VePress

eChain powered CMS/SNS with Smart Contract Extensions

Next-Gen OSS Content Management System

Powered by VeChain

VePress is powered by the VeChainThor blockchain and compatible with Sync and Comet. All you need to get started is one of connex compatible clients and VePress will recognize your VeChain address as your user account.

Open-source CMS/SNS

VePress will replace the backend servers and DB systems used by the old-fashioned CMS such as Drupal and Wordpress with blockhain and serverless technology. Node.js, React, Firebase (GCP) are what powers the non-blockchain part of VePress.

Monetize with Social Tipping

VePress integrates social tipping with the platform, so you can easily monetize your content in a new way. You write an articles and with a few clicks, others can directly tip you in the article using VET, VTHO and other VIP180 tokens.

Decentralized Network

VePress won't be just a single centralized node SNS platform. Shortly it will be fully open-sourced, thus anybody will be able to contribute and start their own node but still interconnected via VeChain blockchain. We will also provide a fully managed SaaS for non-techy users in the future.

Import from Other Platforms

In addition to creating and posting original contents on VePress, it will let you import your contents from other platforms such as Wordpress, Youtube, Twitter and other blockchain-based CMS/SNS like Steemit. You will be able to monetize all your contents regardless of where on the web they were originally uploaded.

Extensible with Smart Contracts

VePress will be extensible with smart contracts and it will give developers unlimited ways to enhance VePress functionalities with trustless operations. "Campaign" is one such example, with which you can pool VET for the prize to win and the smart contract will automatically calculate entries and distributes the prizes according to your preferred settings.

SUPPORTED TOKENS

VET (VeChain)

VTHO

OCE (OceanEx)

PLA (Plair)

SHA (SafeHaven)

DBET (DecentBet)

TIC (TicTalk)

VET+

YEET

SMART CONTRACT EXTENSIONS

Campaign Contract

The Campaign Contract can be used to run trustless contests or events where you want to pool VET to automatically distribute at the end of the campaign period.

Ticket Contract

The Ticket Contract can be used to buy and sell any forms of service on the platform. With this contract, you can have paid articles or subscripton srvices, e-commerce feature etc.

Pluggable Smart Contracts

VePress will make it possible to plug arbitrary VeChainThor smart contracts into the platform so we can utilize unlimited extensibility of CMS. A smart contract marketplace is on the horizon!

ROAD MAP / MILESTONES

Foundation & MVP

The VePress project was loosely started in mid Feburuary, 2019, and participated VeChain Development Challenge hoping to get supports from the VeChain community and the foundation.

PROMOTIONAL CONTEST

Since this is an SNS platform project, once we gain some financial support, we will run a promotional contest using a portion of the fund from the Dev Challenge. The VePress team has a strong social background in Japan, so we are expecting to form a community with multi hundred enthusiasts.

SMART CONTRACT VALIDATION

Even though we've already deployed our first smart contract extention "Campaign", it is still supposed to be in alpha and needs many improvements. So we will run thorough tests on the contract and upgrade it to a production ready contract.

MISC TODOS

As this version of VePress is an MVP, we have so many small todos (fix bugs, improve UX, add missing features) to work on. Before we open source the project, we will refactor the code and test as much as reasonable.

OPEN SOURCE PROJECT

At some point shortly, we will open source the whole project to accelerate the development cycle with the open source community. We will try utilizing bounty hunging model with VET token. Open-sourcing VePress will also let anybody run the same platform for free so it's expected to massively expand the community base.

MPP SUPPORT

To spread the token economy to the mass, it is crucial to lower the barrier for the entry. To do that, we will utilize the VeChain's original MPP feature and create a refferal program so people who have no VET/VTHO can easily join the platform with small sponsorships. This will also accelerate the expansion of the community if done right in a shape of a smart-contract-driven campaign.

IMPORT FROM OTHER PLATFORMS

We don't believe in the confinment of personal contents in a single platform. Instead, our contents shoud be free to be imported and exported among many platforms. So we will create a way to import contents into VePress platform and let users monetize them as long as the contents belong to the right owners. We are strong advocates of the Web3 data economy.

SMART CONTRACT DRIVEN TICKETING SYSTEM

For our second pluggable smart contract, we will build a ticketing system where you can purchise a ticket and later use it for a variety of services provided by other users. For one, users will be able to sell their articles if a blockchain record of a ticket purchise is the only key to unlock the articles for viewing

PLUGGABLE SMART CONTRACTS

In the early stage, we will create and integrate our own smart contracts with VePress such as "Campaign" and "Ticketing". Then we will also make it possible for anyone to plug their own smart contracts into VePress so what developers can achieve with VePress will become unlimited.

#10

SMART TICKET BASED MARKETPLACE

E-Commerce marketplace apps are often built with a CMS just like VePress. With VeChain, tokens and our smart-contract-driven ticketing system, it is not going to be much hard to build a new type of marketplace apps all powered by blockchain. And this is where VePress starts to seek a way to integrate with one of the core value of VeChain, which is tracability in the supply chain.

#11

IPFS INTEGRATION

For the original contents uploaded to VePress, we are relying on the Google Cloud Platform for now since anybody can use it for free if the size of the project is relatively small. In the later stage, we would like to store the original contents onto IPFS as it works as a massively scalable permanent storage.

#12

INTEGRATE TOKEN CREATION

We will make it possible to easily issue VIP180 tokens on the VePress UI so platform owners can create their own token economy which will be interconnected with other VeChain projects via blockchain. We believe forming many domain specific child communities who share the same parent VeChain community will shape a strong foundation for the VeChain ecosystem.

#13

ISSUE VIP180 VEPRESS TOKEN

We will also issue our own VIP180 token to incentivize and accelerate the community activities. We will create a scheme for contribution based governance and write a whitepaper for it.

#14

LAUNCH SAAS PLATFORM

Even after open-sourcing the whole code, there will still be a major part of the society who cannot use VePress as they like, especially non developers. We will launch a fully managed and paid (with VET!) SaaS platform where anybody can run a customized VePress. This will be one way for us to monetize this project.

THREE WAYS TO RUN VePress

No matter how you run VePress, all the VePress nodes will be interconnected on the VeChainThor blockchain. That is the beauty of this ecosystem!

VePress.org (Free)

You are right on it! VePress.org is the center of our VePress community! You can simply login and post articles using Sync or Comet on this site. It will be forever free for all members of VeFam.

Deploy OSS VePress (Free)

So you want to run your own VePress just like VePress.org? We hear you! We are working hard to open source the entire project so anybody can run their own VePress node.

VePress SaaS (Paid)

What if I can't do all the OSS setup myself? No worries! We plan to launch fully managed VePress as a service. It'll be a paid service, but you can have your own Vepress without any hassle.

TEAM

Our team consists of a muti-award winning engineer, a social influencer in the crypto universe, and 35+ potential contributers in our dev community. We are also the core members of one of the most enthusiastic crypto communities in Japan. We have a dev base in Berlin, Germany but a strong community base in the Japanese social media.

OCRYBIT

10+ years Software Engineer

Million Rabbit

Hacker / Social Icon

Hacker's Club

35+ Dev Community

Compatible with Sync & Comet