# BSV Radar
### Project Overview * **Project Name:** BSV Radar * **Geographic Reach:** Global * **Industry:** Blockchain / Web3 Community Tools * **Website:** * **BSV Integration:** Live for micropayment tipping, with broader BSV feature expansion planned ### Executive Summary BSV Radar is a community directory and professional network for the BSV ecosystem. It helps users discover active apps, helps builders find collaborators, and gives the ecosystem a credible public reference point that counters the perception of inactivity. ### Business Challenge **Industry Problem:** The BSV ecosystem includes applications across identity, gaming, micropayments, timestamping, and enterprise tooling. Yet discoverability remained weak. New users struggled to find active products, and builders often worked in isolation. **Market Context:** Outside the community, BSV was often perceived as inactive. Inside the community, users lacked a clear way to find where to spend and use BSV, while developers lacked shared best practices around UX, onboarding, and marketing. **Specific Problem:** BSV Radar addresses the absence of a central, searchable, community-driven directory for the ecosystem. It combines app discovery, social proof, and professional networking in one place. **Limitations of Traditional Systems:** * Forum posts, social threads, and static lists did not support structured search or ongoing curation. * Informal channels did not provide credible validation, reputation signals, or durable ecosystem visibility. * Builders needed more than listings — they needed shared infrastructure for onboarding, discovery, and collaboration. * Many users expect internet content to be free, so any monetisation model had to let them experience value before paying. ### Why BSV Blockchain? **Key Selection Criteria:** * Stable protocol — provides a dependable foundation for a long-lived public ecosystem resource. * Low fees and high throughput — make direct tipping and future pay-per-feature mechanics practical. * SPV support — enables lightweight verification without requiring users to run full nodes. * UTXO-based architecture — supports a lawful, privacy-preserving data model suitable for long-term trust. **BSV Features Utilised:**
MicropaymentsEnables direct tipping and creates a path toward practical pay-per-feature monetisation
Stable ProtocolProvides a reliable base for a persistent community directory and networking platform
SPVSupports lightweight verification and improves accessibility for client-side use cases
Identity InfrastructureSupports Sigma Identity for passwordless, blockchain-anchored authentication
Future ExtensibilityCreates a foundation for later use of smart contracts, tokenisation, data storage, and overlay networks
### Solution Architecture **System Overview:** BSV Radar operates as a community-curated application directory combined with a professional network for the BSV ecosystem. It brings together app-store style discovery, community reviews, reputation signals, and profile-based networking. **Key Technical Components:** * App discovery across categories, newest, trending, top-rated, most-reviewed, and alphabetical views. * Detailed app listings with project links, contextual descriptions, and information on BSV features used. * User profiles showing reputation, activity history, organisational memberships, and skills. * Review and reputation systems, including one upvote per user and contributor XP for approved submissions. * Authentication through Google and GitHub, with Sigma Identity integration for BSV-native passwordless login. * Additional community modules including jobs, classifieds, blog content, tipping, and a graveyard of defunct projects. * Onboarding flows, guidance for first-time users, and Quests that connect structured learning paths to relevant apps and tools. ### Implementation Process **Deployment Status:** BSV Radar was built and deployed within one month. The platform is live and continues to expand as a public discovery and collaboration hub for the BSV ecosystem. **Current Adoption:** * The platform was created by a solo builder known as Crumbs, whose design-led approach focused on usability and low friction. * Early work focused on manually seeding listings to overcome the empty-marketplace problem and make the directory useful from day one. * BSV Radar is seeking investment to expand into a more comprehensive hub for app discovery, events, and hackathon infrastructure. ### Outcomes & Business Impact **Quantitative Impact:** * 140 live apps and tools catalogued, and growing. * 261 defunct apps preserved in the graveyard section. * 116 registered users on the platform. * 16 organisations listed. * 16 ecosystem categories covered. **Qualitative Benefits:** * Improved discoverability — users and builders can now find BSV applications through one searchable destination. * Stronger ecosystem visibility — the platform counters the narrative that BSV is inactive by showing both current and historical activity. * Better collaboration — user profiles and reputation systems help developers, designers, marketers, and investors find each other. * Reduced builder isolation — contributors can identify parallel efforts and share knowledge on onboarding, UX, and marketing. ### Challenges & Mitigations **Key Challenges:** * Critical mass — a directory is only useful once it contains enough quality listings to feel active. * Submission friction — detailed listings are valuable, but long submission flows deter contributors. * BSV acquisition barriers — some potential users still find it difficult to obtain BSV. * Monetisation expectations — many users expect discovery tools to be free before they are willing to pay. **How BSV Helped:** * Low-cost transactions made tipping and future usage-based monetisation models realistic. * Stable protocol support gave the platform a dependable base for long-term ecosystem infrastructure. * Native identity and verification capabilities created a path toward stronger trust and richer community features. **Lessons Learned:** * Community platforms need visible activity early — nobody wants to join an empty directory. * Let users experience value before introducing heavier monetisation or access controls. ### Future Vision **Scaling Plans:** * Expand Quests as guided, gamified learning paths for beginners, developers new to blockchain, cross-chain developers, and existing BSV builders. * Grow developer monetisation tools that help listed apps acquire paying users. * Add hackathon infrastructure and event registration capabilities through ecosystem partnerships. * Build stronger collaboration tools for developers, designers, marketers, and investors. **BSV Roadmap:** * Deepen use of BSV-native identity and payment flows as the platform matures. * Explore additional BSV capabilities including smart contracts, tokenisation, data storage, and overlay networks. ### About BSV Radar BSV Radar is building the discovery and collaboration layer for the BSV ecosystem. 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