Result - Funded ✅

Ideascale proposal - https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/PACE-Community-credentials/367221-48088

Problem statement

There is a lack of tools/examples for community projects to easily integrate Atala Prism which reduces the speed of adoption

Solution

Create tools for community projects to issue participation and completion credentials that will help drive Atala Prism adoption

Overview

Self sovereign identity will become an important part of the growing amount of decentralized applications being developed on Cardano. For the Project Catalyst community, the use of an identity solution can help with allowing community members to build up a reputation and trust in a way that can be self owned and verified. Atala Prism will offer the building blocks to start creating a digital identity, where people will have ownership of that identity and can verify it to other people and protocols.

The purpose of this proposal is to develop tools and provide examples for some of the foundational blocks of Atala Prisms initial implementation of self sovereign identity (SSI). This includes both decentralized identifiers (DID's) and verifiable credentials (VC's). The proposal will help projects establish themselves as issuers and provide credentials to community members based on a certain condition. The initial verifiable credentials for this proposal will focus on verifying participation and completion within community projects.

This work can be expanded on in future proposals, where we can also look at how trust and reputation networks could be introduced using things such as ADA as trust collateral or endorsements from trusted people for helping with reputation.

This initial proposal addresses the challenge as it aims to provide a simple way for the community to start using the identity solution using Atala Prism. This allows the community to build up their knowledge on its importance and also helps provide open source examples for other developers looking to integrate Atala Prism. Increasing awareness and usage of Atala Prism identity in the community along with helping speed up developers integration of the identity solution by providing examples should help with driving faster adoption of Atala Prism.