Blockchain Tech Helps Coffee Farmers Make Fair Gains

区块链技术在咖啡公平贸易中的应用
Blockchain Tech Helps Coffee Farmers Make Fair Gains

译者：火币区块链研究中心 原文来源： Cryptocoinsnews
12小时前原作：William Suberg
Bext360是一家位于丹佛的创业公司，它创造了一个可以自动评估咖啡豆质量的机器人，并利用区块链技术支持云软件和应用程序对销售过程进行追踪。

Bext360的首席执行官丹尼尔·琼斯在同科技博客讨论当前的公平贸易市场时这样说道：“…一般来说，从事公平交易的团体在跟踪材料方面会花费大量的费用。他们使用的是初级的追踪机制，而这套机制非常不精确。”

Bext360的移动机器人是一个具有重要意义的评价标杆。它采用光学分选以区分咖啡豆的品质优劣，并为同一批次的咖啡豆进行质量评分。买家和卖家可以使用相应的应用程序商议一个合理的价格，然后通过Stellar区块链网络对货物进行深度跟踪。

“这样做，那些经常被人们挂在嘴边的公平交易的好处就能够被实现，而且借助于区块链，人们可以洞悉一切，例如这些咖啡豆来自哪里，是否按照合理的价格进行了交易，”琼斯如是说。

据了解，这个概念已经得到了投资者的普遍认可，其之前的融资共获得了120万美元的投资。

这一项目的成功实施对Stellar来说是一个巨大的福音，它期待着更多全新的、国际化的应用案例可以开花结果。

Denver-based Bext Holdings Inc. is making it simple for coffee farmers to receive a fair price quickly for their beans through the blockchain with its mobile app.

Coffee has become a popular drink drunk by millions of people around the world, which is seeing millions of farmers growing the coffee beans to sell on. Unfortunately, making a profit doing so is not high, with the World Bank stating that many smallholders live on less than $2 per day.

Now, though, with the Bext360 mobile app, farmers can ensure that they are receiving the correct price for their product.

In a report from TechCrunch, it states that the company had developed a mobile robot that gives potential coffee buyers the opportunity to check the quality of the beans and weigh the product in the field.

Using optical sorting, the robot can determine what percentage of coffee beans are perfect and those that are spoiled in a batch. This information is made available to both the farmer and the buyer whereupon a fair price is negotiated through Bext360’s app.

According to Daniel Jones, founder and CEO of Bext360, he said that coffee drinkers will know where exactly the coffee they are drinking came from and whether those involved received a fair price for it.

Consumers are more enlightened than ever before. And companies want to meet their high standards. But in general, groups working on fair trade spend a lot of overhead on tracing materials. They use rudimentary tracing mechanisms. And it’s very imprecise. People in the field can still get exploited.

Blockchain Tech Helps Coffee Farmers Make Fair Gains