4/ Second, a new family member. Earlier this year, Chai Holdco acquired http://Iamport.kr, a leading payments aggregator serving 1700 merchants in Korea and processing $3B+ in annual transactions.
6/ Last but definitely not least, a new launch 🚀
Terraform Labs launches Buzlink (https://buzlink.io), a marketing platform that puts referral marketing on steroids
7/ Referrals are powerful in helping to move product - you are more likely to buy something if a friend recommends it.
But $ put into referral marketing vastly trails FB/Google performance marketing
Problem: traditional referrals *don't scale incentives*
8/ Trad referrals encourage "refer a friend, and his purchase gives both of you $10 off on next purchase" schemes.
Single depth rewards only work well for products with near universal appeal (e.g. Uber)
It's harder to find friends willing to shop at the same dress store as you
9/ What happens when you reward entire referral chains?
What if referrals can be picked up by other referrers, and everyone in the chain gets rewarded when a final purchase is made?
It changes the referral game completely.
11/ BuzLink enables new business models - the referral economy. You could have instagram influencers, marketing agencies, and 4chan degens all competing to maximize product reach
The $10 coupon becomes (potentially) $1M UST