The Outcome of Worldcoin’s Initial Funding Project Wave0: Cross-chain Identity Aggregation Platform and Decentralized Orb Development
Worldcoin Announcement
28 projects have been selected for the Wave0 program, including decentralized Orb production, cross-chain identity aggregation platform, Merkle tree-specific browser, and Web3 debate-driven governance platform. It is expected that these projects will promote the development of Worldcoin and decentralized governance.
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Wave0 Funding Program
Introduction to Award-winning Projects Advancing Worldcoin
Votexx: A Cancelable and Modifiable Voting Platform
Zanzibar: Privacy Data Storage Protocol
NEBRA: Composability Protocol for Integrated Cross-chain Services
Ribbon Protocol: Health Protection Service based on World ID
xx Network: Privacy Transmission
Rarimo: Decentralized Cross-chain Identity Bridge
Wonderland: On-chain Reputation System
TheVoice: Governance Platform
Wallfacer: Bonus Distribution Tool
Clade Club: Debate-driven Governance Platform
Merkle Tree Explorer: Hash Tree Visualization Browser
RewardMe: Tokenization Service for Consumer Data based on World ID
IDMaster: Decentralized Orb Production
Wave0
Wave0 is an entrepreneurial funding program launched by Worldcoin, aiming to assist projects dedicated to decentralized identity, governance, and Worldcoin-related applications by providing WLD tokens as funding rewards to help project teams fulfill their visions.
Yesterday, Worldcoin announced the results of the first Wave0 selection, covering topics such as decentralized governance platforms, privacy data transmission and storage, and universal identity protection plans.
Votexx: A Cancelable and Modifiable Voting Platform
Votexx aims to provide a voting mechanism that meets the needs more effectively by bringing privacy and security to the blockchain ecosystem. It is led by cryptographer Mario Yaksetig.
Votexx is an anti-coercion voting solution that allows users to cancel or change their voting actions, ensuring that any user can complete the voting based on their own will. It also utilizes WorldID for privacy online voting.
Zanzibar: Privacy Data Storage Protocol
Zanzibar is an encryption mechanism that enhances data storage privacy by ensuring that servers can complete storage operations without knowing what data is being stored. Its goal is to permanently encrypt the data list.
Additionally, Zanzibar’s encryption design enables efficient privacy query functionality, allowing data users to confirm the existence of certain data in the database (authorized by the server) while maintaining privacy, reducing the probability of cracking encrypted hash rainbow table attacks.
One of the most criticized issues of Worldcoin is the retention of user iris data. By implementing a more privacy-oriented encryption storage mechanism, user trust can be enhanced.
NEBRA: Composability Protocol for Integrated Cross-chain Services
NEBRA is building the first proof aggregation protocol on Ethereum, which integrates various applications using Worldcoin’s universal proof aggregation framework to achieve high composability of different products through zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP). In the future, NEBRA will collaborate with the Worldcoin contribution team to establish a new Layer2 network on top of the existing protocol infrastructure to further reduce the cost of ZKP verification fuel.
Ribbon Protocol: Health Protection Service based on World ID
Ribbon Protocol is developing an innovative model that combines universal basic income and universal health protection based on World ID. Through a health index, behavior, and loyalty model based on universal health, Ribbon Protocol creates a real use case for universal basic income for Worldcoin users, ensuring the linkage of user health and socio-economic data.
Since its establishment in 2017, Ribbon Protocol has gained support from well-known institutions such as Consensys, Blockchain 4 Humanity, and the South African Ministry of Health.
xx Network: Privacy Transmission
This project will utilize Worldcoin WalletKit and xx Network’s xxDK to create untraceable message transmission by using mixnet technology called cMixx through a chain of mixed proxy servers, ensuring communication privacy for users. xx Network aims to solve the risk of communication data leakage between users and other services through network-level anonymization.
Rarimo: Decentralized Cross-chain Identity Bridge
Rarimo is an identity aggregation platform that allows World ID to be used on any EVM chain. Rarimo enables cross-chain identity state transfer and is confirmed by network verifiers using BFT consensus, ensuring secure cross-chain identity transfer similar to encrypted assets. Integration with Worldcoin allows the transfer of identity status (Merkle root) from the Ethereum mainnet to other multi-chain networks.
Wonderland: On-chain Reputation System
The World ID governance mechanism aims to provide an identity verification system to prevent Sybil attacks, allowing only addresses verified by Orb to participate in DAO. However, privacy concerns regarding iris data have always been a significant concern in the market. Wonderland integrates reputation into the governance module through the “Reputation ID” mechanism, strengthening anti-Sybil measures and providing identity determination options beyond iris scanning.
Recommended Reading:
Worldcoin | World ID 2.0 Adds Login Verification and Enhances Privacy Security
Reason for Recommendation: Worldcoin 2.0 incorporates a primary identity verification mechanism that does not rely on iris scanning. This can work well with Wonderland’s reputation system. Reading this article can help understand why Worldcoin needs verification mechanisms beyond Orb.
TheVoice: Governance Platform
TheVoice is a modular governance platform that provides various voting mechanisms, including majority voting, quadratic voting, and convicting voting, allowing projects and communities to choose the most suitable voting method according to their needs.
Wallfacer: Bonus Distribution Tool
While distributing bonuses online is a good way to launch new projects, the process is often cumbersome and prone to interference from bots and spam emails. POPGDP is a service that assists the Worldcoin Foundation in distributing bonuses. The plan is to establish a grant governance forum integrated with World ID, using World ID to make the grant distribution voting and review process transparent, democratic, and resistant to manipulation, while increasing the quality of participation.
Clade Club: Debate-driven Governance Platform
The biggest problem with Web3 governance is the concentration of power. Typically, existing governance mechanisms determine voting rights based on the number of tokens held by users, ultimately giving power to a few. Clade Club’s platform creates a dynamic and user-centric environment through live interactive debates, rather than being financially oriented. Participants can vote in favor or against each other’s contributions, fostering wise decision-making.
The team believes that this approach is the true decentralization of governance, ensuring that the collective wisdom of the community guides decision-making, rather than relying on the ideas of a few wealthy individuals.
Merkle Tree Explorer: Hash Tree Visualization Browser
The team is building a browser specifically for Merkle trees, visualizing the Merkle tree. The Merkle Tree Explorer can visualize all World ID public keys and their related structures, allowing more users to verify the validity of World ID in a user-friendly manner, enhancing transparency, verifiability, and flexibility to promote decentralization.
RewardMe: Tokenization Service for Consumer Data based on World ID
RewardMe is a mobile application that provides users with an easy way to accumulate rewards based on their consumption habits at different merchants. RewardMe seamlessly integrates with users’ existing email accounts, enabling automated reward accumulation. By rewarding users with cryptocurrency, RewardMe tokenizes users’ daily spending data, driving the data tokenization market and paving the way for the AI data market. However, to accomplish this, it requires a complete identity verification system. Many existing fraud detection measures, although necessary, have affected user experience, such as KYC. Therefore, RewardMe chooses to integrate with World ID services to reduce user verification costs.
Recommended Reading:
Proof of Personhood (PoP) Introduction | Challenges in the Development of Digital Identity
Reason for Recommendation: Whether it is decentralized identity (DID), on-chain reputation, privacy mechanisms, they all fall under the category of proof of personhood. Reading this article can provide a clearer understanding of how World ID ensures on-chain proof of personhood.
IDMaster: Decentralized Orb Production
The IDMaster team provides a solution that makes it easier to assemble and manufacture Orb devices for verifying World ID. (Worldcoin will open-source the iris scanning device Orb, hoping to reduce market privacy concerns). IDMaster’s goal is to make Orb easily manufacturable worldwide in a trustless manner.
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Further Reading
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