LoveCounter is a fictional platform providing a range of services around marriage smart contracts (MSC). It is committed to building an emotional autonomous region for all lovers on the web 3.0 environment.
In our current Web 2.0 environments, users are allured by the data-driving dating that claims to counter the contingent nature of love. Dating platforms present novel approaches to love as neutral and reassuring, when in fact, they are increasingly haunted by archival uncertainties, such as new forms of errors, vulnerabilities and forms of control.
To take back control and ownership of emotional autonomy, LoveCounter creates a porter for users to experience emotion and intimacy in decentralised ways. Every user is identified by their universal crypto wallet where each digital transaction and activity is recorded in the blockchain. The lovers' joint crypto wallet is associated with their MSC. The MSC is determined by the terms agreed upon by individuals. Intimate relationships are no longer institutionalised; instead, financial security, responsibility, and actions can be held accountable under the agreement between two or more people.
Within a social-fi-enabled world, each activity and social interaction become immutable and quantified, and a financial instrument to be owned, bought, and sold. New ways to maintain intimate relationships emerged. New dynamics among the meaning of love, financial wealth, and emotional value for all users begin to form. Emotional labour and acts of service are quantified and valued on web 3.0. Users can earn Karma when spending time and effort maintaining a high-quality relationship. Finally, “love-to-earn” is one step closer to reality.
Emotional Autonomous Region is one of the services provided by LoveCounter, it is an online mapping platform that allows lovers to claim land for free to archive private relationship experiences on the blockchain.
Instead of leaving readable messages, users will mint a location on the map and register a specific time at which they believe love exists between each other; this timestamp results in the creation of indelible evidence of love. This operation allows partners to construct unique material tokens of love, something which has become increasingly difficult in the contemporary environment of mass-culture and mass-production.
*Knowledge of Risks*
Use of the site is subject to certain risks, including but not limited to the following. The emotion generated on the platform is not insured by any organisation. Users must conduct their own due diligence on any emotional asset. Participating in emotional connection is highly risky and may lead to total loss of funds, mental stability, emotional exhaustion.
*DISCLAIMER*
'LoveCounter' is a non-profit fictitious concept project. 'LoveCounter' does not have any actual financial function, and it does not share data with other platforms.
The project is funded by Gallery Func, Hyndai Blue Prize Art+Tech 2022
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