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📢 Official Announcement from Distriator 📢

Strengthening Trust, Protecting HBD Adoption, and Rewarding Genuine Participation

At Distriator.com, our core mission has always been simple and honest:

👉 Enable people to spend Hive Backed Dollar (HBD) in the real world
👉 Reward consumers for genuine spending and honest business reviews
👉 Help businesses accept HBD and circulate it within a decentralized economy

🌍 What is Distriator?

Distriator allows consumers to:

  • Pay HBD at whitelisted businesses
  • Submit proof of purchase (photos at reception / billing counter)
  • Publish proofs as a Hive post
  • Earn cashback in HBD

This system is:

  • ✅ No-KYC
  • ✅ Hive blockchain–based
  • ✅ Transparent
  • ✅ Community-driven

Today, 400+ verified businesses are already part of this ecosystem.

Businesses receive HBD, which they can:

  • Spend at other businesses
  • Participate in cashback programs
  • Actively contribute to a circular HBD economy

🛠️ Continuous Building & Support

With this intent, Distriator has:

  • Built and improved web apps and mobile apps
  • Actively funded cashback rewards
  • Consistently supported HBD consumers and businesses

However, wherever money is involved, misuse attempts exist.

⚠️ The Reality: Abuse Attempts

We have observed a small number of cases where:

  • Consumers claim purchases that never happened
  • Businesses falsely confirm such claims
  • Both parties attempt to share cashback rewards

These patterns are visible in claim logs and blockchain activity and do not go unnoticed.

🧯 Existing Countermeasures (Already in Place)

1️⃣ Ban System

  • Ability to ban consumers, guides, and businesses
  • Admins and super-admins can act at any time
  • Community members are encouraged to report abuse with evidence

2️⃣ Reduced Cashback Percentages

  • Cashback reduced from up to 65% → max 40%
  • Cashback is calculated on:
    • A random value between 5–9 HBD, or
    • Transaction value, whichever is lower
  • This significantly limits abuse impact

3️⃣ Full Transparency

  • Every cashback triggers:
    • A Discord notification
    • A Hive blockchain action/comment
  • Community members are encouraged to monitor and report discrepancies

🚧 Rolled-Back Restrictions (For Growth)

We experimented with:

  • Daily cashback limits
  • Country-wise limits
  • Business-wise limits

These were rolled back because:

  • Crypto payment adoption is already challenging
  • Over-restriction discouraged new users and businesses
  • Education and onboarding require flexibility

🚀 Major Upgrade: New Security & Cashback Flow

To balance growth and security, we are introducing the following major changes.

🏢 Business Verification (Mandatory)

  • All businesses must submit a Business Onboarding Verification Post on Hive
  • After 30 unverified cashbacks, businesses will no longer be able to offer cashbacks
  • Trusted Business Guides must:
    • Visit the business physically
    • Submit verification using the Distriator app
    • Publish verification details on Hive blockchain using evidences submitted via distriator app.

💸 New Cashback - Curated Flow (Simple Explanation)

Step 1: Payment & Instant Reward

  • Consumer pays in HBD
  • Consumer submits:
    • ⭐ Star rating
    • Short 2-line review
  • Consumer receives 3% instant cashback
  • Rating is published on the business onboarding post

Step 2: Optional Detailed Review (Extra Reward)

  • Consumer opts for additional rewards
  • Submits:
    • Detailed review
    • Photos
    • Custom questionnaire
  • Review is published on Hive
  • Cashback is not released yet

Step 3: Admin Review & Approval

  • Trusted Distriator admins review submissions
  • Admin assigns 1–5⭐ rating
  • Cashback is calculated based on admin rating

Cashback Distribution Example

If eligible cashback = 1.7 HBD

Admin Rating Cashback Paid
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1.7 HBD (100%)
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1.36 HBD (80%)
⭐⭐⭐ 1.02 HBD (60%)
⭐⭐ 0.68 HBD (40%)
⭐ 0.34 HBD (20%)
⭐0 0 HBD
  • Admins can reject cashback entirely
  • Approved cashback must be claimed within 30 days, or it expires

🧪 Deployment Status

🎯 Our Commitment

With these updates, we aim to:

  • Protect genuine HBD users
  • Reward honest spending and reviews
  • Encourage businesses to accept HBD
  • Push back strongly against abuse
  • Preserve trust in the Hive ecosystem

🤝 Community Call

We ask the community to:

  • Report misuse with evidence
  • Support transparency
  • Strengthen this initiative instead of defaming it

💚 More power to:

  • Hive Backed Dollar
  • Hive consumers
  • Hive businesses
  • The decentralized Hive economy

Keep spending HBD.
Keep accepting HBD.
The power is yours.

🚀 Hive — to the moon and beyond.

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