LinkedIn and the blockchain, why didn’t someone think of this sooner?

Well someone has and it’s called [Indorse]( https://indorse.io/).

It’s a decentralized professional network powered by blockchain technology where you own your data and get paid for your contribution.

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Their pitch, platforms today own your data and the platform owners profit off that data. Users receive little to none of the rewards. Indorse is a rewards based decentralized professional social network.

The founder is [David Moskowitz](https://indorse.io/token-salehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmoskowitz/). He has a lot of experience in building and running membership sites and has been involved with bitcoin since 2013.

It’s very similar to LinkedIn. You sign up, create a profile, and start adding your claims. Claims are your achievements, like earning a diploma or an example of your work. It’s like the skill endorsements you can get on LinkedIn. You can post skills and achievements, link to them, and then have people in your network indorse your work.

After a consensus of endorsement on your claim, your reputation score increases. Both the user and indorser are rewarded in Indorse Bucks. Those can be converted to Indorse Tokens. The Indorse Token can be used to purchase advertising and other services on the platform. 

The token sale starts August 8. This is another ERC20 token. One ETH will get you 1,000 IND tokens. There’s 50,000 ETH hard-cap on the sale. All the details [here](https://indorse.io/token-sale).

Blockchain accelerator Coinsilium invested 100,000 Singapore dollars in Indorse. And it was also forecasted on [Wings](https://medium.com/joinindorse/indorse-wings-dao-crowdfunding-valuation-results-3ffe6ee63ed).

Here is the white paper for additional info.

What do you think, does LinkedIn belong on the blockchain?

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