End Users and Public Responders — The Details

Anyone can join the protection grid by downloading the Guardian Circle app.

The app is used to create and respond to Alerts. Push a button. All nearby help comes. It also contains a Guardium ($GUARD) wallet.

The protection grid consists of people you explicitly add — friends, family, neighbors — and Public Responders.

Basic Service

Free.

Unlimited friends, family, neighbors get your Alerts. Have 1, 10, 100, 1000 — it’s up to you.

Unlimited Alerts.

Enhanced Service

Requires Staked $GDM . (Minimum: 50 $GUARD; Maximum: No Limit).

. (Minimum: 50 $GUARD; Maximum: No Limit). Adds nearby Public Responders to your Alerts.

to your Alerts. Tamper-Proof, Immutable Alert Transcripts & Custody Management

& Custody Management Emergency Info Lockbox (Openable only by designated recipients — only when you declare an Alert).

Here’s How It Works:

Consumer stakes $GUARD.

When an Alert is declared, the Consumer’s friends, family and neighbors and nearest Public Responders all get Alerted.

After the Alert is over, the pot is split amongst the Public Responders.

This creates a ‘treasure hunt’ for emergencies — much like Bird did with charging dead scooters.

Details:

The same Guardian Circle app is used by Public Responders. They simply turn on Receive Public Alerts in the app preferences.

in the app preferences. Responder Decides: When Public Responders get an Alert, they see the Alerter’s staked $GUARD pot and their estimated take. They can decide whether to Accept or not. This encourages Consumers to stake more $GDM so that Public Responders are motivated to Accept their Alerts.

When Public Responders get an Alert, they see the Alerter’s staked $GUARD pot and their estimated take. They can decide whether to Accept or not. This encourages Consumers to stake more $GDM so that Public Responders are motivated to Accept their Alerts. Star Ratings: After an Alert is over, Responders get star-rated by the Alerter.

After an Alert is over, Responders get star-rated by the Alerter. A better star rating means a Public Responder commands a higher percentage of the pot. They also get more Alerts — and ‘higher pot’ Alerts.

Alerts — and ‘higher pot’ Alerts. Thus the Responders who are the most valuable in emergencies (probably those with emergency skills, such as EMT’s or private security) rise in the system. They get more and better opportunities over time.

However, Responders with bad star ratings are shuffled down in the system. They are buried.

Safety: At least three Public Responders are always sent (depending on availability) to each Alert. This is for the safety both the Alerter and the other Responders . If one Responder is a bad actor, they know two more are also coming. Bad actors hate witnesses: they look for isolated victims, so we give them none. This should cut down on the ‘bad Uber driver’ phenomenon.

At least three Public Responders are always sent (depending on availability) to each Alert. This is for the safety both the Alerter and the other Responders If one Responder is a bad actor, they know two more are also coming. This should cut down on the ‘bad Uber driver’ phenomenon. No ‘Prank Alerts’: After an Alert, the user has to ‘reload’ by buying and staking more $GUARD. This means Alerts cost money : this cuts down on wasteful and prank Alerts — a huge problem with existing 9–1–1).

After an Alert, the user has to ‘reload’ by buying and staking more $GUARD. This means : this cuts down on wasteful and prank Alerts — a huge problem with existing 9–1–1). Global Coverage. Instead of paying $10 per month for a response subscription in one region, the staked $GUARD model travels. Anywhere on earth you go, Public Responders in that region are automatically on your Alert grid: you don’t have to buy an additional regional subscription.

Instead of paying $10 per month for a response subscription in one region, the staked $GUARD model travels. Anywhere on earth you go, Public Responders in that region are automatically on your Alert grid: you don’t have to buy an additional regional subscription. Consumers pay nothing unless they have an actual emergency. Remember, the $GUARD for Alerts is staked, not spent. Consumers are free to unstake and sell their unused $GUARD (after being staked for at least one year). It’s even possible that it will be worth more than when they bought it — they may have made a profit!

“But Rich People Will Be Better Protected Than Everyone Else!”

Strictly speaking, this is true. Rich people will indeed be able to stake more $GUARD and thus attract more and better response.

But we have three ways of offsetting this:

Users Can Earn $GUARD In The App

Users can earn $GUARD by helping us expand the ecosystem.

$GUARD is paid whenever a user sends a Guardian Invite that results in an app download and new registered user.

By getting friends, family and neighbors to connect as Guardians, users expand the ecosystem. That’s valuable to us, so we reward it. That’s user acquisition dollars we don’t have to spend.

It is conceivable that people all over the world could simply earn their paid protection by marketing the ecosystem.

Down the road we will also pay out $GUARD for assistance with user retention and recovery.

Sponsorship of Safety Worldwide:

It is imagined that caused-based, impact ‘remote sponsorship’ of safety in the developing world will be a big behavior in our ecosystem.

Example: Sponsor women’s safety in India

Sponsorship requires the purchase of $GUARD.

The Sponsor’s $GUARD is then sent directly to stake Alerts for beneficiaries in need around the world.

Since $GUARD does not flow through a bank, a government or an organization, the Sponsor knows their gift was not spent inefficiently or inappropriately.

Furthermore, the Sponsor can see exactly how their gift was spent via a ‘human readable’ Guardium blockchain explorer. Sponsors are thus able to track every donated dollar as easily as a FedEx package.

This radical transparency, we believe, will open a floodgate of ‘giving the gift of safety’.

Seeding Already-Staked Apps:

We have set aside some $GUARD to kickstart the ecosystem.

We will choose one large city in the developing world. We will tell them that the first 30,000 city residents to download Guardian Circle will find that they are ALREADY STAKED with 100 $GUARD.

We will then go to premier Public Responder candidates (local EMT’s, private security people) and tell them that 3 Million $GUARD is already out there waiting for them to Respond to — all they have to do is download Guardian Circle and turn on Public Alerts.

Once we get the $GUARD flowing, it should start the cycle of consumer staking for new people who onboard and reloading $GUARD stakes for those already in the system.