Dock.io – In recent years centralized platforms have revolutionized the way individuals find jobs, employment, buildup their reputation, and establish professional networks. The result is that these platforms retain ownership over massive amounts of professionals data and information that only exist within those closed and confined networks. 

Those applications are disincentivized from sharing that information and data because of the competitive marketplace and their reliance over the monetization on this data for their business. Each platform prefers holding the advantage over its competitors. The dock.io protocol aims to solve this fundamental data hoarding problem. This will be accomplished by implementing a protocol that actually encourages data exchange between platforms. By utilizing the secure Ethereum mainchain and a token model, the dock.io protocol will allow users to take control of their data and exchange it between applications. 

The dock.io token model will simultaneously motivate applications to exchange information by making it beneficial for both platforms involved in the transaction. Both the users and the applications primary needs are met. Users get full control of their data and applications receive compensation for data exchange. The dock.io protocol is a special purpose decentralized data exchange protocol. This protocol is intended to incentivize the exchange of work experience, reviews and professional connections, and can be expanded to include any type of shareable data. Applications will receive tokens for data exchange. Users will have absolute control over their data through the use of a hosted third party service.