WISHLIST GRANT: Name certification service

[friedger]

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Background

What problems do you aim to solve? How does it serve the mission of a user owned internet?
Blockstack usernames can be created and used in a decentralized way. Currently, there is no way to attach additional value to the names like social proofs or other certifications beyond a basic self-certified profile.

There used to be a social verification service on proof.blockstack.org integrated into the legacy authenticator at browser.blockstack.org but it is not supported anymore.

Project Overview

What solution are you providing? Who will it serve?

This project is about

• creating one certification service/authority for blockstack names
• adding UI to the blockstack app for handling (add, remove, share) certificates by many authorities

[hozzjss]

I'm thinking of how that would look like, and I have two models in mind so far, that grow into one another, the first is KYC so that you could be really verified through documentation, and that grows into community members vouching for other identities instead of KYC, something else can be implemented like through the age of the identity for example but that is risky, as you might have people who have signed up just to try stuff and then went away for a very long time, and they come back later after their identity became more valuable, what do you think?

[friedger]

The service could also work with stacksgov/sips#57

Gitcoin is using
https://gitcoin.co/profile/trust and https://proofofpersonhood.com/

[will-corcoran]

@friedger very cool! I would love to hear more about this on our call today.

[will-corcoran]

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