[ANN][ZOOZ] La’Zooz: Decentralized Collaborative Transportation Web

[Matan Field]

This post has been prepared, and is being updated, collaboratively by the members of the La’Zooz community in order to update all interested parties and individuals about the “Whats and Hows” in La’Zooz community, product and project. Although the members of the community are doing their best to make this post accurate and complete, there can be no assurances in this regard.La’Zooz Mine The Gap LTD, a registered company in Israel,which acts as the formal representative of the community, is not taking any part in this post.

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The La’Zooz community is excited to share with you this first update before the launch of the Zooz token sale
 and the issuance of Zooz tokens. More updates will follow soon with more details.
We welcome and encourage a positive discussion.
                                          
Introduction
Transportation is one of the basic needs of society which hasn't been disrupted yet by the Internet evolution. It is still a wasteful,
time consuming, and unsustainable system to say the least.

La'Zooz is prepared to accomplish what is necessary to resolve this situation, namely through building a worldwide,
‘Collaborative Transportation Web.' Our vision is that this decentralized network will demonstrate the boundless possibilities that lie
where a community and a cryptographic token meet to answer a real life need. This represents the beginning of a genuine
decentralized transportation network which is managed and maintained by its community and user base.

We are putting our vision to the test by creating a Real-Time Ride-Sharing service. With RTRS,
users share only the costs of a ride a driver is taking anyway in their direction. RTRS is thus a “non-commercial”
service with minimal  ride rates and maximum efficiency. The service is opened to a large community of users,
larger than among other transportation solutions. La’Zooz aims to dramatically reduce congestion and parking scarcity related issues,
with a relatively small percentage of adoption, while rewarding its early users, developers and backers.


Strategy
Bottom Up - Gamification
La`Zooz is the only ridesharing application that incentivizes users to download and use the application before the actual
ridesharing service is running. It builds the network before the service and rewards early adopters with Zooz tokens, that will be used
to pay for the rides later on.
The La’Zooz community aims to develop its current mining app into a location based game that will derive the critical mass of users
at different areas around the globe at an accelerated pace. We believe that gamification is a strong tool to enhance cooperation among
users and that it will create a grassroot movement with the possibility to make a real change in the world.


Top Down - Cooperation
Building cooperation with leading local players can make a great impact on any community. Municipalities, public transportation providers,
large employers and community organizations are some of these players that can build, together with the La’Zooz community,
specific local services and features to attend to the unique transportation needs of the communities they serve.


All Around - Sharing Forces
By sharing data and user bases and by open APIs, La’Zooz offers a unique integration with other ride-sharing applications and services
(or any other sharing service). Users can be rewarded for sharing their location data with Zooz tokens and use these tokens later on
to pay for La’Zooz transportation services.


Zooz Token
Zooz is the token of movement
It is designed to create a sustainable economic model for transportation solutions. The Zooz economy will sustain its development,
user acquisition, customer service, creative needs etc. and eventually will be used to pay for the services.
The Zooz tokens will be used to reward drivers for sharing a ride. During the development period it will be used to reward all
contributors to the La`Zooz ecosystem

• Users (Road Miners)
• Developers
• Backers

Zooz tokens will be issued using the Omni layer on the bitcoin blockchain.
More details about the issuance and the sale of the zooz tokens to be published soon.


Zooz Distribution
The option that is created by blockchain and smart contracts technologies opens up the ability to code a sustainable economy
of global smart transportation into reality.Transportation is a basic human need at our times and bringing solutions and aid to
this field using new economic structure will bring the possibilities that are enabled by blockchain and smart contract technologies
into daily mainstream usage.

There are 3 ways to issue new zooz tokens in the La’Zooz ecosystem:


1.Road miners
Early adopters can download the La’Zooz mining application in order to “weave” the social-transportation web at their location.
“Road Miners” are being rewarded with Road Zooz tokens according to this protocol to encourage the ignition of the ride-sharing services
La’Zooz offers.
Road Zooz tokens are being distributed as a reward for early adopters who share their location data. Location data will  facilitate the
Real Time Ride Sharing service and other transportation solutions to be run on the La’Zooz platform.

Proof of movement (PoM) clarification: At this stage the PoM (proof of movement) heuristics are not all implemented yet.
We are using a model where Road Zooz (a different token than the Zooz token) are being distributed by using the mining application.
These tokens will be exchanged into Zooz tokens only upon using the service (e.g. sharing a ride with an endorsed user).

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Figure 4: Road Zooz distributed to users. Each dot is a road miner where
the x axis denotes the time each user joined the App

2.Development reward
To be published soon

3.Purchase
To be published soon

La`Zooz App Status
Mining app
A beta version of the mining application of La’Zooz is available on google play store. The application builds the network of future users of the service by gamifying the process (the gamification levels are still to be developed).
After registration, the app will run in the background whenever a user (aka Road Miner) is riding/driving faster than 20kmph, and will reward Road Miners with zooz tokens for sharing their location according to the Road Miners protocol.


First active ridesharing feature
The community is developing the first active ride-sharing feature these days. This “Last Mile” feature will enable La`Zooz users who take a train trip, to share their rides from the train station to their final destination.
Once on a train, the app will check for any co-passengers that are getting off at the same station and are heading for the same destination. The app will then match the passengers to share the ride to that destination.


Community growth
 
The La’Zooz community is putting lots of time and efforts to grow itself as it believes the community is the core key for success of the project and its most unique added value.
You can join the community through any of the following:

• Facebook page
• Twitter
• Website
• Join the discussion on La’Zooz thread on Bitcoin Forum
• Download the app and become a Road Miner (Android only for now).
• Or… keep reading.

“Everything that is really great and inspiring
 is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
-Albert Einstein

Join Us

Contributing to La`Zooz project is being rewarded with zooz tokens, using a weighted voting mechanism
(details to be published very soon).
All are welcome to join the development community or just send an email to - info at lazooz.org

Lazooz User Map

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Core Team:

Shay Zluf
Eitan Katchka  
Oren Sokolowsky  

contact: info@lazooz.org

Media

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[peled1986]

Great to see innovation. watching

[DonQuijote]

Welcome to cryptoworld and good luck!

[davisgreen]

Something very different to bring crypto to the masses- lets see what does crypto community make of it.

I would say- if you are on bct be ready for a lot of spam and trolling on the thread.

And I will be watching. Wishing you all the best.

Just one starting question- it says beta app launch in 6 days, does that mean ZooZ will be mine-able through the app once i keep the app running and in my pocket while travelling!

So does that mean your planned IPO will be released and finished before the app release or you are planning to do it simultaneously!.

In any case. Wish you best of luck.

[Lokda]

I'm watching, good luck.

[Elokane]

I've been following these guys since the first hackathon they participated in and won. Good to see it go live!

Good luck guys. This is a project that, if it succeeds, can really change the world in a positive way.

[tlackyang]

dev, what time the official launch, set the countdown and update detailed information,
IPO?ICO OR POW，thank you!

[majeis]

Welcome to cryptoworld and good luck!

My sentiments, exactly.

[Matan Field]

Thanks guys!   

The app will be launched in beta but on a testing phase until the crowdsale.

At the first stage it'll "mine" off-chain "potential zooz". (Investors and contributors, though, will receive real Zooz tokens once the protocol becomes active.)

"potential zooz" are there:

• to ensure road-miners participate in the collaborative transportation web (CTW) once established
• not to dilute the ecosystem 

The early-stage "potential zooz" will be replaced with real zooz through real operation on the CTW, whether as a driver or a rider (if ridesharing).

Also, in the first stage of the app release, the road-mining algorithms are still going under changes and improvements.

We'd like at a later stage to have enough fund to mine also potential zooz on the blockchain (right now, on MSC and CP, each issuance of new zooz requires ~3 bitcoin's tx fees, which can get to a lot of fees when there's a lot of users, even when aggregating daily mileage).

Crowdsale will open as soon as we establish our legal entity, which is something that we're working on and requires a lot of originality and resources (due to our genuine demand-based mining protocol, issuing zooz tokens per-demand -- see in a link within the post).

We'll have the crowdsale and "production"-phase app start operate at the same time.

[Nthused]

Another to watch.

[adloule13]

not bad 

[devrilz]

looks interesting will watch this

[elelegzet]

 Very interesting. Proof-of-Movement is very vulnerable point I guess. You should describe it more. How do you verify the 'movement data'?

[mishax1]

Sounds cool. Will try it right away ! 

[Elokane]

You should look into what CheckCoin is doing against GPS-spoofing.

[bitwhizz]

watch

[Equate]

Looking forward to how this project moves forward , good luck.

[OrenZooz]

Very interesting. Proof-of-Movement is very vulnerable point I guess. You should describe it more. How do you verify the 'movement data'?

There are various ways we could verify a user movement.

One of them is to cross and analyze information which the application collect from all client.
The general idea is to collect from the client a set of environmental information and data (e.g WiFi,BT,CellId..etc)  which are related to its reported location.
Then we could cross it with other information and with  other users reports, analyze it and verify that the location provided by a specific user is a real one.
Another one is to apply a set of heuristics on the client movement and routes and to check these are reasonable.

In addition there are also some heuristics and methods we could use to verify that the user is a real one and not a BOT.(proof of identity).

[erwin45]

wow, im amazed, this is a new innovation, ill be watching 

[itsAj]

I always like new innovation watching closely. Mobile mining is great.