With this reputation infrastructure, Projects, DAOs, and entrepreneurs will be able to better find, meet, hire, and work in web3. Excellent projects will be able to show a track record of rewarding those who work for them - even if that work is enacted on a totally freelance and/or pseudonymous basis, and independent workers can show they really know crypto by brandishing their wallet filled with tokens of appreciation from other clients they have worked with.

Both will benefit. Companies, workers, and crypto nomad contributors want this. GoingUp’s on-chain reputation registrar will help them to have a better, more profitable, professional environment. Let’s show you how

“Trust Me Bro” - The Confidence Gap

In 2022, it can be hard for project leaders to know who to trust. Which project will offer a handsome fee of $USDC at first, only to end up getting a ‘home-brew’ NFT after the work is submitted after weeks of delay? Will clients pay on time as expected when the work is completed? Or do they plan to withhold payment before ‘one more extra thing’ is done?

In the pseudonymous nature of web3, where work is fragmented and decentralised, with ‘micro-tasks’ and small undertakings are normal, it can be challenging to have determined if an employer plans to ghost you.

However, with GoingUp’s tokens of appreciation, an independent worker can see that a DAO, individual, company - or literally anyone trying to hire some help - has a great track record of collaborating with other web3 individuals, as showcased by the GoingUp tokens of appreciation they have received from other users that have worked with them.

It makes modern freelancers and contributors more confident to work hard and fast knowing that the team they are working for makes good on their word. No more anxiety as the bill racks up and your collaborator gets quieter and quieter on the one Telegram chat box where you can contact them.

Getting the Best of the Best

It also has an ancillary effect of companies being able to find workers who may not otherwise have accepted their advances. A micro-cap project may need some world-class graphic design - but the job is an easy, quick, one. An independent worker might not go to the bother of establishing trust or meeting them, as the job isn’t worth it, and the risks are obvious.

Independent workers can thus quickly get to work - and quickly get paid - by seeing the reputation that these DAOs have built up through similar collaborations, all on-chain. Traceable, trackable, verifiable, and ensconced within the paradigms of web3.

The GoingUp platform is the modern worker's dream, where they can find self-curated lists of DAOs looking for contributors with fantastic track records of treating them right.

Reimagining Hiring for Greater Efficiency

** **The effect this has on hiring by DAOs and companies is similarly magnified, honed, and improved. As a project leader, you have to know your money is being spent well, especially when hiring on a pseudonymous basis (as is so often the case in web3). The time spent interviewing, background checking, and assessing a worker's classic resume and/or web3 footprint is time-consuming, inefficient and, most of all, expensive. Web3 is about efficiency, and hiring is ripe for improvement.

With GoingUp’s platform, even the smallest project can source contractors hyper-efficiently. GoingUp profiles will represent a pool of truly web3-engaged workers that have a history of building and collaborating on great projects.

A common problem for projects when hiring is how well the person they are hiring really knows about crypto and web3. The simple fact that those on the GoingUp platform have wallets, tokens of appreciation, and a track record of being paid on-chain shows they have the familiarity with the space to show they can really connect to and drive your project.

Another huge issue is whether they are delivering the work they said they would in the timeframe they promised. All too often project leaders are waiting on stretched deadlines, or even more problematically - botched work. Project leaders must often wait weeks to see if a hiring decision they made 2 weeks ago for a crucial job bears fruit.

No More Failed Work and Missed Deadlines

Sometimes work contributors come back with substandard work, work not done to spec, or just disappears altogether. At best, this is a headache, at worst, a key lynchpin of a coordinated strategy could disappear.

For example, a publication deadline arranged with a top news outlet to announce your new feature could be missed, and the placement lost because the writer sent the copy too late.

Any business leader knows this kind of wastage is par for the course, especially when hiring freelancers. Yet it doesn’t have to be this way. And with GoingUp, it won’t be. With the proof-of-contribution and tokens of appreciation, platform memberships, and other ecosystem features, projects will be able to skim from a pool of world-class web3 practitioners who have delivered time and time again in their chosen skill set and have the on-chain track record to prove it.

The ability to simultaneously reduce the costs of hiring while increasing the success rate has outstanding implications for the world of work. In traditional industries, hiring decisions are made over longer periods of time, and the delta is less impactful.

In web3, DAOs hire hundreds of people from all over the world (and the metaverse) in quick succession as tasks become itemised down to fine degrees and most crypto contributors work for multiple projects, so the impact of wastage is more brutal.

GoingUp’s Proof-of-contribution infrastructure counteracts these issues, leading to a greater rate of successful collaborations and thus better projects being built.

GoingUp’s Features Make Work Happen

Our tokens of appreciation are akin to Vitalik’s proposed idea of Soulbound Tokens (SBTs). A permanent on-chain expression of success, gifted by someone who thought you were worth it. DAOs hiring on the platform can award these tokens, and decentralized contributors who had an excellent experience can give them back. In this way, both benefit. Both parties will have their own GoingUp profile, and these tokens of appreciation will be displayed on it. When browsing, users on either side can see these badges of achievement, and they fill them with confidence about entering new collaborations with each other.

GoingUp’s NFT membership will be another way for companies to enshrine themselves as great employers and contributors as great employees. The GoingUp NFT exclusive Membership will highlight your profile for life on our platform and give you full access to the features that we are currently building and the huge array of features will continue to build in the future, access to a VIP Discord with other exceptional founders and project leaders who, like you, believe that a truly web3-enabled professional registrar is the oil to a fairer, faster, and more efficient modern working environment.

We will also have an overall scoring system that adjudicates your composite professional reputation. The score will take into account the tokens of appreciation, the wallet activity, and the user’s interaction with the platform as a whole to come up with this score. It will act as a one-glance metric for leaders and workers to help them know who they are dealing with.

Professional Networks for the Modern Web

Decentralisation will change the world of work forever. The ‘gig economy is booming, particularly in web3. It’s more efficient for companies, and it gives workers more agency. Yet the final piece of the puzzle isn’t quite there. The opportunity for web3 to connect workers and professionals through a decentralised protocol where trust is immediate and clear to see.

We will provide exactly that: Trust. A vibrant, active, collaborative community where the best come together to make the line go up. Not just the asset price, but the careers - and friendships - of everyone involved.

The Issues with Web3 Collaboration

Yet what of the human element? Creators, developers and project leaders are still the essential flywheel of an industry that makes the whole space move. Web3 is a burgeoning career-building space, with hundreds of projects being built every day that are racing to capture all the possibilities inherent in NFTs, DAOs and the metaverse.

Often, these relationships occur in Discord/Telegram chat boxes. Whole teams, broad DAOs, and entire projects are connected by a communication infrastructure that allows for anonymity, has no fail-safes on identity, and is not built for purpose. It’s hard to find good work, and it’s hard to find trustworthy collaborators. The current systems make it much harder.

Project leads take a chance every time they collaborate with someone; creators, builders, and developers take the chance they will get their pay at the end and – with crypto’s irreversible transactions – scammers can abscond with funds all too often before the work is complete. In short, there are plenty of wasted opportunities going on with billions lost every year to this kind of wastage.

GoingUp: The Professional Collaborations Engine of Web3

GoingUp will be the smart resume of Web3. It will stay true to the pseudonymous soul of crypto but give project leaders, creators and developers an infrastructure where they can find, assess and contract collaborators that fit their needs. GoingUp’s profiles will let professionals offer their services while displaying a proven, on-chain, track record of delivery on their past works and achievements. Project leads will be able to show their history of collaborations and volunteering. Every party involved will be able to not only find each other more easily and faster but also be reassured they are getting trustworthy partnerships.

GoingUp is a reputation-building system that uses blockchain-native principles to establish trust and authenticity, whilst remaining entirely pseudonymous. A user’s wallet gains reputation credits from awards by those they work with, interactions with others, and delivery of work and/or payments. It creates an on-chain resume of previous work attached to the profile, so those hiring or looking for contributors are certain the user did what they are claiming. It also tracks the trail of smart contracts and transactions associated with the wallet to facilitate appropriate due diligence for users who want to push their assessment.

How GoingUp uses NFTs and SBTs

A major way GoingUP works is by leveraging its own version of SBTs, recently mooted by Vitalk Buterin as a cornerstone of ETH’s future use case. Collaborators can award each other NFTs that show their appreciation. These NFTs will mark a profile as a good, honest collaborator that delivers. This on-chain proof will build an on-chain resume that will help build a collaborator’s trustworthiness in the space, and enable them to also be rewarded for their volunteer work, minor contributions, and positive interactions in the working world of Web3, as well as for their paid-work commitments.

This is essential for the informal work arrangements that characterise so much of current Web3 projects. Few people are on formal contracts, most work on multiple gigs, and small contributions from a diverse spread of people are the norm.

How On-Chain Resumes Create Micro-Work Engine

This is arguably utopian, and most likely the future of work, with micro-work and focused collaborations responsible for so much of what is amazing about Web3. GoingUp will be the infrastructure that this informal network can thrive on, without sacrificing Web3 primitives. It will empower artists, creators and every professional to find like-minded individuals, build each other’s reputations and make their project, DAO or even start-up a success. It will help larger project leads assess a wide pool of talent, pseudonymously and therefore socially unbiased, and underscored by trust and professionalism.

GoingUP is not the only protocol aiming to be this essential professional infrastructure. As well as legacy Web2 providers like LinkedIn, direct crypto-native solutions like POAP exist – yet POAP is more sentimental in focus, whereas GoingUp focuses on creation. GoingUp is the only solution that currently offers on-chain proof-of-collaboration, pseudonymity, scoring, token rewards, all encompassed in a completely decentralised on-chain resume where users can curate and highlights their main accomplishments and find other professionals and gather the team that will make their dreams become reality.

OG NFT Launch and Launch on Polygon

To celebrate the imminent launch of their service, GoingUp will also be starting their NFT membership program. Those who want to be at the forefront of the future of work can snag one of these GoingUp Premium Exclusive NFTs which confer a whole host of lifetime perks for the service, as well as priority access to their seed capital round. They are aimed at team leaders and early investors who believe in the project and want to contribute. The GoingUP team will be open to their Fren’s input and happy for co-designers to stamp their mark. Just as GoingUp encourages informal but rewarding work arrangements, so the project will operate in that manner from the outset. There are 222 of these GoingUp Premium Exclusive NFTs, with more details to be found on GoingUp’s Twitter, Discord and Membership page.

GoingUp is currently accepting Ethereum and Polygon wallets. It’s EVM compatible and built on Polygon. GoingUp eventually plans to become chain-agnostic and become a multi-chain and multi-wallet platform. The team will blend the diverse experiences a professional may have built across chains and recorded within various wallets to build their full on-chain professional identity.

Go Up in the World Wide Web

There are endless opportunities in Web3. If you work hard, meet people, and contribute in memorable ways – the rewards will go on and on, and in many cases up and up. GoingUp will be a Web3 professional’s perfect platform, a blockchain-native solution to getting the help one needs, and the opportunities one craves. So if you want to go up in the world, if you want your friends and collaborators to go up with you, keep a close eye on GoingUP Protocol, and you may just find what you’re looking for.

Author: Marcin Dragunov for CryptoMonde

Original post: Here

GoingUp is a professional reputation toolkit for the working world of web3. It’s your professional identity, on-chain. We let projects and workers connect authentically and pseudonymously so they can focus on what’s important: collaborating to build the next great blockchain utility.

Web3 offers endless opportunities for projects and freelancers to build the next big thing. All over the world, people are coming together to create a new conception of the internet, and a new way to work.

The Problem GoingUp Solves: Professional Trust

In this unique environment, it can be hard to know who to trust. The pseudonymous ethos of web3 makes it hard for projects to hire people they can rely on, and for freelancers to be employed by those who stick to their word.

Scams happen. Background checks, if even possible, are costly. People regularly lie about their credentials to secure a great job, then fail to deliver on either their promise or their promises, leaving project leaders in the lurch.

GoingUp facilitates connections between projects and people based on their on-chain and off-chain professional activities, achievements, and informal activities. It lets users create a profile where their work is recorded and authenticated on-chain so that the people that hire them can see a verifiable track record of success.

Other users’ feedback on a profile will also feed into their overall reputation score. This score will be a fulcrum around which professionals can pitch themselves to projects, and on which businesses can find the best people for their projects.

Connecting Projects and Workers

This reputation score will be essential in the future world of decentralised work. The future of web3 depends upon a diffuse and diverse workforce coming together to build great things. By having GoingUp’s reputation facility as the tissue which helps them connect, every party in an arrangement can come together on a basis of mutual trust. It will help companies hire better and workers work better. Everyone will have more information to make informed decisions - even with pseudonymous candidates.

A worker can see that a company rewards its collaborators appropriately on time, is invested in their development and that previous workers have spoken highly of them. A project can see that a potential collaborator has a track record of delivering their work, a track record of collaboration with fellow co-workers and that previous projects have benefited from their efforts. All of this will be viewable on-chain, through a mixture of GoingUp NFTs, reputation scores, and awards by other users.

GoingUp is currently built on the EVM ecosystem and intends to take its platform multi-chain. The goal is to be the ultimate platform for web3 professionals across all chains. A one-stop shop for a user’s reputation in web3 based on their verifiable blockchain activities. This is not just limited to individuals, the goal is for DAOs, companies and protocols to all have their trustworthiness ratified by GoingUp’s innovative platform.

Users can also capture their data on-chain to prove their history of achievement. GoingUp will let DAOs, companies, and projects award their contributors for exceptional performance with GoingUp awards. These will feed directly into their score and will help possible future collaborators see the quality of their hire. It will create a positive feedback loop where great people get hired by great projects, leading to an overall improvement in the quality of web3 teams.

GoingUp will let users distil their achievements into what we call a Non-Fungible Reputation. They will bundle their wallets and sync their on-chain transactional history in a single composable asset (ERC-1155) that will serve as their on-chain CV. They will be able to carry that CV across blockchain ecosystems. Think of it like a business card in your wallet that also serves as a log of all your professional achievements.

The UP Score: How We Create On-Chain Reputation

We calculate a user's UP score using many different pieces of on-chain transaction data. We compile Soulbound NFTs, GoingUp tokens of appreciation, project completion, verified collaborators, and specific on-chain data like Twitter engagement metrics, Discord activity and LinkedIn reach.

This data is grouped into different categories. For a particular hire, say a blockchain developer, a project may not care about a user’s socials, so it’s important the data is presented in such a way so that leaders can focus on what’s important. The categories are:

• Wallet Transaction History

Your connected wallet's transaction history publicly indicates who you have transacted with, the volume, and the nature of the transaction. It significantly contributes to your UP score.

• Verifiable Credentials (NFTs and SBTs)

• GoingUp will analyse your tokens of appreciation, your NFTs, and Soulbound tokens and aggregate their value in determining a user’s UP score.

• Project Smart Contract Metrics

• GoingUp has its own smart contract for projects so that collaborating, contributing and auditing is easy. Leaders can define objectives, contributor rewards, and rationales for those rewards. These rewards are executed when the given goal is complete.

• Supportive environment

• A user’s UP score is improved by completing projects with other users who have high or upward trending reputation scores (such as new upcoming professionals). Verified users will also be able to stake their reputation in vouching for other users. If a collaborator has a proven track record of working with the best, it’s likely they’re one of the best themselves.

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• Off-Chain Metrics

• We aggregate metrics from sites like Twitter, measuring followers, tweet engagement history, account suspensions, Discord connections, LinkedIn recommendations and other records to establish a user’s social presence.

• Length of Reputation History

• Like most CVs, the more diverse and the more experience, the better. If a user has a long and storied track record of professional work and associations, then their score will be boosted.

From these metrics, the UP reputation score is determined. It ranges from 0 to 999. The score updates as the metrics chain. If a user ends up being involved in projects that are scams or rug pulls, or perhaps they didn’t do the work at all - their score is negatively affected or even zeroed out in the worst instances. However, a good track record of project completion, close collaboration, and sending and receiving tokens of appreciation will boost the score.

Say a project needs a press release written. It’s an important announcement and the in-house writer needs some help, but the deadline is short. Leaders can search GoingUp for a good writer who has a track record of receiving GoingUp tokens of appreciation for their effort and who receives consistent feedback for delivering on time. They can connect, arrange a fee, and agree that the writer – on top of their salary - will receive another token of appreciation for timely delivery if the task is completed as desired. The writer agrees, completes the work, the leader is satisfied, and both parties’ reputation is boosted further for a successful outcome. With GoingUp, everyone can be rewarded for their efforts and contributions. No matter how big or small the difference one makes, even making someone else’s day better, it can be captured within a GoingUP token of appreciation.

GoingUp will use machine-learning algorithms and statistical analysis to make sure there is no bias and no abuse in the UP score.

Why On-Chain Reputation Matters

For Workers: Decentralised Composable CV

The future of work will be fleeting. The new gig economy, portable workspaces, and brief and intense collaboration for mutual benefit. All of these new styles of work are here to say. The old reputation systems fail in this new environment.

Moreover, a lot of the work that happens isn’t properly recorded nor acknowledged. Many volunteers, coaches, tutors, mentors and others have no track record and no monetary reward or recognition for their extra efforts. With GoingUP, this data can be captured and recognised for the valuable experience gained and the positive impact it had on others.

GoingUp’s reputation data and scoring can be used to create an on-chain professional resume that is fit for purpose in the modern decentralised world of work.

A decentralised CV can’t be invented. The on-chain history is immutable. It means that even though you may not know someone’s name, you know that they are reliable and that they provide great work.

Our roadmap includes developing a zero-knowledge proof of a user’s score breakdown, so they can add their UP score to their LinkedIn or share it with their employer without having to share their entire GoingUp profile. It will be a chance for workers to provide ironclad details about their professional achievements without having to tell a project everything about them.

For Projects: Reputation Engine for a Modern Workforce

We want GoingUp to be the ultimate tool for projects to find great workers. Our reputation score lets DAOs find truly crypto-native and web3 savvy individuals who have a track record in the space, and lets them make accords and arrangements with them simply and easily.

Leaders can clearly state what they need, and our engine will scour the GoingUp database and show potential collaborators who are available and specialised in the work they need to do.

We want to make it as seamless as possible for great projects to find great people and to ensure that both sides of the agreement benefit, both materially and reputationally, from the connection. Eventually, the GoingUp network will be the one central hub for all the professional needs of Web3 and of the decentralised work environment.

Going Up

Decentralised ways of working need professional networking. GoingUp will provide the perfect foundation for companies and projects to collaborate and connect while keeping the ethos of decentralisation, pseudo-anonymity, and on-chain activity front and centre. Users will be able to store and show their professional, formal and informal history on-chain and projects big and small can find the talent they need to achieve their goals successfully. The new world of work is coming, and GoingUp will make sure everyone thrives in it.

Visit our website and join our waitlist for updates:

https://www.goingup.xyz/