We are excited to tell you about the stuff we have been working on for WeNano the last few months, and that is now live on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
The full version of WeNano is now on Android as an open beta
Finally, Android users can start connecting with each other and iOS users and experience all of the great and innovative features of WeNano.
Instead of recapping all of them here, we recommend you to read up on our announcement post back when we released WeNano on iOS.
We have done extensive testing already, and are now excited to open it up as an open beta to all of you. We welcome all feedback, and of course — if you find any bugs, please let us know. Our discord is probably the easiest way.
As always, remember to backup your seed in a safe location! It is the only way for you to access your funds and your WeNano account.
But in addition to finally having the full version available on Android, we have some additional features we are really excited about…
Connecting with businesses in a new way
When we began working on WeNano, we always envisioned close-knitted integration with businesses. With the release of WeNano Business — a completely new app for iOS and Android — we are getting a lot closer to reaching that goal. You can read more about WeNano Business in our announcement post. For WeNano users, this has opened up some unique interactions with businesses we are eager to tell you all about.
Business Spots
The business gets its own Spot automatically when they add their business to WeNano with the new Business App. It works pretty similar to how you are used to Spots working, but the major differences are that you have to be very close to the Spot, and you need to enter a secret word set by the business to get the payout. Also, you can choose to tip/donate to the business Spot if you want to show some appreciation. You can even add a message with the tip. Donating a larger amount can be a way to draw new customers to your favorite restaurant.
Tipping Business Directly
In addition to tipping the Spot, you can tip the business directly. We believe Nano is the perfect replacement for physical cash since it allows small, instant, and fee-less transactions. Tipping a business with Nano is done in a heartbeat with WeNano, and you can add a message to go with the tip.
Business Promotions
Businesses running the new Business App can run promotions where they sell a limited number of a product for a limited time and a set price. A WeNano user can quickly signup for a promotion, go to the business, buy a product, and all they need to do is display a QR-code to the business to get the product.
We hope these new features can be a bridge to connect businesses and WeNano users. We envision businesses experiencing Nano for the first time like this being a great trial as they decide if they want to accept it as payment for all products or services.
Heat Map
Wouldn’t it be nice to see where other WeNano users might be in the world? Perhaps you want to set up a Spot, but not sure where? With the new Heat Map, every user can add their own WeNano Zone to the map since we value privacy, 1. It is optional, 2. You don’t have to position it directly above your location. The Zone has a radius of 5 000 meters so that you can be pretty flexible with it.
We think this opens up some great possibilities for notifications to help keep you up to date with what’s going on with Nano retail around you. We will allow you to opt into WeNano Zone notifications, which will keep you up to date if a new Spot is added, a new business pops up, or a WeNano promotion begins inside your Zone.
Spots
We also have a couple of new features for Spots that we want to share…
Minimum amount
We have decreased the minimum amount from 10 to 1 Nano to set up a new Spot. We are keeping a minimum payout value to 0.1 Nano though for now, we believe it is important that every payout has a modest value.
Refund
You can now get a refund from a Spot set up by you that has expired.
What’s next
With these new features, we feel we are getting closer to the WeNano experience we envisioned when we began this journey. We hope you’re as ecstatic about this vision as we are.
We have more in store for the next month or two. Coming quickly, we’ll be bringing you the ability to change representative. We have another surprise, too — but we’ll keep this close to our chest for now. We do think you’ll all like it!
For any questions, support, bug report, etc., please contact us on our Discord, or send an email to support@wenano.net or contact@wenano.net. Lastly, feel free to follow us on Twitter if you want regular(ish) updates.
