ZK Email

ZK Email

Open-source project for anonymous email verification on the blockchain, enabling email-based recovery for wallets, email as wallet signer, and a public DKIM key archive without centralized attestations.
Application
Applied on: 15 Oct 2024 10:31 PM
Approved
User Review
R1
Reviewed on 17 Oct 2024 10:38 AM
Demonstrate how tools, libraries, or frameworks significantly reduce development barriers, improve efficiency, or enhance the security of Web3 projects.
Show support and usage within the developer community.
Meet the general eligibility criteria for Gitcoin Grants, including open-source principles and ethical standards.
ZK Email is demonstrating provenant identity proofs on Ethereum. Reducing the development barrier by building an email wallet as an open standard and protocol that anyone can plug into, building account recovery modules for wallets. Previous work has led to a number of impactful open source contributions in the zk space. Supported by Ethereum Foundation, Scaling Explorations group and 0xPARC. 77 GitHub forks, 355 GitHub stars, and 25 contributors. They match GG22 ethics. It includes an open-source license. About activity metrics there is a first commit more than 90 days prior, a recent commit within the last 30 days, activity on more than 20 days in the last 90 days, and contributions are from more than one individual.
AI Review
A1
Reviewed on 15 Oct 2024 11:01 PM
Demonstrate how tools, libraries, or frameworks significantly reduce development barriers, improve efficiency, or enhance the security of Web3 projects.
ZK Email provides a set of SDKs, libraries, and protocols for making anonymous proofs of emails on chain. Examples include building account recovery modules for wallets and email-as-wallet signer functionalities, which greatly simplify onboarding onto Ethereum, thus reducing development barriers, improving efficiency, and enhancing security.
Show support and usage within the developer community.
The project has 287 GitHub followers, 3K Twitter followers, over 600 GitHub stars, and support for $150K+ of mainnet volume, indicating strong support and usage within the developer community.
Meet the general eligibility criteria for Gitcoin Grants, including open-source principles and ethical standards.
ZK Email is fully open-source with its code and roadmap publicly available on GitHub. It has made significant contributions to the open-source community, aligning with open-source principles and ethical standards required by Gitcoin Grants.