Bangkok, Thailand – Local blockchain startup Athena Mentor has introduced its cryptocurrency-based ‘mentor-to-earn’ platform, where users can transform their contributed wisdom in the platform into crypto tokens, with the goal of distributing skills and experience from mentors to mentees worldwide.
To build the wisdom mining protocol, Athena constructed a one-on-one video conference platform that rewards those who participate with our new Athena tokens. Anyone can use the platform and it is free to get started. The company plans to reach 100,000 users by the year end and a million by the end of next year.
Paramee Intarachumnum, product lead at Athena Mentor, says, “Research on mentorships from Sun Microsystems indicates that those who have mentors are promoted five times faster than those who don’t. Nevertheless, workers face two major obstacles to establishing a fruitful mentorship experience: access and sustainability. Not only will we help solve the problem of mentor access, but we also ensure sustainability via the use of tokenomics. Ultimately, the exchange of skills, knowledge, and wisdom that Athena enables will help democratise wisdom worldwide.”
Meanwhile, Viriya Reungwai, technology lead at Athena Mentor, commented, “Athena Mentor is only the starting point of our whole vision to democratise wisdom across the planet. Our long-term goal is to democratise wisdom across many areas, including hiring and coaching. Right now, however, our focus is on building the platform infrastructure, which is a blockchain-based economy allowing us to serve as the bridge from Web2 to Web3.”
Reungwai added, “First, users who hold and stake our Athena tokens will be able to access premium services and events exclusive only to token holders. Second, the mentoring fee will be lowered for token holders. Lastly, to fulfil the promise of mentor-to-earn, we will partner with other entities to enable the exchange of Athena tokens for fiat currencies, other cryptocurrencies, and goods and services.”
To celebrate the launch of the world’s first mentor-to-earn platform, users who join Athena will receive three times the usual number of Athena tokens on all their activities from today until 31 May.