THE SHORT OF BLOCKLANCER | FREELANCE ON THE BLOCKCHAIN

Introduction

Blocklancer is a so-called Distributed Autonomous Job Market (DAJ) on the Ethereum platform, our vision of a completely self-regulatory platform for finding jobs and getting projects done. It will change the way freelancing works, both for customers and freelancers, and it will lift the reliability of freelancing to new heights.

The Blocklancer platform is intended as a means to revolutionize the process of freelancing and improve the cooperation between the freelancer and the Client. It is going to solve many issues involved in the Freelancing process, including but not limited to:

· refusals of payment for the agreed-on amount of money for a project,
· fake or undeserving reviews, and
· the uncontrollable influence and abuse of power of a central authority figure

Distributed Autonomous Job Market (DAJ)

It is our belief that a completely self-regulatory system is the best solution for a Freelancer platform such as Blocklancer. Therefore, we have created a new form of the job market: The Distributed Autonomous Job Market (DAJ for short). DAJ is our vision of the job market of the future and our proposed solution for many of the underlying problems currently faced by freelancing platforms. Most of the decisions made on our platform are in the hands of the Token holders, which means that there won’t be one single authoritarian instance with an uncontrollable amount of influence on the market. This effectively puts the power in the hands of the Token holders, giving Freelancers and Clients a more fair way to transact.

Market and Industry

Freelancing is one of the fastest growing markets in the world 1 with the Freelance workforce being comprised of 55 million workers, compared to 30 million workers only 10 years ago, almost doubling within the short time frame. Freelancers currently represents approximately 35% of the U. S. workforce

The Token

Name: Lancer

Ticker: LNC

Max supply 1,000,000,000

Platform: Ethereum

Problems in the industry

We now discuss the most pressing concerns Freelancers face with the current market and freelancing platforms, or websites that offer jobs. An overview of the problems we will cover below:

1. Unnecessarily difficult receiving payment from Clients
2. Clients leaving undeserving/negative profile reviews
3. High fees on current freelancing platforms
4. Unlimited centralized power on current freelancing platforms

Blocklancer Platform Processes

In Blocklancer, we implemented a wide range of processes. There are processes for:

· offering jobs,
· applying for jobs,
· doing reviews, and
· The Token holder Tribunal.

System Architecture

Blocklancer is the first decentralized and serverless job market. We accomplish this by combining existing technologies like Ethereum and IPFS. Because the blockchain technology is still in the architecture building phase we also implement our own, proprietary solutions.

· Core Architecture

Blocklancer is composed of three main components :
Ethereum: Ethereum is the backbone of Blocklancer
InterPlanetary File System IPFS
Database

The Token holder Tribunal Architecture

The automatic dispute resolution process is a core feature of Blocklancer. It is used for deciding if the employment contract was fulfilled by the Freelancer and if a given rating (from the Client or the Freelancer) is justified.

Database

At the moment, it is not recommended to store huge amounts of data on the blockchain. Storage on any blockchain (including Ethereum) is extremely expensive and inefficient. IPFS, on the other hand, offers a cheap storage solution, but there is no possibility to index the data to make it query-able.

The ICO