Does the fee directly go to the developers?
I imagine a successful decentralized economy implementation as follows:
- Significant lower fees than large competitors (eg. 5% compared to Uber's 25%). These fees are not payed directly to the company building the platform. Instead it is distributed among all the token holders. Since the dev team keeps a large fraction of the tokens in the ICO for themselves, they get enough money to further develop the platform. Fees are necessary to prevent fake bookings and fake reviews!
- Token holders can secure and provide extra value to platform by resolving disputes between two parties. They can act as sort of a court in the economy. Let's say for example a guest broke a lamp and the he/she is not willing to pay for it. Then the host can open a dispute (submit proof photos etc) and the token decide on the outcome. The Beetoken (https://www.beetoken.com/) implements this feature and is described in more detail in their whitepaper on page 12. Active token holders are rewarded for resolving disputes.
- Identity verification and reputation systems across multiple platforms provides faster adoption. Check out Origin Protocol (https://www.originprotocol.com/).
Please let me know if you disagree or think there are other crucial characteristics for a decentralized economy.
RE: Decentralized AirBnB - "CryptoCribs"