According to the 2016 Emoji Report, 92% of all users are already using visual microcontent: emojis, GIFs, stickers and more.

A lot of the time, these content types come built-in with a messaging platform. For example, if you use Facebook, you’ve seen their sticker store.

And this is nifty. There are many options to choose from, and most of them are free.

Having said that, what if you want stickers that don’t exist in the Facebook sticker marketplace — or want to take stickers and use them elsewhere, like in a business newsletter?

Turns out, not a whole lot.

This is why Mobigraph made XPRESSO and Qugo. These marketplaces help brands and individuals create highly expressive personalized content for use in social media, or for in-house work.

To date, these marketplaces have 750,000+ users and over 12 million GIF impressions per month. Demand for personalized content is strong, and with few other options on the market, XPRESSO and Qugo are valuable tools for hundreds of thousands of users.

And that’s the state of personalized content today. Large social platforms are letting casual users buy or download custom visuals. Advanced users and brands are using XPRESSO, Qugo and their own in-house capabilities to make their own content.

All of this brings us to the big problem with personalized content today. The problem is as follows.

Users want personalized content. Platforms like Facebook sell some personalized content, but casual users can’t do much with it after buying. Platforms like XPRESSO and Qugo fill the gap by giving users a way to buy and commission their own visuals — but demand still outstrips supply.

And that’s the big problem with personalized content today.

Bridging the demand-supply gap could take personalized content from a billion-dollar industry to tens of billions of dollars in annual sales. It could give tens of thousands of content creators work. And it could accomplish both goals while providing value (and saving money) for end users.

This is where PEP Network with its decentralized blockchain platform for content marketplace comes into play.

To know more, please visit https://gopep.network

PEP Network introduces a self-sustaining and lucrative economic model to trade customizable content. A new cryptocurrency “PEP Tokens” at the core of this distributed digital economy is designed to drive the value exchange across the ecosystem.

PEP tokens are a new way to earn and spend based on personalizable and self expressive content. PEP tokens can be earned and spent by all the participants of ecosystem. PEP tokens hold value across all the digital services within the ecosystem thus enhancing the economic possibilities for a real-world value.

Some of the PEP token uses in the ecosystem are as follows:

1. Create copyrighted customizable content using Studios by subscription

2. Develop apps (AR/ VR/ Keyboard/ Social media/ Games) which can access content marketplace using API/ SDK upon subscription

3. Sell customizable/ customized content usage rights to consumers
a. Rights to consumers could be unlimited/ time bound usage, non-exclusive/ exclusive etc.
b. The price for the content sale is solely determined by the creator and the payment is recorded on blockchain

4. Transfer the ownership of content to another participant. This means all rights on the content is transferred and the buyer owns all the rights of the content. The price for the content ownership is solely determined by the owner and the payment is recorded on blockchain

5. Content auction (creation)
a. Creators can participate in bidding to create specific contents. In this case the content will be owned by the initiator of the bid and not by the creator

6. Content auction (sale)
a. Content owners can initiate a content sale bidding for contents owned by them. Copyright would be transferred to the successful bidder

7. Participate in rendering/ transcoding personalized content to create shareable formats like Gifs/ Mp4/ Jpeg

8. Purchase usage rights for customizable content

9. Personalize and share customizable content on possessing content rights

In summary, PEP Token is the digital currency meant for value exchange between participants within PEP Ecosystem

➡️For more information visit our website and read our whitepaper https://gopep.network

PEP Network introduces content that can be runtime personalized by a user by creating their own 3D avatar, adding custom text in any language and by choosing themes and styles.

These customizations of content needs to be rendered into formats like GIF/mp4 that can be shared across any social medium. This real-time rendering at scale is currently made possible by hosting Mobigraph’s M3D rendering engine on the centralized compute providers like AWS.

PEP Network exposes a set of APIs that developers can use to create new or add to their existing apps or businesses. To allow for large scale adoption these API’s are charged at a very nominal price in PEP Tokens.

As scale increases and because of higher operating expenses due to centralized cloud providers the API cost can increase and make it economically not viable for many developers & businesses.

This economic viability can hamper the growth of the Network. The further centralized software is prone to known attacks like DDoS making PEP Network unable to process any customization for the duration of the attack.

To mitigate this problem we are introducing a new blockchain based distributed rendering protocol, where the render needs of the PEP Network are served not only by any centralized cloud compute provider but by anyone that has excess computing power.

Any individual that has compute power to spare can install an executable or app, that leases this excess power to the PEP Network rendering needs. Any nodes that successfully completes rendering tasks for PEP Network is remunerated by PEP Tokens.

Because no one is hosting a dedicated machine and just giving away what is excess, the cost of rendering at scale will be much cheaper. This cost benefit will be passed on to the developer via cheaper API.

Blockchain technology allows us to implement this distributed rendering protocol in a streamlined fashion. All rendering activities are recorded initially off chain and eventually on the blockchain as proof of render.

All token pledges are locked in smart contracts and the render reward payouts are recorded in blockchain as well — This ensures trust less value transfer between PEP Network & the render farmer.

➡️For more information visit our website and read our whitepaper https://gopep.network

Anyone with any computing power to spare can be a render farmer on PEP Network.

Even a person with a high-end smartphone and a strong bandwidth can be a successful render farmer.

PEP Network is the first project which allows smartphone users to be remunerated by leasing their excess compute power.

This is possible due to the M3D rendering engine.

M3D Rendering engine’s following properties make it possible to be hosted even on a smartphone

• Lightweight: Size of the main executable is around 1 MB
  

• Fast: Renders at 60 FPS on a smartphone, has capability to render at higher speeds on workstations and servers
  

• Energy efficient: Rendering for one hour with M3D is equivalent to watching a video for one hour on a smartphone
  

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Along with partnerships with big businesses we have very simple REST API based interface that can be used by any indie developer.

They can use the expression API to create new apps/experiences or uplift the engagement of their existing apps.

In the whitepaper, we have explained how we design the blockchain protocol which will help to keep the cost of these API at a minimum.

PEP Network rendering API/SDK are wrapped around M3D rendering & customization features.

Once the user buys the content, he can use M3D’s features to customize the content in many different ways.

M3D understands all customizations and renders the content and exports in the desired format.

From a bird's eye view M3D is composed of the following components:

• Mobi parser
• Animation player
• Avatar manager
• Text renderer
• 3D renderer
• Encoder modules

M3D is integrated to content creation tool and the rendering API/ SDK making it one of the core technologies of PEP Network

➡️For more information visit our website and read our whitepaper https://gopep.network

We have multiple growth strategies to acquire users for PEP Network.

Let's discuss Partnerships:
We have signed up few partners already for our current business and we will strive to bring their users to the ecosystem with partner rewards and incentive system. Following are the existing partners of our business.

Apps — Keypad, Messaging, Camera etc.
Current Partners: TouchPal Keypad (700 million users)

Ongoing: Top Keyboard Companies, Top Messaging Companies, Top Internet Company, Top GIF companies

Augmented Reality Apps
Current Partner: 4lio- World’s First AR Contact app SwipeStudio- No 1 SnapChat Geofilter Maker

Ongoing: Top Indian Messaging App

ChatBot companies
Current Partner: Machaao — Sports Prediction Bot with 100K Daily Active Users

Ongoing: Storytelling Bot, Healthcare Bot and more to come

Ad tech companies and Ad agencies
Current Partner: SwipeStudio (SnapChat Video Ads)

Ongoing: Top Mobile Ad Network, Top European Native Ad Agency, Top Social Media Agency and more

Future Partnerships:
Smartphone market is dominated by Top players like Samsung, Apple, Huawei, Lenovo etc. are looking for innovative expressive technology. Top messaging apps like Messenger, Whatsapp, KIK, Line, KakaoTalk, Hike are looking for new ways to make their users express. Top keyboard companies like TouchPal, KIKA, SwiftKey etc. are actively looking for new creative and fun tech to boost their engagement. We have already invested time in building relationships with few of the above said companies and active discussions are on towards partnerships. Partnership deals will bring enormous users to the ecosystem and thereby increase the utility demand of the PEP token.

  For more information visit our website and read our whitepaper https://gopep.network

PEP Network is an upcoming ICO whose prospects looks good. As mentioned in their whitepaper, their ecosystem comprises 4 stakeholders: Artists, Developers, Render farmers and Consumers. PEP ecosystem allows them to transact value within the ecosystem in exchange for PEP Tokens. It's a scalable, self-sustaining model, that looks very promising on papers. The best part is that the render farmers can earn PEP tokens by renting idle computing power of their PC and even a smartphone.

Website: https://gopep.network
Presale dates: 30th May to 14th June
Public Sale: 20th June to 20th July

I would recommend you to invest during their Pre-Sale to earn bonus.

My favorite coin is PEP tokens. It's the first blockchain render protocol for personalizable content marketplace.
Anyone can earn PEP by renting compute power even on a smartphone.