Green energy, intellectual property rights, data management, polling…The blockchain revolution’s long list of industries that are set for major disruption feels almost endless.

At the same time, however, the blockchain appears to receive very little credit for the industries that it is creating. One such industry is micro-consulting – the ability for anyone to search out anyone else with a specific skillset on the internet and have an answer in seconds.

Transaction Fees No Longer an Obstacle

Whilst the business concept is itself a simple one, even in this age of internet technology micro-consultancy is not an industry that has been able to gain lift off for one very simple reason: transaction fees.

The capacity offered by blockchain technology to allow for micro-payments paid on the fly in real-time during a voice call or a chat on instant messenger is now a very real possibility. Traditional payment methods have simply not allowed such business models to be viable because of the relatively high fees associated with cross-border payments. It is into this new, emerging space that now steps the Vanywhere ICO.

The concept is not new, however. Experty completed its own ICO back in early February to finance the creation of what will be the world’s first blockchain-based micro-consultancy application, scheduled for release to market in just over two months’ time.

However, Vanywhere differs from Experty in two major respects. Firstly, it is a pre-existing consultancy firm with an established user base, and is currently the world’s leading provider of Apple tech support.

Secondly, it is based on the QTUM platform which, according to some, represents a much more apt solution for business-grade applications requiring scalability guarantees.

“I think it is unlikely that the two projects will tread on each other’s toes,” states ‘Andreas’, an Experty investor who spoke to us via Telegram. “The micro-consultancy industry has so much vast potential, so many areas to cover, that I could see another dozen players enter the market and I still would be relatively unconcerned.”

What might differentiate the two projects, however, are their blockchain platforms. Whilst QTUM runs on a smart contract infrastructure that is a conceptual carbon copy of Experty’s Ethereum platform, it also incorporates a set of UTXO-friendly features which will make it easier for the Vanywhere ICO to create a platform that co-operates with a bitcoin payments system.