Siloes are a web2 bug, not a web3 feature. But with a whole universe of chains and competing standards out there, siloes are a reality to face.

Throughout 2023, reputation-generating activity like DAO voting, social interactions and NFT transactions was split in big chunks across dozens of EVM and non-EVM L1s and L2s - Solana, ImmutableX and Tezos made up for more NFT activity than Ethereum when combined. Ethereum Mainnet handled less than half of DAO activity, and over 25% of DAO votes took place on NEAR.

The omnichain world is more siloed than it would first seem. So where does that leave our onchain identity? Without a master ID that can carry reputation between incompatible standards, we're not in a much better situation than web2. For the composable, interoperable dream of web3 to come true, we need infrastructure that makes identity and reputation portable. And the answer isn't that we should all build with the same tools and chains.

The mission

Intergalactic.id is building a trustless network for identity and reputation interoperability. In concrete terms, intergalatic.id is a network to secure a protocol where users can create identity containers with cryptographically-proven attestations towards every one of their addresses from every chain, collected into one master identity.

Using Ark Protocol as a basis, we will stick to our open source roots to make it possible for any new chain or network to add support for their standard. Intergalactic.id is built on MEM so natively supports identity linking from every EVM chain and 14 non-EVM chains including Solana, ICP and Polkadot.

Beyond linking wallet addresses into a master identity, intergalactic.id will be able to provide reputation scoring based on any number of factors: transaction count, wallet age, DAO activity, token volume. With MEM, intetergalactic.id can pull data from any web2 or web3 source, opening it up to draw from statistics and activity records from any protocol.

In short: omnichain identity, portable reputation, integrated with anything.

The story so far

In 2022, Decent Land Labs built and launched a centralized MVP for cross-chain identity linking protocol called Ark Protocol. Alongside the protocol, a limited run of Ark NFTs was also made available to mint.

Using Ark's open source codebase, an interoperability library called Molecule, and Kwil's tooling to turn a database into a decentralized BFT network, the developers of intergalactic.id will reboot Ark as a DAO-operated network and hand control to existing Ark Protocol users and Ark NFT holders.

How we'll integrate

Intergalactic.id will provide simple tooling to enable users to create omnichain identities by linking together existing wallets, and for protocol developers to tap into the full data history of users for use cases like reputation scoring, airdrop eligibility, social, wallet address resolution, and more.

As a wallet address resolver

With .passport domains, wallets on any supported chain will be able to resolve crypto addresses from human-readable usernames. This is especially useful for multichain wallets, and can provide a unified identity to send tokens to.

As a social reputation layer

The beauty of open ledgers is that reputation-generating activity like DAO participation, NFT ownership and transaction volume is accessible and provable by any protocol, just by referencing an address. With intergalactic.id unifying multiple addresses, this data becomes exponentially more powerful. Now, chains that are new or built on non-EVM standards where noone has deep history, can access proven reputation credentials from a user's activity elsewhere.

As criteria for airdrops, permissions or priviledges

How do projects with assets and protocols on different chains ascertain who their users are and who owns what? There's not a single standard, elegant way to prove that 0x123 == aaron.near so that a project can port that reputation and eligibility over. One example is that projects on Aurora (EVM) use AstroDAO on NEAR for governance, but the assets on Aurora cannot be directly attested to without a protocol in between to route that attestation. That's where intergalactic.id comes in.

The network architecture with Kwil

The Intergalactic Network will be secured by a token issued on Solana across a network of Kwil-powered nodes.

Kwil offers a powerful toolkit to jumpstart a custom network with easy toolsets for developers to turn databases into secure networks. With its ease-of-use and flexibility, Kwil fits our vision for what Intergalactic Network will grow to become: a trustless network for verifying and attesting identities based on a user’s onchain activity.

For our purposes, Kwil is a framework for building blockchains. It leverages often-used principles and rules in the blockchain world to allow developers to easily scaffold custom networks. The nodes are run by users (like you) who help secure the network. The network is Byzantine fault-tolerant, meaning the network requires more than two thirds of nodes to be active and in agreement at all times. Smart contracts (SQL databases in this case) are built using Kwil’s native solution called Kuneiform.

The roadmap (Q1-Q2 2024)

1. Infrastructure for chain-agnostic web3 passports

2. DAO fair launch to Ark Protocol users and stakeholders

3. Decentralised network on Kwil to secure the intergalactic.id protocol

4. .passport identities available to mint

5. Web2 -> web3 identity linking to bring metadata and reputation from platforms like Google and GitHub

6. Custom master identity TLDs, voted for by the DAO

Register to be a validator

We’re currently working on building the open testnet for intergalactic.id, and hope soon to launch a way to run a node and participate in the network. We envision it being possible to run an Intergalactic Network node on any hardware, even a Raspberry Pi.

Register to be an early adopter here:

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