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A vouch is like a recommendation, both contextual and specific to each user, for new and exisiting members.\n\nThe vouching system was used repeatedly by the Blockravers and later added to the Vibes map in Istanbul, showing how a web of trust can be built from vouching, and a framework for future coordi-nations. Vouches are orthogonal but complimentary to the private zk based Zupass. A user-to-user vouch, violates anonymity provided by Semaphore based zk proofs.\n\nWe see Vouching as something that is very interesting to the Zuzalu community, and hope to touch more usecases for the visitors of future events.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project meets the round-specific eligibility criteria. ", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Close to one hundred wallets were used for vouching throughout Zuzalu events, at a dozen side events. Spin off apps were created and integrated vouch during Zuconnect.\n\nWe hope to add better hooks and allow for other projects to easily integrate our web of trust, and to vouch with custom text to make vouches contextual to each user.\n\nImpact will be measured by number of satellite events  and side events that incorporate a web of trust, number of vouches and connections made, and level of interconnectedness within the Zuzalu community.", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you measure the impact of your project? Please provide examples and/or standard metrics. ", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "0", "hidden": false, "question": "Total Prior Funding for the project in USD", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "None of the above", "hidden": false, "question": "Which of the following funding sources do you have? Check all that apply", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "9 months. ", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project? (New projects welcome!)", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "N/A", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with the project (N/A for solo founders): ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "link", "hidden": false, "question": "If you have any inchain attestations/impact certificates, please share them share(drop the link)", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations?", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "\nIn my opinion, critical, and important for a few key ideas. One is that it is onchain and impermanent. The second being the Web of Trust that comes from friends of friends, and second degree connections, which is unfeasible or violates unlinkabilty using semaphore.\n\nThere are many times you dont need to reveal, for which Zupass is perfect for privacy. The issue arrises when new people join our community, and it simply not enough to say, anon in our group referred them, or claims they have certain skills. A vouch is needed. \n\nDo you trust each of the 1000\u00b1 addresses on the Zuzalu merkle tree? Would 10% of the wallets signalling in zero knowledge sway your decision? What about 20%? 51%\n\nOr is it more important who? \n\nWe can agree that knowing that Manu vouched Danny has \"good vibes\" or that ZackXBT vouches for my solidity, is both contextual and adds more value than inclusion proofs for an anonymised group. More so as we scale the community.\n\nThat said, vouching is both orthogonal and complimentary to Zupass. There possible usecases that call for vouching for encrypted proofs and published onchain, or that the vouch is offchain and encrypted, but left out of this scope. The 153 Bolivar experiments proved useful for self issuing an passport, something that is not trivial with Zupass, so will look forward to exploring how the two systems can integrate.", "hidden": false, "question": "How is this valuable to the Zuzalu community?", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Zuzalu Montenegro", "hidden": false, "question": "Which Zuzalu events have you attended for at least a week? )", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are a small team of 3 self funded researchers who love to build and onboard new people to Ethereum. We used the vouching system that was originally conceived at Zuzalu to compete in various Hackathons last year, including HackZuzalu, submitting Vibez, a Web of Trust based geo location app, and eventually winning at EthIstabul for Pixel, a vouch for NFTs to help people trade with NFTs that they trust.\n\nWe believe identity and trust is built from the bottom up, starting with people you know, and come to trust, expanding outwards. Not top down, determined by committee or issuing authority. \n\nVouch continues to add value to our projects, and our hopes is that others will benefit too. Our plan depending on runway, would be add the past year of learnings to the contracts, add better hooks for interrations, to productionise and optimise the vouch contracts, and rerelease it to the Zuzalu community.\n\nOur hope is that vouching can be used to abstract away some of the trust based decisions to the community, be more inclusive, make richer connections, and hopefully create more magical moments at Zuzalu. ", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe the progress of your project? (note: new projects are also welcome)", "questionId": 14}], "project": {"id": "10:0x8e1bD5Da87C14dd8e08F7ecc2aBf9D1d558ea174:1760", "title": "Vouch", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreih2dtd3aagrfmdjwxc4a7hkqcttwyzbbb6drxfg3fzffnjhjv3dmy", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://github.com/cypher-eth/vouch/", "createdAt": 1706359856506, "userGithub": "cypher-eth", "credentials": {}, "description": "A way for anyone to vouch for another. It is the base primitive for all Web of Trust models and simple enough for anyone to register a name/identity, and build trust through vouches. Trust is earned bottom up, not issued top down, by any authority or black box verifier. ", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "Bawamba"}, "recipient": "0x4662Fd10ea76D77389EC806687157035dE0862B8"}}