When Skeepers meets Lum Network

Blockchain technology has demonstrated the potential to reshape the way consumers and businesses interact across nearly every industry. Yet, few industry leaders are integrating this technology at the core of their operations to create, reshape and redefine the future of their respective fields.

This is where Skeepers comes in.

Skeepers is a leading group in customer engagement specialized in User Generated Content (UGC), such as rating & reviews, influencers, but also feedback and predictive marketing.

Today, Skeepers joins forces with Lum Network to fully integrate blockchain technology at the core of its operations. From contributing to its technological development to becoming a launch partner of Lum Network.

Skeepers uses the blockchain technology at its core to pave the way for innovation in its field.

Skeepers Journey

In 2012, Skeepers CEO, Olivier Mouillet, realized that rating and reviews would be an indispensable tool for brands and retailers.

With Laurent Abisset, they founded “Avis Vérifiés” a French SAAS company that collects independent ratings and reviews after a purchase.

Without raising any funds, they quickly developed the activity at international scale by declining the brand to other markets, such as Verified Reviews in the US, Opiniões-Verificadas in Brasil, Recensioni Verificate in Italy, etc.

In 2019, they decided it was time to scale their business to the next level and received funding from Providence Strategy Growth ($50 billions equity growth fund). So far, they have used more than $100 million dollars to acquire 7 companies.

Their growth has been astonishing and they achieved:

• A presence in 40 countries
• A workforce of 500 people
• 400,000 influencers network
• 7,000 clients — retailers & merchants
• 700 millions emails sent each year to collect UGC
• 30 millions reviews collected yearly
• 100+ millions of unique users reach

Skeepers became so successful that it bagged a place in the Next 40, receiving official recognition and support from the government and market authorities.

A Shared Vision

Skeepers CEO, Olivier Mouillet, made the following observations a couple years ago:
The quality of a review matters, over the rating. Just take a look at reviews saying “Great” or “This is a bad product”: this is not very enlightening nor useful to anyone.

With a good, qualitative review, customers become the best advertisers of any brand.

95% of customers read online reviews before buying a product

But levels of ratings and reviews decrease every year, along with their quality.

Creating and sharing quality content takes time. And in this new digital era consumers know that what they share, the time they spend on creating content and therefore their data is valuable.

In order to maximize their impact, we need to align incentives and share the value created by everyone in a transparent and objective manner.

When I met Olivier, I had this vision that the next dominating reward program would be decentralized and that blockchain and cryptocurrencies were the keys to create it. This is why I created Lumki, a mobile wallet that makes it simple for users to collect and use crypto rewards.

We immediately realized that we had a lot in common: We have the same entrepreneurial spirit and we are passionate about crypto!

But also, our visions were so aligned that the idea to use Lumki to reward users for the value they create online came instantly.

Hence came Skeepers decision to acquire Lumki in order to make it available to all its clients and participate in the launch of a dedicated layer 1 blockchain protocol dubbed as the “Business Trust Engine”.

Lum Network was born 🚀

Building the Killer App

Lum Network is becoming the backbone of Skeepers technical infrastructure. Rewarding users transparently and fairly for creating content and engaging with brands is no longer out of reach.

To achieve that, Skeepers will be using Lum Network to stamp and authenticate genuine UGC on-chain. This ultimate transparency practice makes it possible to qualify and quantify the value created by each individual consumer and therefore, reward them accordingly using $LUM.

But we are talking about creating a killer app here, so let’s dig into the numbers!
As we’ve seen previously, Skeepers handles about 3 Millions reviews per month, so at launch, Lum Network will process more than 6 Millions transactions per month (average 2 txs/ugc), and will engage more than 3 millions users with the $LUM.

Going forward, if we take an average reward of $0.5 it is more than $1.5 millions worth of LUM that will be used to incentivize users for the value they create every single month.

For the ones seasoned regarding tokenomics, all those rewards are not immediately redeemable and liquid, users need to accumulate $20 worth of LUM in order to use them the way they want. It usually takes months to achieve this and create long term user engagement loops.

This mechanism which has become a standard in rewards programs during the past years will ensure that all users become natural holders of the $LUM.

And above all, Skeepers is a fast growing company and it includes the development of the Lum Network at the core of its strategy. In this perspective, Skeepers recently acquired a 400,000 influencers network to develop a mainstream adoption. Skeepers is committed to engage its incredible influential force to promote and make the $LUM the new dominating digital reward.

Great partnerships are the foundations of successful companies. When two ambitious projects come together to collaborate on ideas and resources, they achieve much more than they would otherwise.

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In 2009, when Satoshi Nakomoto created the first real use-case for the immutable, transparent, and tamper-proof ledger that we now know as blockchain, the world didn’t pay much attention. Yet, in the decade that has followed its first implementation, this novel technology has spread its wings to a multitude of industries that now benefit significantly from its signature features.

Some of these industries benefiting from blockchain are finance, gaming, entertainment, and art. A rather new addition to the list of industries benefiting from blockchain is retail.

There has been a seismic shift in the consumers’ mindset over recent years.

Modern-day consumers are becoming increasingly conscious about what they consume and how they consume it. They now demand transparency, sustainability, and recognition.

On the other hand, retailers are stuck with the traditional ways, further complicating their struggle to keep up with the demands of the modern-day consumer. This is where blockchain technology is bound to make a world of a difference in the retail sector.

Incorporating blockchain in retail means that businesses no longer need to ask to be trusted. They can earn their customers’ invaluable trust and loyalty by proving the authenticity of the product and their past performances. In this essence, the Lum Network is guiding retailers’ paths towards this paradigm shift.

Sandblock to Lum Network: The Evolution Keeps Going

Our journey with The Lum Network as you know it today started in the year 2017 when we launched an Ethereum-based project called Sandblock. The aim of the project was to offer one of the most futuristic blockchain reward programs. And even more than four years ago, our team of engineers envisioned using blockchain technology to transform the way customers and businesses interacted.

Following a successful token launch in 2018, we partnered with several businesses and corporations and built a mobile application dubbed Lumki (formerly called Surprise) to allow our users to access the best online offers from retailers.

In mid-2020, Skeepers’ Group acquired the Lumki application. As the next step toward their mission of transforming consumer-retailer relationships, we progressed to create the Lum Network — a dedicated infrastructure for the project that is built using the popular Cosmos SDK and Tendermint BFT consensus.

After spending over five years in retail, our team of developers realized that blockchain in retail is not about disrupting the existing industry. In fact, a look at the existing makeup of the retail industry tells us that it is not easy to disrupt the industry at all.

The Lum Network takes a unique approach and intends to build new tools and systems in an effort to aid the industry in its evolution to the next stage.

Lum Network: Tools for the Future of Retail

We are actively creating trust between businesses and consumers involved in the retail industry through Lum Network.

To achieve this, we use a futuristic, sustainable blockchain infrastructure that employs the Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) consensus.

This not only makes the network affordable but also sustainable, reducing the project’s carbon footprint. In addition, the blockchain also processes transactions in a matter of seconds, making it highly suitable for retail transactions.

We continuously strive to onboard new partners and provide them with the necessary systems required to ace the retail game. While the Lum Network is open to partnering with most businesses, our focus remains on working with “trusted third parties”, which are businesses that offer any kind of middleman services for brands, retailers, and customers. The aim behind partnering with them is to indirectly touch and impact the processes of thousands of businesses on a global scale.

It’s a simple idea: we can either reach out to individual businesses and help them use our tools or we can reach out to a few middlemen who already offer an array of services to thousands of growing retail businesses.

Okay! But what tools are we exactly talking about?

On-Chain Reviews

As mentioned before, by incorporating blockchain in retail, businesses would be able to prove their authenticity and past successes. Lum makes it possible with a system of on-chain reviews. It is estimated that over 95% of users read reviews before making a purchase and in this essence, reviews are invaluable to businesses. Lum Network allows businesses to timestamp the reviews shared by their users and store them immutably on-chain.

As blockchain offers immutable records, these reviews become the one single source of truth about a business. They act as trustworthy and reliable feedback that can aid future customers to make the right decision. Besides, businesses can also commodify these reviews in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

Qualifying Rewards

In the legacy systems, it is fairly difficult to transparently reward reviews, and it is easy for consumers to fall for paid reviews.

The Lum Network solves this through its decentralized reward system which utilizes blockchain in its background.

Doing so ensures that everyone can easily check the immutable records stored for every review and confirm that a consumer who shared a 1-star review received the same reward as those who shared a 5-star review. The only condition to receiving equal records, however, is that the quality of the reviews should be the same.

To assess quality, we analyze several objective parameters such as the number of characters, attached photo or video, etc. We also include NLP in the quality analysis process, and in the near future, we will introduce a social proof system where the community will assess and decide the quality of the reviews.

This process allows review readers to rest assured that the reviews they are reading are actually genuine so they can make better purchasing decisions.

Blockchain-as-a-Service

While these tools are a gold mine for businesses, the process of integrating them into business processes and legacy technological stacks may not be easy, especially for those who lack advanced technical knowledge.

This is why Lum developed the Lum Gateway, which offers a blockchain-as-a-service API to allow businesses to easily integrate Lum’s revolutionary tools into their existing processes.

The Gateway provides a simple interface to access the Lum Network along managed secure wallets for backend integration of Lum applications. The Gateway facilitates instant conversions from fiat to crypto and vice-versa, thus enabling businesses to not only integrate the technology faster but also to finally use cryptocurrency as a gamification system for their consumers.

The Lum Network’s Gateway is a one stop shop for businesses to use the Lum Network and the $LUM while abiding with regulations with minimal efforts.

Skeepers: Our First Major Partner

Having had a great track record with us, Skeepers’ Group has once again trusted the abilities and vision of our team and has become our first major partner. They work with brands and businesses from across the globe to provide SaaS solutions that help them acquire and retain new customers and increase customer engagement.

Besides, Skeepers is a trusted third-party firm that has an influencer network of over 400,000, and it processes tens of millions of reviews every year.

As part of the partnership with Skeepers, Lum Network will enable them to create provable, immutable reviews and store them on-chain to create trust between businesses and consumers. Businesses associated with Skeepers will also be able to reward users with $LUM tokens that have actual real-world value instead of shopping vouchers that very often end up not being used.

Having Skeepers as a first partner is a tremendous achievement for the Lum Network. It is just the beginning for us and we will partner with many promising, renowned brands in the retail space to bring our solutions to the world that so desperately needs them.

Token Poised for Mass Adoption

To create a self-sustained economic model, we needed a token with real value to power the Lum ecosystem. And doing exactly that is $LUM — our native token that all players in the Lum ecosystem must have to use the tools and solutions.

In that essence, every business that partners with Lum Network becomes a holder of $LUM, which opens doors for a wide variety of people apart from regular crypto users. In addition, Lum Network also rewards customers who leave valuable feedback with $LUM.

The Lumki social wallet (available on web/iOS/Android) provides a simple, user friendly way to acquire, hold and use $LUM while offering cashback rewards across more than 1000 online stores.

The Lum Network’s private token sale is now live and open for those who aim to become early contributors to the network. You can visit our website and request to be whitelisted for the sale if you have a valuable contribution to make.

Lum for the Future of Retail

The possibilities that blockchain technology can create in the world of retail are endless. For both businesses and rapidly evolving consumers, blockchain can provide a middle ground or a trust layer where they can come together to interact. Without this trust layer, valuable businesses might be ignored and consumers might end up making wrong purchasing decisions.

This is why we believe Lum Network is the need of the hour for the retail space. Our futuristic tools can significantly aid both businesses and customers to make the right decisions and progress to the next level of development. We are excited to be building the future of retail and are looking forward to adding more to our suite of tools and solutions.

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Some background story

When we launched the Sandblock Project back in 2017, we believed the blockchain technology would bring a much needed layer of trust, communication and exchange of value between merchants and customers.

After a successful Token Generation Event in 2018, we began expanding or network of partners and initiated many Proof of Concept (POC) works with corporations, groups and retailers.
The conclusion of those POCs was that everyone was definitely interested in the potential of the technology we were building, but no one was ready to be the first mover.

We were facing a classic chicken and egg strategy problem.

This is why we decided to launch Surprise in 2019, a mobile application and a browser plugin to access online offers from retailers, using Sandblock’s blockchain protocol. With the main purpose of enabling thousands of retailers to use this decentralized technology without even thinking about it (thus breaking the chicken and egg dilemma).

And we did things properly!
As Surprise’s was never intended to be a one-stop-shop to access Sandblock’s protocol, and in order for the protocol to remain independent, we created a dedicated company (French SAS) which raised capital funds independently from the Sandblock project to develop this use case.

The next logical step was to enable retailers to provide in-store offers using Surprise.
In March 2020, we began the onboarding of physical stores when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, and forced us, like many, to rethink every single steps of our strategy. Our choice was to go back to our roots and focus on developing the key technological pieces that we needed to expand online and come back to the physical space once things would be back to normal.

Surprise acquired by Skeepers group

Official announcement here (French).

At the end of 2019, Net Reviews, a leading group in Customer Reviews Management for retailers, raised 32 million euros in funds from the Providence Strategic Growth fund (PSG), part of Providence Equity (more than $40 billion assets). It gave birth to SKEEPERS, a leader in Customer Experience and Engagement.

In mid-2020, Skeepers’ CEO approached us with the vision of integrating the blockchain technology at the core of their business in order to provided a trustworthy reward layer between retailers and their customers.

This was one of those moments when you believe something is too perfect to be true. But after a couple meetings, things were pretty clear for both parties, Surprise’s services were what Skeepers needed and Sandblock’s technology the right layer for their use case.

Of one the key aspects of this operation, as mentioned in the first part of this article, it that Skeepers did not acquire the Sandblock project, but the company behind the Surprise services.

Sandblock’s technology will therefore remain independent and provide the decentralized components for the ecosystem of tens of thousands of retailers brought by Skeepers.

Surprise is now, more than ever, full-filling its initial role of enabler for Sandblock’s decentralized technology. And we can’t hide how excited we are about the future of the project!

What will happen next

The following is provided to give a glimpse of what we are currently working on. It is considered “work in progress” and is therefore subject to change due to many factors such as regulations, structural requirements or strategic choices.

Surprise, now operating under the Skeepers banner, will soon bring millions of transactions per month to the Sandblock Chain.

This massive scale up cannot be anything but good news for the Sandblock project. But it also means the project must evolve in order to properly process, manage and govern such a large ecosystem.

Governance structure

This new ecosystem requires us to rethink Sandblock’s governance mechanisms in order to provide a stronger and more sustainable ground for the project’s future.

We are already working toward creating a non profit organisation, likely to be a Foundation, to host the core blockchain technology and crypto-assets. The current structure being too limited in terms of governance and evolution options.

Blockchain protocol & crypto-assets

The coming evolutions of Sandblock’s protocol will require us to proceed to major changes to its core settings and therefore to the underlying crypto-asset currently known as the Sandblock Coin (SBC).

The new legal organisation will first proceed to a hard fork of the current Sandblock Chain, thus enabling it to bootstrap this new ecosystem using the existing infrastructure.

Current SBC holders and users will of course be guided throughout this process and regular communication will be provided as soon as dates and details are made public.

We will be releasing major upgrades and new tools in the coming weeks, including the new Branding, explorer, wallet etc…

Conclusion

We are extremely excited to announce this huge step for the Sandblock project and more generally for decentralized technologies and crypto-assets.

Special thanks to all our community and more generally to all the people who helped making this happen. This is only one of the many steps we must accomplish, but an important one indeed.

As it is said: soon, moon,

The Sandblock Team

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We bet you didn’t know these little tricks about our app!

Search a product 🔍

You can search for a product rather than a brand in the app.

Try to search “red dress” for example, it will show you the list of all the stores that offer your product! 👗

Even better: you can click on a shop and see a direct preview of some products!

Open on desktop 💻

From the app, you can search for your products or brands and then do your shopping from a computer by clicking on “Open on desktop”.

Thanks to the extension, previously installed, the brand website will open on your Chrome session and the Surprise points will be activated seamlessly! 🤭

Earn more Surprise points! 💯

You can track your achievements to unlock better rewards.

These achievements allow you to level up your account and unlock bonuses, it’s important! There are 3 of them actually, but if you’re a monster, we’ll add new levels especially for you 😄

Level 1 — Member

You get +10% on each of your purchases. Actions are pretty simple: signing up (normally it’s already done if you’re here), install the plugin and send your referral link. 😇

Level 2 — VIP Member

You get +15% on each of your purchases! But before that, you’ll need to validate 25€ rewards and have 3 active friends, so send your referral link everywhere!!😉

Level 3 — F***ing Rich Member 🤑

You’re a monster. You’ve validated 100€ rewards and have 10 active friends! Other actions are easy for you.

➡ You can go to your Profile page to complete them and earn more and more Surprise points! 🚀

Click on the gift 🎁

Are you tired of shaking your phone to display your balance?

You can simply click on the gift: it will shake itself thanks to magic! 🧙‍♂️

You want more surprises? 🎉

You can try to complete your profile information…

…maybe it’ll be used to prepare even more special surprises just for you! 🤩

Who doesn’t want to earn 3€ and more? 💰

Inviting your friends can be very lucrative.

It’s a simple way to sustain your wallet for even more shopping! 🛍 A referred friend brings you 3€ and as if that wasn’t enough, you will also earn 20% of his rewards, lifetime! 🤑

It pays to have friends with Surprise. 😉

You can share your referral link on social media to earn even more!

Follow Surprise’s social channels to stay tuned!

• Like Surprise on Facebook
• Follow Surprise on Instagram
• Follow Surprise on Twitter
• Visit the Surprise official website.

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Surprise points: tokens of the Surprise consortium

The Surprise points are in fact a fancy and more mainstream name for the tokens of our consortium. Surprise points are tokens on our network and they are the very first implementation of branded tokens 🤩

The Surprise points name is used for the application and in our communication for public and no-coiners. It is basically backed by the Satisfaction Token at 1 to 1 rate. As you may know, the Satisfaction Token is not heavily traded yet and in order to move forward before it is, we’ve decided to offer a fixed SAT/BTC rate within the Surprise application.

1 Surprise point = 1 Satisfaction token at the moment

As you may have read on our last token post; our token has been distributed to the investors and there’s a total supply of 42,500,000 tokens. These tokens are the fuel for all the Surprise’s processes, and they are live on the network, transferable, tradable…

Nowadays, the value of the Surprise points are pegged on Bitcoin to guarantee the best user experience as our token is not yet listed on exchanges. We’ll update you when this rule change.

tl;dr The Surprise points are tokens on the blockchain that are used to reward customers.

Each Surprise points is unique, it can be distributed by a network of more than 500 brands, exchanged with euros or any other currencies (including cryptocurrencies and branded tokens in the near future!). 💱

Crypto can be dangerous but Surprise points are free for users!

Our token is freely distributed to customers when they do their online shopping with the Surprise application.

We all know that cryptocurrencies can be a dangerous investment but what is dangerous when you didn’t invest anything and have some cryptos on your wallet? You can’t lose anything!

It can just be a good surprise! 😉

For a novice user, Surprise points doesn’t require any knowledge or practice, it’s just an “item” that is shown in their application. In fact, they don’t even know that their balance is actually in tokens and not in €, $ or £. Their balance are updated seamlessly in their preferred currencies.

Even if these Surprise points will have a free-market volatility and our token plummet to 0, a novice user will never lose anything as these points have been “airdropped” to his wallet after one of his purchase, that he would still have realized!

It acts as a bonus. 🎁

Furthermore, with these Surprise points, our “cashback” system become a new kind of loyalty reward: it’s a “tokensback” system.

Surprise points are already a surprise in fact, it’s a gift from the Surprise application for buying things online within the consortium. The end users can never be disappointed with this system! 😍

What the history tells us?

If you’re really that “crypto-addict” you’re trying to make everyone believe, I’m sure you know about these 2 pizzas bought in 2010 for 10,000BTC. 🙃

Ceremonial day known as the “Bitcoin Pizza Day”, on May 22th 2010 is in the cryptocurrencies’ history. Someone bought 2 pizzas for more than 89,000,000€ at the time of writing, it can be laughable but at that time, bitcoin was not at the same price level! 😅

Imagine this guy never bought these pizzas and kept his 10,000BTC; he could have got a pretty, much cool, extraordinary surprise today don’t you think?

With Surprise points, we want to create the same kind of mechanics. Users will be asked (but it’s not an obligation of any kind) to HODL* their Surprise points on their account to maybe have an exciting surprise in some months or years! We’ve got a limit of 20€ before withdrawing the Surprise points which creates a natural holding period.

*HODL is another part of cryptocurrencies’ history, go check it out here.

Surprise points, the perfect loyalty points, the entry door to cryptocurrencies’ ecosystem

Surprise points are freely given on the user account. They’re unique and have a real intrinsic value: the app (and coin) adoption will massively fuel its price and the expansion of our consortium too. 🚀

The users will keep and hold their Surprise points as this simplest mechanism will drive value upside and they’ll be advised to do it to unlock features, increase their earnings and help the ecosystem.

Brands will need to buy Satisfaction tokens to create their branded tokens. It’s not implemented yet, but development is progressing (and the Surprise points are technologically the first branded tokens!). Branded tokens will be exchangeable against Surprise points and vice-versa!

tl;dr These Surprise points are the new paradigm for the crypto adoption and to manage all the loyalty programs already existents! Everyone will be able to play with cryptos! 🐵

But why are they the entry door to the cryptocurencies ecosystem?

In fact, Surprise points are tokens on the blockchain. From here, these points are exchangeable to any other cryptocurrencies.

Users will be able to earn Surprise points from their online shopping and trade them later for BTC, ETH or anything else. With Surprise, we put cryptos in everybody’s hands. Cryptos that are earned freely and with which users can play, test and practice crypto exchanges, transfers or trade, for free 💸

Furthermore, the Surprise app can act as a real gateway for crypto-exchanges. We’ll educate our users about cryptocurrencies, trading, blockchain… and pretty much anything, directly from the app! It’ll be a simple and comprehensible approach to learn things. And users got free tokens from their shopping so they don’t have to invest anything!

Today, there’s an intense need of mass-adoption in the cryptocurrencies and blockchain ecosystem and this is why we created Surprise! The Surprise app can be the fuel for this mass-adoption as we target novice users from shopping and not necessarily crypto-users; and these users will better understand what these notions are if they want to educate themselves.

We could incentivize our users to sign-up directly to solid and safe exchange platforms (like Kraken, Coinbase or Bitstamp), and therefore put in place a growth strategy with mutual benefits for Sandblock and those platforms.

Surprise points can be exchanged for bitcoin for example, after that, a user can just play with these bitcoins, without having to invest anything from his pocket.

You know everything about these Surprise points and what we want them to become. We hope that this article enlightens their utility and their scope! You can now download Surprise and begin to earn Surprise points! 🚀

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• Like Surprise on Facebook
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• Follow Surprise on Twitter
• Visit the Surprise official website.

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Surprise is a good definition of the cryptocurrencies’ ecosystem. It’s immature, new, unpredictable… we don’t know where it will be in 5 years or even in 1 month.

Surprise is a gift

Surprise act as a gift. We’re giving Surprise Points to users who do their shopping online, with our partner brands. That alone is in accordance with our application name: we surprise the customer by rewarding him when he makes a purchase!

Moreover, “surprise” covers all the cryptocurrencies ecosystem, the state of the market, the volatility and all the major events. The cryptocurrencies ecosystem is itself a surprise: we don’t know where it will be or what it will be able to do in the future.

Everything is a surprise. 😋

Reminder: our application name “Surprise” must be pronounced in the French way. So, pronounce it \syʁ.pʁiz\.

“Surprise” is the credo in cryptocurrencies ecosystem

Even if you’re an old crypto-addict, I’m sure that you’ve experienced some surprise in your journey. Novice-users will experience the same numerous surprise that this ecosystem has to offer 😅

Whether it was a massive pump of one of your alt bags that make you millionaire or an exchange hack that has cost you billions of dollars, 1 arm and all your hair, surprises are everywhere.

With Surprise, we want to surprise all the new comers, the no-coiners but also crypto-addicts.

Surprise Points will be tradable and so the value of the token will change with the time. In a free market, you can’t know which value an item will have in 1 day, 2 weeks or 10 years.

With the Surprise Points, no-coiners will be able to experience their first surprise: they’ll be rewarded, well ok. But what’s more important is that maybe 1 year after, their Surprise Points will have triple in value (or are plummeting to nothing).

It’s this kind of surprise that we want that all customers around the world experiment. It’s a roller-coaster, or a double or quits game.

“Surprise is the feeling caused by something unexpected or unusual”

It’s not usual to be paid to spend money on the internet. In fact, a lot of random internet people will tell you the opposite, but it’s probably a scam.

With cashback systems, that have been in existence for years, you’re not really surprised about your rewards, it’s always the same 😌. But in the case of the Surprise application, it can quickly become a game.

tl;dr Surprise will surprise you more than any existing cashback system. It’s a fact, sorry.

With the Surprise application, any user will be rewarded on his purchases, ok. But on top of that, there’s the evolution of the points’ value, ok. But in addition to all this, Surprise will surprise its users with a totally different process, such as multi-level referrals program or mini games, on the app or outside, to help brands acquire new users and understand better their customers.

Imagine one thing. You referred a friend 1 year ago and this friend have a friend who is friends with an influencer. (yes, there are a lots of “friends” 😂)

This influencer referred all his community and overnight, your life changes. You begin to earn more Surprise Points that you’ll ever be able to spend, isn’t that a surprise?

We, at Surprise, have a lot of things in preparation to surprise you more and more every day. And you’ll know them only if you follow our project and our progress! 🤗

Now you won’t ask why we call our application “ Surprise” anymore, and you’ll wait until you get some surprises, right? We hope you enjoyed this article, and you can begin to have some surprises with our app! 🚀

Follow Surprise’s social channels to stay tuned!

• Like Surprise on Facebook
• Follow Surprise on Instagram
• Follow Surprise on Twitter
• Visit the Surprise official website

Originally published at https://blog.surprise.io on July 18, 2019.

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As of today, the Surprise app is available for all on iOS and Android as well as on desktop with the Chrome extension!

We’re glad to present you the application that will helps customers and brands in their shopping process as well as to take care of the customers’ relationship. 👌

You can use our app from now on to earn money from your online shopping!

How to use the Surprise app?

1. Download the app (iOS and Android)

It’s free and easy. Surprise will be your everyday’s shopping partner! Our app is already compatible with 500+ brands and we add more brands everyday!

2. Register an account

Nothing easier, one-click registration with Google or Facebook, or with a email/password combo. Nothing more is required but you can still build up your profile with your personal information to earn more Surprise Points in the future!

A little explanation of what are these Surprise Points at the end of this post 😇

3. Browse brands and shop

The app will present you the 500+ brands available for rewards, choose or search your brand and begin your shopping as you usually do. The app will manage automatically the rewards distribution after your purchase.

Your brand isn’t available? Call them out and we’ll work on their integration within our consortium!

4. Refer your friends!

It’s easy: 3€ per referred users and 20% of their buying rewards, forever..! 💸

Let’s take a little example!

You refer 3 friends: you earn 9€. 2 of your friends are shopping addicts and spend more than 300€ by month. With a 5% tokensback globally your friends will earn 15€/month each and you’ll get 6€/month! (1 year after, 81€ in Surprise Points, which can increase in value…)

If you’re a beast of referrals program, you’ll refer 20 shopping addicts. 60€/month for doing nothing more than letting your friends shop online! (1 year after, 720€… in Surprise Points, which can increase in value!)

5. Download the Chrome extension

With the Chrome extension, you’ll be able to get Surprise Points directly from your desktop’s purchase. Our extension is seamlessly sync with your app!

Little warning: Surprise needs cookies to manage your rewards so your adblocker should be disabled or Surprise’s links should be whitelisted!

6. Earn your first rewards! 💰

To try our application fully you can make your first purchase with one of our numerous partner brands! Just go on the app, search your brand and make your shopping as you usually do.

Your Surprise Points will be shown just after the checkout in your application!

Surprise Points?

Our mechanism is pretty easy, you’ll be rewarded with Surprise Points, not directly euros, dollars or anything else. We’ll make a post to explain clearly what Surprise Points are but for now, you just need to know that their value can change (in terms of euros for example) and that you’re able to convert them directly to euros or whatever currency you want! 😄

And for those who are already crypto-addict, Surprise Points is an ERC-20 token and you’ll be able to check this article [tba] explaining why our product will strive seamlessly the crypto adoption!

You’re all set for earning Surprise Points from your online shopping! 🚀 Don’t hesitate to give us your feedback and we hope that you’ll enjoy your shopping journey with us!

Follow Surprise’s social channels to stay tuned !

• Like Surprise on Facebook
• Follow Surprise on Instagram
• Follow Surprise on Twitter
• Visit the Surprise official website.

Originally published at https://blog.surprise.io on July 2, 2019.

How to earn money while shopping online with the Surprise application? was originally published in Lum Network on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Sandblock launches Surprise, the new online-shopping mobile app that rewards its users with Surprise points.

Since the ICO, the whole Sandblock’s team has been working hard to create the future of loyalty and to provide a blockchain solution that can be broadly and seamlessly adopted. This is now time to unveil Surprise!

Surprise App & Web Extension

A new way to do online-shopping

Within the Surprise app, Surprise points are designed to be the new universal loyalty point. These new points are already distributed by more than 100 partner brands in France (including Amazon, Marks & Spencer, eBay, The Kooples, L’Oréal …). Our goal is to onboard 500 partner brands by July 2019.

By using Surprise mobile application, and its associated web extension, it is now possible to do shopping by more than 100 partner brands and to earn Surprise points. These points can be traded with euros and soon reused in our partners’ network.

So that we can provide our users the broadest possible range of choice, our partners include e-commerce platforms (Amazon, Cdiscount, eBay, AliExpress …), fashion brands (Nike, ArmorLux, Ray-Ban, Eden Park …), high-tech brands (Bose, Marshall …) travel brands (Vueling, Sixt, Oui.sncf …) and more!

For the moment, Surprise is only available in France. We will be extending our services to other countries in the coming months.

Surprise Points

The future of loyalty points

As you could guess, Surprise point is a fancy and mainstream name for the SAT token. We designed a solution so that SAT tokens can seamlessly circulate within Surprise application. However, before reaching a significant volume for SAT on crypto-exchanges, we had to peg the value of SAT on Bitcoin to guarantee the best experience for our users (a specific update on this topic will come in the coming months).

This is now time to adopt Surprise

And to spread Surprise points over the world !

We set up a thrilling referral program : for each friend you will invite to join Surprise, you will get 3€ and 20% bonus on top of his/her rewards, forever.👏

It is now up to you! Enjoy!

iPhone https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/surprise-shopping-rewards/id1447150735

Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.sandblock.surprise

Of course, all your feedbacks are more than welcome !

By the way, we wish to extend a huge thank you to all our community members for all their support. You have been amazing ! We really hope that you will love this product, and we will do our best to make it available in a growing number of countries.

Follow Surprise’s social channels to stay tuned !

New links to follow the Surprise project :

• Like Surprise on Facebook
• Follow Surprise on Twitter
• Visit the Surprise official Website.

3, 2, 1 … Surprise ! was originally published in Lum Network on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

After almost two years of idea and product iterations it was necessary to do some tidying and unify the Sandblock project branding.

It is now time to uncover Sandblock’s new look 🎉

New Satisfaction Token Icon

This is the main logo of the Sandblock project. Every product we build relies and revolves around the Satisfaction Token. This is why it makes perfect sense to have it at the very center of the Sandblock’s Project Branding.

New Product

Our first mobile application, formerly called “Sandblock mobile application” was originally built to showcase some of the capabilities of the Sandblock Project before the service public launch.
It quickly became a huge success within our community, heading far beyond its original showcase purpose. We knew this was the perfect tool to create, engage and manage our crypto-community.

Now, it is time to reach a much wider audience…

Introducing Surprise

Surprise now represents the original product and services introduced in our white paper at the beginning of the year.
Not released publicly yet, Surprise aims to simplify and improve the relationship between brands and their customers by providing a myriad of decentralized services.

More information about the future releases and our first partner Brands are coming soon, stay tuned…

Stay tuned

• Subscribe to our Newsletter
• Join our community on Telegram
• Follow us on Twitter & Facebook
• Visit the official project’s Website.

Sandblock Gets A New Look was originally published in Lum Network on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

New SAT Receive Feature

You now have the ability to transfer SAT from your personal wallet to your Sandblock mobile application. This will give you the opportunity to become a SAT holder and benefit from the premium advantages listed below!

New Premium Feature

It is time to become a real SAT holder!
You can now become a Premium Member on your Sandblock mobile application by “holding” SAT.

The premium feature enables you to lock between 200 and 3200 SAT for a period of 3 months (auto-renewed as long as you don’t cancel it).

By becoming premium you get:

• A reward bonus on all campaigns up to 20%
• A VIP pass to all campaigns (no limit for you!)
• Free transactions (no more fee for you)

Download Sandblock’s mobile application and become a SAT Holder today 🚀

• iOS application
• Android application

Join us and stay up to date!

• Subscribe to our Newsletter
• Join our community on Telegram
• Follow us on Twitter / Facebook / Reddit.
• Visit our Website.

Mobile App Update — Premium & SAT Receive feature! was originally published in Lum Network on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.