CampusCoin is a university-exclusive, peer-to-peer task marketplace and social community. It is designed to empower students to monetize their skills and seamlessly get help with day-to-day campus needs—ranging from debugging code and tutoring to running local errands.
Instead of handling sensitive financial transactions directly on our servers, the platform leverages a secure hybrid payment system:
- 📱💸 Fiat Settlements: Real money is transferred safely between students using standard UPI deep-linking (PhonePe, GPay, Paytm).
- 🛡️🪙 Utility Tokens: A virtual token called CampusCoins is used to manage platform trust, prevent spam, and reward positive community engagement.
- 📝 Posting a Task A student needs help (e.g., "Fix my React bug for ₹100"). They post this task to the campus marketplace.
- 🤝 Expressing Interest Another student sees the task and clicks the "100% Interested" button. This immediately opens a secure, private chat room between the two peers.
- 💬 Negotiation Inside the chat, the two students discuss the technical requirements, scope of work, and agree on a final price.
- 💳 Payment via UPI Once the work is delivered, the task poster clicks a "Pay" button inside the chat. This generates a deep-link that automatically opens their preferred UPI app on their device, pre-filled with the exact agreed amount and the helper's secure UPI ID. The payment is settled safely outside the app, and a receipt is automatically logged in the chat.
CampusCoins are not a 1:1 replacement for real money. They act as "trust tokens" that keep the platform ecosystem balanced, spam-free, and running smoothly.
To maintain high quality, certain actions require burning coins:
- 📌 Listing Fees: It costs a small amount of coins to post a task. This prevents malicious users from spamming the feed with fake or low-effort requests.
- 🎯 Application Fees: It costs coins to click "100% Interested," stopping people from blindly applying to every single job on the board without intent to complete them.
- 🚀 Visibility Boosts: Students can spend a larger chunk of coins to "Boost" their task, pinning it to the top of the feed with a neon highlight so it gets noticed and completed faster.
Students are rewarded for contributing positively to the campus ecosystem:
- 🏆 Good Citizen Bounties: When a student successfully completes a task and the poster approves it, the platform automatically rewards the helper with fresh coins. (Anti-Cheat Note: The coin reward for completing a task is mathematically lower than the fee required to post one, making it impossible for friends to "farm" fake tasks for infinite coins).
- 🌟 Community Karma: Students earn coins when their posts on the "Flex" community feed (e.g., sharing study notes, offering a skill) receive likes and engagement from their peers.
- ✅ Milestones & Streaks: Students earn baseline coins for verifying their
.eduuniversity email, fully completing their profile, or simply maintaining a daily login streak.
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