Bright ID Briefing Document
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General Discovery
Researched by: Latsan
About the event
- Project: Bright ID
- Guests: Philip Silva
- Topic: Gamifying Identity Social Graphs
- Event schedule: 11/11/2022
- NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE
About our guest speaker
- Include guest name(s); try to include name pronunciation.
- Philip Silva
- Write a short bio about the guest(s) including their role at the project they are speaking about.
Philip Silva is the co-founder of ZeroPoverty.
He is the director at Hedge for Humanity.
He is also a member of advisory team at Bright
- Find one or two things that are unique or interesting about our guest. Little known facts are great! i.e. owns two Shiba Inus in real life so bought a lot of SHIB.
- Philip Silver focus a lot on how cryptocurrency could improve the world and make things more fair and equitable and a big supporter of universal basic income and think that that should be part of what we’re doing with crypto.
- Describe their crypto journey thus far. i.e. graduated from college in 2016, got their first bitcoin as a graduation gift, fell down the rabbithole of Ethereum, launched a DeFi protocol in 2020.
- Philip Silva helped create ZeroPoverty and the non-profit HedgeForHumanity to advance the ideas of universal sharing, crypto-UBI, and paying social dividends for all of humanity.
- How has their crypto journey impacted their decision to join/launch the project they work on today?
- Philip Silver is known for inspiring and activating the design and adoption of UBI and cryptocurrencies in ways that enable humanity to evolve to a world of plenty for all which made his transition to a member of advisory team at Bright ID
- What are some notable achievements that increase their web3 reputation?
- Philip is the founding member of LAO, Flmaingo and whaler DAO.
About the project
- What is the general positioning of the project? i.e. DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, governance.
- Governance
- What is the value proposition of the project? How does it clearly differentiate itself from others in the web3 space?
- BrightID is different from other identity solution platform in a way that it provides solution for knowing whether someone exists in a system only once.
- It was specifically designed to work well in a digital environment.
- How does it benefit it community members and general web3 communities at large?
- BrightID solve the problem of unique identity, It does so in a way that doesn’t require personal data to be collected or attested by others.
- It reduce bots and multiple account creation
- Is it bridging blockchains, protocols, tools, communities, etc.?
- Yes
- Does it bring a unique vision or approach to solve challenges in web3?
- Yes.
- How does it improve the web3 ecosystem?
- Bright ID is checkmating bot & multiple accounts from real members in web3
- Generally, how does the product work?
- Provide basic information about the product
- Keeping applications free from spam and abuse.
- Voting, rating, and reviews.
- Free trials, referrals, and giveaways.
- Distributing a Universal Basic Income.
- Tracking credit and other histories that may involve multiple accounts.
- Details of product stemming off high level overview
- Outline a few mid to high-level topics about the product
- Bright ID Group
- Groups in BrightID is use for proving human uniqueness . Groups represent a small number of people that know each other well. They can be as small as 3 people. They don’t need to correspond to an existing real-world or online group. Groups help verify their members by connecting to other known, good groups; the strength of a group’s connections to other groups helps verify all its members.
- Creating and joining groups is easy and improves your ability to be verified by applications. and you must belong to at least one group.
- Results of the product so far
- Web3 contributors now have a proof of uniqueness
- Practical applications of product.
- Detail current functionality of project, where it is deployed, TVL.
- Ethascan & xdai
- Current and potential use cases.
- BrightID is a social identity network that allows users to prove their identity and have access to only one account. It’s the holy grail of digital identity.
- Outline steps for a beginner to get started.
- Download and install the Bright ID application
- Create your digital identity
- Join a Bright ID connection party to get verified
- Link your account to an app and enjoy the benefit of unique identity
- Token economy.
- Yes, they have a native token $bright to create and pass funding proposals for BrightID
- Any recent, meaningful updates to the project.
- Clarification of not been a KYC project but an alternative principally opposed to it.
- Roadmap/future applications
- Technical updates
- Zoom integration has a major outage, which was recoved on November 3. Members can now join Bright ID AMA through zoom.
- Community updates or changes
- Contributors can now create their own Soulbound NFT and integrate into their Bright ID account
About the ecosystem
- Find one or two things the speaker has shared in the past about the future growth, impact of web3?
- Hunting down sybil attackers
- How will their project(s) contribute to the evolution and adoption of web3?
- Checking out bot and multiple accounts, hence contributors refer their real friends and they both enjoy the features available from the account they want to use
- What are some web3 projects/tools that the project integrates to create a more robust ecosystem?
- Gitcoin
- RabbitHole
- 1Hive
- IDChain Eidi Faucet
- Rare Coin Claims
- Utopia42
- Snashot
- MultiverseDAO
Anything else?
Resources
References
- Relevant project links including discord, website, twitter, podcast, medium, mirror, substack, gitbook, etc.
- Social media details of the guest.
Sources
- List every source used to curative the information in this outline. including blogs, tweets, sources of images, websites, youtube videos, interviews, podcasts, books, etc.