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strategic planning + having fun this week in ericeira!
thrilled to announce that we're one of the 14 teams selected for the @avax Codebase accelerator! over the next 3 mos we'll reach our next stage of growth with the support of world class mentorship and grant funding 🚀 the finale? pitching 100s of investors at @consensus2024 last week we had the program kick-off in Lisbon. couldn't say better things about the @avax team, and the other projects they selected for this cohort. we're really excited for these months to come. cheers, friends 🥂
searching for mass adoption, have you seen it?
re-entering my soylent phase
everyone (#starknet, @lens/fluence, +) deciding to airdrop their tokens to the @lens/ElectricCapital list of web3 github contributors is my favorite plotline of this cycle so far. let's make the devs rich they deserve it.
Is me! I was featured on @lens/graphprotocol #GrapHER podcast repping @lens/TalentLayer and sharing stories of my entry into web 3💡 Full video here:👇 youtu.be/vYWdFzq7kEo Bonus, get the TLDR on what's new with TL: TalentLayer is an open protocol and developer toolkit for building better service marketplaces, powered by The Graph 👩🚀 Thanks to TalentLayer's modular toolkit, Freelance Search was able to go from idea to working application in less than 10 days and currently ranked the #1 freelancing app on the ChatGPT store 🤯
Remember to donate during @gitcoin.lens #gg18! https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/10/0x8de918f0163b2021839a8d84954dd7e8e151326d
Many of you have probably been hearing about @gitcoin.lens "quadratic funding" grants round happening now. Is this your first #QF round? No worries. It's TalentLayer's first one too! We'll figure it out together... Let's start from the beginning, what on earth is quadratic funding? Quadratic funding (QF) is new type of crowdfunding that uses enables small donors to have a big impact... 1. A matching pool is created 2. Donors donate to projects 3. A quadratic formula is used 2 match funds: in this formula, smaller contributions get more weight For example, if a project receives 200 donations of $10 each, this project would earn more matching funds than a similar project that receives 20 donations of $100 each. This makes match funding more fair - based on how many people care about an issue, and how much they donate. So now you understand quadratic funding. Remember @gitcoin.lens? They are one of the OG QF pioneers. OGQFPs if you prefer. #Gitcoin has been running major #crypto #quadraticfunding rounds for years, funding some of the most famous protocols in the ecosystem back when they were just small baby #opensource projects (see @optimismdao.lens as a great example)! Today, Gitcoin has helped deliver over $50,000,000 in grant funds. Yesterday Gitcoin opened the #GG18 #quadraticfunding round - with over 300,000 in DAI earmarked for opensource software. I'm happy to share that @talentlayer.lens is one of the 105 teams selected for this matching pool! TalentLayer exists because of grants. Our open-source dev is 100% funded by #grants & #incubators! Opensource #software couldn't exist without a thriving community of individual donors; now, small donors can have a big impact thanks to quadratic funding! How far will your #donation go?
it's happening! @gitcoin.lens #GG18 is live, and we've been selected to be a part of the #opensourcesoftware #quadraticfunding pool - with 300,000 DAI in matching funds! and we're not alone - 105 opensource projects are a part of this matching pool! here are some of our top picks. there's no better time to support your fave opensource softwares! @lenster.lens - our friends at #lenster @lenstubelogs.lens - #lenstube powering the decentralized video economy @giveth.lens - #giveth an OG crypto donations platform thebadge - #thebadge a decentralized oracle for certification daostar - a consortium of DAOs collaborating on gov standards, run by #metagovernance collective discover more projects and donate here: https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/10/0x8de918f0163b2021839a8d84954dd7e8e151326d
To truly obtain freedom, we need to have #sovereignty; ultimate and un-confiscatable authority over our lives. The ability to make decisions for ourselves, free of coercion. In the realm of work, sovereignty translates into having complete control over how you make income, to the extent that your earning ability is resilient amidst outside forces. Work sovereignty is made possible when your #**reputation**, built over time, is trusted by enough people to make finding new work easy. **Your ease of finding new work is a matter of…** 1. **Your perceived reputation**, based on data available and it’s quality 2. **Who can access your reputation data** and what they can do with it Without work sovereignty, the ability to acquire new work whenever you please can be taken away from you by nation-states, employers, and job platforms. They may revoke work permits, terminate your employment, or even ban you from accessing certain platforms that help you find new partners. **Unfortunately, most people today do not experience work sovereignty. This is due to some big design flaws in how we collaborate today.** **It's a problem of how we’ve scaled work globally.** Reputation is hard to scale. It always has been. In the past, the people that we could work with were limited to our personal network: the people that we knew directly, and their respective networks, as long as they were willing to vouch for **our reputation**. **What is reputation?** Reputation is the cumulation of data on an individual, as interpreted by others. It can include information like work history, reviews, education history, transaction history, and a virtually endless set of other data points. It is inherently subjective based on context and circumstance. It is ever-changing as new data is added. So far, it's only been possible to scale beyond these brain-powered reputation networks through "trusted" intermediaries. Hiring networks, freelance marketplaces, ride-share apps, babysitting platforms, food delivery platforms and an endless number of other work platforms are the middlemen of our era. **Today, trusted intermediaries provide us with three key services:** **+ act as a guarantor of our reputation** **+ connect us with people beyond our network** **+ facilitate and secure payments** These third parties helped us scale work, but they came at a cost. These platforms put our reputations at risk. Due to the #centralized nature of these intermediaries, a person’s ability to earn is always at risk. **Our reputation, our access to work, and our income have been put in someone else’s hands, and can be taken away at any time.** All Russian citizens were blanket banned from the popular freelance platform Upwork in 2022. They woke up finding their contracts abruptly ended and their reputations pending deletion. In Canada in 2022 we saw that in less than 24 hours thousands of individuals who donated a few dollars to truck drivers can have their permit to work revoked, lose access to their bank account, and be cut off on major communication platforms. These platforms also fragmented our reputations. **No one has a clear picture of who we are and what we’ve done**. This is because most workers and hirers can’t find enough people to work with on one platform alone, they are forced to make accounts on many. Have you ever seen a driver switching from Uber to Lyft to find more rides? Or a freelancer using 3-4 platforms to find enough work? “Multi-homing” is a well-known phenomenon on hiring platforms, caused by people not finding sufficient partners on one platform. With each new account users create, they start their reputation from scratch; oftentimes having to lower their rates in order to get their first work. **People’s work opportunities are limited by the accessibility of their reputations.** Why does the world work like this? Why are we relying on these intermediaries that hold so much control on us? It’s not a global conspiracy. Relying on middlemen was actually the best option that we had to scale human coordination. They were the most efficient way for people to find each other, facilitate payments and scale our reputation, even at the cost of renouncing to our control over it. It’s not an issue of these middlemen themselves. It was an issue of technology. We didn’t have the right tools. Today we do. There is a better way. In order to achieve scaleable work relationships without sacrificing user sovereignty, we need a very different kind of system; one that exists at a lower level than today’s platforms. Blockchain technology represents a leap forward in enabling trust, financial transactions, and data distribution in a peer-to-peer and verifiable way. It serves as the perfect foundation to build a new way of working from the ground up; grounded by principles. **User-owned data** We need a system where users own and control the work data that they generate (and therefore, their reputations). **Open data ecosystems** We need a system where data and the infrastructure that produces it are extendable by third-party applications to create new services for users. **Lower-level networks** We need a system where networks of users live behind platform interfaces; enabling discovery and transactions between parties in an interface-agnostic way. But how can we build this? **The Past:** [🟡 ](https://emojipedia.org/large-yellow-circle/)Reputations are sovereign but not scaleable [🟡 ](https://emojipedia.org/large-yellow-circle/)We use brain-powered networks **The Present:** [🔴](https://emojipedia.org/large-red-circle/) Reputations are scaleable but not sovereign [🔴](https://emojipedia.org/large-red-circle/) We use platform-enabled networks **The Future:** [🟢](https://emojipedia.org/large-green-circle) Reputations are both scaleable and sovereign [🟢](https://emojipedia.org/large-green-circle) We use blockchain-based networks Today, it’s possible for a global coordination layer for work to exist; replacing the role of middleman in discovery, payment, and trust, while empowering the next generation of applications to be built. It’s not just possible; it’s inevitable. We’ve been building this layer for one year; powered by an ecosystem of open-source developers who have lived the problems with work today, and are motivated to fix it. This week is the one-year anniversary since our first line of code was shipped at the #ETHCC hackathon in #Paris. We’ve traveled the world to share our message and grow our movement thanks to donors who believe in our mission. We’ve helped the first platforms go live, and on them, the first people have found work. Now, we’re bringing this new way of work to the masses. This is TalentLayer. We are building something different. We’re building something that will fundamentally change how every human on earth connects with one another. We’re building a new way of working.
TLDR: Earn 50 USDC for best meme helping us hype the #XMTP x @talentlayer.lens bounty at #ETHWaterloo The time is upon us. It's the week before #ETHWaterloo - hackathon event of the century - and two powerful low-level protocols have UNITED to create the bounty that the world has been waiting for. #XMTP and @talentlayer.lens are sponsoring a bounty to create an "In-Chat Bounty Management Using XMTP and TalentLayer"! These #MobileFirst apps will change the way the world works - one DM at a time. So, now you know about the bounty - but next it's time to spread the world! That's why we're partnering with @memester-xyz.lens for a #meme competition. Pull out your creative hats and submit memes designed to hype, inform, and inspire devs about the #XMTP and #TalentLayer bounty at #ETHWaterloo! What will you create? Submit a meme: https://memester.xyz/competition/86 Learn more about the #XMTP x @talentlayer.lens bounty at ETH Waterloo: https://twitter.com/xmtp_/status/1668623297918148615
At #EthDam ETHYellie, @mattiaa.lens, and I are building #zikileaks - a privacy-focused peer-to-peer #wikileaks alternative built on @LensProtocol.lens #railgun, and #sismo with... 📝 private content posting 💰 private donations ✅ p2p content verification & curation Wish us luck! Submissions soon 💫
bd! A big shout-out to all the incredible innovators who participated in the @ethglobal.lens Lisbon 🇵🇹Hackathon. We're still buzzing from the energy, amazing ideas (and pasteis). Here are the winners of the Lens Hackathon 🥁 🥇 InfluLENSer - https://ethglobal.com/showcase/influlenser-dcvrj - An all-in-one platform for hiring Lens influencers to promote your brand. Based on the interconnection between two protocols: Lens and @talentlayer.lens. 🥈Lucky Fren - https://ethglobal.com/showcase/lucky-fren-hku8p - A raffle module for the Follow and Collect actions of the Lens Protocol. 🥉 Lenschool - https://ethglobal.com/showcase/lenschool-ahbut - Lenschool is a social learning platform built on top of Lens Protocol. Creators can monetize their knowledge by selling video courses. Students can enroll in courses, and connect and collaborate with fellow learners. ICYMI dive into the new Lens SDK blog to learn how you can integrate Lens with just 10 lines of code. https://mirror.xyz/lensprotocol.eth/LtJBLD6zX_P9EYdsJ2DrT9RaCbiE2vvtajF4Md6wHr0 We also had prizes for the 5️⃣ Best Lens Integrations 👇 5️⃣ LensPub - https://ethglobal.com/showcase/lenspub-84crk - Decentralised Academic Platform for permissionless science with verifiable reputation for public good. 5️⃣ Teasr - https://ethglobal.com/showcase/teasr-4ygp5 - Teasr is a web3 crowdfunding platform that lets video creators bootstrap financing and fans for their productions. 5️⃣ Highlight - https://ethglobal.com/showcase/highlight-pfwfz - Shining light through the web3 mist! A minimalistic web3 user profile focusing on aggregated insights rather than assets. 5️⃣ Lenstarter - https://ethglobal.com/showcase/lenstarter-cst1r - A crowdfunded credit line for creators where their reputation is used as collateral on-chain. 5️⃣ TBA 🤝 Lens - https://ethglobal.com/showcase/tba-lens-m8ki4 - Using ERC-6551 to create token-bound accounts that make your Lens identity and history transferable.
Web2 founders build companies Web3 founders build ecosystems
Look at this awesome birthday gift I received from the @talentlayer.lens team!! BIG THANKS 🙏🙏🙏 Btw all Lens users are whitelisted to claim their handle on TalentLayer here: https://claim.talentlayer.org
**🎉🎉🎉 Introducing *InfluLENSer* 🎉🎉🎉** The all-in-one platform that helps... 👩 content creators to find paid #sponsorships 🛍️ brands hire #influencers to spread their message on Lens This weekend @quent043.lens, Raphael Tavarez, Joao Nuno, and Chloe George united to build #InfluLENSer during @ethglobal.lens #Lisbon! We built #InfluLENSer using a combo of @LensProtocol & @TalentLayer dev tools! ✨✨✨ We won the #1 @lensprotocol prize! ✨✨✨ On #InfluLENSer, companies can hire influencers to promote their brand and influencers can access more opportunities to monetize! Hirers can create an organization and allow multiple people on your team to manage relationships with influencers thanks to #safe SDK. Essential for big businesses to hire influencers! Hirers can post sponsored content opportunities for influencers to browse and apply for. Hirers can check out influencers' social profiles and see what sponsored gigs they've completed in the past. Influencers submit proposals for sponsorship gigs. Next, hirers can approve and reserve money in escrow! Then, influencers can post to Lens right in the proposal administration page. BTW: Remember when #KimKardashian got sued by the SEC for not disclosing a sponsored post? Many people don't know it's a law that you must to disclose when ppl pay you to post! Luckily, now, when hiring posts AND social posts are public on-chain, disclosure is automatic! All in all, super proud of what the team built - InfluLENSer really shows the power of composability through leveraging @LensProtocol's social stack and @TalentLayer's work stack to build something that couldn't have existed in web-2. Thank you @nader.lens @stani.lens @paris.lens@christina.lens and frens for all the support!! Cheers 🥂🥂🥂 Check out the build & open-source code here: https://ethglobal.com/showcase/influlenser-dcvrj PS: Interested in helping build InfluLENSer? We're seeking entrepreneurs and builders who want to carry on it's vision beyond just a hackathon project, with the support of the @talentlayer.lens team. Sounds like you? DM me.
Here is my proposed meme for the #firstmemegig being hired for by @memester.lens. Come apply for the job with me: https://www.workx.io/jobs
Apply for Memester's #FirstMemeGig on TalentLayer Unleash your creativity and help us celebrate the launch of WorkX and TalentLayer! Create hilarious and engaging memes that highlight some aspects of TalentLayer and WorkX (product, team, etc.). There is a 100 MATIC bounty for this gig! Bonus points for throwing in some Memester flair. Task Details: ⁃ Create one or more memes related to WorkX, TalentLayer, or both. ⁃ Share your meme on Lens or Twitter with the hashtag #firstmemegig. - Go to WorkX and create an account. - Make a proposal for the meme making job! Make sure to take the URL of your Twitter or Lens post and submit it in your proposal #proofofmeme Apply on WorkX TODAY: https://workx.io/jobs We'll be choosing the best meme on May 1st!
📣The Web3 job platform **Work X** is launching today on @talentlayer! ⏰To celebrate, I will publish the first job post at 14:14 UTC today. 🔥ALPHA: my post will be about creating `Memes` (of course!) We will be live streaming the launch and first job post, set alerts: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gf15MOwiMYc&ab_channel=TalentLayer
And.... we're live. @talentlayer.lens contracts deployed on #Polygon mainnet! Now for a funny path to mainnet story this morning #buildinpublic PS: Minting of TalentLayer IDs starts at 4:04 PM UTC 🤩 Early AM at The Block Lisboa crypto coworking @romain__tl.lens, @mattiaa.lens and I I tried to deploy. Then Romain realized that #PolygonScan was under maintenance for a 2-hour block this morning so we couldn't verify our contracts!! So we had to wait a bit and re-deploy. So we waited. Then we all clicked "enter" at the same time!!! Played "it's the final countdown" and all that. And then the deployments kept failing! Each time a different contract. Was super silly. So we kept playing "it's the final countdown". I turned on the "3 hour loop" edition. And we kept clicking. One time I accidentally clicked deploy before the others were able to click together. So we had to cancel that deployment because it would have been inequitable. Finally - just about 20 minutes ago - ALL CONTRACTS WERE FINALLY DEPLOYED! Success. We're on mainnet. Then about 20 seconds after we deployed everything successfully @kyubi.lens walked in from his flight! Right in time for the high five session. LFGTM! Let's fucking go to mainnet!! #buildinpublic
In honor of the @TalentLayer mainnet launch tomorrow, I re-published the "TalentLayer Manifesto" - a document I wrote in July of last year. It shows the real reason we've built what we've built. Read it here: https://kirstenpomales.com/manifesto.php This was 22 days after I first hacked on TL at #ETHPrague. 19 days after Clément Lesaege told me to stop working along & build a team. 18 days after @owenbarnes.lens told me TL should be built as a movement, not a project. 13 days before I'd meet @romain__tl.lens, who'd become my cofounder. I remember sending this to @realSasaMilic @temporalwave @QuidMint and frens after writing. Look how far we've come!!! Guys, we going to mainnet!!! Thx @mattiaa.lens for reminding me that the TL manifesto existed yesterday. #BuildInPublic throwback! LFG!
1 week till mainnet. Consider this your alpha, frens. More deets coming soon. https://medium.com/talentlayer/talentlayer-community-update-125k-grant-from-eu-over-100k-end-users-won-eth-denver-pitch-636619187b16
Adventures in ETH Denver: @fluenceproject.lens, @developerdao.lens, and winning ETH VC Demo Day! Greetings! Kirsten from TalentLayer here — the decentralized protocol for labor markets. Thanks to Fluence and Developer DAO, I was one of four TalentLayer team members who went to ETHDenver to hack! It was such an exciting event, and honestly one of the best weeks ever. One of the most unique aspects of ETHDenver was the energy that the attendees brought to the event. People from all over the world were there, and everyone was so passionate about blockchain and crypto. It was amazing to see so many talented individuals come together to work on innovative projects. As a team, we built BetteRPC, a decentralized RPC gateway that aims to accelerate the future of Web3 infrastructure decentralization. We used Fluence, a decentralized serverless platform and computing marketplace powered by blockchain economics, to create BetteRPC. Our project is able to achieve efficient, reliable and anonymous RPC calls by leveraging a peer-to-peer network powered by Fluence. We believe that this project will be crucial to the continued development of Web3 infrastructure. Check out BetteRPC here! In other news… one of the most exciting things that happened to me at ETHDenver was winning a pitch competition that was hosted at the event. More than 200 teams applied to participate in the competition, but only 30 were selected to present their projects. I was one of the three winners, and I was so proud of our team’s work. At ETHDenver, I had the opportunity to meet so many amazing people in the crypto community. It was inspiring to see how passionate everyone was about building a decentralized future. I also had the chance to learn about new projects and technologies that are being developed in the space. It was a great opportunity to network and collaborate with other developers. Finally, I want to thank Developer DAO and Fluence for sponsoring our team to attend ETHDenver. Without their support, we would not have been able to participate in this amazing event. I am so grateful for the opportunity to have been a part of this incredible experience. Also, thanks for the SICK WINTER SCARF!!! LFG! Let’s Fluence Go! 🚀
🎉 TalentLayer Community Update: Filecoin Basecamp! Audits in Progress! LFG! 🎉 *TalentLayer is the protocol & dev tool suite for building work marketplaces | Solve the 🐔 & 🥚 problem with liquidity pools for jobs & users* Greetings, friends! Welcome to this week’s community update. Last week before we head to ETH Denver. Honestly, the weeks just keep getting better and we couldn’t be more grateful for our team, our supporters, and YOU. Let’s dive into the updates… 📢 Announcements 📢 The official announcement for our participation in Outlier Ventures Filecoin Basecamp went out! Read it here. This week we spoke at the Gnosis Chain Meetup in Lisboa at the Gnosis Headquarters. Such a great event! The recording is being posted here soon. ✅ Progress Updates ✅ Our “Attackathon” is in full swing! Here we’re bringing out our community to audit our code. We have 29 devs in a group chat looking for vulnerabilities this week. Here are some findings so far Patching/optimizing things as they come up! Something exciting is happening this weekend (just in time for ETH Denver). Claims are opening up for TalentLayer IDs — reserve yourself a handle you like before we go live on mainnet on this page here. Made a lot of progress on our deck. Check out the current version here. Would love feedback!Last week we published Part 1 of the TalentLayer Market Research Report: Methodology. Got a ton of folks reaching out thanking us for publishing the methodology — we were trying to build in public so others can also apply our methods in their own product research. This week we released the Part 2 of the report: Findings! Check it out. 🥊 Attackathon Shoutouts! 🥊 Shoutout to Pfedprog for all the hard work suggesting improvements over the last weekend!!! Shoutout to Shebin for finding the vulnerability in our Telegram chat haha. 🏄 Surfing Our Way to Mainnet 🏄 Last weekend the team visited Ericeira, a surf town outside of Lisboa. Was a great adventure to celebrate our code being stable to move into the auditing phase. 🛠️ Start Building Today! 🛠️ TalentLayer’s developer tools are here today to empower your team to ship your marketplace fast. Get started by visiting our developer docs. **Start Building** »
Got something so exciting brewing. Stoked to share.
Working on the LensAPI - test 🙂
**TalentLayer Community Update: Jan 11, 2022** TalentLayer is the protocol & dev tool suite for building work marketplaces. Solve the 🐔 & 🥚 problem with liquidity pools for jobs & users. Learn more. **A Letter from the Team Leads** Greetings, friends! Welcome to this week’s community update. Thanks again for tuning in. This is a BIG WEEK for us. *📢 Announcements* 1. BIG NEWS! We’ve been accepted to a top blockchain incubator and have negotiated a solid offer for investment + hands-on support. So excited to share more details with you in the next week. *👋 Community Asks* 1. Keep telling your friends about us!! Can’t tell you how many partnerships, leads, and angels have been coming out of the woodwork thanks to word of mouth. Y’all are making this happen and WE APPRECIATE YOU! *✅ Progress Updates* 1. Push protocol integration done — presenting on the Push Twitter Spaces on Friday 2. 4 new leads came in this week — all word of mouth!!! 3. Connected DeLance, a platform launching on TalentLayer in February, with an onboarding partnership with the biggest Lens community organization — LMCC DAO. 4. The team started the first week of the Kleros Incubator! We have 7 team members together in our TalentLayer House in Lisbon — building together, boxing, and cooking. *🧐 Lessons Learned* 1. Things happen much faster when everyone is in person together. So excited for the next three months. Thanks for reading! LFG. 😎 Cheers, Kirsten & Romain Team Leads @ TalentLayer **Start Building Today!** TalentLayer’s developer tools are here today to empower your team to ship your marketplace fast & with the right tools.
**TalentLayer Community Update: Jan 18, 2022: Live on Polygon with 2 Marketplaces!** TalentLayer is the protocol & dev tool suite for building work marketplaces. Solve the 🐔 & 🥚 problem with liquidity pools for jobs & users. Learn more. **A Letter from the Team Leads** Greetings, friends! Welcome to this week’s community update. Thanks again for tuning in. This is a BIG WEEK for us. 👋 Community Asks 1. What events at ETH Denver are you going to? Let’s meet up! 2. Know any communities that need to hear about TalentLayer? We’re doing a podcast tour! Let us know where you’d like to see our team. ✅ Progress Updates 1. TalentLayer went live on Polygon Mumbai with DeLance and WorkPod. 2. Featured on the Ready Layer One podcast — one of the top pods in the NEAR ecosystem: https://twitter.com/ready_layer_one/status/1615746596859150342 3. Lens Protocol integration is all done on the smart contracts side. Great work Martin! 4. Onboarded another open-source contributor this week! Welcome, Soham. 5. TalentLayer’s first French-language podcast dropping in a few weeks with Behind The Chain. 6. Got first cold inbound outreach from a web 2 work platform! All our previous cold inbound has been web 3, native founders. This is super bullish and we’re stoked to chat with the founder this Friday. 🧐 Lessons Learned 1. If you don’t ask, you won’t receive! This week our team put together a big list of requests for the Kleros team — specific things we want help with, custom workshops, mentorship, etc. They’ve been super thrilled to give us as much support as possible. Always ask for more. Thanks for reading! LFG. 😎 Cheers, Kirsten & Romain Team Leads @ TalentLayer **Start Building Today!** TalentLayer’s developer tools are here today to empower your team to ship your marketplace fast & with the right tools. Get started by visiting our developer docs. https://docs.talentlayer.org/
🎉🎉🎉 TalentLayer Community Update Jan 25 2023: 3 Grants in 3 Weeks!?! 🎉🎉🎉 TalentLayer is the protocol & dev tool suite for building work marketplaces. Solve the 🐔 & 🥚 problem with liquidity pools for jobs & users. Learn more. 🎉A Letter from the Team Leads🎉 Welcome to this week’s community update. Let’s dive in. 📢 Announcements 1. We got a $10K grant and marketing support from Push Protocol 3. We got a $5K microgrant from Protocol Labs ✅ Progress Updates 1. Had an amazing tech Q&A with Josh from Aave on Lens V2 — discussed how to model our fee coverage system in a similar way that they did. 2. Shipped searchability improvements for IPFS data 3. Had a few amazing tech advising meetings with JB and Clement, leadership from Kleros — helped us refine our plan to implement upgradability before we get to mainnet with the first marketplaces. 4. Marketplaces moving forward on engineering on Avalanche and Polygon testnets; HireVibes, WorkPod, Delance. 5. Shipped Dispute Resolution Deep Dive to help platforms building on TalentLayer understand the system. 6. In deep discussions with the web 2 hiring tech team that reached out cold last week. Super stoked to find a way to work together. 🧐 Lessons Learned 1. Having the engineering team participate in workshops around tokenomics, ecosystem design, and more of the business side has proved super valuable for us. They bring a different perspective which is essential. 👋 Community Asks 1. What events at ETH Denver are you going to? Let’s meet up! 2. Know any communities that need to hear about TalentLayer? We’re doing a podcast tour! Let us know where you’d like to see our team. Thanks for reading! LFG. 😎 Cheers, Kirsten & Romain Team Leads @ TalentLayer
⭐⭐⭐ TalentLayer Community Update Feb 21 2023: The Road to Mainnet! ⭐⭐⭐ TalentLayer is the protocol & dev tool suite for building work marketplaces. Solve the 🐔 & 🥚 problem with liquidity pools for jobs & users. Learn more. ⭐ A Letter from the Team Leads ⭐ Greetings, friends! Welcome to this week’s community update. The team has been having a blast getting ready for mainnet and taking in the incredible resources from the accelerators we’re in. Let’s dive into the updates! 📢 Announcements 1. We’ll will be speaking at the February Gnosis Chain Meetup in Lisboa alongside Balancer and Paraswap. LFG 🚀🚀🚀 ✅ Progress Updates 1. This past week we made good progress on making some of our key smart contracts upgradeable. A ton of time and thought went into this decision. Want to know our thought process? Read our research here. 2. We’re on our second week of our second accelerator (keeping name private for now… soon can share more public). It’s been jam-packed with pitches and meetings with dozens of new mentors and advisors. Has been super valuable to get their feedback on strategy so far and stoked to keep up the relationships. 3. We’re in consideration for a Developer DAO and Fluence grant to take ALL our core team devs to Denver. Fingers crossed. 4. Scheduled an audit of TalentLayer’s smart contracts during the last two weeks of February. Final hours before mainnet!!! 👋 Community Asks 1. Know any events or pitch competitions we should send a representative to at ETH Denver? Let us know! Thanks for reading! LFG. 😎 Cheers, Kirsten & Romain Team Leads @ TalentLayer ⭐ Sending You 🌞 from Lisboa! ⭐ This past weekend, the team explored “the other side of the river”! Make sure to follow us on Twitter to join our adventures.
New year, new integration! The @talentlayer.lens team is proud to announce our integration with @push_.lens; enabling on-chain messaging for platforms building on TalentLayer ~ starting with @polygon0x.lens! Our messaging plugin will allow marketplaces building on TalentLayer to easily facilitate messaging between users on their platform and other platforms! Push shares our vision for open and agnostic protocols. Push is privacy-centric and uncensorable; ensuring that marketplaces building on TalentLayer and their users are protected. How does our plugin use Push? #PushChat is used to facilitate messages between users to negotiate rates or proposals and conduct communications throughout the delivery of work. #PushNotifications power the plugin's alerts. Read all about the integration in our latest Medium post. LFG! https://medium.com/talentlayer/announcing-support-for-cross-platform-messaging-with-push-protocol-b12558ab388 Thanks to @richa.lens and @harsh.lens for all the support! Their team has been AWESOME to work with as we put together this tool for our community.
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**TalentLayer Community Update: Jan 11, 2022** TalentLayer is the protocol & dev tool suite for building work marketplaces. Solve the 🐔 & 🥚 problem with liquidity pools for jobs & users. Learn more. **A Letter from the Team Leads** Greetings, friends! Welcome to this week’s community update. Thanks again for tuning in. This is a BIG WEEK for us. *📢 Announcements* 1. BIG NEWS! We’ve been accepted to a top blockchain incubator and have negotiated a solid offer for investment + hands-on support. So excited to share more details with you in the next week. *👋 Community Asks* 1. Keep telling your friends about us!! Can’t tell you how many partnerships, leads, and angels have been coming out of the woodwork thanks to word of mouth. Y’all are making this happen and WE APPRECIATE YOU! *✅ Progress Updates* 1. Push protocol integration done — presenting on the Push Twitter Spaces on Friday 2. 4 new leads came in this week — all word of mouth!!! 3. Connected DeLance, a platform launching on TalentLayer in February, with an onboarding partnership with the biggest Lens community organization — LMCC DAO. 4. The team started the first week of the Kleros Incubator! We have 7 team members together in our TalentLayer House in Lisbon — building together, boxing, and cooking. *🧐 Lessons Learned* 1. Things happen much faster when everyone is in person together. So excited for the next three months. Thanks for reading! LFG. 😎 Cheers, Kirsten & Romain Team Leads @ TalentLayer **Start Building Today!** TalentLayer’s developer tools are here today to empower your team to ship your marketplace fast & with the right tools.
**TalentLayer Community Update: Jan 18, 2022: Live on Polygon with 2 Marketplaces!** TalentLayer is the protocol & dev tool suite for building work marketplaces. Solve the 🐔 & 🥚 problem with liquidity pools for jobs & users. Learn more. **A Letter from the Team Leads** Greetings, friends! Welcome to this week’s community update. Thanks again for tuning in. This is a BIG WEEK for us. 👋 Community Asks 1. What events at ETH Denver are you going to? Let’s meet up! 2. Know any communities that need to hear about TalentLayer? We’re doing a podcast tour! Let us know where you’d like to see our team. ✅ Progress Updates 1. TalentLayer went live on Polygon Mumbai with DeLance and WorkPod. 2. Featured on the Ready Layer One podcast — one of the top pods in the NEAR ecosystem: https://twitter.com/ready_layer_one/status/1615746596859150342 3. Lens Protocol integration is all done on the smart contracts side. Great work Martin! 4. Onboarded another open-source contributor this week! Welcome, Soham. 5. TalentLayer’s first French-language podcast dropping in a few weeks with Behind The Chain. 6. Got first cold inbound outreach from a web 2 work platform! All our previous cold inbound has been web 3, native founders. This is super bullish and we’re stoked to chat with the founder this Friday. 🧐 Lessons Learned 1. If you don’t ask, you won’t receive! This week our team put together a big list of requests for the Kleros team — specific things we want help with, custom workshops, mentorship, etc. They’ve been super thrilled to give us as much support as possible. Always ask for more. Thanks for reading! LFG. 😎 Cheers, Kirsten & Romain Team Leads @ TalentLayer **Start Building Today!** TalentLayer’s developer tools are here today to empower your team to ship your marketplace fast & with the right tools. Get started by visiting our developer docs. https://docs.talentlayer.org/
🎉🎉🎉 TalentLayer Community Update Jan 25 2023: 3 Grants in 3 Weeks!?! 🎉🎉🎉 TalentLayer is the protocol & dev tool suite for building work marketplaces. Solve the 🐔 & 🥚 problem with liquidity pools for jobs & users. Learn more. 🎉A Letter from the Team Leads🎉 Welcome to this week’s community update. Let’s dive in. 📢 Announcements 1. We got a $10K grant and marketing support from Push Protocol 3. We got a $5K microgrant from Protocol Labs ✅ Progress Updates 1. Had an amazing tech Q&A with Josh from Aave on Lens V2 — discussed how to model our fee coverage system in a similar way that they did. 2. Shipped searchability improvements for IPFS data 3. Had a few amazing tech advising meetings with JB and Clement, leadership from Kleros — helped us refine our plan to implement upgradability before we get to mainnet with the first marketplaces. 4. Marketplaces moving forward on engineering on Avalanche and Polygon testnets; HireVibes, WorkPod, Delance. 5. Shipped Dispute Resolution Deep Dive to help platforms building on TalentLayer understand the system. 6. In deep discussions with the web 2 hiring tech team that reached out cold last week. Super stoked to find a way to work together. 🧐 Lessons Learned 1. Having the engineering team participate in workshops around tokenomics, ecosystem design, and more of the business side has proved super valuable for us. They bring a different perspective which is essential. 👋 Community Asks 1. What events at ETH Denver are you going to? Let’s meet up! 2. Know any communities that need to hear about TalentLayer? We’re doing a podcast tour! Let us know where you’d like to see our team. Thanks for reading! LFG. 😎 Cheers, Kirsten & Romain Team Leads @ TalentLayer
⭐⭐⭐ TalentLayer Community Update Feb 21 2023: The Road to Mainnet! ⭐⭐⭐ TalentLayer is the protocol & dev tool suite for building work marketplaces. Solve the 🐔 & 🥚 problem with liquidity pools for jobs & users. Learn more. ⭐ A Letter from the Team Leads ⭐ Greetings, friends! Welcome to this week’s community update. The team has been having a blast getting ready for mainnet and taking in the incredible resources from the accelerators we’re in. Let’s dive into the updates! 📢 Announcements 1. We’ll will be speaking at the February Gnosis Chain Meetup in Lisboa alongside Balancer and Paraswap. LFG 🚀🚀🚀 ✅ Progress Updates 1. This past week we made good progress on making some of our key smart contracts upgradeable. A ton of time and thought went into this decision. Want to know our thought process? Read our research here. 2. We’re on our second week of our second accelerator (keeping name private for now… soon can share more public). It’s been jam-packed with pitches and meetings with dozens of new mentors and advisors. Has been super valuable to get their feedback on strategy so far and stoked to keep up the relationships. 3. We’re in consideration for a Developer DAO and Fluence grant to take ALL our core team devs to Denver. Fingers crossed. 4. Scheduled an audit of TalentLayer’s smart contracts during the last two weeks of February. Final hours before mainnet!!! 👋 Community Asks 1. Know any events or pitch competitions we should send a representative to at ETH Denver? Let us know! Thanks for reading! LFG. 😎 Cheers, Kirsten & Romain Team Leads @ TalentLayer ⭐ Sending You 🌞 from Lisboa! ⭐ This past weekend, the team explored “the other side of the river”! Make sure to follow us on Twitter to join our adventures.
LENSCAST: WEB3 WILL IMPACT THE FUTURE OF WORK - Ep. 2 A #podcast dedicated to the #Lens #ecosystem, its #users, #creators and #builders 🎙️🌿 This second episode features @youmemeworld.lens, @memester.lens, Kirsten from @talentlayer.lens, Jacob from @jobprotocol.lens & Tom from @edenprotocol.lens <3 Wanna be part of the next edition? Our DMs are wide open! 👀 #Lenstube #Lenster #Lensta #Phaver #Orb #LMCC #Lensverse #Achievements #News #TalentLayer #JobProtocol #EdenProtocol #YouMeme #Memester #Lenscast #Web3
HOW TALENTLAYER DEV TOOLS ARE FUELING A WORK PLATFORM BOOM ON LENS LISTEN NOW: LIVE AUDIO RECORDING from TalentLayer @talentlayer.lens cofounder Kirsten @hellokpl.lens where she reveals: - How you can cash in on the work marketplace app gold rush! - How new dev tools from TalentLayer are shaping the way you find your next job! - How their partnership and grant from @lensprotocol will change the Lens Ecosystem for the better! - And a special guest appearance from Alex who is building Delance to help you find a new gig! Thank you Kirsten. Full audio recording is available here!l —------- If you liked this content, please consider giving a like, mirror (retweet) and follow this channel at@chriscomrie.lens :) #LMCC Consider subscribing to a new newsletter about Top News, Alpha and Highlights from this week in Web3 Social here: https://forms.gle/2DhjikvMBp6LBZci7 Looking for investment? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/YXmhXGpM51uAd6gq8 You can also find me on twitter at @ christafarious Join Phaver app with my code to access Lens on mobile: https://phaver.app.link/chriscomrie If you like this video you might also like other popular ones like: ULTIMATE BEGINNERS GUIDE LENS PROTOCOL https://lenstube.xyz/watch/0x011f55-0x05d7 NEW TREND FOR CREATORS TO 💰 MONETIZE COMMUNITY https://lenstube.xyz/watch/0x011f55-0x0752 MUSEUM OF LENS🌿 - MOLENS- EXPLAINED https://lenstube.xyz/watch/0x011f55-0x04f5
LENSCAST: WEB3 WILL IMPACT THE FUTURE OF WORK - Ep. 2 A #podcast dedicated to the #Lens #ecosystem, its #users, #creators and #builders 🎙️🌿 This second episode features @youmemeworld.lens, @memester.lens, Kirsten from @talentlayer.lens, Jacob from @jobprotocol.lens & Tom from @edenprotocol.lens <3 Wanna be part of the next edition? Our DMs are wide open! 👀 #Lenstube #Lenster #Lensta #Phaver #Orb #LMCC #Lensverse #Achievements #News #TalentLayer #JobProtocol #EdenProtocol #YouMeme #Memester #Lenscast #Web3
Our team @talentlayer.lens is stoked to accept a Next Steps Microgrant from Protocol Labs and #Filecoin Foundation! This grant will help us make all of our #IPFS data searchable (something HUGE for job and user discovery on TalentLayer-integrated platforms). We’re almost done with this integration! Our team’s been hard at work improving searchability the past few weeks. So awesome to have the support of Filecoin and PL in this effort. This functionality will be present in the first 3 marketplaces launching to TalentLayer - WorkPod, DeLance, and HireVibes. Learn more about the grant here: https://lnkd.in/d3tcz9MP
When you have pooled liquidity for jobs and service providers at a protocol level, all of a sudden you make it possible for platforms to be built to serve only one side of the market... 👩‍💻 A developer boot camp makes a platform where their devs can search for roles and do work. 💼 A chamber of commerce makes a platform where its members can post work and hire. Prior, it was impossible for platforms like this to exist - you HAD to build both sides of the market; hirers and workers. This is a HUGE barrier - it's costly. Now, you can build a platform that serves the side that's easy for you and leave the other side to other platforms. This will enable a Cambrian Explosion of services platforms. Like what Shopify was able to do for e-commerce. 💫 Anyone can start an e-commerce site. ✨ Anyone will be able to start a gig platform. This is the idea behind @talentlayer.lens . We're watching it play out in real-time today. This quarter we have the first 2 marketplaces launching on one chain (Polygon) - we'll be able to see the first cross-platform transactions. Let's radically evolve labor markets together ✊ @spanish-or-vanish.lens @romain__tl.lens @carllippert.lens @mattiaa.lens @memester.lens @chriscomrie.lens @alexgaodelance.lens
Imagine being able to search for gigs, submit proposals, and get paid with escrow, without leaving a Lens social app. This is what's possible with the @talentlayer.lens x @lensprotocol integration!!! Check out our docs to get started: https://docs.talentlayer.org/ Feature dropping late January, 2023.
HOW TALENTLAYER DEV TOOLS ARE FUELING A WORK PLATFORM BOOM ON LENS LISTEN NOW: LIVE AUDIO RECORDING from TalentLayer @talentlayer.lens cofounder Kirsten @hellokpl.lens where she reveals: - How you can cash in on the work marketplace app gold rush! - How new dev tools from TalentLayer are shaping the way you find your next job! - How their partnership and grant from @lensprotocol will change the Lens Ecosystem for the better! - And a special guest appearance from Alex who is building Delance to help you find a new gig! Thank you Kirsten. Full audio recording is available here!l —------- If you liked this content, please consider giving a like, mirror (retweet) and follow this channel at@chriscomrie.lens :) #LMCC Consider subscribing to a new newsletter about Top News, Alpha and Highlights from this week in Web3 Social here: https://forms.gle/2DhjikvMBp6LBZci7 Looking for investment? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/YXmhXGpM51uAd6gq8 You can also find me on twitter at @ christafarious Join Phaver app with my code to access Lens on mobile: https://phaver.app.link/chriscomrie If you like this video you might also like other popular ones like: ULTIMATE BEGINNERS GUIDE LENS PROTOCOL https://lenstube.xyz/watch/0x011f55-0x05d7 NEW TREND FOR CREATORS TO 💰 MONETIZE COMMUNITY https://lenstube.xyz/watch/0x011f55-0x0752 MUSEUM OF LENS🌿 - MOLENS- EXPLAINED https://lenstube.xyz/watch/0x011f55-0x04f5
Set a reminder for my upcoming Space! https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1MnxnpyVlYEGO with @hellokpl.lens to learn how @talentlayer.lens is bringing new developer tools for work platforms to Lens ecosystem so you can cash in on decentralized hiring! Starts at 4pm EST (2pm GMT-3)
Set a reminder for my upcoming Space! https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1MnxnpyVlYEGO with @hellokpl.lens to learn how @talentlayer.lens is bringing new developer tools for work platforms to Lens ecosystem so you can cash in on decentralized hiring! Starts at 4pm EST (2pm GMT-3)
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⭐ **Case Study: A Freelancer Collective’s Solution to Liquidity Issues: Pooling Jobs and Workers** ⭐ TLDR: This is a case study on how one prolific freelancing collective in France is solving its liquidity issues via pooling freelancers and jobs across hundreds of freelancer collectives. At TalentLayer, enable marketplaces to overcome liquidity issues by pooling workers and jobs. At our inception, we thought this was the first attempt at a network model like this. We were wrong. This fall our team came across a network of freelancer collectives based in France that have engineered an eerily similar solution after experiencing liquidity issues for many years. This case study serves as an incredible example of how pooling liquidity can enable more work to be done, more revenue to be made, and better experience for hirers and workers within freelance networks. What’s the story? First, we’ll explore the background of freelancing collectives in France. Next, we’ll take a look at the liquidity issues they’ve been experiencing for decades (these issues sound so very familiar to the ones entrepreneurs experience when building gig marketplaces)! Lastly, we’ll look at the solution that HappyDev came up with to solve their liquidity issues and the similar design principles we use at TalentLayer. Let’s dive in. ⭐ **Freelancer Collectives in France: A Long-Running Trend** ⭐ France has a particularly large community of “freelancer collectives” — unions of freelancers that come together to operate under a single business entity to work on projects together, contract with bigger clients, and make legal compliance easier. These freelancer collectives have existed for decades now; there are many hundreds that exist today, each ranging from a few dozen to a few hundred individual members. These collectives have some very interesting characteristics, which we’ll explore below. ***➡️ They Stay Small To Keep Trust High*** They intentionally do not grow their membership beyond a few hundred members because they rely on all members knowing each other to maintain trusted work relationships and have an awareness of where each can be helpful to one another. By doing this, each collective member is able to easily loop in the appropriate person on any work that requires another person’s skill set. For example, If a freelancer Jenny who specializes in Google Ads brings in a contract that requires not only Google Ads but also Linkedin Ads because Jenny knows that Alex, another member of the collective, specializes in Linkedin Ads, she reaches out to Alex to collaborate on the contract. The maximum member size of a few hundred aligns with Dunbar’s Number, the notion that there exists a cognitive limit on human groups of about 150 individuals — we can only hold so many reputations in our heads at once. ***➡️* They Use Shared Financial Rails** The freelancers in the collective, when they bring in a client, make the legal agreements for that contract between the collective’s entity and the client. Additionally, funds are wired from the client to the bank account of the collective and then are remitted to the freelancers who worked on the job. ***➡️* They Take a Fee To Cover Overhead** The collectives take a fee from the work that freelance members bring in. This fee is used to maintain the business and financial setups for the collective’s entity. ***➡️* They are Collectively Owned** These marketplaces are owned by the freelancers that make up each collective. ***➡️* Liquidity Issues in Freelancer Collectives** Just like within gig marketplace platforms, freelancer collectives also experience issues with liquidity for jobs and talent; “the chicken and egg problem”. Because the collectives are small, sometimes a job will come in that the collective doesn’t have all of the skills to handle. For example, if our freelancer from the prior example, Jenny, works in a collective that doesn’t have a Linkedin Ads expert, she’d have to find a way to reduce the scope of the project or turn down the opportunity. This is a huge loss for both the collective (who is missing out on making money from a lead) and for the hirer (who has to keep searching elsewhere). ⭐ **Meet HappyDev** ⭐ I came across HappyDev earlier this summer through one of TalentLayer’s team members. A few months later, I was fortunate enough to be able to hop on a call with one of their team members to learn about their story. HappyDev started off as a freelancer collective that came together to form an entity and take bigger contracts together. The classic freelancer collective story. They grew rapidly to be one of the largest in the region; centered in Paris. They managed to get bigger and bigger contracts; focusing on major corporate contracts. Today, the collective has multi-million dollar annual revenues. Over time, the collective’s operators realized they were getting a lot of inbound job leads that they could not serve with the skills they had internally in the collective. This, they saw as a missed opportunity. There were plenty of other freelance collectives around that HappyDev was connected with, so they decided to start approaching them to make agreements to forward leads to each other — a way for workers in each collective to get matched with MORE of the best-fit work for them. These agreements really too off! The other collectives loved the deal. All of a sudden, the “collective of collectives” was growing — and they needed more tools to help them facilitate the referral agreements, payment remittances between collectives, and more. So, they created a tool. HappyDev created a referral web app where the different collectives could share work amongst their members; this included a few notable features including a reputation system and a jobs system. They intend to eventually build automated financial rails as well — currently, payments are manual through each collective’s banking infrastructure. This tool was able to increase the number of jobs that all the collectives were able to fulfill. In other words, they created a more liquid market for freelance work in France. ⭐ **When Blockchain & Labor Liquidity Unite** ⭐ The most fascinating part of HappyDev’s story is that, after operating for 8 years, they came to the same exact realization and referral-based economic model as TalentLayer to solve their liquidity issues. Each collective is in a sense a marketplace, where work from hirers gets fulfilled by workers. HappyDev’s referral and job-sharing tool is akin to TalentLayer; a method for marketplaces to pool liquidity of work and workers. When blockchain technology and economic models like this unite, a whole new level of liquidity is possible for all labor platforms globally; with payment rails, dispute resolution, and cross-platform job posts automated, efficient, and uncensorable. The success of HappyDev’s referral and job-sharing tool stands as a point of validation for TalentLayer’s vision; creating an interoperable protocol for more liquid labor markets; like SMTP for email. We’re excited to continue bringing this vision to reality. Learn more at https://talentlayer.org
TalentLayer Tech Demo | December 2022 TalentLayer is the protocol & dev tool suite for building work marketplaces. Solve the 🐔 & 🥚 problem with liquidity pools for jobs & users. We just got a grant from Lens Protocol to build a tool to let Lens social media platforms integrate work features!! LFG!! Learn more: https://talentlayer.org