1. Welcome ALL
- Welcome to the weekly dose of public goods goodness.
- There has been an increase in grant submissions impersonating builders.
- Applications include links to Githubs, Twitters, etc., of reputable builders
- Approval is not automated, and the due diligence process is thorough.
- Due diligence process work has increased significantly due to this, including contacting impersonated builders to confirm their application
2. European Decentralisation Institute Digital Identity Policy project updates part deux
- Policymakers and politicians are becoming aware of the impersonation issue and AI agents.
- Developing a 3D framework with a triangulation between 1) digital sovereignty, 2) digital identity, and 3) digital subsidiarity.
- The draft of the policy brief will be ready soon.
- A roundtable is scheduled for April 7th
- 2 representatives from the ENS DAO will be participants.
- Developed a functional taxonomy as a foundation for comparative analysis of digital identity systems around the world
- Cases being considered:
- Switzerland digital identity scheme
- Bhutan national digital identity (first national identity system deployed on Ethereum)
- Canada (British Columbia and Ontario), South Korea, Australia, Japan, India, and more.
- A research essay will be released after the roundtable and policy brief.
- Conducting interviews with experts from various countries
- Looking for connections with experts or policymakers in South Korea, Australia, and Japan.
3. Deimos presentation: an open-source mobile ZK benchmarking platform that measures client-side proving performance on Android and iOS devices
- Full presentation.
- The problem statement
- They are tackling the problem of generating proofs on mobile devices
- Users can install their app, run the probe, and generate the proof on their mobile device.
- The application collects device information, probing time, verification time, and memory footprint, which is sent to a dashboard on their website.
- A live demo was done on the call.
4. Voterax presentation: a privacy-preserving, reputation-powered coordination layer designed to enable fair and transparent decision-making across Web3 and Web2 institutions
- https://voterax.xyz/
- A privacy-preserving reputation power coordination layer.
- It seeks to create a “universal coordination layer” suitable for bounties and Web3 governance.
- Uses a two-point system:
- Campaign points: specific to a particular campaign and are burned after the campaign ends.
- Campaign points are earned for every task within a campaign
- Reputation points: gauge influence and can be used as additional voting power
- Reputation points are earned over time for completing campaigns or other activities.
- Voterax aims to shift decision-making power from those with financial strength or expertise to those actively involved in the ecosystem.
5. Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.
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