About Us

Organizations and businesses are increasingly relying on freelancers and contract workers to provide them with services and goods. This allows for a leaner HR structure, mitigates risks pertaining to hiring full time experts and increases flexibility drastically. Similarly, services and goods providers who choose to work as freelancers are seeking job freedom and flexibility. Their work-life balance is improved as a result of this freedom.

In recent years, freelancers have started to organize themselves into teams that function in a corporate manner, thereby being able to take on major projects in their entirety rather than smaller sub-portions of projects. These flexible structures can adapt to a project’s size and complexity easily, and provide a wide array of services.

Employers are changing the way they source talent for their projects and are becoming more sophisticated in their approach to hiring freelancers. Long term relations with highly skilled freelancers are sought after as they provide a significant edge on the market.

The Gig Economy is this system of flexible talent sourcing, and it is giving rise to the Gig Enterprise.

By now, you’ve certainly heard a lot about blockchain technology and NFTs. Still, it’s important to make sure you understand how they work so as to fully grasp the added value of the N2 solution. Contrary to some, we really don’t see the blockchain as a geeky, lawless and libertarian project solely designed for tax avoidance! 

Thanks to the append-only aspect of blockchain technology, we register all our consultants’ activities within an immutable Superchain, thereby making them as transparent and fair as possible. This way, we don’t have to depend on third parties and intermediaries for all our transactions. 

Regarding NFTs, which to most evoke little more than obscure digital art ownership schemes, we use them as tools to guarantee our community members’ authenticity as well as to verify their credentials, whether it be their resumes, their skills or their portfolio.

Smart Contracts, also called Intelligent Contracts, are irrevocable software programs that are usually deployed on a blockchain and that execute a predefined set of instructions, without any intermediary’s involvement or time loss. A workflow can also be automated this way, with actions being triggered when conditions are met. 

The main idea behind Smart Contracts is to enforce contractual obligations not via law but directly via code. Lawrence Lessig, the world-renown Harvard-educated expert in Constitutional law and Intellectual Property, famously said “code is law”. 

As is the case for any software, the code varies in complexity from ont Smart Contract to another. Some programs implement simple conditions, like an “if” function in Excel: the contract is executed if a specific condition is met – “if this then that”. Other programs are highly sophisticated, to the point that they allow companies to digitally replicate all clauses and regulations that they require to function and operate. Corporate and institutional entities that heavily rely on these Smart Contracts to function are often referred to as Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).

A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) is a decentralized corporate or institutional structure whose governance rules and mechanisms are automated via the use of immutable and transparent Smart Contracts set up in a blockchain. 

Stephan Tual, co-creator of TheDAO project, describes Decentralized Autonomous Organizations this way: 

It is an incorruptible form of organization that belongs to the people who helped create and finance it, and whose rules are public. 

There is no need for trust between any of the parties involved, as everything is in the code and can freely be audited by anyone.

3 new features distinguish DAOs from traditional entities:

• A DAO cannot be stopped or shut down.
• No single person or organization can control the DAO (e.g. nobody can manipulate the organization’s data).
• Everything is transparent and auditable on a supranational level.

DAOs therefore are global organizations open to all and subject to no specific jurisdiction whose functions are performed by software and in which fraud can’t be committed by anyone.

Although our business model targets traditional brick-and-mortar private corporate entities, we strive to develop a trading protocol designed specifically for consultancy in the era of the Gig Economy. N2 is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) built for the burgeoning web 3.0 realm. 

Our DAO is a network of freelancing experts, each occupying a specific technological niche within the ServiceNow framework. Our decentralized governance is coded in a series of Smart Contracts, which allows for automated business processes and contract management. This means that our organizational rules and regulations cannot be corrupted by human intervention, and changes to the processes and internal agreements can only emanate from consensual methods. 

The inspiration for our platform comes most notably from the works of Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum: N2 is an autonomous entity that relies on deep and sustained interaction between the members of the community. Indeed automated processes bring efficiency, but they are worthless without high levels of collaboration and mutual help within our network of freelancers. Individual professional growth is a result of interaction with other players. 

For every hour our members work on a project via our platform, they obtain an N2 token. Tokens can also be gained through actions such as peer support, consultant co-opting, business opportunity offering or project financing. These tokens then allow N2 members to put forward platform improvement ideas and to have a voting right when it comes to N2 protocols’ updates.

At this point, we have built 3 use-cases for NFTs and Smart Contracts 

1. When a new member joins the N2 Community, he is provided with a membership card in the form of an NFT that both proves his admission to the Community and allows him to access the platform and perform transactions. 
2. That NFT also contains a record of the member’s resume at the time of his admission. As the resume has been reviewed thoroughly by 2 N2 existing members via interviews, it boosts your credibility on the marketplace, acting as proof of your competence and allowing for faster recruitment by prospective clients. 
3. Thanks to Smart Contracts, we are able to manage all contracting activities on the platform both safely and fairly. Agreements are sound and profit margins are shared optimally between all involved players.

When becoming a member of the N2 Community, keep in mind these 3 main principles:

1. Mutual support is paramount. You have to be willing to fully participate in a collective project based on sharing knowledge and opportunities between players.
2. Expertise is key. As an independent consultant, upon signing up to join us, you will have to prove your competence and your credentials to two existing members of the N2 Community, thereby providing us a clear and accurate picture of your market positioning.
3. Innovation drives us. Through the use of blockchain technology, N2 is constantly devising, developing and implementing new use cases. To better understand how we function, read more about Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).

From our project’s inception, even before blockchain technology was in the picture for N2, we devised a fair and incentivizing business model for all our contributors.

For each executed contract, a specific profit sharing rule is negotiated, so as to compensate:

1. The business intermediary, 
2. The consultant’s co-opter, 
3. The company in charge of the framework contract, 
4. And the N2 platform. 

Let us illustrate this with an example: 

• Juliette is freelancing for a client and uncovers a business opportunity there. She promotes the N2 marketplace to her client and registers the opportunity within our blockchain, then takes care of commercial follow-up. 
• A few months earlier, Roman had co-opted Roberto, whose set of skills is a match for the business opportunity. Juliette’s client decides to hire Roberto for the project. 
• Sophie has negotiated the framework contract with the client and all related agreements are executed through her company. 

The 4 parties involved negotiate a commercial agreement, thereby defining the parameters for the Smart Contract that binds them. Profits are shared in a fair and transparent manner thanks to N2’s blockchain-backed solution.

Transactions recorded in the blockchain are immutable ; this contravenes Article 17(1) of General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), which clearly provides that a data subject has the “right to be forgotten” by demanding the erasure of his/her personal data upon the withdrawal of consent, or upon his/her objections to the processing.

At N2, our system is designed in such a way that personal data is NOT stored on the blockchain, only a hash of said data goes on the append-only ledger. N2 members can decide how much of their information is visible to other members on the platform, and their profiles are only visible to recruiters / third parties if they have given their consent to make it public. N2 tokens are required to access member information such as resumes and portfolios.

Should a member want their personal data deleted altogether, they can send N2 a request. The data will be wiped off our servers and the hash key stored on the chain will be rendered useless.

In addition to this, N2 NFT Smart contracts can be written in a way that revokes all access rights and/or deletes the contents (i.e., the terms and personal data contained therein) after a set period of time.