Hi Jacksteroo!
Thanks so much for following up with us. Responding to your questions in order here:
- We are incredibly excited to share with you our successful soft release at ethAmsterdam. You can find a video of the demo here:
The slides for the event can be found here along with an accompanying in-depth exposition on the motivation, design, and future steps on our blog:
- Yes, we had originally targeted the identity bounty, specifically this post by @lij. In this request, @lij requests the following features:
“Link with Twitter/Github/Linkedin identity, multi-factor biometric/location/device authentications.”
Holonym accomplishes this. Our developer tooling makes it trivial for integration of Holonym within the existing Harmony Identity stack. We are also very much open to a Launch grant. We have currently deployed our contracts on Gnosis (xDAI) and may consider Harmony next.
- We currently have ~500 members in the OpSci discord, which is just one small/medium sized DAO in the entire DeSci space. There are over 50 DeSci DAOs in the space, with more being added every day. Note that Holonym is a generic identity verification and bridge protocol. We are soft launching our alpha product within a niche community but are already receiving interest from diverse projects which all need on-chain identity. Once we have the smart contracts audited, we will be ready to onboard the next 10,000 users from all across the Web3 ecosystem
Most importantly, here are the ways in which the Harmony ecosystem can benefit from us:
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Send $ONE to any verified user with their discord, twitter, gmail, or github handle. You just have to know their social account, not even their blockchain address to send them $ONE
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Decentralized wallet recovery for lost seed phrases (via the dACL project you linked above – we’re working with them because they’re solving huge problems for dApps and protocols like us)
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Decentralized two factor authentication to secure DeFi protocols on Harmony.
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NFTs from verified artists. Harmony can be the first blockchain to prevent NFT scams by adding the value of artist verification on-chain.
We would be grateful to be considered for the Launch Grant or Harmony Accelerator. We would love to bring turing complete identity to the Harmony ecosystem.
Who are our Early Partners?
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LabDAO: A decentralized laboratory protocol marketplace
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ResearchHub: Scholarly content curation, peer review, and publication.
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talentDAO: Journal of Decentralized Work
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… Harmony?
What would be your suggestions to best proceed with this application? We are open to a Launch grant, completing the Identity Bounty linked above, applying for an accelerator, or other suggestions you may have. Just let us know what works best for the Harmony ecosystem!
Do the following milestones make sense?
M1: Feature-complete deployment on Harmony testnet ($10k)
M2: Launch on Harmony Mainnet + Audit ($20k)
M3: PR to Harmony One Wallet to include verified IDs with Holo ($15k)
M4: Integration with Harmony 1 DAO/dApp (1k)
M5: Integration with 5 Harmony DAOs/dApps (5k)
M6: 1k daily active users (10k)
M7: 10k daily active users (20k)
Metrics for success
5+ new or existing dApps using Holonym for Identity Verification
5+ new DAO using Holonym to augment their tooling
1000+ active users daily