The Flow World Tour’s next stop is Chiang Mai, where the Edge City Lanna Hackathon will be held from November 2 to 8, 2024. During this event, developers are tasked with creating the next killer app, with a special category focused on social. The Flow team is also connecting with the best in web3 for a series of fireside chats, including:

• Vitalik Buterin, Cofounder of Ethereum, with Dieter Shirley, Cofounder of Flow
• Dan Finlay, Founder of Metamask, with Jeff Doyle, Head of Wallet at Flow
• Matt Hamilton, Senior Developer at Arbitrum, with Dieter Shirley, Cofounder of Flow

At the previous stop in San Francisco, Flow ranked as the top Layer 1 choice for developers, with the Flow app PumpRoyale winning the overall hackathon. Now in Chiang Mai, developers can register and join in a week of workshops with global experts from the Flow Foundation, the Ethereum Foundation, Arbitrum, MetaMask, and more, where they can compete to build the best viral social app on Flow.

Why Social Apps Thrive on Flow

Flow is the ideal network for launching the next wave of viral social apps, integrating with platforms like Telegram and X/Twitter to bring innovative experiences directly to millions of users. 

The only blockchain designed from the ground up for consumer applications, Flow enables mainstream appeal and massive scale at low cost. Great UX is easy on Flow, and the programming environment of Flow is uniquely designed to enable innovative applications in consumer crypto — particularly social apps with killer app potential. 

Flow can scale and handle the huge amounts of data generated by billions of users, an issue that other social blockchain apps struggle to contend with. In addition, Flow makes it easy to onboard users, with features like mobile support that make it simple to set up an account.

The most recent upgrade to Flow connected the network to the liquidity and infrastructure of the wider crypto ecosystem. A social app built on Flow is consumer-ready and interoperable with platforms like Ethereum.

Flow is a robust platform for connecting social applications and consumer crypto. Developers access the sophisticated capabilities of Cadence and complete equivalency with any Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) based chain. This gives EVM apps the benefits of Flow, and devs the ability to mesh Cadence-exclusive features that amplify what their apps can do onchain beyond what EVM chains offer alone.

Social Experiences You Can Build on Flow

Tokenized Communities: Through token-gated access, exclusive groups can reward participants for engagement, content creation, or other valuable activities. Tokenizing creator accounts and content allows for new forms of monetization.

Onchain Social Games: Gamified social apps can reward users for interacting, sharing viral content, or meeting social challenges.

Personalized and Customizable Experiences: Allow users to tweak social algorithms and designs to fully personalize individual experiences or those of their communities. Flow offers attachments, the ability to permissionlessly mod or extend atop a contract, creating new forms of fact checking and personalized layouts.

Social Polling and Governance Apps: Communities can make collective decisions, guide project directions, or clarify contested topics through token-based voting platforms that reward participation and facilitate transparent governance. Use onchain randomness to create decentralized moderation committees that can review flagged content or decide which content to display. 

Content Ownership Networks: Users can retain ownership of their content as onchain assets, opening up avenues for resale and royalties. Create onchain social graphs that allow creators to move their content and communities across platforms seamlessly.

Collaborative Storytelling Platforms: Community-driven storytelling and content platforms where contributors earn merit-based rewards from revenue generated by viral materials.

Shared Media Libraries: Decentralized libraries for sharing content like music or video clips, curated and owned by users. To ensure only authorized users can post, Flow gives developers the tools to set up granular access control.

Social Integrations to Learn from On Flow

With an architecture empowering the rapid scaling successful social apps require, Flow connects social and crypto networks by breaking down barriers to entry for users. For example, a Flow app could be built atop Telegram and accessible to that platform's (billion-plus) users.

Toucan — Setting up and governing a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) can be a daunting task. Toucan makes it simple, allowing anyone to fund and govern a DAO. Toucan allows for Flow subcommunities to thrive, with tools to create a token to help reach fundraising goals, form a coalition to manage funds in a secure multi-signature treasury, and a voting function to decide how to allocate funds alongside community goals. So far 179 DAOs have formed with Toucan, including ALL DAY University, Utah Jazz Legends Club, Ballerz FC, the $LOPPY community, and many more.

CryptoKitties: All the Zen! — The latest CryptoKitties mobile game is integrated as a Telegram MiniApp, allowing millions of daily active users to earn onchain rewards with just a tap. Players can ‘pet the Egg’ to earn ‘Zen,’ an in-game currency, which also accumulates through idle play. Spend Zen strategically to open eggs containing new kitties or to upgrade kitties and accelerate how fast Zen accrues. Connected with Flow wallets, the game allows players to receive onchain rewards based on their in-game activities, making it an accessible entry point to Web3.

Start Building the Future of Social Today

Sign up now to join the Flow World Tour in Chiang Mai on Nov 2nd, 2024, for the Edge City Lanna Hackathon.