Project title: Tradedirect.io
Summary: Tradedirect.io is an escrow service for Stellar assets. It is similar to localbitcoins.com and facilitates peer to peer trades between fiat currencies and stellar assets.
Goals: The primary goal is to provide an easy way for people anywhere in the world to safely execute a person to person trade between fiat currencies and Stellar Assets through an escrow service. Tradedirect.io will function as said escrow service.
We want to provide an easy to use service and provide excellent customer support in order to make it as easy and secure for people to buy and sell Lumens and other Stellar assets.
Description: Tradedirect.io is an escrow service that facilitates trades between fiat currencies and Stellar tokens.
Trades between participants always start off by having the seller put the requested amount of the Stellar asset into our escrow wallet. Once the assets are in escrow, the buyer and seller can arrange for fiat payment. This can be done either through meeting in person or by completing fiat payment online. Once the fiat payment is done the agreed upon Stellar based assets can be claimed by the buyer into their Stellar wallet.
We have several use cases in mind where the Tradedirect.io platform can provide an added value over existing platforms:
Tradedirect.io provides a fiat to Stellar gateway for people who otherwise have no access to this option.
Tradedirect.io allows users to buy and sell Lumens and other Stellar tokens on the SDEX without having to deal with bitcoin as an intermediary token. This lowers the barrier entry for new users into the crypto ecosystem.
Tradedirect.io supports all Stellar based assets. This means that users can directly buy any token issued on the Stellar blockchain which can be great for future ICO’s using Stellar.
Tradedirect.io does collect KYC information. It is not mandatory for an escrow service like this but we are trying to serve the Stellar community and do not want to facilitate money laundering in any way.
Tradedirect.io commits to providing support for its users. We keep detailed history of every trade and all events that occur and we commit ourselves to resolve any disputes that should arise during trades if any would arise of course.
For our submissions into the SDF contest, we aim to have a fully working web application.
In the future, we aim to add several new features to our platform including:
A decentralized chat support system to aid users in using the application and to resolve disputes
Mobile friendly web application / mobile app
More extensive wallet interface
Tutorials
Marketing
In order to make the application as fast as possible and to help out the Stellar network we are running our own validator node ( can be found under tradedirect.io ).
Our operational costs to run all this are coming out of our own back pockets at the moment. We are planning on charging a small fee for using the service to help cover these costs. In this regard, we could really use some help with funding from the SCF in order to keep this fee minimal and to help us reach our future goals.
Links:https://www.tradedirect.io/
Team: Bas Moorkens is a software developer and cloud architect from Belgium. In his day job, he works as a consultant working mostly on enterprise software and cloud platforms.
He has a great interest in blockchain development and especially into Stellar. He believes that Stellar has the potential to revolutionize the way banking works in the future. He’s also a big fan of the Stellar developer community and the developer friendliness of the blockchain.
Garth Wells joined the Stellar community from the very start and is a fan of the of decentralized blockchains that don’t use mining. From outward appearances, it appears things have slowed a little but Garth is confident that many years from now Stellar will still be standing and providing a very useful service to the world of financial transactions. It is really great to get finally get Tradedirect.io out the door and it will be even better continuing to improve it in the nearest future.
