Our team, funded by EF PSE (https://pse.dev), is building open-source software, designs, and educational material to enable private POAPs built on ZK technology and NFC cards from ARX (https://arx.org). This work is based on an initial deployment at Zuzalu, where residents could add digital "stamps" from different events to their Zupass. A description of that experience is linked above.
We want more communities, events, and artists to use this technology, because it provides a private way to memorialize and digitize in-person interactions without needing a wallet or spending gas!
However, it costs ~$8 to purchase an NFC card, which quickly becomes expensive at any large scale. We want to create an open pool of funds to buy cards for any folks who want to try using this technology on their own!
Initially, we are thinking people will submit a project proposal and a requested number of cards, and if our team thinks the project is interesting and will be executed well, we will send the necessary money from the pool (nfcstamp.eth) to the grantee. Eventually, if the pool grows large enough, we would hope to decentralize this process and allow more community say into who can access the pool.
All money that this Gitcoin grant receives will be redistributed to other folks!
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