BlockPay — Intuition Grant Application

[michaelpedro]

Project Name

BlockPay

Team / Individual Name(s)

Ottah Samuel Sunday

Links

• Website: https://blockpay-mvpl.vercel.app/

• GitHub: GitHub - Samped/Blockpay

• Demo: https://blockpay-mvpl.vercel.app/

• Socials: https://x.com/Blockpayy

100-Word Summary

BlockPay is a decentralized job marketplace for creators, designers, artists, and digital builders. It transforms creative marketplaces by embedding Intuition’s knowledge graph, trust primitives, and programmable reputation directly into the workflow. Every creator, client, artwork, and job becomes an Atom, with on-chain trust-based triples describing relationships like created by, completed for, or trusted by. Payments and escrow operate in TRUST, enabling transparent, verifiable transactions. BlockPay eliminates high centralized fees, custody risks, and opaque ranking systems—replacing them with reputation-weighted discovery, verifiable provenance, and decentralized work credentials. The result is a trust-anchored creative economy built fully on Intuition.

Project Category

InfoFi / Knowledge Graph

Identity / DID / Reputation

Consumer App

Elevator Pitch

A decentralized job marketplace built on Intuition trust primitives, where creative work, identity, reputation, and payments are transparent, verifiable, and user-owned.

Origin Story

BlockPay emerged from observing how centralized creative platforms extract value through opaque algorithms, high fees, and non-portable reputation. With Intuition’s trust graph, we can finally build a trust first marketplace where reputation compounds, creativity is protected, and incentives remain aligned with users rather than platforms.

Notable traction or achievements

Designed functional MVP combining escrow + atomic knowledge graph commits

ntegrated multivault atom creation for job, submission, and user profiles

Built watermarked preview-to-full-resolution pipeline

Current Users or Early Testers

Currently onboarding a small cohort of artists and designers

2. What You’re Building

Problem Statement

Creative marketplaces such as Fiverr and Upwork suffer from high fees, opaque rankings, restricted payout systems, and non-transferable reputations. Creators lose ownership of their data, intellectual property, and identity. Buyers have no cryptographically verifiable way to assess talent, proof-of-work, or prior contributions. There is no standardized trust layer connecting creators, clients, and work. The result: a system optimized for platform profit and not user empowerment.

Proposed Solution

BlockPay is a trust-anchored, decentralized job marketplace powered by Intuition. Creators, artworks, submissions, and reputation are represented as Atoms and Triples. Payments flow through programmable escrow in TRUST. Job interactions update the knowledge graph via verifiable triples such as

Artist — completedJobFor → Client or

Submission — acceptedBy → Buyer.

Watermarked previews ensure IP protection; high-res work unlocks only after escrow settles. Reputation grows through trust-weighted votes using Multivote. The marketplace becomes transparent, portable, and self-sovereign

Stage of Development

MVP (Smart contracts + trust graph pipelines + UI flow all in heavy testing)

Technical Architecture Overview

• Smart Contracts

  • JobPool contract (escrow, submissions, deadlines, payouts)

  • Voting contract (To upvote job, creators and clients)

  • Integration with Intuition Multivault for atom + triple commits

  • Watermarked-preview workflow (off-chain storage, on-chain hash)

  Knowledge Graph Integration

• Atom types: User, Job, Submission, Artwork

• Triples: createdBy, submittedBy, acceptedBy, completedFor, trustedBy

• Signal for votes and trust weighting

  Frontend

  Next.js + React + TypeScript,

  Wagmi + Viem + Ethers.js (wallet interactions)

  MCP (future) for job indexing and autonomous agents

Integrations or Dependencies

Intuition Knowledge Graph — primary data layer

Filebase (IPFS) — decentralized storage

IPFS gateways

Security Considerations

• Escrow protection via audited withdraw paths

• Submission tracking avoids replay and duplication

• Off-chain storage uses hashed commitments for integrity

• Payout conditions enforced onchain

• Jobs with deadlines auto-refund if expire

3. Team & Execution Ability

Team Backgrounds

Ottah Samuel Sunday — Engineer, former AWS DeepRacer Regional Winner (2024), and content contributor at NodeKit. Builder of multiple production-grade smart contract systems including event ticketing, decentralized marketplaces, and real-time on-chain notification infrastructure.

Execution Proof

• Built and trained several aws deepracer models

• Built automated wallet-batch-send systems on Tea Sepolia

• Built onchain-email npm package for contract event notifications

Commitment Level

• Full-time

4. Grant Request & Milestones

Amount Requested

$30,000 USD

Funding Overview

The requested grant will accelerate the development, security, and adoption of the BlockPay ecosystem by investing in four core areas:

1. Technical Engineering & Product Development - $10,000

2. Smart Contract Security Audits - $10,000

3. Marketing & Growth Campaigns - $5,000

4. Creator Acquisition & Activationn - $5,000

Milestones

Milestone 1 — Technical Engineering & Core Development

Deliverables:

• Finalize & optimize smart contract architecture for job pools, payments, and knowledge-graph integration

• Build automated high-quality vs watermarked delivery pipeline

• Prepare SDK + documentation for third-party developers

• Success Criteria:

  • 100% tested contract suite

  • Stable production-ready UI/UX

  • < 80ms latency API endpoints

Milestone 2 — Full Smart Contract Audit & Security Review

Deliverables:

• Complete third-party auditing from reputable firms

• Static analysis + formal verification of escrow logic

• Attack surface scanning: re-entrancy, race conditions, oracle manipulation, and payout consistency

• Implement fix-round based on auditor feedback

• Publish final audit report to the ecosystem

Success Criteria:

• 0 high-risk issues outstanding

• Verified safe fund-flow for Job → Submission → Acceptance → Payout

• Audit certificate available publicly

Milestone 3 — Marketing, Developer Relations & Ecosystem Growth

• Full marketing funnel across X, Telegram, Farcaster, and Discord

• Technical explainers, documentation, and demo videos

• Partner with ecosystem communities and KOLs

• PR launches and weekly newsletters

Success Criteria:

• 15000+ users reached

• 3000+ active community members

• Consistent content output across all channels

Milestone 4 — Creator Acquisition & Activation Campaigns

Deliverables:

• Incentivized onboarding program for designers, editors, content creators, and micro-agencies

• Sponsored creator challenges with rewards paid via BlockPay

• Educational series showing how creators can earn trust scores through MultiVault atoms

• Creator verification program through trust graph scoring

• Showcase marketplace highlighting the best creator submissions

Success Criteria:

• 1,000+ verified creators onboarded

• 500+ job submissions processed

• 75% creator retention after first job

• Multiple creator-led campaigns deployed on-chain

Expected Timeline

8–10 Weeks Total

5. Intuition Ecosystem Alignment

Why Intuition

BlockPay requires a decentralized trust layer. Intuition provides the primitives Atoms, Triples, Signal, Multivote, InfoFi necessary to model identity, provenance, and job history as composable, queryable knowledge. Traditional blockchains cannot represent meaningful relationships like trusted by or completed for. Intuition makes reputation programmable and portable.

Which Intuition Primitives BlockPay Uses

• Atoms — User, Job, Submission, Artwork

• Triples — createdBy, submittedBy, acceptedBy, trustedBy, completedFor

• Signal — trust-weighted feedback

• Multivault — atomic graph commits

• InfoFi — job data streams, trust markets (future)

Why It Must Be Built on Intuition

Because the product itself is a trust graph. Reputation, discovery, and provenance are core functionality and not add-ons. Without Intuition’s trust architecture, BlockPay cannot enable a transparent, verifiable creative marketplace.

Data Structure Plan (Optional)

Atoms: User, Artwork, Job, Submission
Triples:

• (User → createdJob → Job)

• (User → submittedWork → Submission)

• (Job → acceptedSubmission → Submission)

• (Client → trustedCreator → User)

  

How TRUST Is Integrated

• Payments

• Escrow

• Voting

• Reputation staking

• Access to premium job pools

Long-Term Ecosystem Contribution (12–24 months)

• Thousands of creator Atoms and provenance-linked submissions

• New schemas for creative work, portfolios, and trust hierarchies

• High-frequency graph updates increasing network knowledge density

6. Sustainability & Long-Term Vision

Long-Term Vision (6–24 months)

BlockPay becomes the leading decentralized creative marketplace, fully trust-anchored and reputation-driven. Over time, it expands to agent-driven talent discovery, decentralized RFP systems, and multi-chain creative provenance. Creators use BlockPay as their portable Web3 CV—verifiable, graph-native, censorship-resistant.

Post-Grant Sustainability Plan

• Marketplace fees capped at 2.5%

• Premium job postings requiring TRUST staking

• Reputation-boosting “signal boosts” powered by TRUST

• Third-party integrations (music, AI art, gaming assets)

Business Model

Light marketplace fee + trust staking services + premium B2B features.

Go-to-Market

Start with niche creator communities (Gneralistic designers, logo designers, cover artists, video clippers), partner with emerging Web3 brands, use Intuition explorers for visibility.

7. Additional Materials

Contact email: michaelsamuelpedro@gmail.com

wallet address: 0xce13323135c36bb93a5f5a6fd52b5d207a673a74

8. Applicant Attestation

I confirm that all information submitted is accurate and that I intend to deliver the listed milestones.

Name: Ottah samuel sunday

wallet address: 0xce13323135c36bb93a5f5a6fd52b5d207a673a74