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The Purpose

The Purpose

Turn YouTube videos into Action & Earn Crypto

Created on 21st August 2025

The Purpose

The Purpose

Turn YouTube videos into Action & Earn Crypto

The problem The Purpose solves

Today, millions of people consume inspiring content - podcasts, TED Talks, interviews- but struggle to turn insight into consistent action.
Most self-growth journeys are isolated, unstructured, and lack accountability. Meanwhile, digital platforms are optimized for passive consumption, not meaningful transformation.

The Purpose solves this by turning content into a gamified, AI-guided transformation journey, layered with Web3-native rewards and social accountability.

Key Use Cases:
✅ Transforming passive content into action
Users can take any YouTube video and convert it into a guided 7-level quest that moves them from insight to daily micro-actions.

👥 Building meaningful social connections
Users are matched with others who share their purpose and move through the journey together- creating bonds rooted in shared growth.

🎮 Making personal development engaging and consistent
Through AI prompts, missions, and reflective practices, users stay motivated and see real progress.

🛡️ Creating a trustless reward system for consistency
Instead of paying to use the platform, users contribute ~$15/USDT per month into a smart contract pool. If their group completes the journey, they unlock rewards, turning growth into a stake-backed experience.

Challenges I ran into

Challenges:) Ok))

🧪 1. In the early stages of The Purpose, we focused heavily on testing and prototyping the transformation journey with real human coaches. While this gave us powerful insights into how people grow, it also introduced significant complexity:

  • Managing live facilitation was time- and energy-intensive
  • Outcomes varied depending on each coach’s style
  • It was difficult to scale or standardize the experience

🛠️ 2. Web2-Friendly Onboarding: No Overwhelm, Just Flow
Our second major challenge was designing a system that felt frictionless and emotionally safe for Web2 users- many of whom had no crypto experience.

This required:

  • Simplifying crypto language into meaningful, human terms
  • Designing a user journey that focuses on emotions, not technology

Result:
We built a smooth, inviting onboarding flow that allows people to join The Purpose, move through quests, and participate in smart-contract-driven reward pools without feeling overwhelmed.
This was one of our most demanding UX challenges - and we’re proud to say: we nailed it.

🌍 3. Building a Cross-Domain Team for a New Category
The third challenge was more foundational:
To build a product that blends AI, Web3, gamified psychology, and personal development, we had to find and align extremely passionate people from completely different worlds.

That meant:

  • Translating between creators, engineers, coaches, and crypto minds
  • Keeping the team inspired around a deep emotional mission
  • Proving that this new category- DeImpactFi- is possible

Solution:
We focused on aligned values, co-creation, and real use cases.
Now we’re a growing collective of builders, healers, artists, and systems thinkers - making this vision real, together.

Smart Contract Address(es)

hhttps://github.com/The-Purpose/the-purpose-onchain/commit/094d3ce681476af4f786da108504322abb852f86

Other Onchain Proof

We’re currently in the early stage, and this month we’re launching the first official cycle of The Purpose Game with our early adopters- including both coaches and users who will complete the 7-level journey and receive their first NFTs as Proof of Progress.

This will mark the beginning of our onchain activity - including reward pool interactions, NFT minting, and smart contract engagement.

You can follow our live community activities, events, and onboarding updates here:
👉 https://www.instagram.com/thepurpose.web3

More onchain data will be available as the first cohort completes the full cycle in the coming month.

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