eip: <to be assigned>
title: ERC-1621 Referral Interface
author: Milen Radkov (@mradkov) <milenradkov@me.com>
discussions-to: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/1621
status: Draft
type: Standards Track
category: ERC
created: 2018-11-24

Simple Summary

Suggests the addition of referral mechanism over smart contracts, storing account information. For example dApps.

Abstract

Almost every platform/project/game/service on the web has some kind of referral mechanism used for marketing purposes, but not only. We believe that for a smooth transition from the current centralized internet model to a decentralized one, the users should have at least the same user experience or better. With this proposal we want to standardise a referral mechanism for Ethereum smart contracts that can be used for all sorts of bounty campaigns and reward systems for both tokens and Ethereum.

Motivation

This EIP is motivated by the need for onchain tracking of referred user accounts on some dapps. Onchain saving the referrals will be able to verify information about a given address from a single trusted source without concerning that it could be manipulated, and to do so in as simple a manner as possible. It is also motivated by the desire to make user experience with dapps more flawles and user-friendly by both the simplicity of the interface as well as by the guarantees on uniqueness provided by the proposed standard.

No existing EIPs for storing referral accounts on-chain found.

This EIP proposes a light-weight interface for adding referrals functionality for smart contracts. This abstraction layer can sit on top of standards like ERC-20 and ERC-721 or others where account information is being stored.

Proposal

I'm currently developing an example implementation for the referral interface proposed here.

Work in progress implementation

I would like to start a discussion here for the viability and the merit of the proposal as well as design.

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@mradkov and the @hackbg team