Braintrust raises $18M to build fairer model for freelancers

Each token represents one vote, so users who earn more — by participating in community building activities, successfully completing projects, screening talent to join the network, and taking courses on Braintrust Academy — will, deservedly, have greater say on how the network develops.

Braintrust focused on product/market fit and network transactions before going into Ethereum mainnet. Many projects don't go further than a white paper whereas Braintrust built supply and demand early and then went through the process of bringing things on chain.

In the past, we only had cash and stock as ways of approximating a node’s value to the network. Those were such blunt tools, so the idea of more closely approximating your network value to your actual compensation rarely came up. But now we have crypto. And that mechanism allows us to measure cheaply and discreetly.