Kickstarter plans to move its crowdfunding platform to blockchain.
In a blog post, the company detailed plans to develop a “decentralised crowdfunding protocol” so people can “launch and fund creative projects anywhere” across the web.
Essentially Kickstarter’s core functionality will be made open source and live on a public blockchain hosted by Celo, a carbon-negative public blockchain platform, to allow access for users across the world.
“This openness enables everyone who is interested in the promise of crowdfunding to help build its future and have a say and stake in how it works,” reads the blog post. “Blockchain will also open the potential to be rewarded for contributing to the systems that you use everyday.”