Open source · Escrow by default · Kleros arbitration · Community-governed
Taskuler is an open-source, community-owned marketplace for getting work done. Customers post jobs with a TSKR bounty held in escrow, builders bid and deliver, and payment is released by rules anyone can read in the code. Nothing depends on trusting a company.
timeout Customer silent N days after delivery → builder is paid.
timeout Deadline + grace period missed → customer is refunded.
dispute No settlement → Kleros arbitration.
Why open source?
Trust is the single most important feature of a public protocol or service, and the only way to trust a service is to validate it. So Taskuler is open source, and we want as many people reading the code as possible.
When it comes to software bugs, the best disinfectant is sunlight, and builders are the sun.
Taskuler will create an open-source freelancing platform and provide tools to help with every step along the way, built in phases so the core marketplace works well before anything else is added.
How it works
A customer describes the task, sets a deadline and the required builder deposit, and adds a TSKR bounty. The bounty goes straight into escrow.
Builders browse the Market for free and put down a deposit to bid. The customer accepts a bid or a counter.
The builder submits proof of delivery. Once it's accepted, the bounty moves from escrow to the builder's wallet, along with NFT badges.
Every completed job is added to the builder's on-chain work history. Badges unlock real benefits, like lower deposits and better bid ranking.
Customer pays to place a job on the Market.
Builder pledges to complete a job.
Arbitrator settles disputes between the two.
Protections built in
Deposits work like a deposit for a hotel: they are kept to ensure good behavior. Escrow and deposit timeouts work without an admin or a frontend, so funds never depend on a Taskuler website staying online.
| Protection | What it does |
|---|---|
| Free browsing | Anyone can look at the Market. Deposits are required only to post or bid. |
| Deposits in stable value | Deposits are set in stable value, not a fixed amount of TSKR, and scale with job size, so small jobs stay cheap to take on. |
| Escrow timeouts | If the builder misses the deadline plus a grace period, the customer is refunded. If the customer doesn't respond within N days of delivery, the builder is paid automatically. Anyone can trigger either. |
| Partial delivery | The customer and builder can agree on a partial payout. If they can't agree, either side can open a dispute. |
| Settlement first | Before a dispute, either side can make a settlement offer, and the other can accept or counter. |
| Kleros arbitration | Disputes go to Kleros through the ERC-792 standard. Arbitrators are selected by reputation and randomness. Appeals follow Kleros's rules: the appellant pays double and the jury grows each round. |
Roadmap
We're building in phases so the core marketplace works well before anything else is added.
Phase 1 · Launch
Phase 2 and later
Tokens and governance
The token used to interact with the Taskuler network: post bounties, pay deposits to bid, and subscribe to Taskuler products.
Earned by staking TSKR and used to vote on which tasks the Treasury funds. It builds up with the amount staked, subject to a minimum lock period and a cap, and is boosted by completed jobs and arbitration rulings that align with the majority. Unstaking forfeits it.
A small fee from every job goes into the Treasury, and the community decides how it's spent. Funding for new features and improvements is released in stages, and each stage needs a gTSKR vote.
Protection against fake accounts: stakes are time-locked, votes are weighted by reputation (work history and badges), and every task has a cap on how much Treasury funding it can receive.
| Allocation | Share (draft) | Vesting / lockup (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| Community rewards builders, customers, arbitrators, early users | 55% | Released over time through activity on the network |
| Treasury | 25% | Released in stages by gTSKR vote |
| Public token sale | 15% | Lockup and vesting for early buyers; subject to legal review |
| Liquidity and ecosystem partners | 5% | Released as needed on a public schedule |
Legal note: these percentages are a draft proposal. A public token sale needs legal and regulatory review before any commitment is made. Nothing here is an offer or a commitment to sell tokens.
What the 5% allocation is for. How it is split between the two is still an open question.
Part of the supply is paired with a stablecoin in exchange pools, so customers can buy TSKR to fund bounties and builders can sell what they earn without big price swings. Without it, a bounty's value could swing a lot before the job is done.
These tokens aren't spent. They stay in the pools, ideally owned by the Treasury, so trading fees flow back to the community.
A grants budget for people who make Taskuler more useful but aren't part of the core build: wallet and chain integrations, the Kleros integration, security audits, hackathons, and tools built on top of the Market.
Grants are paid in milestones on a public schedule, like Treasury tasks.
Escrow, deposits, work history and arbitration run on chain and are paid for by users' gas, so they have no server bill.
The website, the indexer and API that make jobs searchable, RPC nodes, and storage for job files and proof of delivery. The Treasury pays for these.
The protocol fee on every job, plus subscriptions to Taskuler products such as the Task Manager and Calendar. Hosting, maintenance and upgrades are ordinary Treasury tasks, voted on by gTSKR holders.
Covering the launch gap: part of the Treasury's 25% is set aside as an operations budget for the first year or two, until job fees cover costs. Projects like Talent Protocol and Gitcoin Grants Lab struggled with exactly this gap. The job fee should be set to cover hosting as volume grows; how to set it is still an open question.
FAQ
Yes. Taskuler is open source so that anyone can check how jobs, escrow and payouts work. We want as many people reading the code as possible.
No. Browsing the Market is free. You only need a deposit when you post a job or place a bid.
Deposits are set in stable value, not a fixed amount of TSKR, and they scale with the size of the job, so the deposit for a small job stays small. NFT badges from completed work can lower your deposits.
If the customer doesn't respond within N days of delivery, the escrow pays you automatically. Anyone can trigger that timeout, so it doesn't depend on Taskuler's website being online.
Kleros, a decentralized court, through the ERC-792 arbitration standard. Both sides can make a settlement offer first, and either side can appeal a ruling.
That's still being decided. Which chain or L2 to launch on is one of the open questions in the mission statement.
Nothing on this page is an offer or a commitment to sell tokens. The token distribution is a draft proposal, and a public token sale needs legal and regulatory review before any commitment is made.
Waitlist
We're looking for early builders and customers to help shape Taskuler before launch.
Waitlist opens soon.
We're getting ready to welcome early builders and customers. Check back here for details.
