Empowering Proof of Humanity Wave: Orange Protocol Partners with Linea to Enhance User Verification and Experience

Orange Protocol
5 min readDec 8, 2023

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Orange Protocol Contributes to Linea’s Attestation Registry to Enhance Future-Proof Identity Solutions

December 8, 2023. Orange Protocol is excited to announce a strategic collaboration with Linea, renowned for its innovative attestation registry — Verax. This registry is key in transforming the process of identity verification and attestation in Web3. This partnership aims to enhance user trust and reward the real users with identity and reputation mechanisms.

The collaboration combines Linea’s attestation solution with Orange Protocol’s reputation infrastructure, introducing a new era in identity verification. The integration is poised to address some of the most pressing challenges in digital identity verification, offering users enhanced control over their personal data and digital interactions.

The significance of identity attestation is key in Web3, as it underpins the trust and credibility essential for secure and efficient transactions. With this collaboration, Linea and Orange Protocol will deliver capabilities and campaigns that showcase the next era of reputation and identity verification.

Linea’s Registry and Orange Protocol’s Vision

Linea has developed it’s attestation registry — Verax, with a number of specialist teams in the ecosystem, to provide a platform for streamlining the process of identity verification and attestation. The registry is crafted to be a single source of truth within the ecosystem, allowing for secure, verifiable, and immutable attestations that users and services can rely on.

“I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to work collaboratively with Orange Protocol, whose pioneering work has resulted in delivering consistently high quality user experiences,” says Simon Brown from Linea. “The integration with Verax marks another innovation by Orange to give their users more control over their data, and will add more high value data to a burgeoning ecosystem.”

Orange Protocol is dedicated to fostering trust in the digital world through its decentralized reputation framework. The mission of Orange Protocol is to empower individuals and organizations by providing them with the tools to establish and maintain a verifiable, decentralized, and portable digital reputation.

“This partnership with Linea marks a significant leap in our quest to innovate digital identity solutions,” adds David Harrington, head of growth at Orange Protocol. “Integrating with Linea’s Attestation Registry and aligning with Ontology’s ONT ID and ONTO Wallet represent our commitment to a multifaceted approach to identity verification in the blockchain space.”

Jump in on the PoH x Orange Campaign

Both Linea and Orange Protocol, invite you to participate in a unique campaign that not only recognizes but rewards your contribution to the Web3 community. By verifying your humanity through Orange Protocol and attesting your Proof of Humanity (PoH) Verifiable Credentials (VC) to Verax, you have the opportunity to earn Linea’s Voyage XP.

Linea Voyage XPs represent a unified way to acknowledge community contributions across all Linea activities — past, present, and future. The campaign is anchored in our shared vision of creating an open, fair, community-driven, and developer-friendly reputation system in Web3.

Participating is simple and rewarding:

  • Step 1: Connect your Ethereum wallet with Orange Protocol.
  • Step 2: Navigate to the specific campaign page: Campaign Details
  • Step 3: Complete the Proof of Humanity verification using either BrightID or Shufti Pro.
  • Step 4: Attest your PoH Verifiable Credentials (VC) to Verax.

Linea and Orange Protocol Unite for Identity Innovation

Linea and Orange Protocol are teaming up to integrate Verax within Orange’s reputation management system. This collaboration is set to enhance user-centric attestation, marrying Linea’s verifiable credentials with Orange’s reputation metrics for a multifaceted trust protocol.

The collaboration aims to establish a seamless verification process that ensures user privacy while fostering trust across digital platforms. Objectives include creating a more robust identity verification standard and delivering comprehensive solutions that address the evolving challenges of digital interactions.

This integration will see Linea’s registry being utilized to enhance the user attestation process, synergizing with Orange Protocol’s established reputation metrics. This collaboration is not just about merging technologies but also about creating a unified solution that addresses identity verification in a holistic manner.

Further expanding the scope of this alliance, the integration will also encompass Ontology’s ONT ID and ONTO Wallet. These elements will play a crucial role in fostering a comprehensive proof of humanity solution, integral to the trust and verification process within the blockchain ecosystem

​​In addition to the core collaboration, there are ongoing discussions regarding interoperability with other projects and protocols, such as Polygon ID and Ceramic. This aspect highlights the partnership’s dedication to building an inclusive and interconnected digital identity landscape.

Future Developments

Linea is on the brink of releasing an extensive documentation suite, providing in-depth insights into the functionalities and integration capabilities of their Attestation Registry. This documentation will be a valuable resource for both communities, ensuring a smooth and informed integration process for all stakeholders involved.

The collaboration between Linea and Orange Protocol is anticipated to evolve dynamically. Both parties are committed to continuously innovating and refining their solutions to address the challenges of digital identity in a decentralized world, ultimately enhancing user trust and security across multiple platforms.

About Orange Protocol

Orange Protocol is a decentralized reputation protocol that provides a way to establish trust and credibility in the web3 and beyond. Its reputation system uses feedback and ratings to track the behavior and track records of users, providing a reliable way to verify identity, reputation, and trustworthiness.

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About Linea

Linea is a next-generation Layer 2 zkEVM rollup. It is a network that scales the experience of Ethereum. Its out-of-the-box compatibility with the Ethereum Virtual Machine enables the deployment of already-existing applications, as well as the creation of new ones that would be too costly on Mainnet. It also enables the community to use those dapps, at a fraction of the cost, and at multiples the speed of Mainnet.

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About Verax

Verax is a shared registry for storing attestations of public interest on EVM chains, designed to enhance data discoverability and consumption for dApps across the network. Verax is being developed as a collaborative venture between Clique, Consensys, Aspecta, PADO Labs and Hapi, and is an open-source, community maintained, public good.

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Orange Protocol

Orange is a protocol for building trustless, decentralized, and portable reputation for Web3. Connect with us: www.orangeprotocol.io