Proof of Existence - Sybil Resistance

[GFXlabs]

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@Jeffthebaker

Please provide benchmark milestones for this project. These milestones should guide the Optimism community on the progress of your project throughout your work on the project. Do not use distribution of the grant itself as a milestone:

1. User signups: The gross number of users signed up for Proof of Existence on Optimism. This can easily be viewed as token holders of POE. Since each wallet holder is a unique user, it is additionally a reliable indicator as to the breadth of exposure into the broader Optimism community. We are targeting 10,000 POE signups on Optimism per the grant.
2. Third Party integrations: Meaningful, on-chain integrations of Proof of Existence across independent projects across instances like democratic governance, one-per-person NFT minting, and so on. We are targeting 10 third party integrations incentivized through the grant.

Thank you for providing clear numerical targets. To make this section even stronger, we recommend adding explicit dates or time periods (e.g. “within X weeks of grant receipt, there will be…”). Note that benchmark milestones are for the community to judge your progress only.

@Jeffthebaker

Please define critical milestones for this project. Critical milestones are meant to show good-faith efforts to accomplish the project. Non-completion of these milestones could lead to revocation of remaining grant rewards. Do not use distribution of the grant itself as a milestone:

• Deployment of Proof of Existence v2 and all associated parts (Biometric integration, smart contract deployment, frontend integration, OP claim contract deployment).
• Good faith marketing and evangelism efforts to spread Proof of Existence to end users.
  • This can be gauged by number of user sign ups.
• Good faith business development efforts for third parties to integrate POE.
  • This can be gauged by number of third party integrations.

We recommend greater specificity for critical milestones. While benchmark milestones are “soft” deliverables, critical milestones must be met in order to unlock funding as your grant plan progresses. For your own benefit, they should be very specific and unambiguous so that on X date, it is clear that milestones Y and Z have or have not been met.

Further guidance on milestones can be found here: Milestone Assessment

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