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MintWork
Transform projects into microtasks for developers, where each delivery generates a collectible NFT and completed projects become permanent certifications.
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Transform projects into microtasks for developers, where each delivery generates a collectible NFT and completed projects become permanent certifications.
General project description:
Imagine the paradox: 262 million young people worldwide are out of employment, education, or training (NEET) (UNICEF), while the job market’s requirement for a first job continues to be proven prior experience.
This requirement creates an almost insurmountable barrier, especially for young people from vulnerable communities who lack formal job opportunities and access to recognized credentials.
This problem is especially present in developing countries, due to a lack of structured opportunities and a robust business ecosystem, particularly across Central America, Africa, and South America.
The Web3 ecosystem and the social impact sector face an opposite dilemma: there are job opportunities, funds, ESG goals, and training programs, but there is a shortage of verifiable talent with transparent portfolios and objective validation of their skills.
There is demand, there is talented youth, but verifiable trust is missing.
MintWork is born — a platform that transforms productive microtasks into paid experience, certified on-chain and registered in a digital portfolio.
Inspired by the rise of freelance platforms and the need for verifiable credentials, MintWork builds a bridge between young people and companies, connecting the execution of microtasks to results that generate economic value, measurable social impact, and permanent certification — with a focus on Web 3.0, where remote work is a core characteristic.
Global youth unemployment reached 13% in 2023 (ILO), highlighting how difficult it is for young people to enter the formal labor market.
The global NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) rate exposes a gender inequality: 28.1% of young women are neither studying nor working, nearly twice the 13.1% among young men.
Studies of 15-year-old students across dozens of countries show that 39% of teenagers are considered “career uncertain” (OECD).
There is no clarity about their future professional paths, which highlights not only the lack of concrete opportunities, but also the absence of guidance and career role models.
MintWork aims to make professional development accessible, gamified, economically viable, and publicly validated, while offering organizations and companies a transparent tool for outsourcing microtasks with real proof of social impact.
Each task completed by the young participant turns into payment + a portfolio NFT, recording not only the activity but also its validation by the hiring company.
This model simultaneously solves two main pain points:
For young people: the lack of verifiable experience, portfolio, and certifications that cannot be forged.
For companies/NGOs: the challenge of measuring real impact, proving results to sponsors, and engaging talent with verifiable on-chain transparency.
MintWork establishes a model in which the contracting party will always be a company or corporation that delegates its productive demands, while the execution is carried out exclusively by young people from partner social organizations.
These NGOs take on the central role of identifying, selecting, and preparing young people who already show interest and potential to work on microtasks, becoming the most efficient and secure channel for accessing this talent pool.
It does not replace training programs, but creates an ecosystem in which NGOs become strategic distributors of prepared talent, strengthening their role and expanding their relevance as a bridge between vulnerable youth and real corporate demands.
It is also important to highlight that MintWork assigns real economic value to each delivery, allowing companies and institutions to receive not only the completed work, but also certified digital assets that prove the social investment and impact generated. This solves one of the biggest corporate pain points: transparent reporting with measurable returns.
Objective
Our goal is to gamify professional experience and portfolio building, using tokenization to transform microtasks into verifiable skills permanently certified through Soulbound Tokens (SBTs) and Portfolio NFTs.
MintWork aims to expand young people’s access to the Web3 job market, which is growing at around 40% per year, offers salaries higher than traditional markets, and is strongly focused on remote work.
We will offer a simplified platform (mini-app) with Account Abstraction, allowing young people to participate without needing technical knowledge of how blockchain works.
How it will work
MintWork will operate as a platform for executing paid and certified microtasks, mediated by companies and partner social organizations.
Hiring companies or institutions publish projects, divide them into smaller tasks, and pre-deposit the payment into a smart contract (escrow), ensuring transparency and security throughout the process.
These tasks are made available exclusively to young people selected by NGOs previously approved by the platform, which take on the strategic role of identifying, guiding, and monitoring participants, ensuring minimum preparedness, engagement, and commitment to delivery.
The young participant accesses the platform, completes the microtask, and submits the required proof; once validated by the hiring company, the smart contract automatically releases payment and a Portfolio NFT is issued, recording on-chain the task performed, the skill demonstrated, and the validation received.
NGOs become hubs for distributing qualified talent, strengthening their institutional missions and expanding their social impact, while young people build verifiable experience and professional recognition in a transparent and traceable way.
The Solutions We Use - Scroll
For the development of the MintWork system, we decided to use a smart contract system through the Scroll blockchain network, due to its ease of development and low cost of use, making the platform fast and simple to operate, as well as accessible for users.
Scroll's technology proved to be extremely efficient for this purpose, with emphasis on the project's excellent documentation.
Next Steps
After validating the MVP, MintWork will move forward by establishing strategic partnerships with social organizations, operating under a B2B2C model, which will ensure a constant flow of prepared young participants and qualified community engagement.
Corporate partnerships will be formalized under a B2B model with companies interested in ESG goals and in contracting services with traceability and transparent impact certification.
The platform will move toward completing the mini-app, including the implementation of automated smart contracts for the creation, distribution, and registration of NFTs and SBTs, ensuring secure payment and permanent certifications.
Pilot tests will also be conducted in different communities, allowing us to validate the Web3 onboarding process, the quality of deliveries, the role of NGOs as talent distribution hubs, and the efficiency of the gamified incentive system that supports young people’s retention and engagement.
Limitations and Challenges
MintWork recognizes significant challenges for its consolidation and sustainable expansion, including the need to achieve financial balance between the freemium/premium model and the platform’s operational costs, as well as the low familiarity of the target audience with Web3 technologies, which requires simple interfaces and accessible educational processes.
In addition, it is essential to ensure rigorous validation of delivered tasks, guaranteeing the credibility of NFTs issued as proof of experience. Another challenge is maintaining continuous youth engagement in a context marked by high dropout rates, which demands a strong gamification system that provides real incentives and tangible benefits.
To mitigate these barriers, MintWork will adopt an Account Abstraction architecture that simplifies the use of the technology, professional validation models with reputation systems and quality ratings, progressive gamification strategies based on NFTs, SBTs, and rewards, as well as revenue diversification through a combination of marketplace services, premium features, and partnerships focused on ESG impact.