Xdata - Owning and monetizing adult content on the web

Part 1 - Proposal Submission (*Mandatory)

Name of Project: Xdata - Owning and monetizing adult content on the web.

Proposal in one sentence:

A user-generated, human-curated social sex video-sharing platform, celebrating real sex as a counterpoint to porn, with the aim of socializing sex – making it easier for everyone to talk about, in order to promote good sexual values and good sexual behavior.

Description of the project and what problem is it solving:

Dealing with censorship is gut-wrenching for the erotic and porn industry content creators, adult creators historically have had problems with censorship, many mainstream payment processors such as PayPal have refused to process transactions from adult businesses, in the process freezing many sex workers’ funds. Sexual content creators have also struggled to maintain a presence on large platforms like Instagram, where they are often subject to shadow-banning and stringent content guidelines. NFT is a way to diversify their revenue streams while simultaneously ensuring their content is not removed from the blockchain but the other problem is that, while for example OpenSea recently allow upload of sexual contents, there’s little work done on age verification protocols to ensure that creators selling nude or lewd NFTs are of age.

There are many negative images about sex and bro culture generally in the world, we thought it was worth offering something that’s more affirmative and sex positive. After all, sex itself isn’t bad—sexual discrimination, harassment, and shaming are.

Grant Deliverables: (Provide us with a check-boxed list of deliverables for the funding provided.)

  • Technical design of the project with complete user flows, wireframes - 38% 0f the DAO funds.

  • Project landing pages to include key CTA, Project description and other important guest pages - 42%% of the DAO funds.

  • Whitelist activation campaigns and Social Media / Community activation efforts - 20% of the DAO funds.

Which category best describes your project? Pick one.

Build / improve applications or integrations to Ocean.

Are you applying for an Earmark? Pick one.

New Project.

What is the final product?:

  • We’re building a pro-sex, pro-porn user-generated, human-curated social sex video-sharing platform, a counterpoint to porn, with the aim of socializing sex – making it easier for everyone to talk about, in order to promote good sexual values and good sexual behavior. We’re what Facebook and Instagram would be if they allowed everyone to socially sexually self-identify and self-express (which sadly, they don’t).

  • We are layering on blockchain payment thereby getting the advantages it provides which includes simplicity, low fees, security, privacy, and greater control of the content.

  • Our model allows the buyers to have ownership of their favorite creator content as a digital token when minted, which they can later sell or allow other membership access.

  • Xdata will be a web based app www.xdata.io with dedicated platform and cross platform apps on App Store, Playstore.

Here are possible “value add” criteria?:

Usage of Ocean: Since we are building an application that allows content creators (Adult content) to produce exclusive videos, we will fork the Ocean marketplace to allow exchange of these content with potential consumers. Being able to allow reusability of the content and with the advantage of privacy, the creators however can decide on these sharing rights as they deem fit, but the control is now decentralized and they get to control sharing and what happens with their data.

Proposal Wallet Address: 0x824403d10E459ac047b6c4A623a707Dedd9D8A62

Have you previously received an OceanDAO Grant? No.

Team Website: www.xdata.io

Discord Handle: Nil

Project lead full name: Amos Steffon

Project lead email: amossteffon2022@gmail.com

Country of Residence: Netherlands

Part 2 - Team

Amos Steffon

I am a graduate of Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne, I have a bachelor’s in Media and Public Communication with a minor in Media Production. I have strong organization skills and I love the process of team building. One thing that my schooling has taught me is that communication is the catalyst for all success in the professional world.

Part 3 - Proposal Details (*Recommended)

Details of the proposal:

  1. Dealing with censorship is gut-wrenching for the erotic and porn industry content creators, adult creators historically have had problems with censorship, many mainstream payment processors such as PayPal have refused to process transactions from adult businesses, in the process freezing many sex workers’ funds. Sexual content creators have also struggled to maintain a presence on large platforms like Instagram, where they are often subject to shadow-banning and stringent content guidelines. NFT is a way to diversify their revenue streams while simultaneously ensuring their content is not removed from the blockchain but the other problem is that, while for example OpenSea recently allow upload of sexual contents, there’s little work done on age verification protocols to ensure that creators selling nude or lewd NFTs are of age.

  2. There are many negative images about sex and bro culture generally in the world, we thought it was worth offering something that’s more affirmative and sex positive. After all, sex itself isn’t bad—sexual discrimination, harassment, and shaming are.

Project Deliverables -Build/improve applications

App will be live at

www.xdata.io (under construction)

Is the software open-source? No

If the project includes software:

  • Are there any mockups or designs to date? No

  • An overview of the technology stack?

  • Javascript (Node.js), Express.js, MySQL.

  • Javascript (ReactJS), Web3JS.

  • Github (all the codebase will be hosted on private Repos in Github).

Project Deliverables - Roadmap

  • Any prior work completed thus far?

    • Initiated the product requirement scoping and documentation.
  • What is the project roadmap? That is: what are key milestones, and the target date for each milestone.

Q2 2022:

  • Publish medium articles explaining project updates.
  • Release business white paper & light paper.
  • Begin community building & social media following with AMA’s

Q3 2022:

  • Launch the first marketing campaign
  • Launch our different reward programs.
  • Connect to the Ocean Market.
  • Publish datasets to Ocean marketplace.

Q4 2022:

  • Announce strategic partnerships for growth and expansion.

  • Start offering LP & farming programs.

  • Introduce a data-token exchange functionality, including decentralized swaps, sending and receiving.

  • Release a mobile application on the App Store and Play Store.

  • Launch a governance token

Hi @Amoss89, I have added your proposal for R15 and can only assume that by excluding the amount in USD that you are requesting the maximum 3,000 USD as a first time participant.

Thank you.