We believe technology should be built in with natural digital rights for privacy, security and ownership. We invented Human Keys to make these digital rights as immutable and resilient as the underlying decentralized infrastructure that powers it.

We’re excited to proliferate the adoption of Human Keys in partnership with Funding the Commons. that Holonym will be sponsoring a month-long hackathon with Funding the Commons and Earth Commons.

Holonym will provide developer support and up to $15,000 in rewards for the hackathon. The event will bring together builders from around the world to develop innovative solutions for public goods funding that utilize privacy, key security, and identity technology.

The hackathon will be a hybrid in-person/remote event that runs from October 7 to November 7. The winners of the hackathon challenges will be announced at the conference on November 8th and 9th.

Hackathon participants will work closely with the Holonym dev team to build solutions at the intersection of crypto and real world. Developers will be challenged to submit solutions in the privacy & identity track:

• Challenge 1: Universal Personhood Issuer ($7,000) - How do we prove personhood of an undocumented refugee? Utilize Zeronym and the Silk SDKs to create a "Refugee Identity Issuer" that allows undocumented individuals in refugee camps to prove that they are a unique human with specific status (such as a verified refugee at a camp). Bonus points for extending this beyond refugee status.

• Challenge 2: Simple Remittances & P2P Payments ($3,000, x2) - Sending payments with crypto should be easier than opening a bank account. Utilize the Silk wallet in a dApp to 1) onboard users with socials or email, 2) onramp with no KYC, 3) receive/send payments via text/email. Bonus points for novel applications utilizing other DeFi primitives, activations over web2 platforms, tested in the wild with real world impact.

• Challenge 3: Unstoppable Civic Infrastructure ($2000) - How do we build resilient systems for voting, crowdfunding, direct aid, and coordination by people around the world? Utilize any of Holonym's technology to build unstoppable civic infrastructure that can empower people to persist in collective governance even when IRL institutions malfunction.

Now that we’ve shared the exciting news, let’s dive into the updates from Q3

ETHCC 2024 Participation
The Holonym team was excited to meet the community in Brussels from July 8-11! We hosted insightful panels and exclusive events focused on Zero Trust Wallets, ZK Identity, and programmable privacy. 

Key Events:

• July 8: Encrypt_xyz

• July 8: shared_security

• July 9: ETHCC BIA

• July 11: AVS Day by Consensys

Keynote Presentations

• Shady El Damaty from Holonym spoke on shared security and its potential to enhance secure computation during the Shared Security panel.

  

• On July 9, Shady El Damaty, gave a pitch at the BNB Incubation Alliance (BIA) hosted by BNBCHAIN and BinanceLabs. The event fueled some great interactions and supports the growth of early-stage projects.

  

• Nanak Nihal shared updates on Holonym’s Personhood AVS and advancements within the Mishti Network during AVS Day, hosted by Consensys and Eigenlayer.

  

Holonym Sybil Defense Quest Winners:
Congratulations to our winners! Thank you to all participants for your engagement. Prizes were randomly selected from the top 100 participants.
More Info Here

Launch Announcement
We’re LIVE! The Proof of Personhood attestation on Verax using Zeronym is now available, featuring a $3000 prize pool! Celebrate this partnership by joining our special Galxe quest for a chance to earn your personhood attestation.
Join the Quest

Silk SDK Update
The Silk SDK is user-friendly, catering to both experienced Web3 developers and newcomers to self-custody wallets and cryptography. Embed in 3 mins!!

Integrate Silk effortlessly by following our documentation for optimal performance: Silk Integration Guide

New Collaboration
Big news! Hinkal will integrate Zeronym for identity verification through Proof of Clean Hands. This integration marks a significant improvement in private transactions by ensuring audit trails for illicit activities, and enabling honest users to keep their information private and unlinkable to wallet addresses. Zeronym is one of the leading zkKYC solutions and has over 125k verified users.

To further highlight the partnership, the teams hosted an AMA with hexagate and mystri_eth.
Link to AMA

Holonym Foundation has secured $5.5M in seed funding to advance global digital personhood through Human Keys

We're focusing on scaling our core protocols that serve the proliferation of Human Keys— Mishti Network, Zeronym, and Silk  — to put privacy, autonomy, digital identity, and access to unstoppable financial infra in the palms of every human.
Read the amazing news here

Discussion on the ZTP Ecosystem:
NanakNihal, discussed their early entry into the ZTP ecosystem. Learn how Silk leveraged Pera’s 2PC-MPC for trustless multi factor authentication and account recovery, while maintaining security and decentralisation. Watch the discussion here.

Lowering Issuer Fees
The Holonym Foundation has significantly reduced issuer fees for ID verification with Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs).
New Fee Structure

• Standard government ID proofs are now $5.

• ZK NFC proofs are free, eliminating payment friction.
  We are committed to making our services more globally accessible!

Holonym Trivia Weekly

Every Sunday at 9 PM HKT on Discord. Prizes: $100, $60, $40.

Format: 10 trivia questions, top scorers win!

Exclusive "Holo Geek" role for winners.

Prepare by checking out:

Holonym Documentation

Silk Documentation

FAQs on the Holonym Foundation Discord server

Mishti’s landing page is live!!

The community voted it as the best landing page Gmeowahaha!!

See the voting results here.

Ethereum Research Forum

Nanak Nihal published “A Threshold Network for Human Keys” on Ethereum’s research forum. 

The post delves into how “Human Keys” can solve Ethereum’s privacy and onboarding challenge. 

Introduction of Human Keys

DeComputeConf & token2049

Louis Tajan, our cryptographer introduced Human Keys to the world for the first time, live and in person!
Missed the talk or have questions about threshold biometric key derivation? Reach out to us—we’d love to chat!
Learn more here: mishti.network

Circom Programming Class by Nanak Nihal

Nanak Nihal held a class on ZK Programming using Circom at zkMonk's ZK Bootcamp  on  September 22, 2024

Eth Milano
Our Co-Founder Shady El Damaty  presented Human Keys at Eth Milano. 

On Day 1, he spoke about human-friendly wallets and how Eigen Layer is paving the way for secure decentralized authentication. 

On Day 2, he discussed how to manage cryptographic keys securely through personal attributes, enabling easy key recovery and privacy-preserving identity verification without compromising sensitive information.

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The future of our society will depend on our ability to differentiate truth, verify authenticity, and prove humanity. Human Keys provide creatives with the tools they need to stand out against the sludge of AI generated content. Thank you @eth_milano and @ResearchHub for hosting

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We will be sharing a recap of the talks soon. Stay tuned!

Become a Holonym Ambassador!

• Opportunity: Help shape the future of digital privacy with Human Keys.

• Apply Now: Ambassador Program

Join our community on Discord for more details

Trivia Contest

Prize Pool: $200. 15 trivia questions and bonus questions on Sunday. Join via Discord.

AMA with Sign Protocol on Sybil Resistance and Airdrops Featuring Shady El Damaty and Nanak Nihal

The AMA was insightful and fun. Checkout the recording and recap of the event, also some alpha dropping from Holonym and Sign. Also, don’t miss Shady’s zero knowledge humour

We shipped a ton of content during September, with a special one published by Lightshift. 

Centralized to User-Centric Identity by Lightshift

The article delves into how Holonym is building a decentralized identity framework that puts users back in control of their data. 

Silk Blog Launched

To kick off the launch, we published a series of articles on introduction to Silk and Human Keys – what are they, how they work and the use cases. We also published an article on how Silk differs from other wallets. Link to the blog. 

Silk website

The website went through a complete UI makeover. Silky-er and sexy-er!

Silk, by Holonym

Silk is a human-friendly wallet as a protocol created by the Holonym Foundation. Silk combines the highest security standard (2PC-MPC) with the best UX to let users connect to all of web3.

https://www.silk.sc