Atala PRISM DID Mass-Scale Adoption

Atala PRISM DID is a gateway to the Cardano blockchain and ecosystem. Building technology and marketecture that on-boards users is crucial.

Many high quality ideas will be proposed that can substantially grow Cardano's user-base, network-utility, network-value & ADA circulation.

The number of proposals that directly address DID use cases in a quantifiable manner.

The quality of proposals measured by community interest and engagement.

Results of any Fund7 funded projects significantly impacting mass-scale adoption of DID's and their utility on the Cardano blockchain.

Propose a means or way to drive mass-scale adoption of DID usage as an easy-to-use onramp to the Cardano ecosystem (preferably Atala PRISM when released). This can include any method that will offer users or entities a decentralized ID to start defining their digital self-sovereignty. Think about how this is implemented at scale drawing millions of users, who, once onboard, can become customers for dApps, tools, DeFi and other services.

We are a community of thought leaders and it is time to demonstrate our thoughts with actions. Using a Decentralized Identification (DID) technology to establish self-sovereign presence and ownership of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) advances decentralization of institutions; benefiting individuals and entities.

This Challenge is about small ways we can incorporate DIDs into the Cardano ecosystem to start the ground swell at the grassroots that demands PII be secured and controlled with DID technologies and standards.

It is about signaling to the world that the Cardano community plans mass-adoption of DID that is interchangeable, interoperable (by W3C DID standards) and we care deeply that the origin of our personal DID is tied to our home blockchain—Cardano.

While we prefer to support Atala PRISM's instantiation of DID, this is more about building ideas and concepts that require DID to draw users to the Cardano platform. And since Atala PRISM is building to the open standards, those are available for anyone to imagine possibilities and offer proposals.

Proposers will have the opportunity to join the upcoming Atala PRISM pioneer program where they can learn about the Atala PRISM SDKs and get access to documentation. Get a head start on building identity solutions or integrating identity into your Cardano dApps via a highly interactive training and certification program.

Challenge amounts should only be proposed in increments of $25K. Other amounts not in these increments will be rounded up. E.g. $27,500 will be rounded up to $50,000.