Do you have a favorite day of the week? That’s about to change, unless Wednesday is already your favorite day. WednesdayCoin was created to celebrate Wednesday by spreading fun and WED to all who desire it. The coin was conceived to build up community knowledge on the features of smart contracts, and most importantly to provide a unique offering to slow down the 24/7 intense pace of crypto by way of a weekly coin (while maximizing fun!). Join the reddit community to find weekly giveaways, games, sweepstakes, and much more on (you guessed it) Wednesday. They are the second project to partner with Parachute Token, so number two in the series of articles about Parachute Partners.

WednesdayCoin truly is a grass roots crypto project. The project continues to be shaped by the community. Everything from the logo to the tag line (“Because Wednesday”) was of community origin. The developers have also engaged with the community on additional fun Wednesday-themed use cases. There is a special atmosphere associated with WednesdayCoin that is subtle yet substantial. Its uniqueness and all around festive nature makes it a pleasure to hang out in their telegram and reddit communities. There is also a very generous side of WednesdayCoin and the community which I will be sharing at the end of the article!

It is like a beehive starting Wednesday (UTC), as you might imagine with a coin that can only be sent on Wednesdays. Yes, this constraint was intentionally written into the smart contract. The great thing is that you only interact with WED one day of the week, leaving the other 6 for family, friends, and fun. Low maintenance crypto that the family will love. The down side is waiting for Wednesday during those other non-WED days. You can always prepare for Wednesday on those non days, but you must wait for those splendid 24 hours where WED and good cheer flow everywhere. If you are wondering why Wednesday, the answer simply is: “Because Wednesday”.

Double or One?

Feeling lucky try the Double or One game, based on a smart contract. Rather than double or nothing, this interesting twist either gives you double the amount of WED you enter, up to 10,000 WED, or it gives one WED. Nobody leaves the table empty-handed with Double or One.

Lottery WED Style

The WednesdayCoin Lottery is very popular and gives you a chance to win some large stacks of WED. People are used to weekly lotto’s so this approach works well for a weekly coin. To enter the lottery you will need 10,000 WED per entry, and you can enter as many times as you like. The lotto’s smart contract manages the list of ETH addresses for the entries. The drawing is performed about 10 minutes before the end of Wednesday UTC. Entries are cleared from the contract at the start of each week, so each week is a new chance to participate and win.

Prior to starting the lottery each week, a new random number is generated and stored in the contract (as a hash). This is the basis for generating the winner. Payouts to the winner are done by the team passing the random number (defined earlier in the day, prior to the use of lotto) to the contract, which will hash it and compare this hash to the one generated before the lottery began. This allows a means to demonstrate to any interested party that the lottery is provably fair.

You could be the next 5,000,000 WED Sweepstakes Winner!!!

Sweepstakes

If lotteries aren’t your thing try out the sweepstakes. The sweepstakes was the first giveaway to be hosted by the WednesdayCoin.io website, which kick-started the momentum and excitement of the community’s favorite day of the week. The sweepstakes is free to enter. You simply add your ERC-20 token compatible address to the WednesdayCoin Proof-of-Sweepstakes form , and from that point forward, you automatically have a weekly chance to win the sweepstakes. The current prize is 5 million WED! To be fair to the entire community and spread the WED, you can only win the sweepstakes once.

Airdrop

Do you need some WED to participate in all these great WED activities? There is a great place to find plenty to get started. The WednesdayCoin reddit site has a weekly airdrop, which will give you plenty of WED to play with. This project really is all about having fun and taking it all a bit lightly. It is comical sometimes to watch people ask if the coin can seriously only be sent on Wednesdays? They find it very hard to believe!

WednesdayCoin Faucet

Most faucets out there give you a minuscule drip of a coin, which takes forever to accumulate any useful amounts. To add to the insult, these faucets usually have an out of this world minimum withdrawal amount that takes ages to achieve.

WednesdayCoin has a totally different philosophy. Gas up the tanker, load it up with WED, and haul it home at each click. Visit the Faucet page , and click on the WED emblem once every 10 minutes to receive 1,000 WED! The faucet only flows on Wednesday though.

Just as you must fill your tanker with fuel, you will need to provide the Gas for the transaction in Ethereum. While the weekly airdrop and sweepstakes are distributed at no cost to the community — the Faucet, Lotto, and Double or One are all end-user initiated, and are performed on-chain via smart contract; and as such these games require gas. Gas prices vary based on the Ethereum network traffic, but are reasonable. For a single user the gas price is reasonable, and otherwise the project team would have to pre-fund the contract with a lot of gas. The team isn’t financially capable of pre-funding the contract every week. If they did, it would put extra strain on this self-funded project.

Wait, the project is self funded?

Unlike some projects with an ICO and a full time staff, the project team has dedicated their own funds to support the gas for weekly airdrops (several thousand airdrops thus far), and other costs such as web hosting. The team accepts donations, yet has not actively solicited. Thus far, the scope of fundraising efforts has been to sell items that are also fun for the community, such as WED stickers, that you can pass to friends or stick on your laptop.

The team focuses on this project in their spare time, and has received a lot of positive energy back from the community. The team and community are exploring additional uses for the coin to further build upon the initial foundation of excitement and fun. An example is building upon the existing Marketplace.

WednesdayCoin Marketplace & WednesdayChat

Hard drives, computer games, poker chips, and pizza — what do these have in common? They are all items that have been traded on the WednesdayCoin Marketplace using WED. The marketplace is currently hosted as a weekly post on Reddit. In the future, the marketplace may be transitioned to a stand alone trading market place that allows people to offer items and others to bid on items.

WednesdayPonies Concept Art

The project team and community have also discussed other use cases for WED ranging from a weekly chat app that is approaching beta release (for use on Wednesdays of course) to WednesdayPonies — a slower pace, yet fun way to trade, breed, collect ponies as well as interesting mutations such as a unicorn.

Know of someone in need?

You talk about a caring and sharing community; WednesdayCoin is amazing to say the least. On a typical Wednesday gathering, something similar to this, is what you are likely to see, and I quote Steph, an Admin in the telegram WednesdayChat community;

“Hope everyone is having a lovely Wednesday! Make sure to spread the love and do something nice for someone today. Donate to charity; buy someone a cup of coffee; smile at someone who looks sad; tell a friend how much they mean to you; call someone you haven’t spoken to in awhile.”

They aren’t just saying it either, there is a genuine caring atmosphere in this community. It shines through all the time. This is what grass roots community development can do, and has done in this case. It’s a fantastic project that everyone will be proud to be a part of. If you want to send WED to someone in need or anyone, the developers have included an easy form on their website to send WED to individual or multiple WednesdayCoin addresses.

Giving Back

WED provides a unique niche within the Parachute community, and within the crypto space in general. It has a clear focus on a weekly celebration and fun by way of an active community and an engaged self-funded development team. Yet another focus of the coin is giving back by way of kindness and charity. This has evolved over time into a mantra of charitable Wednesday, and has involved motivation for random acts of kindness, taking a moment to be kind to others, and sending WED and other coins directly to charitable organizations. The project team has contributed to this by matching WED donations , and adding to the Wednesday atmosphere of giving. The culture of fun co-exists seamlessly with the culture of giving and kindness.

This aspect of WED is the most impactful. All the cultural elements are contagious once you hop in and join the community. One of the team’s favorite organizations is https://www.flicharity.org , catch the spirit of WED and check it out. This charity is being ran by Clinton, an avid community member. Their mission is to provide technology and assistance, which enables people with various challenges to become self-reliant and live independent lives. Visit WednesdayCoin for the fun, but please do participate in the deeper aspects of WED and help someone less fortunate than yourself for a great cause.

By both design and code, Wednesday is a unique coin, yet it is also much more than a coin; it is a team of self-motivated/funded developers, partnered with an active community who are eager to use the coin, have fun, and act with a sense of kindness/giving. This is not a “when moon/lambo” coin, rather a “When Wednesday” coin that is actually used by a community focused on fun and giving, and a coin with potential for additional use cases.

If you are interested in a unique and fun coin and community, then check out the website, telegram, or Reddit. The atmosphere is truly unique especially in Telegram on Wednesdays. And if you find yourself confused about UTC time, be sure to ask the bot in telegram “When Wednesday?”

Written by Nathan and Kerry C, edited by Crypto French

WednesdayCoin Links: Website Telegram Reddit Twitter

Parachute Links: Website Telegram Discord Reddit Twitter