GiG2Hire

An onchain trustless and zero fees, freelance hiring platform.

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Inspiration

In an ever changing world we have evolved from physical manual labor to digital and remote jobs. But as always big companies are the ones that have the upper hand, and instead of benefiting the freelancers they seem to affect them by taking away a big chunk of their payment, and not offering secure tools to keep users away from dishonest players.

Current freelance recruiting platforms fail in so many aspects like trust, speed of payments and transparency. Blockchain has all the technology to bring back trust to work and give power back to whom with their skills make companies grow and flourish.

What it does

GIG2Hire is a trust-less and zero-fees freelance hiring platform.

Thanks to blockchain we can solve two main issues in current hiring platforms:

1. Bring back trust.

  • We can bring back trust for freelancers as clients will commit escrowing their money until the job is correctly done so the payment can be transferred instantly as soon as the job is completed. Or get refunded if the freelancer fails to deliver.

  • Also clients can trust back freelancers skills as they will be verified on-chain following a different set of rules. e.g. A developer can join if has more than 10 commits during the last month. And a voting system to check if every task of the job is completed.

2. Fees down to zero

The platform won’t charge any abusive fees to users as escrowed payments will be deposited on lending platforms like AAVE during the duration of the job to collect interests that will be deposited on the platform treasury.

How we built it

GIG2Hire was brought to life with a different set of tools.

Scaffold-ETH 2: To make a seamless integration of Smart Contracts and Frontend.

ChainLink CCIP: For escrowed money to be deposited cross-chain depending on the chain that is paying the highest interests in AAVE.

ChainLink Functions: Using API functions to read data that will allow to verify users skills, experience, or followers given certain parameters. e.g A developer can join if it’s GitHub profile has more than 10 commits during the last month. An influencer can join if it’s X profile has more than 5000 followers. Or a Designer can join if it’s Behance profile has more than 5 projects.

Challenges we ran into

During our development process, we ran few challenges.

Not enough documentation for CCIP: During our development process we realized that documentation provided by Chainlink not enough for our purpose. So we had done our own research in this field which gave us the result that we needed.

The difference between supported USDC addresses: Another challenge was that fact that AAVE not support official USDC token address in their testnet mode. It occurs some technical complications in testing, but after quick research we found a project with similar functionality, on which we were able to conduct testing.

Team changing: Also just like the project, its team changed during the hackathon, but it give to us opportunity to create a core team of competent in their fields people, who are interested in GIG2Hire as well as we are.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to successfully make crosschain deposits to collect interest and change current hiring platforms business models.

We were also able to include social verification with GitHub profiles, and allow users to show their skills instead of telling their skills.

What we learned

Working on GIG2Hire teach us a few things

*Team Work: * Nowadays, people are the greatest value and we understand this very well. Therefore, teamwork skills, division of labor and maintaining team spirit are the things we learned during this hackathon.

CCIP: Cross Chain Interoperability Protocol is a great technology that allows builders to implement their projects in different chains to take advantage of each individual network, thereby making the user experience more secure and comfortable.

Artificial Intelligence: AI is a powerful technology that has already changed the world, and that is why we have learned to use it and implement our ideas thanks to it to improve the user experience

What's next for GiG2Hire

A bright future comes ahead, we will start on boarding early users to test our tool so we can keep improving it. And as we understand that most freelancers aren’t familiar with web3 we will include mechanism to join the platform like account abstraction wallets, and bio-metrical sign in.

Also we not exclude opportunity to add another Layer-1 blockchains like Solana, Aptos or TON to GIG2Hire in the near future.

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