Proffer Technical Overview with Anshul Bhagi and Sinchan Banerjee

Proffer (https://proffer.network/) is a protocol for search using expert networks on the blockchain with use-cases in crypto (community consensus, protocol upgrades, governance) and consumer (p2p education, health/legal advice, crowd-sourced job recruiting, and many more).

Proffer functions as a distributed search engine for queries that cannot be answered with Google or AI – queries that require offline, human expertise. The protocol maintains a global, ever-improving store of expertise (Global Expertise Bank) shared across use cases and dApps, and collects responses to each search query from subject matter experts using a combination of financial and reputation incentives. Proffer relies on expertise-weighted peer reviews (https://blog.proffer.network/crowdsourcing-peer-review-on-the-blockchain-42a6b8149612) of the answer space to compute objective ‘correctness’ of subjective answers, and uses this community-determined correctness metric to dole out rewards/penalties and update the Global Expertise Bank.

Anshul and Sinchan, co-founders of Proffer, will give a technical overview of Proffer’s distributed data structures, peer review protocol, and smart contracts, and will demo one of the 5 dApps they built during Coinbase’s Token Hackathon, in which they won the grand prize (https://blog.toshi.org/announcing-the-token-hackathon-winners-93223a062113).