On-Chain Gig Market
Your reputation, your rates, your relationships
Decentralized freelance protocols enable smart contract escrow with 3% fees and fully portable reputation. Build a professional identity that follows you everywhere.
How It Works
The decentralized approach
DID Professional Profile
Your professional identity is a decentralized identifier with verifiable credentials.
Smart Contract Milestones
Projects are broken into milestone escrows with automatic release conditions.
On-Chain Reputation
Every completed project adds to your portable reputation score.
Direct Relationships
Build ongoing relationships with clients outside the platform.
The Web3 Experience
Build a professional DID with verifiable project history. Set up milestone escrows that release automatically on completion. Keep working with great clients directly. Take your entire reputation to any platform or your own website.
Your Value as a User
Access freelancers at lower costs due to reduced platform fees. Build relationships directly with service providers. Own your reputation and choice of platform.
Lower costs + direct relationships + portable reputation
Requires wallet management and understanding of smart contracts
Revenue Model
How value flows in Web3
Revenue Distribution
Direct payment from clients
Smart contract execution
Dispute resolution fund
~3% protocol fees
97% of contract value
Polkadot's cross-chain messaging enables freelancer credentials to be verified across any connected parachain. Multi-currency payments allow clients to pay in their preferred token while freelancers receive theirs.
Benefits
Why Web3 is better
Keep 97% of every contract
Reputation travels to any platform
Direct client relationships are encouraged
Milestone escrows with automatic releases
Verifiable credentials for skills and experience
The Comparison
Side by side: what changes when you make the shift
"Freelancers lose $1 of every $5 to platforms. Web3 gig protocols flip this — keep $97 of every $100 and take your reputation everywhere."
Multi-Chain by Design
Polkadot's architecture makes this transformation possible with cross-chain interoperability, shared security, and infinite scalability.
Sub-Second Finality
Transactions settle in under a second, enabling real-time payments and instant value transfer.
Shared Security
All parachains benefit from Polkadot's validator set, providing institutional-grade security from day one.
Cross-Chain Messages
XCM enables seamless communication between specialized chains, creating a unified Web3 ecosystem.
Polkadot's cross-chain messaging enables freelancer credentials to be verified across any connected parachain. Multi-currency payments allow clients to pay in their preferred token while freelancers receive theirs.
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