The freelance Marketplace has experience tremendous growth in the past few years as people are on the lookout for ways to financial and personal freedom.
But total freedom is yet to be experience as platforms that provide medium for provider and client interaction are exploiting provider's service pay with massive fee.
A new face of technology have pop up.
A new access to opportunities have emerge.
Blockchain with the ability to implement smart contract is providing such opportunities to a decentralized and free Marketplace
The hottest project which is in the process to adopt total decentralization and strike a balance is CanYa.
CanYa
A Peer-to-peer Marketplace where people can easily and safely demand and render a service no matter the geographical location or race.
With just few clicks away clients are able to meet up with reputable provider which can satisfy their demand, providers have but to worry about how to shape a client service to the best quality, resting assured that payments, delivery and agreement is being taken care of by the platform. The project as long but started in 2015(then using fiat) and have been successful tested in a market in a small and major cities in Australia and already boost over 10,000 user base plus over 46,000 users added through Bountysource.
How does CanYa Operate
Cryptocurrency is facilitating a new way by which secure and convenient transaction are being done. CanYa look into this space and created it's own ERC-20 enabled token during it's ICO (the 2nd most successful ICO of all time in Austrlia) called $CAN to implement safe and secure payment.
By creating a decentralized environment, service agreements between a client and a provider is held in an escrowed smart contract and are release when all terms have been met.
What Set CanYa Apart
The price volatility of cryptocurrency has created to date challenges on how they can be use on broader Marketplace/companies who will wish to payout worker salaries or dues with a stable figure. CanYa aim to tackle this by partnering with Digix - a stable cryptocurrency, as every digix token = one gram of gold, which is integrated into an hedge escrow contract to maintain the value of a given contract.
1% transaction fee as compared to about 20-25% of traditional freelance platforms "proofing a true power to decentralization".
Access to pay for a service in fiat which can be converted and paid in crypto to a provider and vice versa.
Non-involvement of third parties as contract details and agreement are protected and carried-out by escrowed smart contract.
Ability to convert a crypto to another, fiat to crypto or crypto to fiat(proposed) without any attached conversion fee.
Some Use Case of CanYa
Anthony is a social media marketing expert who loves to travel around the world and work at his convenience. All he need to work from anywhere is his laptop or smartphone connected to the Internet. He has been using platforms which charges him 20% in transaction fee.
He came to the knowlegde of CanYa and sign up for free.
He then get a job request pertaining to his work from a user, Anthony use the Powerful CanYa platform, completes the work and get a good review. When it time for payment Anthony is instantly paid through the platform in $CAN token and is only charged 1% for his $1000 job payment, he received $990 whereas he could have parted with $770 on another traditional platform. He was charged no conversion fee as he is using a universal currency and he was all smile as he successfully finished the job.
Magret is a fashion designer in Nigeria, Her country currency is experiencing hyperinflation and so she doesn't have a bank account. Like many of her colleagues and compatriots she has been using cryptocurrency as a medium of exchange. She setup a free profile on CanYa and list her work. She work with the locals in her area to be found, booked, paid and reviewed. CanYa hedge escrow maintain the value of her payment while she completes her work. She is now well recgonise within her locale for her work due to her positive ratings and reviews.
Conclusion
CanYa is on the mission to bring about positive changes in the freelance space by providing an easy-to-use and secure platform and also to consciously accelerate the mass usage of cryptocurrency and it's instigation into everyday activities by it's adopting on the platform. The use of cryptocurrency also bring about the creation of HODL club (see details in the link) to encourage long time holding of the coin and believers in the project.
With talents flooding the team and good work being implemented by great partnerships and achievements the SKY is just the beginning.
And As For You Dear Reader
You $CAN with CanYa
Notable Achievements and Partnership.
CanYa Partners with Indorse - Oct 14, 2017
CanYa & MADANA partnership - Oct 20 2017
CanYa Was Mentioned in Forbes
CanYa and Digix Partnership - Nov 09 2017
CanYa Partner with qiibee - Nov 16 2017
CanYa Partners with Giveth - December 05 2017
CanYa Announce Partnership with Gladius - Dec 8, 2017
CanYa acquires majority stake in Bountysource - December 20 2017
CanYa and Coinomi Partnership Announced - Dec 23, 2017
CanYa added two world class advisor -
Jan 22, 2018
CanYa named among Ten Cryptocurrency Startup to watch in 2018 by Techstartsups - Jan 27, 2018
CanYa partners with Origin Protocol -
Feb 01, 2018
$CAN is currently trading on these exchanges
Kucoin.
AEX.
xBrick. Coss. Qryptos. Cryptopia
CanYa is anticipating a global launch in March and is working closely to the laid Roadmap as per the project whitePaper
Websites and social links
Official Website
Facebook
Twitter
Discord
Telegram
Do you think this kind of change will impact the freelance space in a positive way.
Leave your opinion is the comment section below.
images source : CanYa
Disclaimer
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an incentive to purchase.
Doing your own research it advised.