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Problem Statement

**traditional **professional networks are not user-friendly for engineers. we want to control the data, see real connections and less messaging noisy.people create and host their profiles in the form of a standardizedJSON on IPFS. benefit: data control, anyone can build an easily searchable database (scrape and fill Postgress, for example), where a recruiter has full flexibility of creating queries forgoing the limitations of custodial professional networkswhen 2 users worked together or know each other well, they can **stake **FIL (or other payment tokens) into their connection. think of it as a twitter blue mark but for connections instead of profilesreferral feeif one user wants an introduction to a friend of a friend in the network, they pay a fee.Motivation & impact -- professional networks' search interface is worse than SQL queries!! -- users should get paid for incoming messages, not the professional networked company -- users should control their data and not the professional company -- interface optimized for builders and hackers, not for hr/sales/bd. we want to see each other's source code

Solution

fevm CID control, graph of erc20vote tokens, and referral logic we wrap wFIL token used as a payment and stake it into the connections between friendspeople create and host their profiles in the form of a standardized JSONJSON has fields for skills, education, experiences, projects, hackathonspeople host themselves, so they have control over the data and can delete it whenever they want tothe host URL goes into a file. the file is either shared publicly on IPFS or BitTorrentan opensource tool to scrape the self-hosted JSON resumes into a Postgres or an opensource search enginematching for projects open-source AI toolzk recommendations and social proof Bonusrecipient gets paid for reading a message (from a recruiter, for example)friendsposting thingsthe UI has to be intuitive for coders first and only then others Motivation & impact -- professional networks' search interface is worse than SQL queries!! -- users should get paid for incoming messages, not the professional networked company -- users should control their data and not the professional company -- interface optimized for builders and hackers, not for hr/sales/bd. we want to see each other's source code