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Conception of Vapor

As you may remember from my previous posts and my participation in a WhaleTank hangout, I've been planning this and developing this alongside my partner Hive account@bluemux. This came into my mind when I came across several payment processors in the Philippines, and I thought of emphasizing the payments use-case of Steem, most especially due to its 0 transaction fees and fast block-timing. After consulting several steem community bigshots, code documentation and Hive account@bluemux, we moved from v0.1 to v0.2 in a span of 2 weeks and are now already moving towards a working application.

What is Vapor?

• Vapor is a mobile Steem/SBD POS (Point-of-Sale) to cater to merchants through both online and brick-and-mortar shops
• Vapor is a mobile Steem/SBD wallet made with user experience in mind
• Vapor is a proof of concept for a mobile multi-cryptocurrency merchant wallet
• Vapor is a revival and modification of the old SteemPay web app

Goals

We want Vapor to not only be a reliable service, but also as a testing ground for several features for our upcoming mobile app that will work through the Bitshares blockchain. We want to develop our application as user-friendly as possible to cater to non tech-savvy users, but at the same time as functional as an interface to the blockchain can be.

About

The Philippines is a third-world country with a large chunk of the population being unbanked, however 90% of the country has a smart-phone capable of apps. We want to take advantage of this by capitalizing on the revolution on technology and spearhead financial tech in the Philippines by providing low merchant fees and no transaction fees made possible by the Steem Blockchain.

At the moment our founding and working team consists of 2, me, Hive account@emerge, and Hive account@bluemux. Both my partner and I have technical backgrounds in the Philippines are deeply rooted in the startup industry in the country. Soon, during the later phase of the project(s), we will be on-boarding serial entrepreneur and investor Howie Ross Valino into our team for Business Development and many more to come.

Special Thanks

I'd like to mention my friend Hive account@officialfuzzy and his BeyondBitcoin and WhaleTank and Whaleshares mumble and discord hangouts, the BEYONDBITS used to power and pay for costs and Hive account@bluemux's living :P , and everyone who's supported me and listened to me during the times I made announcements and teasers. Also many thanks to Hive account@xeroc for the Piston library and Hive account@alexpmorris for code consultations. Thanks also to STEEMPH and STEEMGIGS for the support, and Hive account@pnc for that random but much appreciated 5 STEEM donation! (we got to do a lot of testing with it! :P)!

I'd also like to thank Hive account@malicered for graphic design consultation and the current work he's putting on for our future app's logo.

Vapor and Abono

ABONO is a whale token using Bitshares that we will be using for our upcoming Steem account and meant to be used as a rewards token later on in the future through our flagship application Abono. (merchant discounts, gift cards and several other planned rewards through the merchant application)

Screenshots

Using Expo React, here are some screenshots we made from within the app!

Please Upvote, Resteem and Share to all your friends to support Vapor and Abono!