innerCircle

This project is the first platform that brings professional profile ownership back to the users. Traditional Web2 professional platforms, like Linkedin, make billions of dollars advertising users' profiles without paying them. At innerCircle, we fix this by incentivizing users to maintain, update profiles. For example, being DMed by recruiters on our platform will be paid for 90% of what the recruiter paid to the platform in token and we will use the remaining 10% to drive community engagement and growth. By giving professional data ownership back to the users, we are aiming to build a trusted SocialFi community for everyone to present their Web3 journey, make meaningful connections with like-minded people, and earn tokens for maintaining their profiles, engaging in the community.

We took an approach to use the best of web2 and web3 technology whichever provides better user experience. The majority of our business logic is managed on our backend server rather than the smart contract, allowing us to iterate quickly in the future without having to re-deploying contracts. Interacting with blockchain from the backend turned out to be challenging. Most of the examples are DApps with only frontend, smart contract. We are glad that we pushed our boundary while still be able to pull through.

Skale is super fast, and enjoyable to work with. We didn’t get to explore storing files on chain which sounds really cool. Looking forward to playing with it in the future.

For transparency, we built our web2 UI and backend before the hackathon. We built the token interaction and gating here from the scratch. It was no small feat for a team of two within 36 hours to say the least!