The STORM Project: Decentralization and the Freelance Economy
STORM is a solid project being worked on as a solution to the centralized freelancer marketplace. Essentially it wants to act as a gamified micro-task platform for those who are working within the “gig” economy. Gamification is at the heart of its concept and it wants to help integrate blockchain technology into those kinds of apps.
As an ERC-20 token it is of course built on top of the Ethereum platform. The concept works through the identification of different persona types:
- Storm Maker’s
- Storm Player’s
- Storm Smart Tokens
- Storm Tasks.
This is facilitated through the use of a “Storm Play” app that acts as a decentralize marketplace for tasks and freelance work. It works similar to the Apple App Store or Google Play Store, so people would be able to develop apps and release tasks and have transactions verified through smart contract technology.
Storm Maker’s are the user’s who post tasks on the Storm Play app, and they must use STORM tokens as payment for posting tasks. This is accomplished through the use of StormX API’s and ETH smart contracts.
The main competition to this token model is the centralized freelance marketplace (examples being Upwork, Fiverr and Amazon Mechanical Turk). These platforms are currently charging up to 40% in transaction fees, effectively making them expensive and inefficient. Through STORM Play users can achieve similar functionality with tasks and freelance work at a vastly reduced transaction fee cost. Centralized systems have far too many “middlemen” involved, making it hard to really make good money through those platforms.
The team behind STORM envision Storm Tasks covering 3 separate categories:
- Promotional User Engagement
- Freelance Labor Market (Micro-Tasks, App QA testing to longer contract work)
- Shopping opportunities where users can earn about or sample retail goods/services.
The platform has the potential to make it much easier to find new opportunities, advance yourself in this world, engage potential partners and employers, and in general bring people together in a way that protects your privacy and protects against the unfortunate consequences of working in a centralized system.
The ability to earn money and advance yourself in our worldwide society is a basic human right, and STORM wants to protect and empower its users to achieve just that!
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