Job references that the referee signs once and you carry everywhere, privately.
Ifeoma leaves her startup and her old manager signs a reference in two minutes. She shares a link that proves it is genuine to each new employer, and can revoke it anytime, so her ex boss never gets ten phone calls.
Let a good word from a good boss travel with you, without costing them a phone call every time.
Job references still run on phone calls. Good managers get called ten times per candidate, references disappear when a startup closes, and a PDF reference can be edited by anyone who forwards it. Candidates have no say over who reads what their old boss wrote.
References are still phone calls and unverifiable PDFs. Own Reference Relay and you run the private, signed reference vault, from your wallet and brand, that saves job seekers and old managers hours. The users, the recruiter relationships and the trust record are yours.
10 paying users within 30 days, then $2,400 a month within 6 months, tracked on one sheet.
Three applications submitted to real programs within 6 weeks, each with live usage numbers attached. Funding is never promised; applying well is the goal.
Verified contract on Base from your wallet, a public builder profile linking it, and at least 25 real outside wallets interacting with it in 60 days.
Entered two hackathons within 3 months with a clearly scoped new feature, and placed in or got judge feedback from at least one.
You use Reference Relay every week for 4 weeks and can name the hours or the money it saved you.
At least 10 people from your group each collect one signed reference within 2 weeks, and three of them do it again without a reminder.
Two signed or announced partnerships (integration, co marketing or referral) within 90 days.
A public case study, a live demo link and at least one interview or client call that came from it within 60 days.
Three paying clients at $500 setup each within 90 days, with at least one on a monthly care plan.
Some will ask for a call anyway. The verifier page shows the referee's verified email domain and signature, which saves the call for most. Start with tech and web3 employers.
References are encrypted and shared by link with expiry. Store as little as possible and let users delete everything.
You do not need to. Reference Relay arrives working, deployed from your own wallet with a written guide for every step. You will click, paste and fill in names. If you ever want a change you cannot make, the custom option or a freelancer can handle it, but the first launch needs no code.
Yes. The contract is deployed from your wallet on Base, the code sits in your own git repo, and the name and brand are yours. DEPLOYR does not hold your keys or take a cut of what Reference Relay earns. If you stop paying anyone tomorrow, the app keeps running on your wallet.
That is the most likely early outcome, and it is fixable. The paths below start with you as the first user, then ten real job seekers and the managers who vouch for them you can name today. If ten people you message do not care after you have shown it to them, you have learned something useful in a week instead of a year.
Put your name on a take onchain, mint a shareable badge, others co-sign.
Create an account and prove your transactions in your own browser. Client-side proving on Miden, nothing leaks.
Prove your trading discipline, not your profits: stops honored, sizing kept, tilt avoided.
Caregivers and parents prove unpaid care work, privately, for loans and jobs.
Recruiters pay a small USDC fee to request verified proofs from candidates, who get paid.
Mentees attest that you changed their path, building a lineage tree of who you lifted up.
Prove you are over 18, a resident, or a degree holder without showing a single document.
Timestamp every hour of deliberate practice and own the 10,000 hour proof.