Stellar Community Fund

By Stellar Talent Platform

Stellar Talent Platform

SCF #27

$41.0K

Legacy v5.0 Activation Award

Awarded

Educate, validate, onboard and pay talent on Stellar via techfiesta.dev

Products & Services

At EkoLance, we're committed to upskilling and onboarding web3 talent into job opportunities through hackathons, workshops, bounties, and freelance projects. That's why we've pioneered a groundbreaking knowledge and talent platform, called techfiesta.dev, solely dedicated to blockchain expertise. Moreover, we provide a payment gateway that streamlines transactions between companies and talent using native tokens and stablecoins. Our platform, techFiesta.dev, has the following features: On-chain ID and credentials verification, facilitating connections to vetted and high-quality talent. On-chain reward payments (supporting Ethereum, Polygon, and Solana). On-chain distribution of credentials (Soulbound tokens) for each talent action, such as participation in workshops, hackathons, bounties, and challenges, thereby enabling the development of an on-chain CV and reputation. With over 9000 registered users, including 5000+ web3 developers proficient in 70% Solidity and 30% Rust, we've organized more than 30 online hackathons and developer challenges for leading chains like Gnosis Chain, Celo, Solana, and others. What Problem do we solve: With our platform we can easily onboard builders on blockchain protocols, as well as recruit talent for blockchain companies. Our clients (the protocols and companies hiring blockchain talent) can verify and recruit skilled web3 professionals as well as pay them through techfiesta.dev. Our grant objective is threefold: Collaborate with Stellar to onboard developers onto the Stellar Ecosystem through a series of developer challenges (bounties) and hackathons. Facilitate the distribution of on-chain certificates (Soulbound tokens or NFTs) for participation in developer challenges, hackathons, and workshops on the Stellar Blockchain, allowing professionals to authenticate their Stellar experience. Integrate a Stellar Wallet into techFiesta and make possible that professionals are paid in XLM for any work they do via techFiesta.dev.