# Introduction

## The TalentLayer TLDR

TalentLayer **is a protocol for building decentralized service marketplace applications** like Uber, Postmates, Rappi, and others.

TalentLayer can help you build new marketplaces - with the protocol replacing key backend components, helping you go to market faster.

**Why leverage a protocol for your marketplace app?** Tap into a unified network effect; many interfaces have access to one pool of users, offers, and products. This increases efficiency of supply and demand matching, and helps marketplaces overcome the chicken and egg problem.

**TalentLayer's Web 3 API and SDK** is live and available for integration. The Web 3 API and SDK assumes a web 3 native user experience on the platform level. Account delegation and gassless are enabled today so that platform developers can implement account abstraction optionally.

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[web-3-sdk-and-api](https://docs.talentlayer.org/technical-guides/web-3-sdk-and-api)
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## Key Concepts in TalentLayer

Learn about how TalentLayer helps your platform and explore options for how to integrate today.

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[value-proposition](https://docs.talentlayer.org/readme/value-proposition)
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{% content-ref url="readme/options-for-integration" %}
[options-for-integration](https://docs.talentlayer.org/readme/options-for-integration)
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## Get Started Today

**TalentLayer's Web 3 API and SDK** is live and available for integration.

### Explore the SDK

Add TalentLayer to an existing marketplace or build one from scratch with the TalentLayer Web 3 SDK and API.

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[web-3-sdk-and-api](https://docs.talentlayer.org/technical-guides/web-3-sdk-and-api)
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### Use a Starter Codebase

Are you building a marketplace app or adding work features to an app in a different vertical? Reduce your workload by up to 90% by using StarterKit - an open-source codebase for a fully-functioning web 3 native freelance marketplace.

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[starterkit-setup](https://docs.talentlayer.org/technical-guides/starterkit-setup)
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