Winding Tree is a leading blockchain-based travel technology company that aims to revolutionize the travel industry through decentralization. We provide a decentralized infrastructure for travel distribution, allowing direct connections between suppliers and consumers without the need for intermediaries.

Blockchain technology offers several benefits to the travel industry. It enables secure and transparent transactions, eliminates the need for middlemen, reduces costs, enhances data privacy and security, and facilitates faster and more efficient processes such as bookings and settlements.

The only true way to have have no intermediaries is to create protocols and platforms that are co-owned and governed by the stakeholders that use them also known as a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). That includes you, and requires a lot of education which takes time. For now, Winding Tree is another intermediary, however, it does not have a commercial interest, and all of what we build is open-source.

In 2017, the Winding Tree team embarked on a radically new journey, aiming to build something totally new for the industry which meant that there were many errors to discover and wrong paths to pursue. At the time, the core infrastructure was still being developed and solutions like stablecoins were not as advanced. Today, the Ethereum infrastructure and eco-system has grown and other types of decentralized solutions for storage and messaging are making it finally possible to bring an end-to-end decentralized travel marketplace. The good thing is that we never lost hope.

If you are an airline or a travel buyer you can reach out to Simard and they will guide you through how you can use the solutions in the Winding Tree eco-system or join our Discord.

For now, Líf is being used for governance to vote on proposals on Snapshot. We are currently re-designing the Líf token utilities to work with the Marketplace protocol. It will be a core component in securing everything that happens in the ecosystem as well as having extended governance use cases. You can view our vision around tokenomics in our latest blog post here.

If you want to share ideas around tokenomics and governance please do so on our Discord.

Winding Tree is currently registered at Suite 23 Portland House, Glacis Road Gibraltar GX11 1AA. We are currently working towards transitioning to a Decentralized Autonomous Organization and are actively doing research on how to create a legal structure for it. Winding Tree acts as a non-profit organization.

Thankfully, Winding Tree had a successful Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in 2017 that raised over 16,000 ETH. The funds have been used to fund the team to research and create a path toward creating decentralized marketplaces. You can view our Transparency Report to get a better idea of how the funds have been spent.

We are currently in the process of re-writing the infrastructure and creating a protocol for the distribution of services. That means that for now the marketplace is not accessible anymore.

We will also eventually update the APIs that were available to the new protocol and marketplace.

You can join our Discord channel and contact our team to get involved in our projects 🤗