¶ Galaxis: Build Your Unstoppable Community
¶ The Problem: Communities Held Hostage
Currently, centralized platforms have unreasonable power over creators and communities. Not because of the services they provide, but because they hold the communities hostage. If a creator gets deplatformed, they lose access to their own community.
Web2 platforms offer really useful services: they excel in aggregating and distributing information. They excel in scaling. When a creator choses a Web2 community management platform, they are looking for those attributes.
But they pay a much higher price than the often 30% fee that the platform imposes on them. The price is that they are not building their own communities – they are building a community for the platform.
So instead of
Creator ←→ Community
It is
Creator ←→ Web2 Platform ←→ Community
The community belongs to the platform, and they simply allow the creator of that community to access their own community. But that access can be revoked at any time.
¶ Enter Galaxis: The Community Ownership Platform
Galaxis fixes this by allowing creators to create unstoppable communities, and separating membersip in a community from communication channels. We call Galaxis communities "unstoppable", because after they are created, no 3rd party can shut them down. Seriously, not even us, Galaxis. This is achieved by the use of Web3 technologies, a decentralized, modular architecture, microservices and Galaxis Engines.
With Galaxis, the structure is much clearer:
Creator ←→ Community
Creator ←→ Web2 Platform 1 ←→ Platform Users
Creator ←→ Web2 Platform 2 ←→ Platform Users
Creator ←→ Web2 Platform 3 ←→ Platform Users
The Creator and the community is directly and inseparably connected, and Web2 communication platforms become much easier to replace. they don't have control over the community any longer, and they get paid for the service provided. As they should.
Galaxis aims to detach communities from centralized platforms
¶ Unbreakable Connection, Value and Support
Galaxis gives the Community Creator and the Community full ownership over Connection, Value and Support.
¶ Connection
The Community Creator can always reach the community members, regardless of what other platforms they are using. This is achieved by the issuance of Community Membership Cards. The Cards are digital objects (technically hyper-utilized NFTs). The issuance and utilization is controlled by the Community Creator, and the Cards are owned by the Community Members. This creates an unbreakable bond between them.
¶ Value
The Community Creator can always give value to the community members, regardless of what other channels they are using. (And regardless of what "value" means in your community.)
This can be done in many ways.
- Via the Membership Cards, the Community Creator can directly give Badges that can carry value: access, privileges, ownership of digital and physical items, perks, and utilities. The Cards can carry all of these and provide value to their owners.
- Via the Vaults. The Community Creator can use the Vaults to sell or distribute items to the Community Members.
- Via Engagements & Gamification. Stickerbooks and other built-in engagement methods provide value to Community Members.
¶ Support
The community members can support the creator, no matter what. Via the built-in Community Economy, the members can support the Community Creator by traditional means like monthly subscriptions, but also by purchasing items from vaults and by royalties on the secondary markets.
All of these are deployed to each community separately and owned by the Community Creator and the Community.
¶ The Architecture
The Galaxis Platform consists of the following major parts:
- Mission Control
- Membership Cards
- Community Space
The Mission Control is the Admin Interface that can deploy the different Modules to the two user facing interfaces: the Membership Cards and the Community Space.
The Membership Card interface provides the UI to interact with one’s membership card NFT (redeem perks, interact with traits etc) while the Community Space provides the UI that enables interaction and engagement between community members.
¶ Mission Control
Watch it in operation here
The Mission Control is the admin interface where the community owner can manage their community. In order to create a Mission Control for a new community, a Launch key token has to be used. Once a launch key is used, it gets burned and can’t be used to create multiple communities.
The Mission Control comes with a set of tools that enables the creator to manage their community:
- Token Architect
- Utility Trait manager
- Sticker Books
- Forges
- Governance
- Treasury
The Token Architect (watch the video here) is a tool to design and issue Community Membership Cards.
The Token Architect’s simple web interface handles everything from uploading images, creating layers, combinations, managing rarities, etc. It can build Community Membership Cards with multiple sides, add dynamic features like videos, sound and interactions that affect the visuals of the Cards.
Create your own project page in minutes; Token Architect Live version for Tokaido Cats
Create randomly generated cards; Token Architect Live version for Tokaido Cats 1
Create randomly generated cards; Token Architect Live version for Tokaido Cats 2
Step-by-step live preview for everything you do; Galaxis Live version for Tokaido Cats
Easily manage your sales, create custom whitelist and token sales in minutes; Token Architect Live version for Tokaido Cats
The Utility Trait Manager (watch the video here) is a modular system that lets the Community Owner add Perks with functions and utilities to the Community Membership Cards.
Perks are one of the cornerstones within the Galaxis Platform. By providing utilities that bring value to the specific community, the Community Membership Cards can be elevated from pure speculation devices to being valued by their utilities instead.
Furthermore, well-selected utilities will provide value way beyond monetary value, and can help a group of people to grow into a real community. For example a personalized Autograph or an online meeting from an artist may not elevate the monetary value of the NFT, but could add significant emotional value to the owner.
Well-selected Perks help to grow direct human connections not only between the community creator and their community, but also between the community members as well.
Create and deploy Real Life Utilities (UTC Live version of Tokaido Cats Community)
Distribute and manage any trait with a mouse click (UTC Live version of Tokaido Cats Community)
Sticker Books turn any membership card series into a digital collectible game that can create instant and sustained engagement by the community members.
Screenshot from Live GRD collectibles
Forges enable the combination and crafting of membership cards, based on the rules set by the Creator.
Governance makes it easy to deploy DAO-like features, including community voting.
Treasury creates a simple, transparent way to handle funds within the community, for the benefit of both the creator and the community members.
¶ The Membership Cards
The membership Cards are the digital tokens that provide features, function and ownable value to the community members. It can be redeemable physical items, meetings, access to web interfaces and resources, perks, badges and discounts – anything that makes sense for the particular community that issued the membership cards.
The card and its perks are fully owned by the holding community member – it can be used, sold, gifted or destroyed by the owner, just like a physical object.
The Membership Card provides all the interfaces necessary to interact, redeem and enjoy the perks stored on the blockchain.
Membership card example: Investment Club (Screenshot from Live version of Investment Club Community)
- Physical Redeemables
- Digital Redeemables
- Online Meetings
- Autographs
- Badges
Physical Redeemable Perks enable the owner of the Community Membership Card to redeem a physical object. For an artists’ community, it can be a piece of art, for a basketball player it can be a jersey, and for a movie it could be a prop from one of the scenes, or other memorabilia.
The Perk data is on-chain and once the object is redeemed it gets updated, so no physical object can be redeemed more than once.
See your perks on your cards, claim your perks directly from your wallet (Screenshots from GRD Wallet)
Digital Redeemable Perks are non-fungible tokens that can be redeemed from one’s Community Membership Card. They can be other membership cards, licenses (to own music or literature), access to other systems.
This is an effective way to give airdrops for a community and to distribute new works of an artist among the existing community members.
The Online Meeting Perk is another utility that helps create human connections within a community. The owner of the Community Membership Card with an Online Meeting perk can select a predefined date and time to have a meeting with the issuer of the trait.
So a fan can meet the artist, actor or athlete who created the community. This can provide an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for someone to meet their object of admiration and talk with them directly.
Online Meeting Perks essentially enable people to monetize their time effectively.
Autograph Perks are simple — if you have one on your Community Membership Card, you can send a message to the issuer and claim it. The issuer – usually an artist or a celebrity – will see your message and can hand-sign something on their tablet. This hand-signed autograph and/or message then will be superimposed on the front of your Community Membership Card.
A secure and easy way for artists to sign their artwork (after someone claims an Autograph trait). Screenshot from GRD Utility Trait Center
A secure way to claim your perks (Screenshots from GRD Live version)
¶ Badges
Badges are Perks that don’t have a claimable function, but their existence can enable the Community Membership Card owner to access some resources. This can be a discount, a VIP chat room, or a members only game in the Community Space. Badges are also used to grant roles and permissions in the community – for example moderators and treasurers are identified by badges.
¶ The Community Space
While the Membership Card interface provides access to all the perks on the Card, the Community Space Interfaces enable interaction and engagement between community members.
The Community Space is a web-based, modular, tokengated safe environment that is dedicated to a specific community.
It comes with its own chat rooms, marketplace, video streaming, gaming and other engagement tools.
The Community Space is designed to be private. The community members don’t have to provide any personal info, not even username or password. All they need is a Community Membership Card from that particular community.
Your Marketplace, Your environment, Your rules (Testnet version of GRD Marketplace, deployed with Mission Control)
¶ Battle Royale
The Battle Royale is the first battle game implemented by Galaxis. The game is based on your Community Card’s visual traits. The Community Owner or Managers can easily set up this game by deploying it, configure the visual trait mapping to hero stats, like Race, Attack, Defense, Critical, Evasion, HP and other values. This way Community Members will get a set of unique heroes, all based on their Community Cards, and are able to play PVP battles and Tournament Battles against each other.
Community Owners and Managers are able to set up instant and round based Tournaments for their communities, with special rewards of their choice. Tournament registration can be for everyone or based on a special Perk the Community Member must own and burn to register.
Screenshots of Testnet version of Battle Royale game
¶ The Economy
Galaxis’s economy was designed for a single goal: to create sustainable communities and projects.
Galaxis provides numerous ways for content creators to create engagement and to incentivize their community to support the project.
The GALAXIS token was designed to grow in value as the platform’s adoption grows.
The Galaxis economy is the combination of 3 distinct activities:
- Community Economy
- The SAAS Model
- Tokenomics & Market Making
All three activities were modeled out and designed to create growing value for the GALAXIS token.
Short descriptions of the three parts follows, with detailed descriptions below.
The Community Economy is the largest and most important driver of value. The more communities onboard, the more valuable the token becomes.
- Community Economy includes, but not limited to:
- Community members signing up for higher tiers of memberships
- Community members buying perks, upgrades, content and IP from Creator.
- Royalties on the secondary markets in the Community Marketplace
- Community Staking and its benefits
The SAAS Model has three major parts:
- Galaxis (or other providers) providing custom development and new features for specific clients. Most of the new features will be rolled into the platform.
- Galaxis (or other providers) providing hosting for communities.
- Galaxis providing a white labeled version of the Galaxis ecosystem for other metacommunities.