Intro
With the rise of virtual cryptocurrency, blockchain has come into people's sight and is currently in a period of rapid development. It is the most promising decentralized and distributed ledger technology at present. The traditional tourism industry is facing severe challenges and it urgently needs digital technology to improve the quality of service experience and storage security. Blockchain, as an emerging technology, brings new opportunities to the tourism industry as it provides a trusted platform for travel companies and tourists. In this paper, to address the challenges and for a real-world prototype development, we propose Gemiverse, a blockchain-based professional certification and travel platform that offers specialized solutions to meet challenges and focuses on building immersive experiences. To this end, we designed Gemiverse's system architecture to connect companies and visitors in the form of trust. We also provide Gemiverse operation process to ensure the smooth operation of Gemiverse. Finally, we propose three development stages of Gemiverse and conduct scene application tests. Gemiverse will be a place for entertainment and learning, which is designed to be integrated into Metaverse, and it will evolve over time.
Our vision
In this paper, we propose Gemiverse, an online platform based on blockchain technology, which can provide professional certification and tourism services to the public.
Our vision is to build the first edutainment platform where millions of players can turn their passion for career learning into real assets. Our goal is to build this online travel world with user-friendly service and high technology, integrating Gemiverse into metaverse. So far, all our members have been involved in our decision-making process and are constantly working towards our goals. We plan to lead the future of professional certification and online travel by demonstrating excellence in the following areas:
Fun mobile professional learning gameplay. It has been planned to combine career sims and socially-focused games to engage players and ideally keep them engaged for years to come.
Learn-and-earn mechanics. Players can also earn NFTs and tokens while learning, and earn leaderboards and seasonal awards. We are on a journey to disrupt the professional skills training industry and build the future of learning and earning.
Community driven incentives. The community brings value to the game, that's for sure. Gemiverse will engage and reward the community for contributing to the growth of the entire ecosystem and empower creators to build long-term businesses in the Gemiverse metaverse.
Highly accessibility. Gemiverse will be available on iOS and Android, making it hyper accessible to everyone. It allows players to enjoy instant and gas-free transactions, ultimately unaware they are using the blockchain.
Blockchain development
The blockchain 1.0
era took place in 2008. When human beings have made the development of people and things incisively and vividly in the glorious course of the Internet, new breakthroughs have brought us imagination space. A new concept called "blockchain" has emerged, the technical property of which is its connection between things. The first application derived from blockchain was "Bitcoin", which was used as a blockchain platform for developing applications, especially financial applications. In this era, various cryptocurrencies were developed (Nakamoto, 2008).
The blockchain 2.0
era happened in 2014. A bitcoin-inspired programmer first came up with a concept that was considered "the next generation of cryptocurrencies and decentralized application platforms." It was later designed as an application platform called Ethereum, which uses the blockchain as the underlying technology and the concept of "smart contracts" that allow any individual or business to build or run services on it (Wood, 2014).
The blockchain 3.0
era began in 2015 and has continued to this day. Hyperledger is an open source project initiated by the Linux Foundation to advance blockchain digital technology and transaction verification (Androulaki et al., 2018). It allows members to work together to build an open platform for tracking and transacting in a secure, efficient and cost-effective manner by creating open standards for distributed ledgers. Fabric is the representative platform of the blockchain 3.0 era. The biggest difference between it and other blockchain systems is that it is a private and permissioned network.