Good things come to those who wait…and we’re thrilled to announce that not only is testing open exclusively to our community, we‘re also launching a community bounty, a user airdrop AND a swag giveaway.

We’ve decided to do community testing for a few reasons:

Exclusivity to you, our community ~ we want to thank you for your dedication & patience over the last few months. We hope you’ll enjoy testing out the platform for the first time. Feedback ~ we value your opinion. We’d love to hear your thoughts, suggestions or problems so we can buidl the best product possible. We will read each and every suggestion given — your voice is important to us. Software debugging ~to prevent and/or squash bugs in the software.

To start testing head over to app.zinc.work.

If you’re unsure on what to do, have a read of these articles:

Community bounty

Read about our security bounty on Gitcoin for technical vulnerabilities in the smart contracts. To make the bounties as inclusive as possible for the majority of us who aren’t smart contract security experts we’re announcing a UI based Community Bounty. This is aimed at discovering potential bugs in the UI, in the interest of further improving the usability of the platform.

We invite all developers to review our code, provide feedback, and report any issues. Click on each link to find out the rules and details of the program. Don’t make the details of any vulnerability you find public until we have confirmed it’s fine to do so.

Duration of the Bounties

The bounties will close on Friday 14th September, a few days before the official launch on the 17th September. We reserve the right to end the bounties at any time.

The ZINC Airdrop

This is not your everyday ‘Airdrop’. This is our community user-base airdrop, specifically designed to encourage early adoption, community engagement and that all important user feedback. 👍

Here’s how it works:

The first 10,000 users to sign up to the platform will be gifted with 30 ZINC tokens.

The tokens are located in the bottom left of your profile

Requesting a reference costs 10 ZINC tokens.

Giving a ‘work proof’ earns you 5 ZINC tokens.

If you have any concerns or questions, you can look at our new support page ~ currently in testmode itself!

Start building your work identity today.

Things to note:

ZINC tokens will be locked in your Zinc account, ONLY for use within the platform currently.

ZINC tokens can be used to obtain references and work proofs

Both workers and recruiters can sign-up to use the platform

One account per user ~ you will not be able to transfer information from one profile to another

If you have any queries, please contact help@zinc.work

Feedback for SWAG

Your feedback is invaluable to us. After testing out the platform, fill in this short survey and let us know what you think of V.1 of Zinc. All feedback will be reviewed by the team and we will prioritise comments based on the complexity of the change and the demand.

The SWAG…

If you’d like to be in with a chance of winning one of five Zinc t-shirts, leave your email at the end of the survey. Lucky winners will be selected at random and we will announce them on Monday 17th September.

Here’s a sneak peak…

Zinc SWAG

Exciting times lay ahead for Zinc and our community. Stay tuned to follow the journey. Our official launch is planned for Monday 17th September.