New Football Ecosystem: BitSphera

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Nguyen Van Toan

[GENERAL] Email address of main applicant

bitsphera@gmail.com

Additional applicants

+ Bui Hung Viet

buihungviet@gmail.com

+ Nguyen Bui Binh Nguyen

nguyenbuibinhnguyen@gmail.com

[GENERAL] Please specify how many months you expect your project to last (from 2-12 months)

10

[GENERAL] Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated into English from another language.

Yes

[GENERAL] Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

No

[GENERAL] If YES, please describe what the dependency is and why you believe it is essential for your project’s delivery. If NO, please write “No dependencies.” .

No dependencies

[GENERAL] Will your project’s output/s be fully open source?

No

[GENERAL] If NO, please describe which outputs are not going to be open source. If YES, please write “Project will be fully open source.”

By the nature of blockchain, all elements of the project that allow players to interact with each other will be open source.

The influencing factors for the long-term view of our project are as follows: The consensus mechanism, fees, and operation of the fund will not be open source as the revenue from them will be used to maintain and expand the platform to achieve our vision. https://bitsphera.gitbook.io/untitled-1/vision

[METADATA] Category of Proposal

dApp

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

We found that:

+ Football has a large and constantly growing player base. It is expanding into regions where it was previously unpopular.

+ The football industry is increasingly centralized.

+ The trend of combining every industry into blockchain is irreversible but not yet seen in football.

So we designed an economic ecosystem where football players around the world can freely and physically interact with other players through training, creating and participating in challenges, creating and trading avatars, as well as betting… regardless of time, geographical distance, and other barriers.

Our unique proposed solution is BitSphera dApp on Cardano is based on the technological advancements of our Titã smart soccer ball. (this ball has the size and weight according to Fifa standards and has features such as: measuring the force of the shot, the number of revolutions, and drawing the trajectory of the ball when it is impacted... it has reached the MVP version). When using this solution, players can both use their physical skills playing soccer to interact with each other while receiving the benefits of blockchain.

BitSphera has the following utilities:

+ Move to Earn - Players earn tokens easily by a transparent and easy-to-implement income calculation mechanism. Each time a player interacts with the Titã smart ball, they will earn the Human Power Coin (HPC), the utility token of BitSphera. If players practice regularly every day, they are also rewarded with Key Access Token (KAT), the coin that allows access to game creation. Those coins can also be sold on exchanges for profit. See our Tokenomics for more details.

+ Play to Earn - Players can use the coins they earned above to easily create and participate in many different challenges in the following 6 game genres:

• Battles: Players use KAT to open the game and bet any amount of HPC to challenge other players who meet them face-to-face to battles, a demonstration of skills after which the winner will win the bet.
• Challenges (Skill-Pool Games): Players spend a small number of HPCs to participate in challenges, to win huge prizes. Challenges are modeled after impressive free kicks or penalties of famous professional football players or anyone. The prizes are a percentage of the total amount of participatory fees, it increases if more players participate in the challenge. The remaining HPCs after paying the prize and system's fees will belong to the challenge creator. Anyone can create a challenge as long as they have the required amount of KAT.
• Superstar challenges: Classics such as Roberto Carlos' banana shot, Zidane's freekick, … etc... are desirable skills that every football fanatic wants to recreate. Superstar challenges dare the players to attempt these seemingly impossible shots, to receive prizes, which are updated daily. Players will pay an entrance fee to participate, prizes are partially deducted from the total participation fee and will be awarded on a weekly and monthly basis to the most similar shot of that week or month. The remaining amount will gradually increase and be awarded to a shot that is the same as the sample shot, and then the game will return to its original state.
• Club competition: Players can gather into clubs, A club can choose a football skill set to challenge other clubs to play directly or indirectly against them for a grand prize contributed by all participating clubs.
• Team tournament: To accommodate the extreme hype of football fans around the globe during international football competitions such as the World Cup, Champion leagues, Euro, Copa America, AFC, etc... team tournament games are designed to maintain their burning loyalty to their club or country even outside of the matches. Players are selected through the qualifiers to represent their club or country to compete in tournaments with other players from other clubs or countries. Your national team may not be winning the World Cup, but your team can still win in BitSphera’s very own World Cup.
• Online Live events: Players and the host can organize and plan events, in any given time frame and location where anyone can participate, bet and spectate live. These events are occasions where players can join together and have fun.

+ Build in training - Help players improve their ball control and shooting skills through the ball plays of famous players.

+ Peer peer betting - Its betting mechanism allows players to bet against each other legally.

+ NFTs - Easily create & trading an avatar, sport wear Items

+ ...

See our whitepapers for more details: https://bitsphera.gitbook.io/untitled-1/how-is-bitsphera

Who will engage:

People who want to learn and play soccer to get Fun, Skill, Profitable

Who will benefit:

+ Players

+ Blockchain industry

Designed as The First Physical Move-to-Earn and Play-to-Earn Football Game, BitSphera will give Cardano new life from the most multiplayer sport in the world!

[IMPACT] How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?

BitSphera directly addresses the challenge as it is the product that will provide more use cases for the Cardano ecosystem through the following benefits:

+ Diversify the ecosystem: Bring to the Cardano a new form of sports game.

+ Increase the number of participants: Bring the Cardano many users from the world's most popular sport.

We predict the number of people joining our platform will reach more than 100,000 people soon after launch for the following reasons:

+ We will reduce the price of the Titã smart ball for early holders of our token.

+ We will launch this project in 2024, taking advantage of the influence of two major football tournaments also taking place around this time: Copa America and Euro.

[IMPACT] How do you intend to measure the success of your project?

The success of the project is closely tied to the success of Cardano, as the number of participants increases the transaction volume via Cardano also increases accordingly.

With the number of participants increasing sharply in the short term and many in the long term, we will push Cardano to make appropriate system adjustments in response. Thereby enhancing Cardano's overall productivity, market position, and long-term sustainability.

To measure those fluctuations we will use the following metrics:

+ Through the number of smart balls we sell and are connected to the system.

+ Through the number of transactions measured on our system

+ Through the amount of interaction on social networks and forums.

+ Through the demand for our tokens.

[IMPACT] Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?

We will share outputs and results with users and potential users through the channels below:

+ Our website. https://bitsphera.com/

+ Social networks, vertical forums, and blockchain forums.

+ Our Whitepapers. https://bitsphera.gitbook.io/untitled-1/

The results obtained from the project will be used to approach the project's end goal, turning BitSphera into a wholly owned platform by players.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability?

BitSphera has the following advantages to be the right organization for fund management and project implementation:

+ We hold the copyright technology of the Tita smart soccer ball, the ideal tool for this project.

+ Our founding team includes both enthusiastic young people and experienced people.

+ Our CTO is seasoned in IT project management.

+ We located the R&D department in Vietnam where high-quality and cheap IT human resources are available.

This Cardano funding is an important catalyst in our IDO fundraising campaign in Q1/2024, so we will be transparent about the disbursement of this funding on our website, white paper, and on our community pages.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What are the main goals for the project and how will you validate if your approach is feasible?

The ultimate goal of the project is to build a new football ecosystem for hundreds of millions of players. This is a very large and complex goal that should be divided be divided into three goals to optimize resources and minimize risks:

Goal #1: Build pioneering customers, launch products with basic features and IDO token

Goal #2: Extend users with advanced features

Goal #3: Empower users

So, the most important goal during this time is also the goal given to raise capital from Cardano is goal #1 which aims to successfully launch BitSphera and IDO KAT token in 2024. The two tasks of goal #1 are verified as follows:

1. Launch BitSphera with basic features: Validation by the total number of downloads and registrations of our dApp.
2. IDO token: Validation when the sales rate of the token is over 80%.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone plus the expected timeline for the delivery.

Milestone 1- 7/2023 (11%): Website Release and maintenance> Introduce projects

Milestone 2- 8/2023 (12%): Community Establishment and expander > Build communities

Milestone 3- 9/2023-2/2024 (55%): Marketing campaign > Build users

Milestone 4- 1/2024 : Launch BitSphera with basic features > Complete the dApp interface

Milestone 5- 2/2024 (22%): Marketing campaign for IDO > Expanding the number of users

Milestone 6- 3-5/2024: IDO token > Raising capital for the following stages.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please describe the deliverables, outputs and intended outcomes of each milestone.

Milestone 1: Website Launch

• Introduce the functions of the project and its roadmap
• Measure through the following metrics: awareness, engagement...

Milestone 2: Community Establishment

• Create and maintain posts on the following popular forums and social networks: Famous forums about football such as The Football, SoCal soccer, Xtratime, Reddit... / Famous places about blockchain such as Telegram, Twitter, Medium... / Famous social networks such as Facebook, TikTok, YouTube...
• Measure through the following metrics: community growth, membership, engagement, and responsiveness...

Milestone 3: Run a marketing campaign to create demand for the use

• On many forms of marketing such as social media marketing, influencer, viral Marketing...
• Measure through positive feedback from product introduction campaigns on social networks, youtube...

Milestone 4: Launch basic features dApp to perfect it

• On the official website
• Use Indicators can be used to measure customer satisfaction with the app such as the number of regular users, the time using the application, the time interval between uses, the evaluation comments, and the number of dApp shares...

Milestone 5: Viral Marketing to increase demand for pre-owned tokens

• Through influencers.
• Measured by indicators displayed on the internet.

Milestone 6: IDO token to Fundraising for the official launch of BitSphera

• On DEX
• Measured by token sale rate.

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

We plan to hire third-party marketing services as follows:

+ Build and maintain the website (1 year): 45,000 ADA

+ Build and maintain community ( 1year): 50,000 ADA

+ Marketing campaign (6 months): 315,000 ADA

Total: 410,000 ADA

To pay for the cost of the project which exceeds the funding and the costs incurred outside the budget, we plan to take from the personal money of the founders and/or pay with the project's tokens.

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

All the cost of our outsourced marketing campaign is 410,000 ADA. It is estimated based on the length of this phase of the project (10 months), the length of the marketing campaign (6 months), and the following Expert Market quotes (https://www.expertmarket.com/digital-marketing/digital-marketing-cost):

• Web $125 – $3,375/month
• Copywriting $150 – $2,500/month
• Content Marketing $3,900 – $12,000/month
• Social Media Campaign $4,000 – $7,000/month

[IMPORTANT NOTE] The Applicant agreed to Fund10 rules and also that data in the Submission Form and other data provided by the project team during the course of the project will be publicly available.

I Accept