> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://emg-2.gitbook.io/captos-whitepaper/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://emg-2.gitbook.io/captos-whitepaper/captos.md). # CAPTOS An Aptos Web3 Project, bringing standardization to the ecosystem, for the people, by the people. ## Mint Price and Date :pushpin: Blockchain: Aptos\ Mint price: 0.5 APT Public | 0.25 APT WL\ Mint date: 25/10/22: 21:00:00 WL | 22:00:00 Public ( EST TIME )\ Mint Link: ### What is CAPTOS {% hint style="warning" %} CAPTOS, :cat2: Are they captive? :eyes: Save them from the void. :hole: {% endhint %} CAPTOS is an innovation and creativity driven project, 2,555 NFTs on the APTOS blockchain, were utility meets standardization.\ \ **Who are we?** We are builders looking for the standardization in launch and utility for communities.\ The CAPTOS community is created with one purpose, assure that every one knows the background of what a blockchain is and can do, how it can impact society in order to create common good, and bring the experience of a proper rewarding project to the APTO blockchain. We aim to merge web2 and web3 as a way to share with the world all the awesome use cases we have in web3 right now, bringing more value into the ecosystem and into people lives. \ A community IS NOT THE NUMBER OF FOLLOWERS. \ A community IS NOT A SHILL HUB. \ A community IS NOT A DATABASE OR EMAIL LIST. \ A community IS NOT A WHATSAPP GROUP. \ A community IS NOT A BROADCAST LIST. \ A community IS NOT YOUR CONTACT LIST ON YOUR PHONE. \ A community is a group of people who share common interests, interact, and have a sense of belonging, have an emotional bond with their peers within the community and that is what we aim to represent within CAPTOS community. ## Links :link: Discord: Twitter: Topaz: TBA Website: ## Some thoughts... :thought\_balloon: **We** are about to enter an impressive era, building the future, the way we interact with society, if you are interested in this topic an interesting adaptation to our near future awaits you. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Youtube, Twitch, to mention a few, are places on the internet where millions of people meet and interact every day, here we find communities of all niches, people communicating with their friends by video call, sending messages to their friends, also buying things through online stores, using credit lines from technology companies, consuming multimedia content and streaming video games. All these activities are the daily life of millions of people and are even the way many of them make a living, but there is a big problem. Scalability which is roughly speaking the ability to make something grow, today an average content creator creates content for **Youtube**, takes clips to upload it to Facebook and **TikTok**, takes his merch for sale with Shopify and publishes all his ads to the community on discord or twitter, however he lacks ownership over his content, all those videos, likes, followers and comments, do not belong to the content creator. All the information we give to the platforms where we interact is stored in the computers (servers) of these companies, therefore they own all that information, they are even the owners and creators of most of the processes of the businesses that use these technologies, so if one day these companies change the way their tool works, your **business** would have to change too, involving unnecessary **costs** and time or they could even totally block the access to the information that is supposed to be yours if they wanted to. To **solve** these problems, different technologies have been developing that come to evolve the way we interact with the internet, with the help of **web3**, blockchain technology and augmented reality. **First**, what is web 3? It is the evolution of the internet that we use today, which allows us to have services such as social networks, cloud computing, real-time services, among many others. It needs to be open and decentralized, platforms built on web 3, exist on open protocols that do not require third parties or intermediaries. For example, unlike a **centralized** social network like Facebook that exists on company computers, a decentralized web 3 social network exists on the computers of a decentralized network on the blockchain like Ethereum. The participants of these platforms own their **own** content and receive ownership of their profiles on the platforms. For example, in a decentralized social network your information belongs to **you** as a user not to the owner of the platform. This technology will allow us to create decentralized worlds or platforms where economies will exist by exchanging **digital assets**. These digital assets will be represented by money, contracts, properties, etc... Currently this technology already exists, however the use of it is very low due to the problems of scalability, user friendly interfaces, and standardization that it faces. First, what is a blockchain, think of it this way, the current internet is composed of various servers (computers) that we access every day like Facebook, Instagram, twitter. A **blockchain** represents the same but built in a different way, instead of accessing the computers of the companies, we access a network of "**private**" computers connected to each other, where the information of all these applications is stored, no one owns these applications because no one owns all the computers on the network, but this shared database exists thanks to the joint work of a community of people who come together to create the network. **Decentralized** networks or block chains such as Solana, **Aptos** and Ethereum, store applications that exist in parts in all computers in the network at the same time, these applications are known as Smart Contracts/Programs/Accounts, these pieces of software allow interacting with them through transactions. We need **standardization** in the technologies needed to build web 3 projects, as we need to develop these standards for massive adaptation by developers, thus facilitating the development path and obtaining a greater flow of decentralized application development. Virtual and augmented reality are also necessary technologies for the future vision of the internet, currently the company Meta, formerly Facebook is the one that dominates the virtual reality industry with its Meta Quest 2 device, and Apple dominates on the side of augmented reality, which although they do not have a device dedicated to this has been responsible for equipping their cell phones with augmented reality technology and has developed much technology needed to develop AR and XR applications. The biggest problems presented by these technologies fall in the hardware area with the need for more immersive devices that allow us to express body language and on the other hand, like web 2, decentralization. **Now we build!** **-CAPTOS team <3** ***"puuurrrrrrrrrrrr"*** :cat2: