Greetings, Community! It's time for our quarterly roundup, and we're thrilled to share the latest highlights from the past April to June. Let's jump into the key updates:
April 2024 Highlights
New Partnership: We're excited to announce our collaboration with Vocdoni, merging their voting protocol with our zero-knowledge ID verification systems to offer privacy-centric voting solutions. Read more about it here
Holonym Sybil Defense Quest: Episode II is live on Galxe! Join the quest, earn ecosystem points, and compete for a share of the $2k prize pool. Let's empower our community to stand against Sybil threats together!
ZK SBT Holders' Benefits: ZK SBT holders can now earn 16 points on Gitcoin Passport effortlessly. Utilize our NFC-enabled passport for complete privacy and unlock your points towards the Humanity Score.
Important Update: SBT Expiry đź“Ł Starting February 1st 2024, SBTs minted after this date will expire after one year from the verification date. Stay tuned for future rewards and enhancements aimed at enhancing security and user experience.
Dashboard Release: We're gearing up to launch a dashboard empowering ZK SBT holders to support quality-driven airdrops. Our focus remains on fostering healthy governance and combatting industrial airdrop farming through proof of personhood.
May 2024 Highlights
Meet Mishti Network
Holonym Foundation launched an Actively Validated Service (AVS) on EigenLayer test-net that enables programmable privacy and the creation of “Human Keys” from biometric and low-entropy data sources. Read the announcement to learn more. Are you an Ethereum or AVS node operator, get in touch!
Network State Foundation:
The Network Society Forum seeks incubated a discourse for long-form content around network states and similar communities. The forum’s integration with with Holonym for Proof of Personhood, Silk for UX friendly profile management, and Ceramic for decentralized data storage makes the forum resistant to sybil attack, enabling private identity proofs, censorship resistance, and facilitates transparent peer to peer evaluation and discussion
Core Identity Primitives: Building on Zero Knowledge (ZK), ID, and Human Keys.
Recognition: ViaPrize’s deployment of core coordination infrastructure using SilkySignOn and Zer0nym.
Strategy to Overcome Moloch: Onboard everyone, verify humanity, and coordinate.
The Network Society Forum launched with a $500 prize pool for top articles in May.
Incentives and Events:
Sponsorship: Holonym announced as a Silver Sponsor of the DC Blockchain Summit 2024.
Participated at DCDAOxyz, the Foundations & Public Goods panel at the summit.
Partnerships and Integrations:
Othentic Stack Partners: Holonym is among the few AVSs, powered by Othentic stack as launch partners, along with RedStone Oracles, K3 Labs, and Firewall
Development: Holonym is developing a personhood AVS on Eigenlayer to derive Human Keys from private biometrics and enable programmable privacy.
Privacy and Regulation:
Discussion: Holonym’s Co-founder Shady El Damaty on privacy and the future of RegulationTech at the DigitalChamber Summit.
Institutional Privacy Dilemma: @IncompleteRules and @CossarSofia have published a piece on how Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) can resolve the "institutional privacy dilemma," highlighting the role of @0xHolonym and other innovative apps. Read more here!
Community Engagement:
Promotion: Zeronym got listed on Magic Square, which was upvoted by the community to get it listed and validated.
June 2024 Highlights
The ResearchHub Foundation
The ResearchHub Foundation has unveiled an updated DeSci Ecosystem Map. Discover the key players and groundbreaking projects that are shaping the future. Explore teams revolutionizing publishing, funding, IP-NFTs, and more.
Check it out here: ResearchHub Blog
Sign Protocol Joins Forces with @0xHolonym 🔏
Users who successfully mint a proof of unique personhood SBT with Zeronym will now receive an attestation on Sign Protocol's public registry. This partnership ensures that identity proofs are discoverable by dApps across EVM and other networks.. Learn more about the integration through our case study.
Proof of Personhood with Zeronym on Verax for The Linea Voyage
The Holonym Foundation announced a strategic partnership with Linea to bring another source of rigor for verifying and rewarding unique humans with the Verax attestation service. Zeronym users that successfully mint a proof of unique personhood SBT will now also receive an attestation on Verax's public registry, where their identity proofs can be discovered by dApps across EVM networks. More on the partnership here.
Update on Mishti Testnet
Mishti Network's penultimate testnet update before alpha mainnet was released to early node operators. This update paves the road to allow any node with restaked eth to permissionlessly join the network and earn fees as an operator. Mishti is built on the Othentic stack to interface with the Eigenlayer network.
