🔆 BrightID – an open source Sybil-resistant identity lego. No sketchy Orbs required. 👁️

We are thrilled to be working with Gitcoin to reduce the impact of Sybil accounts. With your help, we added over 73,000 verified BrightID users. Thank you for the amazing support so far! Let's keep the momentum going!

If you are not already verified, please come to one of our many daily online meetings. Visit meet.brightid.org

🔆 What has BrightID core team been up to?

• Showing the world that you don’t need to give away your eyeballs to have Sybil resistance.
• Improvement to and first large scale use of Blind Signatures for improved privacy
• Powering free crypto gas distributions and now Token Tap at unitap.app
• New video tutorials created for Getting Started with BrightID and using Social Recovery
• App client release v4.32
• Protecting CLR.fund’s latest round from Sybils
• Revamped Discord onboarding for new users *Major progress for the Aura evaluation tool releasing soon

There are more details in our monthly update posts at brightid.mirror.xyz

Some amazing projects are already integrating with BrightID. Check them out at apps.brightid.org Will your project be next?

🔆 What is BrightID? BrightID is building an identity lego that allows users to prove to applications that they only exist once in any given system.

What if you could always prove you were a real unique user? It’s easy in the real world to ensure you’re dealing with a unique or a specific person, but imagine how many systems could be improved or made possible if every user or account could prove they only exist once as we transition to the digital era?

• Digital voting and governance - including quadratic voting, liquid democracy, and signaling
• Truly universal income or airdrop distributions payable to literally everyone
• Public-goods funding allocation - trust minimized and collusion resistant thanks to MACI
• Social media without millions of bots polluting the discourse
• Credit systems for under-collateralized DeFi
• And so much more...

🔆 How does it work? BrightID is creating a giant pseudonymous social graph of people all around the world. Users can make private, cryptographically secure connections to people they know, using a smartphone app. This pseudonymous connection data is shared among a decentralized group of computer nodes that store and analyze the public social graph. The nodes of the network determine and verify the likely uniqueness of each account, based on its interconnectivity with other accounts. The user can then use their BrightID verification to prove to any integrated system that they have one and only one account. The potential integrations are endless.

🔆 Where will my contributions go? BrightID Main DAO is a LAO (a DAO with a legal wrapper) that stewards centralized pieces until they can be decentralized, such as the app registry, website, and app store entries. It also has stewardship over grant and sponsorship income, and functions as a non-profit. It has been committed to BrightID’s core mission and funded the core team since its inception in Feb 2020. 100% of contributed funds will go to BMAIN DAO.

🔆 Bright DAO! Bright DAO pulls in many contributors from the community to grow BrightID at a faster pace. Using the gardens DAO format pioneered by 1Hive, contributors can create their own proposals and receive their own funding in $BRIGHT community governance tokens.

Come help us build a brighter world.