSON) jumped from a $0.75 starting price to $5.3319 shortly after the token’s release. In November 2021, as Boson Protocol was launched on its mainnet, the token’s price began showing positive growth dynamics yet again. Taking into account that the project continues to actively develop, BOSON has a decent chance of maintaining this price uptrend with the delivery of its future goals.


## Where Can You Buy BOSON?

[Boson Protocol](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/boson-protocol/) (BOSON) is currently available for purchase on the following exchanges: [KuCoin](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/kucoin/), [Gate.io](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/gate-io/), [Bittrex](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/bittrex/), [Bitfinex](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/bitfinex/), [MEXC](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/mxc/), [Crypto.com Exchange](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/crypto-com-exchange/), [LBank](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/lbank/), [Uniswap (V3)](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/uniswap-v3/), [FMFW.io](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/bitcoin-com-exchange/) (Bitcoin.com Exchange), [CoinEx](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/coinex/), [Hoo](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/hoo/), [AEX](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/aex/), [Hotbit](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/hotbit/), [HitBTC](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/hitbtc/), [Hotcoin Global](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/hotcoin-global/), [CoinW](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/coinw/), [ZT](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/zt/) and [Jubi](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/jubi-exchange/). 

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Boson Protocol

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Web3's decentralized Commerce Layer. Sell physical products as NFTs, everywhere #RWAs as #NFTs

Join the community: https://discord.gg/bosonprotocol

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Propchain

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Axelar claims to deliver “secure cross-chain communication for Web3.” The project provides a decentralized network and tools to help builders of decentralized applications (dApps) with seamless cross-chain communication through its protocol suite, tools and APIs.

Axelar features three core components – a decentralized network, a software development kit of protocols and APIs, and a set of gateway smart contracts for cross-chain connectivity.

Powered by a decentralized network of validators, anyone can join the network, build on it, or use it. Apps builders can interact with a simple API atop a permissionless network that routes messages and ensures network security via proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism.

AXL is the native token of the Axelar network. The protocol also supports the cross-chain transfer of several native tokens via their wrapped ERC-20 versions, including AVAX (Avalanche), ETH (Ethereum), FTM (Fantom), GLMR (Moonbeam), and MATIC (Polygon).

Meanwhile, Axelar has raised capital from top-tier investors, including Binance, Coinbase Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, Polychain Capital and others.

Axelar

Dusk

Centrifuge is a decentralized asset financing protocol. It connects decentralized finance (DeFi) with real-world assets (RWA) while trying to lower the cost of capital for small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs) and provide investors with a stable source of income. The main goal of the project is to generate profits that are not tied to volatile crypto assets; the developers are pursuing the task of transferring real monetary value from fiat to cryptocurrencies.

Companies are using Centrifuge to access the liquidity that DeFi has to offer. They can tokenize real assets and use these tokens as collateral to access financing through Tinlake, a decentralized application (DApp) lending protocol. The Centrifuge blockchain is built on Polkadot (DOT) for speed and low fees, while its financial DApp Tinlake is built to access Ethereum (ETH) liquidity.

Centrifuge provides liquidity to everyone and investors receive income and rewards in the form of CFG tokens. Centrifuge links assets such as invoices, real estate and royalties with decentralized finance (DeFi). Additionally, borrowers benefit from the fact that they can finance their real assets without banks or other intermediaries.

Centrifuge

Verasity is an open-ledger ecosystem designed to fight advertising fraud, provide open access to infrastructure for publishers and advertisers, and reward users for watching video content. Verasity also provides payment solutions and a rewarding staking ecosystem with 15% yields guaranteed through to April 2024.

Powered by a mix of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and cutting-edge blockchain technologies, Verasity is building the most powerful advertising ecosystem in the world through VeraViews; developing an open-access payments platform through VeraWallet, the VeraCard, and VeraPay; and enhancing the attention economy through its patented Rewarded Video module.

Verasity

Ocean Protocol

Maple

LTO Network has established itself as Europe’s leading blockchain with strong real-world usage. It was founded on B2B enterprise solutions such as decentralized workflows, data & document verification and authentication. In 2021, LTO Network’s COBALT mainnet update expanded this solid base with the addition of Decentralized Identifiers (DID) and Verifiable Credentials (VC), putting LTO Network on the road of becoming a true layer-1 blockchain. In turn, Decentralized Identities and Verifiable Credentials are at the core of LTO Network’s newest focus; NFT2.0 technology, where people truly own and manage their NFTs in a decentralized way.

By utilizing its hybrid (2-layer) approach, LTO Network is natively GDPR compliant. This ensures easy compliance for companies around the world with ever-increasing privacy laws. Because of this, LTO Network enables developers and businesses to build Privacy Aware Decentralized Apps (PADA) and offers many unique opportunities for projects to explore.

Immediate plans for LTO Network include NFT2.0, decentralized identities/verifiable credentials driving KYC, expansions on already established projects and much more.

LTO Network

OriginTrail is an ecosystem building a trusted knowledge infrastructure for artificial intelligence. It addresses the challenge of misinformation in the AI era by ensuring the origin of information and enabling discoverability of the world's most important knowledge and real world assets (RWAs).

OriginTrail is creating a Verifiable Web for decentralized AI by empowering world class brands and builders. It utilizes its unique Decentralized Knowledge Graph and OriginTrail Parachain to deliver AI-powered search and solutions for enterprises and individuals worldwide.

OriginTrail has gained support and partnerships with world-class organizations such as British Standards Institution, SCAN, Polkadot, Parity, Walmart, World Federation of Hemophilia, Oracle, and the EU Commission's Next Generation Internet. These partnerships contribute to advancing OriginTrail's trusted knowledge foundation and its applicability in trillion-dollar industries, while providing a verifiable web of knowledge important in particular to drive the economies of RWAs.

The best way to see the technology in action is by checking ChatDKG, which is an experimental, question answering bot on X (Twitter) based on trusted Knowledge Assets in OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph. The ChatDKG provides answers based on OriginTrail trusted AI.

The Metcalfe phase of the updated roadmap pursues an ambitious goal of creating the world’s largest verifiable web for AI consisting of 100 billion Knowledge Assets, bringing a 100.000x scalability increase. As the name of the phase suggests, it will seek to produce network effects across the OriginTrail DKG and use novel techniques to pursue autonomous DKG growth based on the genesis knowledge foundation being created by organizations and individuals alike. The genesis part of the Metcalfe’s phase also introduces knowledge mining and knowledge signaling capabilities to drive constant growth of the Verifiable Web.

Following the Genesis stage and the transition to an AI-native V8, further capabilities will become available in the Convergence stage. By leveraging the advancements in AI and the DKG, we will unlock autonomous knowledge mining which in turn leads to an autonomous DKG. At that stage, new knowledge gets added to the DKG with very limited human involvement. Services such as AI agents will be performing knowledge inferencing directly on the DKG to find any “blind spots” in the knowledge they can fill as well as search for new knowledge and bring it to the DKG in accordance with knowledge signaling.

OriginTrail

Nakamoto Games

Oasis is the pioneering layer 1 blockchain designed to enable scalability and confidential compute. Oasis is home to Sapphire, the first confidential EVM that empowers Web3 and Decentralized AI developers to build dApps with Smart Privacy natively on Oasis or other EVM-based chains.

ROSE is the native token of the Oasis Network used for gas fees, staking, delegation and governance. With a unique layered architecture, Oasis presents the optimal building and execution environment for DeFi, AI, GameFi, NFTs, the metaverse, data tokenization and DAO governance. Oasis also has native support for rollups at the consensus layer.

Oasis

Covalent leverages big-data technologies to create meaning from hundreds of billions of data points, delivering actionable insights to investors and allowing developers to allocate resources to higher-utility goals within their organization.

Instead of painstakingly sourcing data from a small handful of chains, Covalent aggregates information from across dozens of sources including nodes, chains and data feeds. The Covalent API then sources end-users with individualized data by wallet, including current and historical investment performance across all types of digital assets. Most importantly, Covalent returns this data in a rapid and consistent manner, incorporating all relevant data within one API interface.

Having achieved product-market fit, we are now planning to execute the next phase of Covalent, which is a progressive decentralization that will enable the Covalent Network to be owned and operated by its users. Of course, a critical piece to this is CQT.

CQT is the native token of the Covalent Network. It has three primary purposes:

CQT is a governance token, whereby token holders vote on proposals to change the system parameters.

CQT is a staking asset. Validators will earn fees for answering queries.

CQT is a network access token that fulfills data queries for users of the API.

Developer resources include:

Covalent Knowledge Base for extensive guides on how to use the Covalent API. 

Covalent API Documentation.

Covalent

Reserve Rights (RSR) is an ERC-20 token that will serve two main purposes for the Reserve Protocol: overcollateralization of Reserve stablecoins (RTokens) through staking and governing them through proposing & voting on changes to their configuration.

The Reserve Rights (RSR) token was launched in May 2019 following a successful initial exchange offering (IEO) on the Huobi Prime platform.

Reserve Rights

Kadena is a proof-of-work blockchain that combines the PoW consensus mechanism from Bitcoin with directed acyclic graph (DAG) principles to offer a scalable version of Bitcoin. Kadena claims it can provide the security of Bitcoin while being able to offer unparalleled throughput that makes the blockchain usable to enterprises and entrepreneurs alike. Kadena's unique infrastructure is decentralized and built for mass adoption because of its multi-chain approach.

Kadena promises industrial scalability that can support global financial systems and can be scaled as necessary. It also vows to remain energy-efficient at scale and deliver more transactions with the same energy input, another difference to Bitcoin. Moreover, Kadena offers crypto gas stations, which allow businesses to pay for their customers' gas fees and remove a massive pain point in adopting blockchains for business.

Kadena has already scaled its network from 10 to 20 blockchains and can do so again in the future, if necessary. This final addition to Kadena was its private Kuro layer-two blockchain, which supports up to 8,000 transactions per second across 500 nodes.

Kadena

Ultra is a publishing platform and ecosystem for video games and video game content. Ultra’s mission is to do away with the current monopoly held by publishing platforms like Steam and provide new opportunities to game developers, players, and influencers. Ultra promises a solution that is more equitable to players and developers alike. Players can benefit from immediately playable games, earn UOS by using the platform, and access platform-exclusive games. At the same time, developers benefit from access to more effective marketing tools and the potential for 20% higher sales revenue.

Besides content and game publishing, Ultra offers a demand-side and service-side platform for advertisers, the opportunity for players to resell their used games, and a platform-exclusive app.

Wilder World

TrueFi

Bloktopia is a decentralized metaverse backed by and built on Polygon. In Bloktopia, a decentralized virtual reality skyscraper made up of 21 levels (as recognition to 21 million Bitcoin) acts as a central hub for users to have access to crypto information and immersive content in one place. The so-called Bloktopias can educate themselves in the basics or more advanced crypto learnings, earn revenue by owning virtual real estate, play games, build networks and more. Moreover, advertisers and sponsors can monetize the platform’s userbase through a dedicated NFT mechanism. By providing a VR experience for the crypto community, users can engage in an immersive environment according to Bloktopia’s four core pillars: learn, earn, play and create.

Bloktopia

AIOZ Network

Router Protocol

Orion is a suite of decentralized finance (DeFi) trading products with instant access to aggregated centralized and decentralized exchange liquidity to provide users with real-time best asset prices in a seamless trading experience. Orion offers the non-custodial equivalent of a DEX with access to the best priced liquidity in the world, empowering people with financial responsibility on a global scale.