Multi-merchant loyalty point partnership

A loyalty point network, comprising:

• a computing device;
• and
• a tangible, non-transitory memory configured to communicate with the computing device, the tangible, non-transitory memory having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the computing device, cause the computing device to at least:
• receive from a first loyalty partner website a request to create a partnership smart contract, wherein the request comprises a purchase requirement parameter and a reward parameter;
• transmit a contract request to consensus participant devices for writing to a blockchain network, wherein the blockchain network comprises a plurality of computing devices that maintain a distributed ledger over a peer-to-peer network, the contract request comprises the partnership smart contract;
• transmit a write confirmation to the first loyalty partner website, wherein the write confirmation indicates that the contract request was stored in the blockchain network;
• receive a participant notification request from the first loyalty partner website, wherein the participant notification request comprises a partnership parameter of the partnership smart contract;
• select a second loyalty partner website in response to the participant notification request based at least in part on a type of purchase reward for a loyalty point account associated with the second loyalty partner website meeting the partnership parameter from the partnership smart contract, wherein the type of purchase reward is accessed from a loyalty portal service;
• transmit a partnership notification to the second loyalty partner website, wherein the partnership notification comprises a blockchain uniform resource locator (URL) for accessing the partnership smart contract in the blockchain network;
• receive a smart contract request from the second loyalty partner website, the smart contract request comprising the blockchain URL;
• transmit the partnership smart contract to the second loyalty partner website based at least in part on the blockchain URL being included in the smart contract request;
• and
• execute the partnership smart contract to validate that a first transaction meets the purchase requirement parameter, the first transaction being received from the second loyalty partner website, wherein the execution of the partnership smart contract authorizes an adjustment of a balance of the loyalty point account of a customer in the blockchain network based at least in part on the reward parameter.

An article of manufacture including a non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to at least:

• receive from a first loyalty partner website a request to create a partnership smart contract, wherein the request comprises a purchase requirement parameter and a reward parameter;
• transmit a contract request to consensus participant devices for writing to a blockchain network, wherein the blockchain network comprises a plurality of computing devices that maintain a distributed ledger over a peer-to-peer network, wherein the contract request comprises the partnership smart contract;
• transmit a write confirmation to the first loyalty partner website, wherein the write confirmation indicates that the contract request was stored in the blockchain network;
• receive a participant notification request from the first loyalty partner website, wherein the participant notification request comprises a partnership parameter of the partnership smart contract;
• select a second loyalty partner website based at least in part on a type of purchase reward for a loyalty point account associated with the second loyalty partner website meeting the partnership parameter from the partnership smart contract, wherein the type of purchase reward is accessed from a loyalty portal service;
• transmit a partnership notification to the second loyalty partner website, wherein the partnership notification comprises a blockchain uniform resource locator (URL) for accessing data associated with the partnership smart contract in the blockchain network;
• receive a smart contract request from the second loyalty partner website, the smart contract request comprising the blockchain URL;
• transmit the partnership smart contract to the second loyalty partner website based at least in part on the blockchain URL being included in the smart contract request;
• and
• execute the partnership smart contract to validate that a first transaction meets the purchase requirement parameter, the first transaction being received from the second loyalty partner website, wherein the execution of the partnership smart contract authorizes an adjustment of a balance of the loyalty point account of a customer in the blockchain network based at least in part on the reward parameter.