Hiway is a marketplace for work focussed on the blockchain industry. A platform which is built on some of the key pillars of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: big data, blockchain and artificial intelligence. These innovations fuel a platform that will ultimately reinstall trust to the recruitment process, eradicate issues of discrimination, lower fees and enable smoother financial processes.

It is the place to go for people who are skilled in the blockchain industry, or for companies in search for such individuals.

Great question, for the first time in the history of the internet it’s possible to trust someone without a third party telling you what that person is saying or promising is true. The third party has been replaced by a network protocol on the blockchain which guarantees an honest outcome. This means the time is finally right to build a platform that will connect people without human interference. More on this in the next question.

What is important to understand is the fact that keeping data on the blockchain is still expensive and slow. At Hiway we are aiming to keep all data in a central database but encryption of that data will happen completely on the blockchain. This means we are 100% compliant with the GDPR while being as secure as possible with personal data. As soon as there is a possibility to keep all data on the blockchain and at the same time be compliant with all regulators worldwide, we will dive into a different format.

We recognise the fact that there are more platforms offering to connect people worldwide, however, we use technology that is entirely new within these current platforms to improve the process.The Hiway platform will be there to help you find your match and once complete, both parties will be able to move forwards together with the help of a smart contract.

A smart contract is a derivative of the blockchain technology. It’s a contract which will execute as soon as the parameters set in the contract are met. Funds will be stored within the contract when being created thus making freelancers never having to wait for money after delivering, meanwhile giving employers the benefit of certain delivery of a product.

Hiway is a database of people ready to work with one another using the power of smart contracts.Our platform has two methods of connecting people- browse profiles and engage manually, or let our artificial intelligence do the work! Once a match is found, the Hiway platform will help you setup your smart contract. Our job is to ensure the contract is functional, but the two parties involved will ultimately set the parameters. The funds will be stored in the smart contract as soon as both parties come to an agreement. Once the work has been completed, the smart contract will release the funds.

Hiway will have a system called the Quality Jury. This system will be a team of random chosen but experienced professionals on both the employee as employer side and will help sort the problem. We are still developing the final form of this jury but for now more information can be found in the whitepaper.

Smart contracts don’t work with dollars or euros but with tokens. The Hiway system will work with WAY tokens, our dedicated payment solution. This means when someone gets into a smart contract with someone else WAY tokens go into contract. We will be looking to implement payment in euros or dollars too.

The price of tokens fluctuate due to the nature of cryptocurrencies. To ensure you still get the same amount of value at the end of a job we build a system to compensate those fluctuations. This system is called the job value reserve and will compensate any fluctuation in the token value. More information regarding this system can be found in our whitepaper. The job value reserve will be introduced in later versions of our platform.

The Hiway platform has been in development for the last 2 years and we are in the final stages of completing our MVP version. We will give everyone a chance to take a look at our prototype before the start of the crowdsale.

At Hiway we put great effort into how we present ourselves. We feel that the blockchain industry is full of interesting ideas and fascinating concepts but that the marketing side of some other projects are somewhat lacklustre. Our marketing communications team are primarily focussed on building a community around freelancers interested in the blockchain industry. In creating the right community our marketing specialists target the appropriate groups through channels like facebook ads, telegram and other well known media

We are working closely with other exciting projects, when we commit to partnerships we will let our communities know as soon as possible. We are always collaborating with, and open to partnerships with other teams and projects.