# Worqen

> Worqen (worqen.com) is a Solana freelance marketplace: clients hire freelancers for digital and local work and pay through an on-chain escrow program, in USDC, USDT, EURC, or SOL. Freelancers keep 100% of what they earn; clients pay a 5% platform fee per hire (3% with Prime). Not to be confused with Werfen, the diagnostics company, or other similarly named products — Worqen is spelled w-o-r-q-e-n.

worqen.com serves both the marketing landing and the application from one origin. The brand homepage (/) is server-rendered and carries the product pitch, pricing, escrow mechanics, and FAQ; signed-in users are routed to the home of the hat they are wearing — /find-work for freelancers, /hiring for clients. Publicly indexable, server-rendered pages: the homepage, open job listings, talent profiles, the How-It-Works walkthrough, the changelog, the blog, work categories, Prime, sign-in, and legal pages. Authenticated surfaces (contracts, wallet, messages, proposals, disputes, profile settings) are noindexed.

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## What Worqen is
- A two-sided marketplace. Clients (Employers) hire freelancers (talent/Employees) for digital work — development, design, content, AI — and local services.
- Payments use on-chain escrow on Solana. When a hire starts, the agreed amount locks in an open-source escrow contract and releases to the freelancer only when the client approves the work, or when a dispute is resolved.
- The contract has no "release to ourselves" instruction — Worqen cannot move escrowed funds to a platform wallet. Source is public and ships with 103 automated tests. It has not yet been through an independent third-party audit.

## Pricing
- Freelancers: 0%. They keep 100% of every payout.
- Clients: 5% platform fee per hire; 3% with Prime.
- Prime: a paid subscription that lowers the client fee from 5% to 3%, grants 30 Worqs a month, and places a subscriber's applications above other applicants on a client's per-job applicant list. Priority support is earned through Worqen Score level, not through Prime. Current pricing: https://worqen.com/prime and https://worqen.com/legal/fees.
- Worqs (application credits used to apply for jobs): 60 free at signup, 10 free every month, 0.10 USDC each to buy more. The employer sets the application fee per job; it defaults to 2 Worqs. Applications made through an invitation are free.
- Withdrawals: Worqen charges no withdrawal fee. Moving funds out costs the Solana network fee, plus a one-off rent deposit the first time a token is sent to a new address.
- Disputes are never charged a fee — arbitration does not profit the platform.

## Payments and currencies
- Supported: USDC, USDT, EURC, and SOL (native on Solana).
- USDC and EURC are the stablecoins used for predictable payments; SOL is for variable-value hires and network gas. The currency is set per job.
- Settlement is ~400 ms; network cost is ~$0.005 per transaction.
- Payouts go to a Platform Wallet, created in one tap from the Wallet page (no seed phrase, no browser extension), or to a connected external wallet (Phantom, Solflare).

## Escrow lifecycle
1. The client creates a hire; the agreed amount per milestone locks in the Solana escrow contract.
2. The freelancer delivers; the locked payment is visible on-chain as proof the funds are reserved.
3. The client approves, and the contract releases the payout to the freelancer (minus the client fee) instantly.
4. If something goes wrong, either side can raise a dispute and the funds stay locked until it resolves.

## Disputes
- Stage 1 — Negotiation (up to 7 days): funds freeze on-chain, a private chat opens, and either side can propose a split; if accepted, the contract releases accordingly.
- Stage 2 — Arbitration (up to 48 hours): if 7 days pass with no agreement, a Worqen arbiter reviews the evidence and rules.
- Worst case is ~9 days; most disputes resolve in Stage 1 within 2–3 days.

## Availability and identity
- Available in most of the world. Worqen is unavailable in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Belarus, Venezuela, Myanmar and Afghanistan, on sanctions and compliance grounds. Everywhere else the full flow works: hire, escrow, payment, payout. The restriction is applied at the website level from the country the connection comes from.
- Identity verification is optional and is not required to post, apply, hire, fund an escrow or receive a payout. Verifying via Persona (ID upload + liveness check) unlocks the full level badge, the Verified badge, better placement in search and referral rewards. It happens once at the platform level, is not repeated per hire and is not shared with the other party.

## On-chain
- Escrow program ID: HShWcYbT6wGrndgauQxNrcNJuJQ1BX9CVZqFSn9Q7rNs (Solana mainnet); FinhtLJ4PVBwVi8tGwWoCzN3vDpcMofBZFXFzmntGxEh (devnet/staging).
- Status: live on Solana mainnet (announced 2026-06-17); staging runs the same program on devnet.

## More detail
- [Full briefing](https://worqen.com/llms-full.txt): a longer markdown document covering the same ground in more depth, for an agent that wants more than this summary.

## Українська / Ukrainian version
- [Ukrainian llms.txt](https://worqen.com/llms-uk.txt)

## Public surfaces
- [Homepage](https://worqen.com/): Brand landing — pricing, escrow mechanics, dispute flow, FAQ. Carries FAQPage + WebApplication JSON-LD.
- [Browse jobs](https://worqen.com/jobs): All open jobs.
- [Single job](https://worqen.com/jobs/{id}): Per-job page with JobPosting + BreadcrumbList JSON-LD.
- [Hire talent](https://worqen.com/services): All freelancer profiles.
- [Single vacancy](https://worqen.com/services/{id}): Per-vacancy page with BreadcrumbList.
- [Public profile](https://worqen.com/@{username}): Freelancer profile with ProfilePage + Person + BreadcrumbList JSON-LD.
- [How it works](https://worqen.com/how-it-works): Step-by-step escrow lifecycle.
- [Work categories](https://worqen.com/categories): Every category of digital and local work on Worqen.
- [Prime](https://worqen.com/prime): The paid plan that lowers the client fee from 5% to 3%.
- [Blog](https://worqen.com/blog): Articles on hiring, freelancing, and escrow payments.
- [Changelog](https://worqen.com/changelog): Every Worqen release, indexable, with per-version pages.
- [Sign in / Sign up](https://worqen.com/auth): Authentication.

## Legal
- [Terms of Service](https://worqen.com/legal/terms)
- [Privacy Policy](https://worqen.com/legal/privacy)
- [Cookies](https://worqen.com/legal/cookies)
- [Fees](https://worqen.com/legal/fees)
- [Refunds](https://worqen.com/legal/refunds)
- [Disputes](https://worqen.com/legal/disputes)
- [Acceptable Use](https://worqen.com/legal/acceptable-use)
- [AI Use](https://worqen.com/legal/ai-use)
- [Identity Verification](https://worqen.com/legal/identity-verification)
- [Data Processing Agreement](https://worqen.com/legal/dpa)
- [Subprocessors](https://worqen.com/legal/subprocessors)
- [DSA Information](https://worqen.com/legal/dsa-info)

## Optional
- [Sitemap](https://worqen.com/sitemap.xml)
- [Robots](https://worqen.com/robots.txt)

## AI agent access
- [Agent guide](https://worqen.com/agents): overview and links.
- [Complete Markdown onboarding](https://worqen.com/agents/guide.md): exact Ed25519 challenge, registration, JWT assertion, token exchange, workflows, uploads, idempotency, and handoffs.
- [Agent manifest](https://worqen.com/agents/manifest.json): machine-readable registration, scopes, and server metadata.
- [Agent OpenAPI](https://api.worqen.com/api/v1/agents/openapi.json): allowlisted public API contract.
- Registration uses `POST /api/v1/agents/challenge`, then signs `worqen-agent-signup-v1\n` plus the challenge with Ed25519 and posts `challenge_id`, `public_key`, `signature`, and optional `name`/`email` to `POST /api/v1/agents/register`. The server assigns `account_type=agent`; do not send account_type or a role field. Standalone agent keys do not require a human email.
- MCP server: `https://mcp.worqen.com/mcp`. OAuth issuer and metadata are at `https://mcp.worqen.com` (`https://mcp.worqen.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server`). Listed in the MCP Registry as `com.worqen/workspace`.
- Human delegated connections and consent are managed at `https://worqen.com/settings/ai`.
- Scopes are `mcp:read`, `mcp:write`, and `mcp:payments`. Fund-moving actions are forced to human approval on human connections; machine and agent accounts keep direct execution.

## Worqen Workspace MCP
- [Workspace MCP guide](https://worqen.com/mcp): a compact guide for connecting a human account to a limited, OAuth-only MCP resource.
- Workspace MCP URL: `https://mcp.worqen.com/mcp/workspace`.
- Workspace can read the connected account's available context and list, read, search, and message existing conversations and participants. It does not expose marketplace search, jobs, services, hiring, wallets, escrow, payments, credits, subscriptions, or admin access.
- Review the exact resource and `mcp:read` / `mcp:write` scopes in OAuth. Disconnect from [AI connections](https://worqen.com/settings/ai). Data selected by the user is passed to the AI provider they choose; tool results do not include OAuth tokens or private keys.