Braintrust raises $18M to build fairer model for freelancers

Braintrust is a user-owned talent network that is growing fast and reaching real scale just eighteen months after launching the public beta of the protocol last June. $37 million in Gross Service Value (GSV) – what Clients pay Talent – has flowed through the network, with nearly twice that contracted for the coming months.

On upwork when they went public avg job size was $500

Tokens are icing on the cake - freelancers can show up and earn 40% more than traditional marketplaces. Braintrust has abstracted away crypto brain damage. Nike is a client and they don't know or need to know they are interacting with a crypto network.

Braintrust is a clear distillation of an incredibly important point: good tokenomics can enhance a strong value proposition, but can’t replace a strong value proposition.