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CanYa
CanYa is a blockchain-powered global peer-to-peer marketplace of services that lets users hire local experts and skilled professionals anywhere in the world, with payments made via CanYaCoin (CAN), an ERC-20 token, or various cryptocurrencies and fiat. The platform serves individual service providers and job posters worldwide, aiming to build a decentralised ecosystem for governance, storage and compute.
Darwin, AU
Description
Founded in 2015 and launched as an MVP app in late 2016 in Darwin, Australia, CanYa built a global P2P marketplace where users can hire local experts and skilled professionals for a wide range of services. Payments are powered by CanYaCoin (CAN), an ERC-20 token used to pay for services, access premium app features and earn rewards, alongside support for other cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ether, Dash, Monero) and traditional credit card/bank payments via a digital wallet. The company ran an ICO in late 2017, selling 60,000,000 CAN tokens with a further 20,000,000 allocated to a Rewards Pool, and outlined a roadmap toward advanced ML-based provider matching and full decentralisation (governance, storage and compute) by 2019. CanYa also acquired Bountysource.com, bringing a community of over 46,000 open-source developers into its ecosystem. Clients/users are individuals and skilled professionals worldwide seeking to buy or sell services, along with crypto investors participating in its token sale, and the company has partnered with projects such as Digix, Indorse, Madana, Trust Wallet, qiibee, Giveth, Gladius and Kowala.Grant Funding
VC Funding
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2018
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$12M