This interview is a part of our on-going series, where we highlight our epoch 2 participants.
What's BrightID?
BrightID is a public good that exists for the benefit of humanity. It is a nonintrusive, decentralized, and open-source technology seeking to reform identity verification–and lay the groundwork for a free and democratic society.
By building an alternative to nation-state and biometric identities BrightID allows anyone in the world to prove they’re a unique person and own their digital identity
Why should you vote for BrightID in epoch 2?
Currently, there is no equitable method to share resources with all people. BrightID empowers everyone to receive their fair share of opportunities while preventing exploitation and abuse beyond one’s rightful portion. Enabling fairness allows public goods to exist and thrive that couldn’t otherwise.
BrightID protects the access of unique individuals to public goods.
Cool Metrics:
- BrightID has over 100,000 unique users.
- 15 Apps trust BrightID for Sybil-resistance.
- BrightID is the only Sybil-resistant attestation used by CLR.fund for its MACI protected Quadratic voting.
- BrightID was exemplified as a Proof of Personhood solution in Vitalik’s article: Moving beyond coin voting governance.
Progress since epoch 1:
Completed Initiatives:
- Aura (github)–the new and improved verification method for BrightID, will eclipse “meets” verification in reliability and scalability, and is nearing a second beta launch. We’re working both on the Aura node (forked from the regular BrightID node) with special operations for evaluating subjects, players, trainers, and managers in Aura; and a much improved Aura app based on observations from our previous closed beta.
- To make it easier for people to authorize Aura, we created and launched the concept of a “Super App” into the BrightID mobile app. Users can manage authorizations of apps that can go deeper in BrightID than just anonymously sharing a verification. An example of a Super App is a web3 social network that allows someone to designate their friends as BrightID connections. Aura is the first Super App, allowing people to find their BrightID connections who are also Aura players or trainers, and to evaluate their friends to help them be BrightID verified.
- We’ve started to ramp up a new backend dev who can help simplify the flow of “sponsoring” so that app integrations can be much simpler. He is also evaluating the decentralized coordination method between BrightID nodes to see if we can improve it.
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