This winter in 2022 is the season for football fans. As the World Cup 2022 commenced on 20th Nov, the boiling of fighting blood is palpable as fans arrive to cheer on their teams. Despite the gloomy winter of the crypto market, Web3 individuals are also basking in the world cup fever to celebrate this great competition. The many legendary collaborations between crypto and sports are exciting, and we are getting a buzz out of more native combinations of sports and Web3.
Navigate Our Everyday Life in Web3 with a Soulbound Journal
Suppose we want to navigate life in Web3, get proof of supporting our favorite sports teams, stake values to our communities, and control and maintain our identity-related data. It is essential to have a decentralized social identity.
Relation is building the Social Graph Protocol with a platformless Soul Bound Journal (SBJ) for Web3 natives to manage their evolving-over-time social identity related information among Semantic Soulbound Tokens (SBTs).
The SBJ is the maintained collection of SBTs that defines not only who we are and to whom we are connected, but also the narrative of our identities which is the internalized and evolving story of ourselves that we construct to make sense and meaning out of our life. The SBJ is fragmentary in various SBTs. It must be social because we are related to other people and communities. It is verifiable in a decentralized manner because the information captured by SBTs in one SBJ has a mirror or copy in other SBJs. And it is built with trust.
The SBTs are collected verifications of various memberships, social positions, and Web3 experiences. It forms people’s on-chain reputations, just as people can aggregate physical documents to build offline ones.
In this case, everyday Web3 users accessing and maintaining their social identities improves people’s experience in the on-chain world by creating immutable trust and verifiable data.
Communities become more solid with more value staked because users can trust each other when taking, voting and collaborating. People worry less that the people sitting over the screen are stolen identities.
Introducing Semantic SBTs
The Semantic SBTs are primitive building blocks of SBJ introduced by Relation. It builds on top of existing ERC721 standards using Semantic Triples, described by the graph data model -Resource Description Framework, to enrich the SBT’s social metadata. It captures the meaning of the SBT in RDF, the standard model for data interchange with a linking structure.
Semantic SBTs could help resolve trust issues in the emergent decentralized social structure by providing the means to verify reputation. It removes any data moat in Web3 as the social metadata are stored entirely on-chain with the token holders.
What’s more, by applying semantic web technologies, we create the foundation for publishing and linking data, integrating data from multiple sources and subsequently being able to query and retrieve information across these different sources, and make data reusable across applications and communities.
The maintenance of SBJ is integrating social data into a unified social graph and taking blockchain as a social metadata store. It ultimately enables analytics tools to produce practical, actionable business intelligence. It builds the foundation of future plural intelligence. The social graph provides more intelligent support for end users. Thus Dapps can give better support in finding info, selecting information sources, personalizing information, and combining data from different sources. It weakens the dominance and control of big names, makes the web more personalized, and makes information easier to reach.
Building the Sports Souls with Semantic SBTs
Sports are part of our daily life and bring some much-needed joy to the world. The world’s most prestigious association football tournament, the World Cup, is bringing excitement to hundreds of millions now. Watching sports is stimulating and brings us joyfulness, health, and well-being.
With the Semantic Soulbound Tokens, we can now record our life moments and Web3 footprints in tokens.
During this ongoing World Cup season, sports fans in Web3 can have their support to their favorite team recorded on-chain by minting a Team Fans SBT and join the guessing party by minting guessing SBTs for each match.
Furthermore, Relation and partners, EtherPOAP, .bit, PlatON, Permaswap, MetaOasis, and 4EVERLAND, are issuing the Membership SBTs as proof of verified memberships of these communities. Participants can get verified upon completion of a few simple tasks. These Semantic SBTs capture the meaning of ‘membership’ and store the social metadata on-chain.
The information will be available to anybody who makes queries in the unified social graph and would like to develop future use cases on top of the Membership SBTs. Many future use cases can be developed around the Membership SBTs. Like exclusive online community access for the membership SBT holders, for example, the NFT Club Space created by Relation ONE, the Web3 chat Dapp. They can be set as the eligibility conditions for future SoulDrop (smart token airdrop to souls) to these holders, for example, people who hold all seven Membership SBTs are eligible to claim some token airdrop in the future. And because the participants in the Web3 Football Carnival are all sports fans, any future sports-related campaigns or applications can directly market to those SBT holders.
Relation is building the decentralized social graph infrastructure as the cornerstone of future metaverses and on-chain reputations. This is a purely decentralized, open and permission-less protocol. Every corner of the blockchain identity ecosystem can participate in the co-building of social graph among Semantic SBTs and benefit from the unified social graph by having a web of trust, a personalized web and more intelligent and reachable information.