Here is a clearer explanation. DeDe is not a courier service and not a gig app. It is only infrastructure, a smart contract protocol.
DeDe is not an app, not a marketplace and not a company. It is a tiny delivery settlement rail that sits on Ethereum, similar to how Bitcoin sits under money transfers and Matrix sits under messaging. Those systems do not provide apps or account systems, they provide rails. DeDe works the same way but for physical delivery.
This is what the protocol actually does. Anyone can register a parcel on chain as an NFT. The sender deposits the parcel value into escrow, because the escrow amount represents the value of the item/parcel/delivery. Anyone who wants to can pick up a parcel and deliver it. It is completely voluntary and there are no assignments, no scheduling and no forced routes. The smart contract holds the escrow until both sides confirm that the parcel arrived. When they agree, the contract releases the payment to the carrier and takes a 0.5 percent transaction fee from the escrow. It is a transaction fee, NOT a parcel fee. The remaining 99.5 percent goes to the carrier.
If someone builds an app or a marketplace on top of DeDe and decides to charge an additional service fee, that fee belongs to that external service. It is outside the protocol, outside the smart contract and outside DeDe entirely. For example, if a carrier receives 95 percent of the parcel value, DeDe still only took 0.5 percent as the transaction fee, while the other 4.5 percent would be the fee of that particular app or marketplace. DeDe does not define or control those business models.
There is no app, no login system, no surveillance layer, no tracking and no central operator baked into DeDe. Those things, if anyone wants them, are built by others. A future marketplace built on top of DeDe becomes a kind of free for all UPS or DHL where senders and carriers meet, but all settlement still flows through the trustless contract. That part is the only responsibility of DeDe.
Carriers can choose any parcel they want. If a parcel matches their daily route, it is efficient and reduces the number of trucks in cities, but they can also deliver completely unrelated parcels if that is what they prefer. with what kind of transport they prefer. Everything is voluntary.
The trust comes from the smart contract. It does not track or identify anyone. It simply releases money when both sides confirm delivery. That is the entire mechanism, a neutral settlement layer for physical logistics. Everything above that, including apps, marketplaces and business logic, belongs to the people who build on top of it.
Here is a clearer explanation. DeDe is not a courier service and not a gig app. It is only infrastructure, a smart contract protocol.
DeDe is not an app, not a marketplace and not a company. It is a tiny delivery settlement rail that sits on Ethereum, similar to how Bitcoin sits under money transfers and Matrix sits under messaging. Those systems do not provide apps or account systems, they provide rails. DeDe works the same way but for physical delivery.
This is what the protocol actually does. Anyone can register a parcel on chain as an NFT. The sender deposits the parcel value into escrow, because the escrow amount represents the value of the item/parcel/delivery. Anyone who wants to can pick up a parcel and deliver it. It is completely voluntary and there are no assignments, no scheduling and no forced routes. The smart contract holds the escrow until both sides confirm that the parcel arrived. When they agree, the contract releases the payment to the carrier and takes a 0.5 percent transaction fee from the escrow. It is a transaction fee, NOT a parcel fee. The remaining 99.5 percent goes to the carrier.
If someone builds an app or a marketplace on top of DeDe and decides to charge an additional service fee, that fee belongs to that external service. It is outside the protocol, outside the smart contract and outside DeDe entirely. For example, if a carrier receives 95 percent of the parcel value, DeDe still only took 0.5 percent as the transaction fee, while the other 4.5 percent would be the fee of that particular app or marketplace. DeDe does not define or control those business models.
There is no app, no login system, no surveillance layer, no tracking and no central operator baked into DeDe. Those things, if anyone wants them, are built by others. A future marketplace built on top of DeDe becomes a kind of free for all UPS or DHL where senders and carriers meet, but all settlement still flows through the trustless contract. That part is the only responsibility of DeDe.
Carriers can choose any parcel they want. If a parcel matches their daily route, it is efficient and reduces the number of trucks in cities, but they can also deliver completely unrelated parcels if that is what they prefer. with what kind of transport they prefer. Everything is voluntary.
The trust comes from the smart contract. It does not track or identify anyone. It simply releases money when both sides confirm delivery. That is the entire mechanism, a neutral settlement layer for physical logistics. Everything above that, including apps, marketplaces and business logic, belongs to the people who build on top of it.
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