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👋 Hey Silk fam
Calling all Web3 Hacktivists! We announced the Silk ETH Denver Hacker House, co-hosted with Ceramic, with incredible sponsors such as Next.ID, Private AI, CoopHive, Akash Network, and others.
We are flying our residents from all over the world, decking them with the Silkiest swag and helping them build new applications to qualify for cash prizes and bounties ranging from $500 to $2000. Builders will be back around themes such as:
Zero-Knowledge Identity
Data Management
Data Computation
Automated Governance
The Combined Arsenal - Zero-knowledge identity with Holonym, User Experience with Silk, Decentralized computing with Bacalhau Project, Secure Data Storage with Ceramic network and Ethereum Attestation Service.
We’ll also be hosting talks from:
Feeling excited? Join us! RSVP now
✦ Product Updates
We crossed 60,000 ZK SBTs minted on Holonym. It’s been an awesome ride, and we couldn’t have done it without you.
Check out our new v3 ZK SBT art, in the future we imagine all digital credentials will replace our
Holonym V3 is launching soon. In V3, the encryption key is private and derived internally within the Silk Wallet and is not derived via signatures.
The team recently launched an iteration of the new website; your feedback is welcome.
✦ Other Updates
Join our Co-founder Nanak Nihal on February 27th as he will be "Addressing Technical and Practical Barriers to Adoption of ZK Identity" - a key discussion on overcoming ZK adoption challenges.
Our Co-founder Nanak Nihal is also doing another ZK talk at the Silk Hacker House on Feb 28th 5-6 pm and again at the Delendum Hacker House at 3 pm on Feb 29th.
Metopia announced its new credential for all Holonym users, and it is open to all users who have minted Holonym Government ID NFT. This allows Holonym users build their onchain, upgradable credentials through a non-transferable star badge.
Silk is also now on Farcaster; you can give us a follow to stay updated for future news.
✦ Strategic Partnerships - Highlights
Holonym Foundation has partnered with Near Protocol, marking a significant integration of its smart contract with nada.bot, a smart contract on NEAR focused on sybil resistance. This partnership allows users in the NEAR ecosystem to receive their SBTs (Soulbound Tokens) on NEAR. We published a detailed explainer here.
Check out our new partnership with WaterDAO Forum to enhance user onboarding experience and increase security.
✦ Resources
Read about Airdrop Methods and Holonym ZK SBTs, and explore humanitarian airdrops to undeveloped regions using Holonymn ID to verify ownership.
Read our publication on How to Build an Attestation-Gated Web3 Forum with Holonym Orbis and Ceramic (using ComposeDB)
Read our guide on Sybil Resistant Airdrops. We go through the evolution of the web3 data landscape, from the ability to analyze better and index data for identifying Sybils to designing more nuanced airdrop mechanisms.
For more resources and detailed guides, check out our Medium Blog.
✦ About Silk
Silk is a fully embeddable wallet solution with trustless wallet recovery powered by ZK and MPC architecture for added security. Put simply, it is the simple UX wallet that's so easy your grandma can use.
Holonym is hiring
Feel free to email your resume to hello@holonym.id
Join us today on our Discord Community and get involved with other community members!
That's a wrap for this week. Remember to stay smooth and silky!
