About this Prize

Context:

Both the network state movement and the Zuzalu inspired pop up city movement need a home for long-form discussion online.

There are too many telegram and discord groups and it is hard for the best ideas to be elevated and evolve rather than be drowned out.

To solve this, Noah Chon Lee and Andrew J Starr created a crowdfunded prize to build a discussion forum focused on network societies that is like a shared blog to post articles and follow authors.

Michael Jola-Moses in Nigeria and Mikey Cherneski in the USA won this prize building nsforum.org together

The full idea is written here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o8gL5w3lQKN8d9chZ0NJ3dVtNlxa9hCBxKBtVHRcJgc/edit?usp=sharing

Here is the forum code forked from what Renee of Holonym created: https://github.com/JM-M/network-society-web3-forum


Problem:

Someone can pretend they are Vitalik etc. on the forum. How can we have a ZK proof of personhood so there is an option to become a verified user to solve this?

Solution:

Integrate a ZK DID system to nsforum.org so that a user may choose to verify the particular person they are.
Options explored include using Polygon ID with Reclaim Protocol and using Holonym.
The deadline for this is March 3, 2024
If you are interested in pursuing this, please send a message here: https://t.me/viaprize