😀 Hi there! This is Workaby – a freelance marketplace built into Telegram.

Find work or hire freelancers from around the world. No complicated websites, no long sign-ups, no fear of getting scammed.

If you're a freelancer – your next gigs are here. Design, writing, translation, virtual assistance. Your payment is protected: you get paid, guaranteed.

If you need something done – find a freelancer right away. You pay only when the work is ready and you're happy with it.

Here on this channel we'll share stories, tips and news from the team.

🔴The bot is live, explore it now! @workaby_bot

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Workaby: Zero Trust, Total Security.

Nobody should work for free. Nobody should pay for nothing.

Yet that's exactly what happens on sketchy platforms every day.

Workaby changes the game with Escrow. 🛡

✅ Funds are locked: Money is secured the moment you agree on terms.
✅ Work gets done: The freelancer has peace of mind to focus on quality.
✅ Payment released: Only when the client approves the completed work.

No trust required. The system handles it. Safe for the freelancer. Safe for the client.

Launch your first secure deal on Workaby now 🤝

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💸 You earned it. Keep all of it.

Traditional freelance platforms take a cut of everything you make. 20% here. 15% there. Pay to apply. Pay to withdraw. Pay just to exist on the platform.

We think that's broken 💔

Workaby is 100% free for freelancers:

✅ 0% commission – what you agree on is what you get
✅ No application fees – browse and apply to any task, free
✅ No withdrawal fees – your USDT lands in your wallet
✅ No hidden charges – no surprises, ever

How do we make money? We charge a small service fee to clients – not to you.

You do the work. You get the full paycheck. Simple as that.

➡️ Start earning on Workaby

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🌍 1.57 billion people worldwide do gig work

And over 400 million of them do it entirely online — from a laptop, anywhere in the world. That's our future community 👥

Not as a backup plan. As a choice.

They chose flexibility over a fixed desk. Independence over a fixed salary. The ability to work from Bali, Berlin, or their bedroom – without asking permission.

And the numbers keep growing. 82% of freelancers say there are more opportunities today than a year ago. 79% of hiring managers plan to rely more on freelance talent going forward.

The gig economy is already here. And it's accelerating. The only thing still broken? The platforms built to support it. Slow payments. High fees. Complicated sign-ups. Tools built for another era.

Workaby is built for this one.
Short tasks. Fast payments in USDT. Global clients. All inside Telegram – the app you already have open.

➡️ Your next gig is one tap away

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How Workaby works – in 60 seconds

A client from Dubai 🇦🇪
A freelancer from Manila 🇵🇭

Step1️⃣— Meet Ahmed. He runs an e-commerce store in Dubai and needs a product banner. He opens Workaby and posts a task:

"Product banner, 1000×1000px, modern style. Budget: $40. Deadline: tomorrow."

Step2️⃣— Applications come in. Maria from Manila – designer, ⭐️ 4.9 rating, portfolio attached. Ahmed likes her work. He picks Maria.

Step3️⃣— Ahmed funds the escrow 🔒. $40 in $USDT – locked. Maria sees it and starts working. No bank transfer. No waiting 3 days. No fees eaten by the platform.

Step4️⃣— Maria delivers. Ahmed approves ✅ The money moves to Maria's wallet – instantly.

💵 that's it — she earned $40. Every cent of it.

Two people, two countries – one deal, zero barriers.

That’s Workaby 📱

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4 freelance myths. Busted 🤛

Myth 1: Freelancing is unstable.

Reality: Companies are increasingly using freelancers to fill skill gaps while keeping full-time hiring lean. With layoffs and restructuring continuing across tech, finance, and media, many professionals are discovering that relying on a single employer can be riskier than having multiple clients.

Myth 2: Freelancers don't earn real money.

Reality: For talents in Eastern Europe, Asia, or the CIS, global freelancing delivers solid income. Top specialists are regularly making $2,000–$5,000+ a month. By escaping flat local salaries and earning directly in stable crypto, they bypass inflation and out-earn corporate managers in their home countries. The secret? Instead of competing for cheap tasks, they solve high-paying global problems.

Myth 3: It's only for designers and writers.

Reality: Today's freelance market is driven by specialized expertise. Software engineers, consultants, marketers, analysts, AI specialists, lawyers, and finance professionals are increasingly hired on-demand as companies look for flexibility and niche skills without adding permanent headcount.

Myth 4: Finding clients is hard.

Reality: 62% of freelancers get projects passively — through referrals, repeat clients, or existing networks. Build your reputation once. Let it work for you.

Which myth kept you from starting?

◀️ Try Workaby mini app

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🙏 Your profile deserves to be seen first

On Workaby, a Boost pins your gig to the top of the catalog. More visibility. More views. More orders. Boosts are usually paid, but right now you can earn up to 5 of them completely free! 🔥

Here's how:

⭐️ Follow the channel: +1
⭐️ Join the chat
⭐️ Invite a friend via your ref link: +1
⭐️ Post your gig or task: +1
⭐️ Leave feedback: +1

Five tasks. Five free boosts. Takes a couple of minutes.

Open the app, go to Profile and tap "⭐️ Earn free boosts".

Early movers get seen first.

Go grab your boosts! 💣

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🌁 Imagine a freelance market without spam and scams...

On most job boards, filtering out scams and fake clients is your job. On Workaby, our AI handles it before you even see the task.

🔒 What we automatically block:

❌ Fake jobs - no more wasting time on ghost clients
❌ Scam offers & links - your wallet and crypto are safe
❌ Requests for free work or personal data
❌ Spam and low-effort posts

How we do it: Our AI scans every post. If it looks shady, it gets deleted. If the AI is unsure, a real human support team checks it manually. Nothing gets ignored.

On most platforms, trust is your problem. On Workaby, it's ours ✔️

➡️ Start earning safely today

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Workaby's referral program 🤑

The people who join 🐤 early build the biggest networks. Be one of them.

Earn up to 20% of the platform's cut from every deal they make. Forever.

Smart-contract automatically calculates your share and pays you in $USDT.

The more active people you bring in, the higher your tier:

🥉 Cooper — 10%
🥈 Silver — 12%
🥇 Gold — 15%
💎 Diamond — 20%

Call it your retirement plan — except you start earning it now 🌴

Go get your refferal link 🔗

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Workaby — digital freedom, turned into a paycheck 🌟

Pavel Durov talks about a world where people are free: free to speak, to build, and to transact without asking permission from a bank, a border, or a gatekeeper. Workaby is what that freedom looks like for the millions of skilled people the old system locks out.

Talent is everywhere. Opportunity isn't.

A designer in Lagos, a developer in Tehran, an editor in Manila can do world-class work — but the moment they try to get paid, the walls go up: banks they can't access, PayPal that's blocked, platforms that take a heavy cut, and KYC gates that judge them by their passport instead of their skill.

Workaby removes those walls. It's a freelance marketplace that lives inside Telegram and runs on the TON blockchain. You work for clients anywhere in the world and get paid in $USDT — stable digital dollars sent straight to your own wallet.

No bank account.
No middleman holding your money.
No platform taking a cut from the freelancer.

On-chain escrow protects both sides, so no one does the work and walks away with nothing, and every payout is public and verifiable.

This is economic freedom in practice: your skills, your money, your wallet — owned by you, paid out by code, not by a company that can freeze or gatekeep it. Opportunity stops depending on where you were born or whether the banking system decides to let you in.

Talent is everywhere.
With Workaby, so is the chance to get paid for it.

That's economic freedom for millions. Follow us. Spread the word.

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💼 Feedback contest results

Huge thanks to everyone who tested Workaby this week. Your notes are already turning into real features.

💻 Winner — Treash a freelancer from 🇳🇬 Nigeria who nailed something core:

It's easy to post a task, straight forward But I feel everyone can post task, but how will you know the individual has the money to pay? I think there should be an upfront of pay into an escrow so freelancers can actually know its a serious work and your payment will be sorted Navigation is also easy to scroll, kudos to team.

We're building it: optional Funded tasks, where the client locks the budget upfront so you know the work is real before you apply.

💵15 USDT is on the way.

And three more whose feedback we're acting on, each getting free boosts to push their gig to the top:

🥇 Adesina — ⭐️ 15 boosts
🥈 Habubur — ⭐️ 10 boosts
🥉 Tim — ⭐️ 5 boosts

Keep it coming, more paid tasks are dropping soon 💼

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Workaby vs Upwork vs Fiverr

All three platforms do the same thing: connect clients with freelancers. But how they do it — and what it costs is very different.

For freelancers:

Fiverr takes a flat 20% from every order. Upwork charges 0–15%, with most freelancers paying around 10–12%.

Here's what that looks like on a $500 project:
👎On Fiverr you get $400. Fiverr kept $100.
👎On Upwork you get $450. Upwork kept $50.
👍On Workaby you get $500.

❤️ Workaby takes nothing from you.

For clients:

Fiverr charges buyers an extra 5.5% on top of the project price. Upwork adds up to 7.99% plus a one-time contract initiation fee.

❤️ Workaby charges clients 5% on top.

🔐 Payment protection:

All three use escrow. The difference is how. On Upwork and Fiverr, funds are held by the platform. On Workaby, money is locked in a smart contract — no one can touch it until the work is approved. Automatic, no manual processing.

💵 Getting paid:

Upwork and Fiverr pay via bank transfer, PayPal, or Payoneer. Withdrawals take days and come with conversion and transfer fees.

❤️ Workaby pays in $USDT — instant, no bank, no delays. For freelancers in countries with limited banking access, that's not just convenient. It's a different game entirely.

📱 Where it lives:

Upwork and Fiverr are separate websites and apps. New accounts, new interfaces, more tabs.

❤️ Workaby runs inside Telegram or as web app. Tasks, chat, payments — all in the app you already have open.

🦖 Getting started:

Upwork requires profile verification and paid Connects just to apply for jobs. Fiverr means setting up gigs and waiting for clients to find you.

❤️ On Workaby the task feed is open before you register. First application takes minutes.

Honest take:

Upwork and Fiverr are big platforms with big client pools. For many freelancers, they work — and that's a fact.

But both were built for a different era. When bank transfers were the only option, 20% felt like a fair trade, and Telegram wasn't yet the working tool it is for half the planet.

❤️ Workaby is being built now — for the way people actually work in 2026.

⚫️ You've been giving away 20% long enough

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🔸 How to get free boosts

On Workaby, a Boost pins your gig to the top of the catalog. More visibility. More views. More orders. Boosts are usually paid, but right now you can earn up to 5 of them completely free!

Here's how:

⭐️ Follow the channel: +1
⭐️ Join the chat
⭐️ Invite a friend via your ref link: +1
⭐️ Post your gig or task: +1
⭐️ Leave feedback: +1

Five tasks. Five free boosts. Takes a couple of minutes.

Open the app, go to Profile and tap "⭐️ Earn free boosts".

Go grab your boosts! 💣

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What's new on Workaby

Two new categories

🟢Teaching & Tutoring — languages, coding, exam prep, music
🟢Coaching & Consulting — career, business, fitness & wellness

💲 Hourly rates — freelancers can now set an hourly rate in USDT on their profile; it shows right on your gig so clients know your price up front.

❤️ Shortlist candidates — got several applicants on your task? Star your favorites to pin them to the top and pick your top 2–3 with ease.

🌍 Search Talent by country — filter the catalog to find freelancers from a specific country.

📂 Browse all of Talent — the catalog now shows every freelancer, with smarter ranking so proven talent rises to the top.

⚙️ Fixes — the Back button now works reliably, including when you open the app from a shared link.

🔝 Update your profile to add the new categories and your rate

Looking for a BizDev 😎

We need someone who actually knows how to build real relationships. Someone who gets our product’s value, buys into the vision, and can approach founders, agencies, and crypto projects through genuine networking and highly tailored pitches.

We don’t need the one who buys a 10k lead list, plugs it into ChatGPT, and blasts the Web3 market with soulless cold spam. That stuff doesn’t work anymore. We don't care about reports showing "1,000 emails sent."

Your scope of work:

•  Bring in actual clients: Crypto projects, founders, and Web3 agencies worldwide who need talent and are ready to post paid gigs.
•  Onboard KOLs/Creators: Find relevant crypto and freelance Telegram channels and recruit them into our Diamond Affiliate Program.

You’re a perfect fit if:

•  You have an active, warm network in Web3 (and know how to monetize it).
•  You understand the crypto market and Telegram-native distribution inside out.
•  Your English is fluent and persuasive enough to close deals.

💼 Full job description

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🔎 Want clients to actually Find you?

Every freelancer on Workaby appears in the Talent catalog — and its ranking isn't random.

📊Here's exactly how to climb it:

✅ Get listed — the entry ticket

No bio plus no category means — you're invisible. Add a bio and at least one category first. That alone puts you ahead of the roughly half of freelancers who never finished their profile.

✅ Build a track record

Freelancers with completed deals rank above everyone without them. Deliver a few jobs and you jump into the "proven" tier — and deals count even more than your star rating.

✅ Write a real bio

The better your bio, the higher you sit. A clear, specific description beats a thin one. (Stacking 10 categories does not help — a strong bio and one delivered job does.)

✅ Finishing touches

An hourly rate and a profile photo are the tiebreakers that lift you when everything else is equal. One thing that does not affect your rank: your country. Great work is judged by your profile, not your passport

⭐️ Boost — skip the line

A Boost pins you to the very top of the catalog for 48 hours — the single fastest way up, and the newest boost sits highest. You can earn Boosts for free by completing quick tasks in the app.

➡️ Open Workaby app, polish your profile, and grab a free Boost. Your next client is scrolling right now

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Why "Work from Anywhere" is still not for Everyone

The term "Digital Nomad" usually creates a specific image: a freelancer working on a laptop at a beachside cafe in Bali or a chic coworking space in Barcelona. We love to talk about the borderless future of work, the death of the traditional office, and the ultimate freedom of choosing your own timezone.

But there is an uncomfortable truth we rarely talk about: the "Work from Anywhere" movement was built only for people with Western passports and Western bank accounts.

What is a lifestyle choice for some, is an infrastructure battle for others.

🚧 The Infrastructure barries

While one freelancer is thinking about a four-day workweek, another in Nigeria, Argentina, or Pakistan is spending days trying to solve one basic problem: how to actually get paid.

🔴 No Access to Payment Tools: Global services like Stripe do not exist in dozens of countries. PayPal is often blocked or limited to "send-only" mode. Wise faces strict regional limits.
🔴 The Paperwork Trap: Passing long KYC checks or proving your home address is a nightmare if your local system doesn't match Western digital standards.
🔴 The Cost of Earning: Traditional international bank transfers (SWIFT) are too expensive, take too long, and are completely blocked in many regions. High fees and unfair currency exchange can steal up to 25% of your hard-earned money.

Redefining the "Dream Job"

According to reports by the World Bank and the International Labour Organization (ILO), talent is global, but access is not. Workers face "digital geofencing" - where platforms hide profiles from developing nations, or clients choose "US/EU only."

Because of this, the definition of an ideal job changes completely for Tier-3 freelancers:

🟢From "Work-Life Balance" to Financial Safety: When your local currency loses value every day due to high inflation, earning in stable USD or EUR is a must for economic survival.
🟢From Hype to Real Utility: While the West views cryptocurrency as a risky investment or speculation, freelancers in emerging markets use it as a basic payment network. According to a global survey by Zero Hash, 65% of gig workers have lost money due to local bank limits, and 93% want to receive their income in stablecoins (like USDT or USDC) to bypass borders and protect their savings.
🟢From Diplomas to Reputation: Local university degrees mean very little on the global stage. Instead, your on-platform rating, reviews, and completed jobs become your ultimate social elevator 🆙

The global talent pool is more distributed than ever before, but old financial systems still punish talent based on their zip code.

🧩 This is exactly why we built Workaby. Our platform was designed to break down these exact walls. With Workaby, true borderless work is finally a reality for everyone.

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