Results of Worldcoin's inaugural funding program Wave0 announced: Identity cross-chain aggregation platform, decentralized Orb in production

Worldcoin announced the 28 projects selected for the Wave0 program, including themes such as decentralized Orb production, cross-chain identity aggregation platform, browser dedicated to Merkle trees, Web3 debate-driven governance platform, etc., with the hope of advancing the development of Worldcoin and decentralized governance.

Wave0 Funding Program

Wave0 is an entrepreneurial grant program launched by Worldcoin, aiming to assist projects dedicated to decentralized identity, governance, and Worldcoin-related applications by providing WLD tokens as funding incentives to help project teams realize their visions.

Yesterday, Worldcoin announced the results of the first round of Wave0 selected teams, covering themes such as decentralized governance platforms, privacy data transmission and storage, and universal protection programs.

Highlighted Award-Winning Projects in Advancing Worldcoin

Votexx: Alterable Voting Platform

Votexx aims to provide a more user-demand-oriented voting mechanism for the blockchain ecosystem through a design that ensures privacy and security, led by cryptographer Mario Yaksetig.

Votexx is an anti-coercion voting solution that allows users to cancel or alter their voting actions, ensuring that any user can complete the voting based on their own will. It utilizes WorldID for private online voting.

Zanzibar: Privacy Data Storage Protocol

Zanzibar enhances data storage privacy through an encryption mechanism that ensures servers can store data without knowing its content, aiming to permanently encrypt data lists.

Additionally, Zanzibar's encryption design enables efficient privacy query functionality, allowing data users to confirm the existence of specific data in the database while maintaining privacy, reducing the likelihood of cracking encrypted hash rainbow table attacks.

NEBRA: Composable Protocol for Cross-Chain Services

NEBRA is building the first proof aggregation protocol on Ethereum, aggregating various applications' zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) using Worldcoin's general proof aggregation framework to achieve high integration of different products and enhance service composability.

In the future, NEBRA will collaborate with the Worldcoin contribution team to establish a new Layer2 network on top of the existing protocol layer to further reduce ZKP verification fuel costs.

Ribbon Protocol: Health Protection Service Based on World ID

Ribbon Protocol is developing an innovative model that combines universal basic income and universal health protection based on World ID.

Ribbon Protocol creates a real use case for universal basic income for Worldcoin users through a health index, behavior, and loyalty model based on universal health, ensuring the linkage of user health and socio-economic data.

Since its establishment in 2017, Ribbon Protocol has gained support from reputable institutions such as Consensys, Blockchain 4 Humanity, and the South African Department of Health.

xx Network: Privacy Transmission

The project will utilize Worldcoin WalletKit in conjunction with xx Network's xxDK to create untraceable message transmission using mixnet technology called cMixx through a chain of mixed proxy servers, ensuring user communication privacy.

xx Network aims to mitigate the risk of communication data leakage between users and other services through network-level anonymous methods.

Rarimo: Decentralized Identity Cross-Chain Bridge

Rarimo is an identity aggregation platform that allows World ID to be used on any EVM chain. Rarimo enables cross-chain identity state transmission and verification by network validators using BFT consensus, securely crossing identities like cryptographic assets.

Through integration with Worldcoin, Rarimo can transfer identity state Merkle root from the Ethereum mainnet to other multi-chain networks.

Wonderland: On-Chain Reputation System

The World ID governance mechanism aims to provide an identity verification system to prevent sybil attacks, allowing only addresses verified by Orb to participate in DAO. However, privacy concerns about irises have been a significant market consideration.

Wonderland incorporates reputation into the governance module through the "Reputation ID" mechanism, strengthening anti-sybil measures as an identity determination option beyond iris scanning.

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TheVoice: Governance Platform

TheVoice is a modular governance platform that offers various voting mechanisms, including majority voting, quadratic voting, and convicting voting, allowing projects and communities to select the most appropriate voting method according to their needs.

Wallfacer: Bonus Allocation Tool

While online bonus distribution is a good way to kickstart new projects, the process is often cumbersome and susceptible to bot and spam interference.

POPGDP is a service to assist the Worldcoin Foundation in distributing bonuses. The project aims to establish a grant governance forum integrated with World ID to make the bonus allocation voting and review process transparent, democratic, and resistant to manipulation, enhancing participation quality while combating sybil voting.

Clade Club: Debate-Oriented Governance Platform

The biggest issue in Web3 governance is the concentration of wealth. Existing governance mechanisms often determine voting rights based on the amount of tokens owned by users, ultimately centralizing power in the hands of a few.

Clade Club's platform creates a dynamic, user-centric environment through live interactive debates, rather than financial incentives. Participants can vote in favor or against each other's contributions, promoting wise decision-making.

The team believes this approach truly achieves decentralized governance, ensuring community wisdom guides decision-making rather than relying on the ideas of a few wealthy individuals.

Merkle Tree Explorer: Hash Tree Visualization Browser

The team is building a browser specifically for Merkle trees to visualize them.

Merkle Tree Explorer can visualize all World ID public keys and their related structures, enabling more users to verify the validity of World ID in an understandable manner, enhancing transparency, verifiability, and flexibility to promote decentralization.

RewardMe: Tokenizing Consumer Data Service Based on World ID

RewardMe is a mobile app that offers users an easy way to accumulate rewards by tracking their spending habits at different merchants. RewardMe seamlessly integrates with users' existing emails to automate reward accumulation.

RewardMe rewards users with cryptocurrency, tokenizing their daily expenditure data to drive the data tokenization market and pave the way for AI data markets.

However, achieving this requires a robust identity verification system. While many fraud detection measures such as KYC are necessary, they have impacted user experience. Hence, RewardMe opts for World ID integration services to reduce user verification costs.

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IDMaster: Decentralized Orb Production

The IDMaster team offers a solution to make assembling and manufacturing Orb devices for verifying World ID more accessible.

Worldcoin is open-sourcing the iris scanning device Orb, aiming to reduce privacy concerns in the market.

IDMaster's goal is to make Orb easily manufacturable worldwide in a trustless manner.