Early on with DAOs I saw how much identity and reputation primitives can unlock. They are what trust rests on, and without them a blockchain stays a purely financial system rather than a social one.
ID-DAO
In 2019 I led the team at dOrg that built ID-DAO, a collaboration between GoodDollar, the universal basic income protocol, and DAOstack: a registry of verified humans, curated by stakers who vote on each application, that any app can read to check its users. We built it two years before Proof of Humanity, which ran on a similar model and took it much further.
GitHub
Reputation
In 2021 I coauthored the entry on reputation for Internet Policy Review's glossary of decentralized technologies: how decentralized systems have tried to carry reputation between services, and what the next generation of them can offer.
Internet Policy ReviewdOrg Passport
Membership in a DAO is usually just a token balance, which means it can be bought, sold or borrowed. I helped design dOrg Passport around the opposite premise: the passport is an NFT that only the DAO can issue or move, and a member's reputation and badges are non-transferable tokens that follow the passport wherever the DAO sends it. Voting power and earned standing stay attached to a member instead of to a wallet.
The sybil slashing engine
Gitcoin's grants are only fair if each passport is one person, and no method can prove that negative. At the Mechanism Institute we built a slashing engine for Gitcoin that makes lying expensive instead: anyone can stake GTC to become a guardian who can flag an account as a sybil, and a flagged account is slashed only once the stake committed against it passes a threshold high enough that no single guardian can act alone.
