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Vank Cliff

Vank Cliff - Liquidity Management and Payroll/Vesting System

Vank Cliff

Created At

ETHGlobal Prague

Winner of

Blockscout - Big Blockscout Explorer Pool Prize

Prize Pool

Project Description

Vank Cliff is a financial infrastructure layer that bridges liquidity management and automated compensation for modern Web3 organizations. In a landscape where payroll, vesting, and treasury operations are still fragmented and reliant on manual processes, Vank Cliff introduces a secure, smart contract-based system that enables companies to manage payments, vesting schedules, and contributor rewards on-chain—efficiently and transparently.

How it's Made

Blockskaut Integration: Embedding On-Chain Reputation The protocol integrates with Blockskaut’s decentralized reputation system, leveraging Merit Points to align trust with financial automation. Payroll contracts query real-time reputation scores to adjust payment conditions—such as frequency, release timing, or access to bonus streams—ensuring that reliability and performance directly influence compensation flows.

Built with the Blockskaut SDK Using the Blockskaut SDK, the team implemented key components including: Smart contract hooks for validating Merit Points before disbursement

Role-based access control tied to contributor reputation

APIs for dynamic adjustments to payroll and vesting logic

The system is built on Solidity, Foundry, and a Next.js front-end, offering a composable architecture for decentralized financial operations.

Autonomous Payroll and Real-World Use Cases At its core, Vank Cliff features an autonomous payroll module—a smart contract system that periodically validates contributor status and executes token payments without manual approvals. Example use cases: Startups can onboard global contributors and pay them in stablecoins or tokens without third-party processors.

DAOs can link vesting or rewards to governance participation and reputation.

Enterprises can segment liquidity and automate payouts in compliance with internal rules.

Key benefits include operational efficiency, immutable audit trails, and increased trust between organizations and contributors.

Future Vision Vank Cliff is designed for integration with broader DeFi and DAO ecosystems. Future iterations aim to support cross-chain treasury flows, staking-linked incentives, and dynamic compensation models that respond to on-chain activity. Vank Cliff offers a practical, reputation-aware solution for automating financial operations in the decentralized economy.

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