Experty aims to solve the talent crisis in the blockchain community by allowing experts to monetize their skills through a Skype like audio/video app.
Experty vision is to engage the masses to adopt blockchain within the next 3 years by creating a very intituative smart app for advice seekers and bringing knowledge providers literally within a call away.
It plans on addressing today's challenge where experts do not feel comfortable in sharing their numbers to strangers and taking their calls. This experience is about to change, whereby using Experty platform professionals can grant instant access to their knowledge to anyone in the world and get paid for it.
Calls made over Experty comes with great conveniance for users, hence allowing advice seeker to connect with matching expert in an instance. The use cases are limitless in terms of who is the target audience for Experty such as Lawyers, Medical practitioners, Programmers, Business Advisors, Consultants, Professors, Tech Gurus, Security Experts, Celebrities, Influences, etc
Publicly rated experts can set their per-minute rates; Refunds can be made to advice seeker via smart contract incase experts fail to deliver the expected information and unable to meet satisfaction levels.
Knowledge providers are paid instantly on Experty without having to wait for a 3rd party intermediary and caller payment is handled through Experty's smart contract system. Some of the interesting features apart from being able to make a call are scheduling, webinars, group texting, screensharing, group calls & conversation recording.
The core features for Experty platform are the following:
WebRTC Protocol: Experty platform uses this protocol for Audio/Video communication with the participants. This protocol is widely acclaimed to be used in WhatsApp & Google Hangout apps because of its robustness and in securing peer to peer data share
Fully Decentralized Call Links: The objective is to allow experts to be contacted from anywhere anytime and use existing networks where they are known without needing to create a separate marketplace for them. Thus Experty capitalizes on existing social media knowledge providers are used to in reaching their audience.
Instant Payment: The payments are made instantly over pay-by-minute rate set by Knowledge providing over Ethereum blockchain. Incase of knowledge seeker's funds running low in the call. The System informs the caller in advance within the call before dropping him off when his funds depletes below pay-by-minute rate set for the call.
Cross Platform Calling Platform: Dedicated app for iOS, Android, WP. Experty plans to be integrated with 3rd party Video call apps, so callers can use their apps of their liking.
Availability Schedule: Knowledge provider will be able to set their schedule for call acceptance. Incoming calls outside the schedule will simply not be accepted by the system. Hence Experts do not have to worry about receiving calls outside their service hours.
Ethereum Wallet: The dedicated applications provided by Experty will have a built-in Ethereum wallet to manage funds.
The reason for choosing to go with blockchain for the introduction of Experty platform is due to the fact that instant payment settlement, legal process simplification and automation, transparency & reduced staff overhead managing the product could not be achieved using existing technologies.
Experty's Pre-ICO starts at Jan 25th 2018 12PM UTC and all contributions are accepted through only BitcoinSuisse.
1000 (EXY) Experty Token = 1 ETH (during ICO) and uses ERC-223 an updated version of ERC-20 that uses less GAS compared with ERC-20
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