Worker Proposal: WordProof.io — The Open Source Telos / EOSIO WordPress Plugin

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WordProof brings the benefits of blockchain to the world of content.

3 min readMar 9, 2019

WordProof: Hassle-free Blockchain for WordPress

“In five years from now, if you don’t timestamp your articles on the blockchain, you’re going to be considered a fraud.”
Brendan Blumer

Leverage the WordPress community and Blockchain for a 100% Open Source Future

WordPress is a textbook example of a community which is stronger than any other commercial company. With more than 100 million sites and thousands of Open Source developers, it dominates 32,5% of the worldwide Content Management System market.

The purpose of WordProof is to generate the go-to WordPress to Blockchain bridge, bringing the benefits of Blockchain and EOSIO to the WordPress community in a user-friendly way, without any middle layer solutions. It is 100% accessible and forever free.

From Time-stamping and Proof of Integrity to Logins

The first step is time-stamping. On every object you create or edit, you are able to sign your submission with your EOSIO wallet.
The second step is to do this automatically as a background process (e.g. with a specific, limited ‘content signer key’ which is entered into the WordPress dashboard).
The third step is the possibility of logging in via the EOSIO identity system, which is evolving and will be available in the coming months.

On-boarding WordPress users to Blockchain

The audience of people using WordPress and EOSIO is small, maybe fewer than a thousand. That’s why you don’t have to have an EOSIO account when you install the plugin. If you don’t have one, we’ll onboard you in one or more of the EOSIO-chains, hassle-free. The intention is to partner with EOSIO-chains to provide free accounts for WordPress users.

WordProof Flow

Install the plugin “WordProof — WordPress Blockchain EOSIO”
Choose which EOSIO chain to connect to. If you don’t have an account on either, the plugin on-boards you on a chain of choice (we promote Telos for the first 6 months, as they are sponsoring the project).
On every Page, Post, Product or Privacy page creation or update you’ll be able to sign your submission on the EOSIO blockchain.

Track record in WordPress (2007), GDPR and EOSIO (2017)

Van Ons WordPress Development (2006) is the leading technical WordPress agency in the Netherlands. Our team of twenty-five WordPress and WooCommerce specialists have developed the 100% Open Source plugin WP GDPR, with 700k Downloads and 100k active users. Furthermore, they serve more than 500 million WordPress pageviews on a yearly base; for publishers, broadcasters and NGO’s.

WordProof strategical partners

WordProof is currently being developed at Open Agency, which is the Blockchain spin-off of leading Dutch WordPress Agency Van Ons. In addition to the team, WordProof has two strategic partners:

Telos — the EOSIO Innovation lab. WordProof could be one of the first projects ever funded by a Telos Worker Proposal.
EuropeChain — EuropeChain is an initiative of Block producers EOS Amsterdam, Dutch EOS (Block producer on Telos) and several other European EOSIO block producers.

Open Agency — the Blockchain Spin-off op WordPress agency Van Ons.

How to vote for the WordProof Worker Proposal?

Please log into your Telos SQRL Wallet.
Unlock your Wallet > Click on ‘Governance’ > Click on ‘Proposal’
Navigate to the 6th WPS: ‘WordProof — Open Source WordPress Telos Plugin. Roadmap in Proposal.’ and vote ‘YES’

That’s all :-).

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