At Zippie, we’re working hard to bring the benefits of blockchain to the people. Our aim is to help reshape the internet economy and give everyone the chance to earn without middlemen. One exciting way of doing this is by making use of cutting technology such as AI. Our partnership with Dbrain is an example of how this can work in practise.

1. What does Dbrain do?

Dbrain is solving one of the problems currently slowing down the development of machine learning: Producing high-quality data sets and tagging them with the metadata that hungry neural networks need in order to grow and learn. Simply put, we need humans to feed neural networks, but human labour costs a pretty penny.

In countries where labour is more economical, people whose lives could be improved by microtransactions for labelling data are often missing out on proper financial services. Yet, access to the internet is reaching people faster than traditional banking services. That’s why a decentralised cryptocurrency system can be revolutionary. And the device that brings the internet to unbanked people is, of course, the smartphone.

2. What is Dbrain’s ultimate goal and how do they aim to accomplish it

Dbrain aims to smooth out many of the bumps in the road currently slowing down the adoption of machine learning based AI. Worldwide, there are millions of people who would be delighted to earn a couple of bucks a day by doing work many would consider repetitive. Dbrain empowers individuals like this with easy-to-use and accessible user interfaces. And in the centre of all this disruption lies Dbrain’s central aim: to make redistribution of labour work without the cumbersome, expensive nonsense of international money transfers.

3. Why is Dbrain a perfect partner for Zippie?

We’ve mentioned certain keywords that align Dbrain with Zippie: User control. Decentralisation. Ease of use. Dbrain’s goal of putting currency in the pockets of unbanked populations resonates with many in the crypto community. In short, Dbrain is building a decentralised way for people to improve AI by working on their phones. Naturally, Zippie wants to help make this happen.

4. What do they say about Zippie?

This is what Dmitry Matskevich, CEO and Founder of Dbrain, said in our recent interview with him at Consensus 2018:

“We partnered with Zippie because they streamline the process of bringing suitable workers to the Dbrain platform. Zippie enables them to manage encryption keys and become financially included. We’re very happy to start working together and we hope that together we can help millions of people help us build thousands of applications.”

5. What are we doing together with Dbrain right now?

Currently, we’re working on our dapp store, which will be crucial for actors like Dbrain to distribute their code to millions of smartphone users worldwide, no special skills needed. We’re in constant conversation with our partners on the APIs and integration needed with our platform for apps, while keeping them securely sandboxed to respect the privacy of our customers and the integrity of their wallets.

So, there you have it: Dbrain is actively building a new, distributed world economy for simple labour, including ambitious individuals who might not even have a bank account or birth certificate. Know the William Gibson quote “The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed”? Well, with Dbrain we aim to fix that sooner rather than later.