Gems

What is Gems?

Gems is the protocol for decentralized mechanical turk. People will use Gems to complete micro tasks.

What are micro tasks?

Micro tasks are small, simple tasks that require human judgment and can be completed independently over the Internet. A series of repetitive micro tasks often times compose a larger unified project. For instance, micro tasks are used by museums, to transcribe handwritten documents; by machine learning researchers, to gather structured labeled data for training purposes; and by large companies, such as Facebook, Google, and Linkedin, to refine their production ready solutions.

Currently, microtask workers earn, on average, less than $5 an hour. Companies that use microtask workers complain of high costs and qualities. Existing marketplaces take exorbitant fees. Gems is building a better microtask marketplace that solves those problems and much more.

What problem does Gems solve?

Gems reduces consensus by redundancy, increases pay for individual workers while decreasing total pay for requesters, creates efficient interfaces, eliminates large fees, allows others to build innovative DApps on top of it, and enables computer literate workers with internet to work with or without a bank account.

There are 3 levels to Gems:

Gems Protocol: The Gems Protocol assesses the validity of work and trust of network participants; DApps will be built on top of the Gems Protocol

Gems Platform: The first platform built off of the Gems Protocol; pairs workers and requesters for micro tasks.

Modules: Reusable open-source task interfaces built on the Gems Platform

Anyone can build on the Gems Protocol, creating innovative verification methods for new types of work. For a quick introduction to Gems, you can check out our blog post. For a more in-depth exploration, you can read our white paper.