The Adabdha Project
Countries such as India are now on extended lockdown. Not only are most businesses closed but people aren’t even allowed to freely travel across states for emergencies, let alone essentials in certain zones. The process to acquire a “curfew pass” is extremely restricted and there’s no transparency around it. Even with the current relaxations, inter district and inter state travel requires multiple permissions and every authority seems to have their own paper/online method.
After the second lockdown extension Anomit Ghosh and I decided to mash a couple of internal ideas and eventually to build this. Adabdha (aːdaːbdʱa:) in Sanskrit means unimpaired, unbroken and not deceived or tampered with. My past 3 years of full time work before and through BlockVigil has been an effort to make systems secure, verifiable and auditable via blockchain.
The core tenet of this project is to offer a decentralized alternative to the traditionally accepted opaque process of granting of licenses and permissions, whether in the physical or the digital world. We are starting off with movement passes.
More details on how it works is on our whitepaper. A live demo is at app.adabdha.com.
This will require a community of experts to help us succeed in the mission. We have also open sourced the code on Github.
We need help making inroads into administrative and government machinery. Meanwhile, open to contributions to the project and feedback on Product Hunt and Hacker news 🙏
