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**The Growing Gig Market**
Richard Branson, the Virgin Group founder, foresighted that 'One day offices will be a thing of the past'. Ask the millennials and one will find an increasing support for this observation. Whether or not offices will go obsolete is a discussion for another day, but the rise of the freelancing market has been explosive. The be-your-own-boss lifestyle is gaining swift popularity. It is forecasted that majority of the North American and European youth will be independent freelancers in less than a decade, with Asia and Africa catching up at their own pace.
**Challenges of the Current System**
Alright, so there is no doubt about the bright prospects of the gig industry, does that mean it is all sunlight and rainbows there? Unfortunately, no. For one, there are no foolproof methods for remuneration. Freelancers being hoodwinked into completing arduous tasks only to find their clients vanish into thin air is still not a rare scenario. At best the defaulters are banned from the platform; taking legal action is expensive and strenuous for freelancers and most commonly the end result is loss of money and effort.
On the other hand, clients or employers looking to get their work done face considerable chances of hiring freelancers who either have little regard to deadlines or casually abandon their work midway. Existing platforms use reviews and ratings as a method to encounter this issue and infuse trust, but there is no way to know if the reviews are genuine. On the flip side, reviews can work disastrously for freelancers and employers if used in a defamation campaign.
**The Solution**
What started from the internet will be transformed by the blockchain. GigTricks has all the might to emerge as a secure and transparent platform that will resolve all the issues in the freelancing community and make it better than ever. We know that the blockchain is an immutable and distributed ledger. This fundamental principle of the blockchain combined with Ethereum's smart contracts will change the game for both freelancers and employers.
**How it Will Work**
Ethereum's tamper-free smart contracts will establish the terms and conditions at the beginning of every consignment, including deadlines and payable amount. This will serve as a valid proof in contrast to the poor system of quotes and bids used in existing platforms, that are unreliable. Moreover, the escrow system will ensure that payments are processed without fail depending on the amount of work completed. GigTrick's own token GigBit will be used for all exchanges which will bring the high taxes on traditional cross-border payments down to a negligible amount. It will automatically reduce the fee levied by the platform drastically too. This is in stark contrast to the current platforms that impose exorbitant charges per consignment on freelancers. Even external mediums like PayPal charge significant costs, however, the GigBit token will resolve the issue ingeniously.
The blockchain's immutable leger combined with Gigtricks meticulous verification process will ensure that only authentic reviews are published on the platform. A handy feature is that ratings and reviews will be both overall and specific skill based. A multi-skilled freelancer can be a great content writer but an average video editor, this feature will highlight it clearly and facilitate a nuanced hiring process.
**Features**
Features of the platform like GigTricks social will bring the community together through options of following and befriending members. GigTricks Learning will be the online center of excellence where institutions around the globe and members of the community will upload their courses. Users will be able to access these courses by using GigBit tokens. After successfully completing the course by passing the online test, the acquired skill will be added to the freelancer's profile.
**The Ongoing ITO**
The private sale is currently on with a magnanimous discount of 75% to early supporters! After the end of the private sale, the pre-ITO and ITO phases will take place from June to August with the discount decreasing gradually as the sale proceeds. A total of one billion tokens will be minted and 350 million made available during the ITO.
The standard price per token is 0.24 USD.
**The Team**
Founder and CEO Amir Shaikh has a successful experience of 14 years in project management with a record of managing 450 million USD worth of projects of international scale. He is a blockchain enthusiast and a successful e-commerce entrepreneur. Co-founder and COO Omar Latif has an unmatched experience of 17 years in the IT sector. He is a serial entrepreneur with a track record of founding a software firm which has branched out in countries like Canada, Australia and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The leadership is formidable and the team is equally fit to handle a project of this scale.
Blockchain has certain substantial features that make it unique. GigTricks optimizes those features to the best of their potential and is perfectly compatible with the blockchain. It deftly resolves all problems in the freelancing market and this will accelerate its growth. Considering the fact that the gig industry is on the rise and expected to grow exponentially, the platform has emerged at the precise moment. With a huge influx, GigTricks will have enough time to establish itself and flourish. With a robust team and a genius project, there is little doubt that GigTricks has quite a lot of disruptions to make.
**Website** - [https://www.gigtricks.io/](https://www.gigtricks.io/)
**Whitepaper** - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/12w9Kchfw2qlE1BDZz8adBMa9beEXo1QR/view](https://drive.google.com/file/d/12w9Kchfw2qlE1BDZz8adBMa9beEXo1QR/view)
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**Published by** - dannywhelan
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