Carbon Browser Launches “Browse to Earn” Program on LightLink

Carbon, a Web3 browser with over 7M downloads and 62,000 daily active users, have launched their “Browse to Earn” program on LightLink.

70,000+ users have earned more than 750,000 CRT through the “Browse to Earn” program!

Our blog post explores its success and how it uses LightLink to enhance user experience.

What is Carbon!?

Carbon Browser is a privacy-focused web browser designed to provide users with a secure, fast, and private browsing experience. It prioritizes user privacy by blocking trackers, ads, and other intrusive elements that can compromise data security and slow down browsing. Features include a built-in VPN and more.

Carbon as a browser is geared more towards users who are concerned about their online privacy and want to minimize their digital footprint while browsing the web.

Browse to Earn on Carbon!

The “Browse to Earn” program is a Web3 native incentive system designed to reward all users for their browsing activities. This program was developed with the assistance of LightLink and aims to bring a seamless and secure rewards experience directly to users’ browsers.

As a user, you’re able to generate a secure EVM-compatible account which tracks your activity and serves as the wallet for earning rewards on the blockchain through Carbon, in a gasless and more transparent manner through the integration with LightLink.

To date, the reward token has been issued more than 750,000 times, reflecting a positive response from Carbon’s community and growing adoption of the program.

How Carbon Utilizes LightLink

Past attempts at digital rewards and loyalty programs often failed due to high costs, lack of transparency, and vulnerability to manipulation, all exacerbated by the complexities of integrating blockchain technology. 

However, with LightLink’s gasless transaction capabilities, Carbon is now able to offer a seamless and cost-effective user experience, eliminating the need for users to pay transaction fees, which are barriers in other applications. 

Our gasless model not only reduces operational expenses but also enhances security and transparency by ensuring that all transactions are permanently recorded on the blockchain.

Technical Details

Carbon’s underlying architecture is built to handle high transaction volumes with precision and reliability. 

At the heart of this system is the Carbon Contract (CRT), deployed at the address 0x7805a537AB668BFa699E333DE8F70197cBD14dd4, which has processed over 750,000 transactions to date, publicly verifiable in real time via LightLink's block explorer. 

Carbon utilizes our Bolt our gasless NFT minting plugin that ensures high throughput, reliability, and efficiency required for a large scale program, like “Browse to Earn”. The smart contract operates in Enterprise Mode, providing more predictable gas fees, which is crucial for maintaining cost efficiency and stability in a high-transaction environment. 

Rewards within the Carbon ecosystem are issued as NFTs, which users can purchase with the CRT tokens, further enhancing the utility of their native CSIX token. Additionally, each browser is equipped with natively integrated EVM-compatible accounts, enabling seamless interactions on-chain and allowing all users to earn and manage their rewards effortlessly.

Benefits to LightLink

For enterprises, the ability to scale efficiently while maintaining low costs is crucial, and Carbon, through its integration with LightLink, demonstrates that scalable, secure, and transparent blockchain infrastructure can be achieved, adding significant value to the ecosystem while keeping fees manageable.

Additionally, in our recent community update we highlighted our commitment to structuring a DAO, where enterprise fees have a deflationary economic impact.

This approach aligns community incentives, reinforcing the long-term sustainability and value proposition of the entire LightLink ecosystem, and our commitment to decentralized infrastructure through community governance.

Enterprise Mode

We’re redefining how blockchain is integrated into enterprise applications. In a nutshell, LightLink offers a seamless, scalable infrastructure that abstracts away the complexities associated with blockchain, enabling enterprises to build and deploy dApps with ease. 

Our Enterprise Mode is a standout feature of LightLink, which simplifies onboarding to the point where users don’t even realize they are interacting with blockchain technology. 

With features like gasless transactions, token management, and much more, we’re ultimately removing the traditional barriers to entry, making the user experience as intuitive as any mainstream web application. 

This approach not only accelerates adoption but also ensures that the benefits blockchain has to offer - such as security, transparency, speed and a decentralized nature, are delivered without any friction on our protocol, allowing our ecosystem to enjoy the advantages of Web3 without the common hurdles.

Conclusions

Similarly to other LightLink enterprise partners, Carbon is advancing the way economic incentives are introduced, making it possible for users to earn money without any upfront investment and by utilizing LightLink as a core infrastructure provider, Carbon is able to ensure a seamless, secure, and scalable rewards experience that is both cost-effective and user-friendly.

We welcome the opportunity to discuss with all developers what is possible with LightLink, and how together we can shape the future of digital interactions.