THE SHORT OF BLOCKLANCER | FREELANCE ON THE BLOCKCHAIN

andra-ierma (8)in #blockchain • 7 years ago

Introduction

Blocklancer is a so called Distributed Autonomous Job Market (DAJ) on the Ethereum platform, our vision of a completely self-regulatory platform for finding jobs and getting projects done. It will change the way freelancing works, both for customers and freelancers, and it will lift the reliability of freelancing to new heights.
The Blocklancer platform is intended as a means to revolutionize the process of freelancing and improve the cooperation between the freelancer and the Client. It is going to solve many issues involved in the Freelancing process, including but not limited to:
• refusals of payment for the agreed-on amount of money for a project,
• fake or undeserving reviews, and
• the uncontrollable influence and abuse of power of a central authority figure

Distributed Autonomous Job Market (DAJ)
It is our belief that a completely self-regulatory system is the best solution for a Freelancer platform such as Blocklancer. Therefore, we have created a new form of job market: The Distributed Autonomous Job Market (DAJ for short). DAJ is our vision of the job market of the future and our proposed solution for many of the underlying problems currently faced by freelancing platforms. Most of the decisions made on our platform are in the hands of the Tokenholders, which means that there won’t be one single authoritarian instance with an uncontrollable amount of influence on the market. This effectively puts the power in the hands of the Tokenholders, giving Freelancers and Clients a more fair way to transact.

Market and Industry
Freelancing is one of the fastest growing markets in the world 1 with the Freelance workforce being comprised of 55 million workers, compared to 30 million workers only 10 years ago, almost doubling within the short time frame. Freelancers currently represents approximately 35% of the U. S. workforce

Problems in the industry
We now discuss the most pressing concerns Freelancers face with the current market and freelancing platforms, or websites that offer jobs. An overview of the problems we will cover below:

Unnecessarily difficult receiving payment from Clients
Clients leaving undeserving/negative profile reviews
High fees on current freelancing platforms
Unlimited centralized power on current freelancing platforms

Blocklancer Platform Processes
In Blocklancer, we implemented a wide range of processes. There are processes for:
• offering jobs,
• applying for jobs,
• doing reviews, and
• The Tokenholder Tribunal.

System Architecture
Blocklancer is the first decentralized and serverless job market. We accomplish this by combining existing technologies like Ethereum and IPFS. Because the blockchain technology is still in the architecture building phase we also implement our own, proprietary solutions.
• Core Architecture
Blocklancer is composed of three main components:
1.) Ethereum: Ethereum is the backbone of Blocklancer
2.) InterPlanetary File System IPFS
3.) Database
• The Tokenholder Tribunal Architecture
The automatic dispute resolution process is a core feature of Blocklancer. It is used for deciding if the employment contract was fulfilled by the Freelancer and if a given rating (from the Client or the Freelancer) is justified.
• Database
At the moment, it is not recommended to store huge amounts of data on the blockchain. Storage on any blockchain (including Ethereum) is extremely expensive and inefficient. IPFS, on the other hand, offers a cheap storage solution, but there is no possibility to index the data to make it query-able.

The ICO

Tracking

Overview
Start Date : 7th September 13:00:00 UTC
End Date : 21st September 13:00:00 UTC
Maximum Cap : 1,000 ETH
Pricing : 20,000 LNC = 1 ETH
Result : Max-Cap reached in less than 3 days

The Token
Name: Lancer
Ticker: LNC
Max supply 1,000,000,000
Platform: Ethereum

Roadmap