Open Labels Initiative (OLI)
Standardizing EVM Address Labeling for Enhanced Blockchain Transparency

Website: Open Labels Initiative
Founded by: growthepie & walletlabels.

About Open Labels Initiative 📚

The Open Labels Initiative (OLI) is a community-driven project aimed at addressing the fragmentation and non-standardization of blockchain labels across the Ethereum ecosystem. OLI introduces an open, community-owned data model for consistent and scalable smart contract labeling, enabling better interoperability between data teams and projects.

By creating a unified labeling framework, OLI ensures that blockchain addresses — whether smart contracts or externally owned accounts (EOAs) — are uniformly tagged, providing deeper insights into blockchain activity and reducing duplicate efforts across data teams.

OLI Framework 🔧

The OLI framework provides a flexible, community-managed structure that works by assigning unique tag_ids to given addresses. These tag_ids can represent anything from simple True/False values to specific sets of values, which can be further defined in the OLI GitHub repository. This makes the framework easily adoptable by any data team, streamlining labeling efforts across the blockchain data ecosystem.

Each label includes:

• Address: The unique hexadecimal address of the smart contract or EOA.
• Chain ID: The unique identifier of the blockchain where the address is deployed (e.g., for Ethereum = 1).
• Tag ID: A pre-defined identifier that specifies the type of value associated with it (e.g., is_eoa).
• Value: The specific data or context relevant to the assigned tag ID (True/False).

Current Features 💻

• Collaborative Dataset Sharing: OLI enables teams to share their labeling datasets easily. Each dataset follows the OLI framework, ensuring interoperability between data sources.
• Open Source Tools: Teams are encouraged to use the OLI-compliant data model for address labeling. Tools like growthepie's Smart Contract Explorer and walletlabels' EOA Labeling Platform showcase OLI in action.
• Tagging with Community Input: Anyone can contribute new tag_ids or refine existing ones, helping the ecosystem stay updated with new developments.

Roadmap 📅

• Permissionless Data Entry: We are building a custom resolver contract using the Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS) to allow anyone to attest smart contract labels onchain, creating a registry of labels on each chain. This approach aims to crowdsource labels and enable deployers to directly attest their labels with onchain proof, allowing all data teams across the ecosystem to seamlessly and neutrally sync the labels.
• Council Formation: Establishing a neutral council to manage the addition of new tags and revisions to the framework.
• Community Labeling Rewards: We plan to incentivize community members by offering monetary rewards based on the reliability and quantity of their contributed labels. Contributors will receive scores based on the accuracy and volume of their labels, encouraging quality and active participation.

Sponsors & Supporters 🎉

Ethereum Foundation: Funded through the Ethereum Data Collection Grants, ensuring the OLI initiative aligns with the community's need for standardized data.

Supporters:

• OP Labs
• Paradigm
• Dune
• Blockscout
• Artemis
• Guild.xyz
  …and more.

Join us
Engage in community discussions, contribute to the framework, or attend our upcoming calls. The Open Labels Initiative is paving the way for transparent and standardized blockchain data