2017–2018; Post-ICO Era

In 2017, and throughout 2018, the CanYa Team held steadfast on delivering a global P2P Services Marketplace. Our team grew into a global effort with a multi-national remote workforce and our team learned the lessons of dislocated operations, differing geographical regulations, international payment problems and varied national stances on cryptocurrencies, just to name a few. These invaluable lessons and also other intangible lessons helped lay the foundation for us to create the CanYa (CAN) ecosystem that is powered by the CanYaCoin ($CAN).

Both our ultra-engaged community and the wider freelance industry deserve access to the global gig-economy that is free from exorbitant middlemen fees. In 2018, the team’s focus was to #BUIDL. Through an immense amount of time and energy our team delivered CanWork. A detailed look into the value proposition of a marketplace like CanWork can be found here.

In addition to CanWork, the team spent most of 2018 hard at work pioneering core technology for both the CanYa ecosystem and crypto-community in general. A perfect example of this is the CanYa Hedged-Escrow solution. This open-source software solves the industry-wide dilemma of inherent price volatility and it is integral to CanWork (or any other cryptocurrency-based marketplace).

CanWork is the flagship dApp of the CAN ecosystem but it is complimented by many other CanApps. Many of the CanApps are solutions developed from our distributed team scratching our own itch. For example, sending medium to large files between anonymous parties on the internet can be difficult (but necessary for freelancing platforms). To solve this, we built CanShare which allows individuals to send files (of any size) to each other without having to sign-up or pay a fee. Developing CanApps that support the CAN ecosystem has the dual effect of convenience (through utility) and also exposure (users coming for the CanApp but staying for the ecosystem). You can check out the list of CanApps here: https://www.canwork.io/tools

Pioneering fundamental core technologies in an emerging industry doesn’t come easy; it is both expensive and time consuming. As the nascent Blockchain industry grows, the CanYa Ecosystem needs to remain flexible with it.