Welcome to our quarterly update; a brief overview to keep our community in the know of all the latest progress made with launching the Beta version of HireVibes.
On the whole, it looks like we may have weathered the latest Crypto Winter ☃️
A new bull market is emerging as the whole cryptocurrency space appears to have entered a new growth cycle. With a plethora of new crypto projects entering the space almost daily now, the demand for blockchain talent is increasing, which in turn is amplifying HireVibes’ value proposition of being a go-to place to crowdsource high quality candidates — who in turn can earn free Bitcoin and other crypto’s as rewards for getting hired.
Our goal is to build Web3’s job searching and freelancing platform, together with our community. Here are the recent steps we’ve made towards realising this vision:
1. HireVibes Freelance Smart Contracts in Testing
With the traditional jobs market experiencing a sharp recession in recent months, the Freelance gig space is booming.
We found the right balance between resources and privacy with the architecture of our smart contracts, which will have awesome new features for future freelancers. Our first implementation will cover both short (one time) and long term (contract) Freelance opportunities.
Ensuring a good Hirer-Freelancer relationship is paramount, so we’ll have in place some methods to keep it professional, fair and safe for both parties via an escrow fund in case of any disputes. The smart contracts are being tested right now and we are iterating on the UI/UX.
2. HireVibes DAC Formation has begun
A group of stalwarts from the HireVibes community who have been supporting the project in various ways, have stepped up to initiate the formation of HireVibes DAC (which is explained here in a previous post). A constitution that sets out the structure for HireVibes community to govern itself is being reviewed and once approved, the DAC can be formed.
Once set up, EOS accounts containing HVT (currenrly valued at ~$38,667) will be handed over to be managed by the elected custodians on behalf of the community.
3. New Client & New Reward Option — Energy Web Foundation & $EWT
Energy Web is accelerating a low-carbon, customer-centric electricity system by enabling any energy asset owned by any customer to participate in any energy market. To do so, they develop and deploy open-source decentralized technologies — the Energy Web Decentralized Operating System (EW-DOS) — with a global community of more than 100 energy market participants.
Currently seeking a Back End Developer, this position can be based remotely or from one of their offices located in Amsterdam or Berlin where there is free snacks, coffee, mate, sodas, beer.
The successful candidate and referrer will earn / share a 3% reward based on the salary offered, and we’re happy to announce that the Energy Web Token (EWT) is added to HireVibes as a reward option for this opening, alongside HVT, Bitcoin and EOS.
4. BlockBase Partnership
Earlier this quarter we revealed plans to develop a data marketplace using BlockBase’s novel side-chain system. While our limited engineering resources are focused on delivering the Freelance Marketplace, we’re excited to turn our attention to developing this feature in the future with contribution from our community.
5. HV-DeFi?
Decentralised Finance is emerging as one of the best use cases of blockchain and smart contract technology. DeFi is leveraging all decentralized networks to implement traditional financial concepts in a trustless and transparent manner.
Defibox.io is leading the charge on the EOS DeFi front, and is comparable to Uniswap on the Ethereum Blockchain.
HVT has been added to Defibox — we will seed it with an initial amount of EOS and HVT token liquidity in the coming weeks. Anyone is welcome to provide liquidity to this pool and earn rewards as a result.
Lastly, we’re exploring creating a wrapped HireVibes Token (wHVT) on the Ethereum blockchain, for various reasons. More on that to come.
For now, we welcome people to join our telegram to keep up with the latest.
