The best way to interact with Bitcoin applications is through UC portfolio company HandCash’s mobile app. It is available for download in the Apple and Android stores.
Once you set up your account, please send us your handle and we will top it up with $5 worth of BSV. Once your HandCash is set up and funded we recommend you check out the following apps, all of which you can connect to you HandCash account to serve as the sign-in and wallet: Duro Dogs, TDPX, Haste Arcade, Twetch, and Peergame.
Duro Dogs
Duro Dogs is a NFT digital pet game built with NFTY Jigs, a market leading solution to create and manage NFTs at massive scale. In Duro Dogs, users can create one-of-a-kind dogs then train, feed, and level them up earning NFT cosmetics along the way. Unlike other popular NFT games, Duro Dogs is not focused on scarcity and speculation. Because of NFTY Jigs’ market leading efficiency, Duro Dogs and the other in-game NFTs are able to be sold for as little as $0.10 and at enormous volume, enabling large scale games to implement NFTs at a price point their users will be able to afford.
Because all of the items in Duro Dogs are efficient NFTs, users can also bring their dog into other games and applications. To try this navigate to RuffRunner.app or access it through the Park in the Duro Dogs menu.
Check out Duro Dogs and start playing for free to get a sneak peek at how NFTs will transform the future of gaming.
TDXP
(TDXP.app)
TDXP is one of the fastest growing derivatives exchanges in the world right now and its growing largely thanks to the UI/UX improvements which Bitcoin enables. Users of TDXP can enter and close derivatives trades instantly from their HandCash wallets in trade sizes as small as $0.01. TDXP offers users access to contracts for difference for major crypto currencies, stocks, commodities, forex, and indices.
TDXP also lets users effectively take a stake in the house by funding their on chain insurance pool to receive a portion of trader losses for over a predetermined period of time.
They have a great FAQ on the mechanism they use for the insurance pool here and here.
Haste Arcade
Haste Arcade is transforming how games are able to monetize through their Instant Leaderboard Payout (ILP) incentive mechanism. With ILP, users are able to profit through their gameplay by accumulating thousands (and soon millions and billions) of tiny payments. Imagine you are at an old school physical arcade. You go to play PacMan and you put your quarter into the machine. What if, instantly, upon dropping your $0.25 into the machine, everyone on the PacMan leaderboard received a fraction of your entry fee.
First place got $0.10, second $0.05, third through tenth got $0.01 each, and the arcade owner kept the remaining $0.05. If you took the first place spot then you received payouts for each subsequent player.
This would be great for gamers and game developers if millions of people could play on that PacMan machine. This is what Haste Arcade brings to the internet where millions of DAU is the norm for popular games. This simple but innovative ILP is transforming gaming and Haste is building the tools to make incorporating this mechanism into your game simple.
Visit the Haste Arcade to try some of these games out for yourself.
TWETCH
Twetch is disrupting web2’s social media paradigm where users generate content for “free” platforms which then monetize their data attention through ads. Twetch = Etching Tweets to Bitcoin. When users post a Twetch they are paying a small $0.02 payment to encrypt the data that post and write it onto the Bitcoin ledger. Users who like or retweet (“branch” in Twetch lingo) content send tiny micropayments to the creator of the content.
This creates a interconnected graph of value distribution where high value content is rewarded and the platform monetizes through providing a useful UI to access this data, rather than selling user data or showing them ads. On Twetch, users maintain ownership of their content.
Users let Twetch access this data so long as it serves them. If Twetch begins mistreating users, they could move to a competitive platform that serves the same data and bring their post history, followers, following, etc with them.
Twetch is a true example of a web3 social media platform.
PEERGAME
Peergame was one of the first successful user facing application on BSV. They are a real money gaming platform that (like TDXP) enables play in tiny increments of money with instant settlement to and from your wallet. They also use random numbers generated on chain to create provably fair game results. At first, Peergame was just Bitto a provably fair lottery game. Today they have expanded to include coin games, dice games, traditional casino games like roulette, and card games like Baccarat.
Their “Bitto” lottery game demonstrates the advantage of using Bitcoin to make games provably fair. The gist is that they treat the ending digits of block hashes like random numbers which are publicly drawn. If you buy a lottery ticket your lottery number is the last 4 digits of your entry payments transaction ID. When the predetermined block is reached they match the last 4 digits of your TxID against the last 4 digits of the block hash. If the last digit matches you win small, if all 4 match you win big.
Winners are paid out instantly back into their HandCash wallets. You can learn more details about the fairness mechanics here.
RUN is a simple way to create interactive tokens and items on Bitcoin using Javascript. Their website is aimed at developers currently and mainly points to their SDK, documentation, and tutorials, all of which are extremely thorough and have enabled even first time coders to launch tokens and create apps around them.
RelayX is a wallet that is focusing on Bitcoin tokens, and RUN in particular. They have created an on chain exchange which is accessible through their wallet. Sell orders for RUN tokens (token types ranging from loyalty points to NFT artwork) are placed in app and when a buyer accepts the offer the exchange of BSV for RUN tokens is executed on chain.
Many of the tokens sold on RelayX today are playful experiments but the tooling that is being built to support the ecosystem is maturing quickly.
FYX/Cryptofights
(https://www.fyxgaming.com/ and https://www.cryptofights.io/)
For an example of an especially polished use of RUN check out gaming company FYX and their flagship game Cryptofights.
Cryptofights is a turn-based fighting game with the level of visuals and graphics that players of games like League of Legends would be used to. Check out a video here. What’s unique about cryptofights is that player characters and game items are ownable items stored on chain via RUN. Gameplay itself is even recorded on chain which has various benefits from simply recording the history of players performed as well as how items were used to identify and preventing cheating which is a growing problem in competitive e-sports.
Cryptofights is the first of many games from FYX which is making tools to proliferate the development of this type of game. It is in public beta now so you can join here and play today.
Bitcoin Files
Bitcoin Files is the easiest way to upload data on chain and provides users with a familiar directory interface to organize and access on chain files. We often store our own materials on chain via Bitcoin Files which lets us timestamp the information as well as access a low cost content delivery network built on Bitcoin.
SymRe
SymRe is an incredibly simple application but its simplicity highlights its value. SymRe shortens links. That’s it. But it does so with this clean interface. It’s clean because it doesn't need to bother you with ads to make money. It monetizes by charging you a fraction of a penny for the simple service of shortening your link and pointing to the original on chain. We imagine many simple microservice like this proliferating in the future thanks to access to electronic cash.
(Compare SymRe to a service like bitly.com to appreciate how much nicer it is to use an informal cash relationship for this type of service.)
Let us know if you want more apps to check out.
It's a longer list than what we mentioned here and it's growing quickly!