Result - Funded ✅

Problem

There is a lack of bottoms up community focussed credentials that help with both the adoption and education of Atala PRISM

Solution

Community project based learning exercises for a bottoms up approach to implementing, learning about and using verifiable credentials

Overview

In fund 6 a proposal for community credentials got funded to help create a bottoms up tools that help with Atala PRISM adoption and education. Atala PRISM is new technology with no current implementations or easy educational courses. It quickly became clear that this fund 6 funded proposal is well aligned to use project based learning. With a positive response from the community to get involved in the fund 6 funded proposal we believe there is value in continuing this approach of project based learning with more projects.

New community focussed Atala PRISM projects can introduce more collaborators to help increase the use cases, implementation examples and education resources available to the wider community.

Based off the experience we gain from our fund 6 funded proposal being executed now along with what ideas the contributors believe will add the most value here are some of the most promising focus areas that the community contributors will consider whilst they continue to implement a bottoms up approach to Atala PRISM adoption:

• Catalyst credentials - Explore producing credentials for tasks performed by different roles within Catalyst such as a credential that represents how many assessments a community advisor made for a given funding round.
• Enhance existing tools - Extend the tools made from the fund 6 proposal such as tooling to make batching credentials, issuing credentials or managing credentials as an issuer easier for community projects.
• Cloud wallet agent - An app & web extension based wallet is already being planned to be implemented by Atala PRISM pioneer members mentioned in our partnerships. Using this knowledge and open source implementation a cloud wallet agent could be explored as an alternative way for community projects to manage being an issuer so multiple project team members can issue credentials under the issuer identifier (DID).

The following ideas are less likely as focus areas though will be up for consideration: