Besides being very attractive for several major industries, Blockchain technology also has the potential of powering prosperity on a global scale. The fact that it is now possible to securely transfer value directly between two parties, without a middle man and without the need of a bank account could have a vast impact on how we think about money and trade. Smart contracts (small pieces of code that run on the Blockchain) enable completely new decentralized business models and everyone — ourselves included — is just pretty much hyped of what to come.

In case you haven’t followed our progress in the last months, we are developing a mobile platform on Android that covers a broad set of use cases for the Ethereum blockchain. Possible stakeholders are not only the end user who wants to send and receive Ether with the wallet part of the platform, but also Android developers who can use our API to make their app send transactions and access smart contracts on behalf of the user (read more).

Since our platform went into public beta people from all over the world began using it and giving us feedback of what to improve and what to add next. We decided that the best way to show how people can benefit from blockchain technology in a mobile context is to build a product based on our platform.

ethPay — a decentralized payment framework

ethPay is a dApp which makes it very easy for you to sell your products and services just by using your mobile phone. But before going a bit more into detail let us jump into an example right away.

I absolutely love to play guitar and a lot of people say that I am talented, so I thought I’d give it a shot and recorded my first song. People liked the song and told me I could even make money with it. However, I don’t want to put too much effort into monetizing it so I use ethPay to create a store and generate a link which can be used to buy my song.

I start off by creating a new store: