Guilds

Token Curated Lists for Trust and Reputation

Project

The pandemic linked to COVID-19 has forced the world economy to resort to remote work. Often contracts must be concluded remotely, safely and efficiently yet the budget is low to access traditional legal services in case of disputes. A large amount of e-business and freelancing transactions is happening through centralized freelancing job boards, like Fiverr, Upwork and a few other incumbents. Such marketplaces dictate conditions, fees, money-retain policies, and among others reputation

No matter how vast your expertise is, once you join a platform you restart your profile from scratch, and the reputation is built inside someone else’s land. At any moment your account can be closed or your reputation score reset by a centralized action. This affects not only professional services but international trade and e-commerce as well.

With the rise of blockchains, decentralized Self-Sovereign Identities and smart contracts we envision that no central authority should be in the position to manipulate the reputation inside an ecosystem and reviews should be portable and verifiable. We envision GUILDS as a protocol suite and tools for a transparent, immutable and auditable reputation backed by a solid game theory. GUILDS focus is on Trust and reputation models on Blockchains

Team

Davide Carboni, PhD, is a qualified information engineer, research scientist and former adjunct professor. Lead organizer of the first Italian Blockchain and DLT Scientific School, held in June 2018. In 2015-2017 was a data scientist and research scientist for Intel Labs Europe under secondment at the Imperial College London. In 2010-2015 was in charge as head of the research program at CRS4 where he managed a team of 8 and represented the centre in international EU projects. He published more than thirty peer-reviewed papers and articles in main international conferences and journals. Davide is the co-inventor of eight patents and pioneered the concept of decentralized reputation in blockchain.
Francesco Piras has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur in the IT field. He has worked in many different companies with positions of responsibility, and he has worked for ten years as Executive Marketing & Sales Manager and Business Development Manager for several software companies.
Francesco Cabras is a consultant and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the field of ICT. Prior to working as a freelancer, he worked in the research sector where he has been involved for a decade in data management and data presentation in the fields of multimedia, health information technology and telemedicine. It is the company tech-lead and is responsible for cloud-oriented development and DevOps activities.
Arianna Trastu, graphic designer, web and frontend developer.  Works as a frontend developer and UX engineer. Skills in graphic designer, Bootstrap and Reactstrap.
Massimo Simbula has more than 20 years of experience in Italy and abroad with corporate, IP, TLC, Cyber laws, Privacy and new technologies with particular reference to Fintech, PSD2 and Blockchain Technology. Massimo provided legal assistance to Italian and foreign governments, International Banks, big corporations and small and medium enterprises and assisted Italian and foreign governments in the privatization of state-owned companies.

Blockchain experience

The project Guilds will be developed by Uncommon Digital Srl, an Italian start-up company with the vision of a world where everyone can make business online without barriers and without intermediaries. The company is one year old but the founders have more than 20 years of experience in the software industry and technology. Our mission is to develop tools and smart legal contracts to protect payments, build trust, manage online reputation and prevent disputes.

As a company, our main achievement is the Uncommon Creative project, a blockchain-based solution to create programmable escrows and manage disputes. The company has received a grant from the Algorand Foundation to implement such a concept with the Algorand protocol. Our team has developed blockchain solutions for a number of partners and customers. The proponents as individuals have implemented solutions in the field of crypto exchanges, payments, ERC20 and ERC721 tokens, dApps in Ethereum and Algorand.

The company has recently joined two startup incubators (TheNetValue and Abinsula) to access a pool of experts not only in technology but also in law and business strategy.