Sybil-Resilience and Proof-of-Personhood are essential: In the age of AI we need to know if we interact with humans or machines . The vision of a truly decentralized web needs to solve the inclusion problem in a sybil-resilient way to do so. Proof of Personhood opens up the governance design space …

Thanks for the write-up, brenzi. Prosopo is indeed interested in pursuing bounties to tackle the problem of sybil resistance on polkadot and dapps in general. There are clearly different types of protection required depending on the value at stake. For social networks, voting on a poll should not re…

@brenzi can you state the goal or intended outcome of the bounty?

[image] alice_und_bob: @brenzi can you state the goal or intended outcome of the bounty? I expanded the OP to state goal and expected outcomes

I’d like to mention an interesting discourse about a particular danger of sybil-resilience, started by @giotto : Quadratic Voting for Polkadot Governance - #5 by giotto

[image] brenzi: who else? Another one to add to the list from outside dotsama [image] Proof of Humanity A system combining social verification with video submission to create a Sybil-proof list of humans. Proof of Humanity is a system combining webs …

[image] brenzi: who else? I think Jur as an operating system for governance, might be a good fit. I think sybil-resilience is not their primary focus, but in order to build a meaningful operating system for governance, sybil-resilience will be key. Further, Trustlines uses a social graph app…

I think person-hood parties provide a useful community activity anyways, even the benefits wind up much weaker than claimed, aka people simply rent out the identity, which kills quadratic voting. We’d ideally have meet ups between nominators and validator operators, along with parachain projects do…

I thought mass adoption was a goal? This sounds like the plan for a niche special-interest hobby club–is that the aim of nPOS? Those questions are sort of rhetorical, I admit, but I don’t mean to ask them combatively. I also understand what you’re getting at, the ideation of a sort of functional, n…

If I understand correctly, this decentralized solution aimed at proving the individuality of a controlling entity, and thereby enhancing sybil resistance, rely on other individuals confirming identity at in-person social events with a token incentive and anchored to a mobile phone. This approach est…

[image] burdges: We’d ideally have meet ups between nominators and validator operators, along with parachain projects doing stuff. Tor runs operator meet ups, where folks discuss practices, etc. Crypto-parties were useful forever. etc. Not sure if you talk about in-person meetups or virtual o…

A Bounty to make Polkadot Sybil-Resilient

Governance

brenzi December 16, 2023, 1:29pm 17

here’s one more team that should be added to the list of potential targets for this bounty:

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A Bounty to make Polkadot Sybil-Resilient

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