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Coinmiles is the world’s most advanced crypto rewards app. We ranked 27th most popular financial app in Canada in 2021 and are on our way to outperform this ranking this year.
We enable our 50K+ users to earn Bitcoin (and soon, USDC or Lumens) rewards when they shop online at 1,000+ brands (Nike, Sephora, Best Buy), in-store (through Gift Cards with crypto rewards) or when they travel at 900K+ locations worldwide.
We recently closed partnerships with the largest gas station in Canada, Burger King and some of the largest retailers in Canada + US for in-store offers.
Airlines and major brands understand that nothing beats rewards on-ramp new users.
By enabling customers to earn USDC or Lumens as rewards (in lieu of Bitcoin), Stellar achieves immediate Brand Awareness and turn customers into vocal Ambassadors. Once they earn USDC / Lumens, they are inclined to use those as a financial / international remittance tool actively use it in their daily life.
One constant feedback we’ve heard from our users is that they would love to receive cash rewards as well - especially in bear markets.
Being a crypto native reward platform, Coinmiles intends to use USDC (instead of fiat) as a tool to enable users to fix the value of their rewards or even enable our users to earn USDC instead of Bitcoin from the get go.
Coinmiles isn’t just an idea. Our app is live and process several transactions per hour at major brands.
Our rails are global, meaning that our project - while currently only operated in Canada / USA and France - can be deployed in any country in a snap.
Major brand partners are essential for the success of a project, but the local economy is where 70% of customer spend their money. Plus, local merchants are the cornerstone of any community - they work hard and they deserve the same access to Stellar than major brands.
Coinmiles is partnering with Dello - a platform enabling 10M+ merchants globally to generate incremental revenue by issuing prepaid gift card (giving crypto rewards to the buyer) that are accepted in-store within their native POS terminal.
Picture this: a local community start using Coinmiles + Stellar as an habit for their online and in-store shopping. Soon, they earn USDC or Lumens when shopping at major brands - of course - but also at their local stores within their neighbourhood.
Most of these purchases gives them 2-5% back, a small amount on relative North American standard but a huge one on developing countries standards. No other “reward” platforms allow users to instantaneously support relatives and friends at the other side of the planet.
Once users are natively able to obtain USDC or XLM into Coinmiles, Coinmiles will be able to work hand in hand with the Marketing initiative team by partnering with selected projects. For example, a user subscribing to Moneygram through Coinmiles will be able to earn Lumens rewards. Or our users will be able to earn USDC at selected brands which will could be matched when they are being given to charities.
Coinmiles is setting up the rails to enable millions to earn - and use - Stellar XLM/USDC in a snap.
By joining forces with the Stellar ecosystem, our users will be able to cash out at any participating Stellar anchors worldwide. This means a whole new series of touchpoints to acquire a Stellar fanbase and drive conversions to Stellar Anchors worldwide.
Not an Airdrop: In our last submission, our project wasn’t presented to the community as it was perceived as an Airdrop project.
We want to highlight that no XLM/USDC will be airdropped to any Coinmiles users. The goal of this project is solely to integrate XLM/USDC as native reward tokens within Coinmiles.
Only a small portion of the grant will be initially used to boost our users reward on transactions in order to create visibility for the new Stellar integration (as a good marketing practice). Then, our users will be able to decide whether to opt by for Bitcoin rewards - or XLM/USDC rewards instead (bought at the regular spot price). If interested, the Stellar Marketing Initiatives (SDF) will be able to support Coinmiles for targeted marketing campaign built on those rails (ie: a partnership with Lululemon, Moneygram, charities etc.).
A few updates:
Goal 1 - Finalize USDC integration
Our app is in operation and growing, but in order to start offering Lumens, our team needs to finalize details such as:
Goal 2 - Start issuing USDC rewards on Coinmiles and market it to 100M+ readers in North America with our partners (Narcity + TikTok)
We intend to partner with Narcity to promote Coinmiles + Lumens Canada-wide and a similar platform for the US (Vice Magasine or the likes). Coinmiles is also a TikTok Crypto Partner, which means that we received a special authorization enabling Coinmiles to promote crypto rewards on TikTok on the most active platform for Millennials and Gen-Z.
During out last partnership with Narcity, we ranked #1 in direct traffic engagement (over Pfizer, CNBC, NY Times, Disney and USA Today).
https://www.pressboardmedia.com/magazine/pressboard-branded-content-benchmarks-report-2021
Our platform is already mature and ready to integrate and promote Stellar with only a few details to build. Our team is composed by Lawyer, Accountant and Engineers that are specialized in crypto rewards.
Demo: Coinmiles and Lumens Reward
This video demonstrate the process to purchase a Starbucks Gift Card, earn Lumens rewards instantaneously and redeem the Starbucks Gift Card in-store.
Coinmiles is the world’s most advanced crypto rewards app. We ranked 27th most popular financial app in Canada in 2021 and are on our way to outperform this ranking this year. We enable our 50K+ users to earn Bitcoin (and soon, Lumens) rewards when they shop online at 1,000+ brands (Nike, Sephora, Best Buy), in-store (through Gift Cards with crypto rewards) or when they travel at 900K+ locations worldwide.
Dave Pouliot, CEO
Lawyer (former top-tier), MBA in Finance.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-pouliot-11b55767/
Mathieu Auclair, CTO
Former Ubisoft
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuauclair12/
Chris Yeramian, CFO/COO
CPA/CAIA - Former Deloitte
The USD valuation of the budget request in XLM will be calculated using the CF Stellar Lumens-Dollar Settlement Price on December 5, 2022 as administered, maintained, and reported by the cryptocurrency index provider CF Benchmarks Ltd. (using the ticker “XLMUSD_RR”) (available at https://www.cfbenchmarks.com/indices/XLMUSD_RR). Learn more in the SCF Handbook.
*The USD valuation of the award in XLM is calculated using the CF Stellar Lumens-Dollar Settlement Price on July 5th as administered, maintained, and reported by the cryptocurrency index provider CF Benchmarks Ltd. (using the ticker “XLMUSD_RR”) (available at https://www.cfbenchmarks.com/indices/XLMUSD_RR)
**The USD valuation of the award in XLM is calculated using the CF Stellar Lumens-Dollar Settlement Price on December 16, 2021 as administered, maintained, and reported by the cryptocurrency index provider CF Benchmarks Ltd. (using the ticker “XLMUSD_RR”) (available at https://www.cfbenchmarks.com/indices/XLMUSD_RR)
*The USD valuation of the award in XLM is calculated using the CF Stellar Lumens-Dollar Settlement Price on September 27, 2021 as administered, maintained, and reported by the cryptocurrency index provider CF Benchmarks Ltd. (using the ticker “XLMUSD_RR”) (available at https://www.cfbenchmarks.com/indices/XLMUSD_RR)
* The USD valuation of the award in XLM is calculated using the CF Stellar Lumens-Dollar Settlement Price on the date of transfer as administered, maintained, and reported by the cryptocurrency index provider CF Benchmarks Ltd. (using the ticker “XLMUSD_RR”) (available at https://www.cfbenchmarks.com/indices/XLMUSD_RR)
*This budget request has not been fully awarded to the project. The USD valuation of the budget request in XLM will be calculated using the CF Stellar Lumens-Dollar Settlement Price on day of payment as administered, maintained, and reported by the cryptocurrency index provider CF Benchmarks Ltd. (using the ticker “XLMUSD_RR”) (available at https://www.cfbenchmarks.com/indices/XLMUSD_RR). Learn more in the SCF Handbook.