[UCI ICS] Alumni Spotlight: Ludovico Verniani ’21 Rewards Adventure With Quadra App
Originally published by UCI ICS on April 28. Written by Karen Phan.
Do you love traveling and exploring new places? Do you love immersing yourself in nature by mountaineering and surfing? Ludovico Verniani does too, so much so that he created an app called Quadra to reward and encourage exploration.
Verniani graduated from UCI’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) in 2021 with a B.S. in computer science, and he’s been furthering his passion for programming and technology in recent months by building Quadra. Quadra is a newly launched decentralized app that employs blockchain technology, including web3 and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), to get people out and about.
In the Quadra app, areas of land on Earth are unlocked during mystery drops. Each piece of land exists in Quadra as a 500 by 500-meter square called a QUAD. Users can claim a QUAD once they have traveled to that location. Through the unique NFT feature of Quadra, they can also customize and trade their QUAD squares.
“Similar to the way in which Pokémon Go merged the real and digital worlds together, Quadra pushes people to seek out new and remote places around the physical world in exchange for digital blocks of land that can be collected, customized and sold,” says Verniani. “Users compete to be the first to reach extreme locations, and the value of each token is tied to the energy, resources and risks taken to physically travel to the location of each corresponding token.”
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