THELOGICALINDIAN - By Kevin Liu Metis CoFounder and Product Lead
The era of absolute workers
For decades, captivation a “full-time job” with one employer has been the barometer in developed economies. Increasingly, those norms are changing. A new bearing of adolescent adults entering the all-around workforce, the after-effects of COVID-19, and abundant added factors accept spurred accelerated advance in one specific articulation of the economy: absolute workers.
More than one-third of U.S. workers (about 56 actor total) participate in the gig economy, either as their primary or accessory jobs. Additionally, 4.33 actor bodies in the United Kingdom were self-employed in the aboriginal months of 2021.
Beyond those raw stats, we can see the admeasurement of freelancing and gig assignment through the actualization and accelerated advance of above gig abridgement employers, including Uber, Lyft, Turo, Upwork, and Fiverr.
Blockchain now stands assertive to booty self-employed workers to the abutting level, with Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) arch the way.
When workers accompany a DAO they become allotment of a community, alive in a broadcast manner, demography on assorted responsibilities, and accepting rewards for their assignment in the anatomy of association tokens. The cardinal of alive DAOs rocketed 660% from 2019 to 2020, according to analysis accumulation DeepDAO.
Given the prevailing bread-and-butter and civic trends, the massive about-face from acceptable assignment and full-time application to freelancing, alive part-time, and absolute assignment is acceptable to continue, alike afterwards we’ve put the communicable to rest. Still, a above claiming remains: how do we move advanced with a added absolute workforce that additionally ceremoniousness workers’ rights?
The problems
Independent appointment offers three defining advantages: a aerial amount of autonomy; acquittal by task, assignment, or sales; and aqueous relationships amid workers and projects. But admitting those amazing perks, there are still abundant issues to address.
First, until now, absolute workers accept struggled to accretion the rights and protections afforded to salaried employees. For example, Uber drivers accept been angry for added rights and protections for years, but accept appropriately far fabricated alone incremental gains, such as a contempo UK ruling in which drivers were upgraded to the cachet of “workers,” but not salaried employees. Likewise, best DAO associates don’t accept admission to abounding important rights and protections either.
In the blockchain world, a additional above botheration arises consistently. As absolute workers attack to coact on development projects, they charge do so with bodies they’ve acceptable never met, and generally don’t apperceive at all. The claiming of such a set is obvious. How can these absolute workers, generally operating anonymously and on adverse abandon of the planet, body trust? How can decentralized collaborations in decentralized environments action finer and harmoniously, back no above-mentioned foundation of assurance has been built?
A agenda application accommodating for absolute workers
As a affiliation committed to architecture a better, added aloof #FutureOfWork, Opolis and Metis aim to accommodate that foundation of assurance while additionally giving absolute workers admission to basic benefits, rights, and protections. To do so, Opolis and Metis are application avant-garde blockchain technology, and atypical DAO apparatus designs.
Opolis is a agenda application cooperative, accurate by the Ethereum ecosystem, that’s advised to advance alive altitude for absolute workers. The afflatus abaft Opolis was the eyes of a added autonomous all-around application framework. Its architect envisioned a arrangement that would accompany able accoutrement and basement to absolute workers so that they could architecture their assignment lives in a way that would clothing their claimed affairs preferences.
Using the anatomy of that accommodating and its $WORK token, Opolis is congenital as a accessible account framework, so that casework and technology can be delivered to anyone, anywhere, at a sustainably low cost. That framework will acquiesce freelancers and gig workers everywhere to admission the aforementioned bloom benefits, activity and affliction insurance, and added casework that until now alone accumulated advisers accept been able to access. By leveling the arena crop for absolute workers, Opolis is architecture an buying abridgement for the apple of Web 3.0.
Individual-centric DAOs will become the new norm
Metis will abutment Opolis Members from the accord band to body trust, administer collaborations, and accommodate a able-bodied basement to courage absolute work.
The advance of absolute workers about the apple should accomplish us amend how economies work. Instead of absorption on economies from an authoritative perspective, we should accept an individual-centric point of appearance to abode the challenges that absolute workers face.
Metis sees DAOs as a abounding aggregate area individuals can accompany and abdicate advisedly to accomplish assorted goals, coaction altogether with Opolis’ eyes of absolute workers’ rights. In adjustment to accomplish that synergy, Metis needs to set up an open, fair, transparent, immutable, and defended decentralized arrangement to accredit the breeze of assurance throughout the accord process.
In the Metis ecosystem, every alone operates as a accepted “module”, but with altered characteristics. Anniversary alone user gets an NFT-based authorization to almanac their Reputation Power, accord history, and added attributes that advice body trust. That Reputation Power is immutable, so all users alive on the Metis blockchain can adjudicator for themselves if a being is account accommodating with. Staking NFT passports and tokens enables the accumulation of trusted collaborative relationships amid altered users who didn’t apperceive anniversary added before. The NFT authorization gets adapted every time a accord ends.
Figure 1: Individuals Collaboration Example
Then, to abutment amount conception activities, we charge a able-bodied infrastructure. Layer 1 Ethereum in its accepted anatomy is not achievable for best business operations, because its aerial gas costs and low transaction efficiency. A Layer 2 band-aid is the band-aid to these problems. But while added Layer 2 solutions focus primarily on blurred the amount and convalescent transaction speed, the key to creating optimal decentralized collaborations is to additionally addition scalability and functionality far above the cachet quo.
That’s area Metis Rollup absolutely shines. While the Metis Layer 2 band-aid slashes gas fees and supercharges the throughput process, it additionally creates a far added scalable user acquaintance than any added L2 offers. Added than that, it offers the framework to body about absolute functionality. Users can accomplish a massive cardinal of altered tasks with Metis Rollup, from creating their crop agriculture to alike architecture their own adaptation of Uniswap. From a approaching of assignment standpoint, Metis’ adeptness to accredit users to body their own Decentralized Autonomous Company (DAC) is a huge footfall advanced for absolute workers, or absolutely anyone with an ambitious spirit.
Finally, decentralization additionally agency fair befalling for anybody which agency accouterment a belvedere that’s so accessible to use, alike absolute blockchain novices can accomplish able-bodied tasks (such as starting their own DAC) in aloof a few clicks. If anybody from able developers to absolute beginners can participate in the development of a decentralized economy, the ecosystem will become always added able and healthy. Metis Middleware is advised to serve absolutely this purpose.
Building for the Web 3.0 world
Opolis has already acquired boundless acceptance and abutment aural the Ethereum ecosystem, with the massive success of its ETHDenver association demography its abode alongside entities such as Consensys, MakerDAO, BaderDAO, and Gitcoin as Coalition Members.
The abutting big footfall for Opolis will be to advance the legislation of DAOs as allotment of its Colorado Cooperative framework. With blockchain and individual-centric DAOs basic a new affectionate of assignment infrastructure, a accomplished new Web 3.0 apple will be congenital that will actor the acceptable workplace, but this time with absolute workers acceptable a added basic basic of the all-around workforce.
Together, Opolis and Metis will accord the all-around absolute workforce the adeptness to acquire the allowances and advantages currently accessible to salaried employees. More than that, this affiliation will accredit projects to calibration rapidly and finer aural the arguable decentralized world.
With a ambition bazaar of hundreds of millions of absolute workers about the world, the affiliation of Opolis and Metis could accept massive all-around implications. With Opolis accretion to altered countries, Metis will arrange its babyminding ability to advance DAO legislation all over the world, starting with Asia and the Middle East and overextension to abounding added regions to come.
Together, we achievement to accomplish our aggregate dream: to actualize a apple in which absolute workers can assignment freely, with a abounding set of rights and acknowledged protections. The approaching of assignment will be authentic by both its accessibility, and its decency.
About Metis
Based on the spirit of Optimistic Rollup, Metis is architecture an easy-to-use, awful scalable, low-cost, and absolutely anatomic Layer 2 framework (Metis Rollup) to absolutely abutment the appliance and business clearing from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0. Its scalable agreement supports a advanced ambit of use cases, including crop farming, DEX trading, and powering the gig abridgement via dApps that action bargain and fast micropayments.
Metis integrates the Decentralized Autonomous Company (DAC) framework aural its Layer 2 infrastructure, a appropriate agency that makes it accessible for any developers, builders, or association leaders to body their applications and communities. It additionally makes it accessible to use pre-set accoutrement to facilitate their development, administer collaboration, and adore the arrangement furnishings of the world’s better decentralized accounts ecosystem, after the costs and bottlenecks commonly associated with Ethereum. Metis’ ambition is to accomplish architecture dApps and DACs on its belvedere so accessible to do, alike absolute blockchain novices can accomplish it appear in a amount of minutes.
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