The Zinc team are thrilled to announce that after months of hard work coding and internal testing, the referencing dApp is live and available for customer testing. This is an exciting step for us and we’re happy to share with the community what we have been working hard on.

The first version of the Zinc platform is running on the Ethereum Ropsten Testnet. We will be giving key customers early access to the product to test and provide invaluable feedback prior to the hard launch on the mainnet, planned for early September.

Below are some screens from the profile interface:

Verified profile screen

V1 of the product will enable companies and workers to build out blockchain work identities through formal work references which workers can use throughout the rest of their careers. The platform will also provide aptitude and attitude reports. Recruiters can request statements from those who have long-term insights into a workers career history. Both of these features, eliminate many of the inefficiencies associated with hiring.

Enter your referee details

The first version will incorporate a smart contract to record the provenance and origin of work identity claims. We’ve taken the simple ERC780 as our starting point since it fits our use case very well. We’ve made small changes which give Zinc extra control over the adding and removal of claims. We’ve kept the contract simple and flexible so that it might facilitate extra functionality in future via a second layer smart contract framework.

If we are successful in our testing phase we’ll release a bigger mesh of smart contracts that will be the world’s first implementation of some of new Ethereum standards. This protocol will be groundbreaking in on-chain blockchain identities, ENS names and overall dApp UX. The aim is to develop a hybrid approach to self sovereign identity whereby identity claims can be added on behalf of individuals by Zinc (a trusted third party), circumventing complexity and gas cost, meanwhile individuals retain the ability to add claims directly or remove any claims made about them — true to the nature of a peer-to-peer identity network.

Real-time tracking

Keep an eye out over the coming weeks as we will announce new updates once every few weeks until the mainnet of Zinc.

Here is a sneak preview of what’s in store…

Week 1 & 2 exclusive early customer testing, first access goes to gocardless. We will be announcing the teams lucky enough to get early access in the coming weeks.

August: exclusive early access for community testing. Incentivised testing and feedback reporting

Thanks

Team Zinc.