Gitcoin Passport
Gitcoin Passport is an identity aggregation dApp built on the Ceramic Network. Users can collect various identity attestations, called stamps, from web2 and web3 authenticators in one place.
Why was it created?
Gitcoin Passport was designed to make sybil resistance easy. Many systems that aim to democratically decide outcomes, like Gitcoin Grants, assume each participant is a unique human. This makes them vulnerable to sybil attacks, where a bad actor creates a large number of pseudonymous identities to subvert the service’s reputation system and gain a disproportionate amount of influence. Sybil attacks undermine the legitimacy of blockchain-based democratic pluralistic processes. Credible identity verification and reputation mechanisms are essential to combat this.
Why would you create it?
Since Gitcoin Passport was created as a way of protection against sybil attacks, in the future it may well be one of the key conditions for getting an airdrop of some project. It can also serve as a multiplier of airdrop in different projects, for example — ZkSync.
How to create a passport? Step-by-step guide.
- Connect wallet — https://passport.gitcoin.co
- To improve your passport you need to earn as many stamps as possible. There is no minimum or maximum number, but the more the better. Here are guide for each of them sorted by level of difficulty of obtaining:
Light Level = 6 stamps, 18 points
- Connect your existing Twitter account
- Connect your existing Google Account
- Connect your existing Github account
- Connect your existing Facebook account
- Connect your existing Discord account
- Connect your existing Linkedin account
Medium level = 11 stamps, 34 points
- ZkSync Verification (need to approve wallet here (price ~ 5$))
- Connect a wallet and validate the stamp by retrieving an NFT (have at least one NFT in your wallet on the Ethereum network)
- Lens Profile Verification (hate at least 1 Lens Handle, you can buy here (price ~ 40$))
- Connect your existing Snapshot account (make at least 2 votes in DAO proposals)
- ETH possession and transaction verification (have at least 1 ETH in your wallet, or have a transaction older than 30 days, or spend more than 0.5 ether in gas)
- GitPOAP Verification (create GitPOAP here)
- Gnosis Safe (Create Safe here (price ~ 10$))
- Purchase an .eth name (buy ENS domain here (price ~ 10$))
- Gitcoin Grants (make a grant here (price ~ 2$))
- GTC possession (hold at least 10 GTC)
- POAP (buy POAP here, or earn it by any projects activities and hold at least 15 days)
Hard level = 3 stamps, 8 points
- GTC Staking (stake at least 1 GTC (price ~ 2$)) unavailable now
- Create BrightID
- Proof of Humanity verifying (guide)
