“With visions for the future of work and decentralised identity that align, it’s a natural partnership for us, both companies believe freelancers should retain complete ownership of their reputation and work identity,” said Luke Shipley, Zinc Co-founder. “We see DREAM as a positive contribution to the community. Like us, DREAM believes in open systems, eradicating silos and providing free flowing information. Together we can really help bring about the decentralised identity.”

The whole team has a combined goal of pushing forward open and standardised reputation systems.

“We have attracted a deep pool of highly-vetted, experienced blockchain experts on to our DREAM platform who have worked on thousands of projects world-wide,” said Richard Foster, DREAM founder and CEO. “Thanks to this partnership we can bring trust and credibility to every team hire — the client can see exactly who they are working with and trust in their work from day one, and freelancers can build their reputation with every project.”

DREAM and Zinc were brought together through long term open source developer and mutual advisor Fabian Vogelsteller, author of Ethereum’s Mist browser and the Ethereum Wallet. Working with Vitalik Buterin he proposed the ERC20 token standard, and identity standard ERC725.

“I wholeheartedly encourage collaboration within the community and the different platforms. Open identity and reputation systems are essential to give back control to the user, increase trust and transparency for everybody. Users should be able to take their data everywhere, and outlive any platform” concluded Vogelsteller.