@subhashkarri.near [Posted on DevHub](/devgovgigs.near/widget/Post?id=1971) ## Solution: NEAR+Reclaim Hackathon proposal ###### Requested amount: 42000 USDC ###### Requested sponsor: @neardevgov.near - **Event - Identity & Reputation on NEAR BOS hackathon** This hackathon is all about building groundbreaking applications that contribute to the user growth and TVL of NEAR. We are proposing an online hackathon starting 7th November, 2023 for developers to build identity and reputation related Dapps on NEAR BOS. The aim is to discover 5 promising projects and help them grow beyond the hackathon, thus contributing significantly to NEAR. It’s a month long hackathon and these new age identity and reputation Dapps will be built leveraging Reclaim Protocol on NEAR BOS. Note: *This hackathon is in conjunction with another proposal to integrate Reclaim protocol with NEAR. We thank Illia Polosukhin, Cameron Dennis and Zahid Islam for providing valuable inputs in drafting these proposals.* - **Reclaim Protocol - Bringing Web2 Identity to Web3** Reclaim Protocol makes https traffic verifiable using Zero-Knowledge Proofs, enabling users to generate verifiable credentials from any of their online user profiles. This unlocks unlimited possibilities as no APIs are required to extract the data or no changes to be made to the websites, while guaranteeing data integrity. Web2 user data which was elusive to Web3 till now will be available across dapps on NEAR BOS. This opens up opportunities for a new wave of applications in privacy, sybil resistance, proof of personhood, KYC and many more. - **Technical Overview** Reclaim empowers users to generate Zero-Knowledge Proofs for any online user profile. To generate a claim, users first need to log into the relevant website. This login process, involving an HTTPS request and its subsequent response, is channeled through an HTTPS Proxy Server known as an 'attestor'. This attestor oversees the encrypted data exchange between the user and the website. Subsequently, users provide keys that disclose non-sensitive parts of the request to the attestor. With this, the attestor can view the request in its entirety, barring confidential details like authentication data, and can confirm its legitimacy. The website's encrypted response is then processed by a zk-circuit, which identifies a regex match within the encrypted data using a decryption key as a confidential input. The attestor further validates that the zk-circuit's public input was indeed the encrypted data sourced from the website. With these attestations on both the request and the encrypted response, coupled with the zk-proof, any third-party application, whether on-chain or off-chain, can verify the existence of data that exists on the user’s profile. [Reclaim Proof Creation](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UELwEwh7e7NTTnVB89ePZmlwu7erDrgA/) [Reclaim ZKP Circom Circuit](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zEK5v6VKk0O007bLJIqZ5WxWRBJkORwX/) User credentials in Reclaim Protocol are generated and stored completely on the client side. **Using Reclaim, users can generate Proofs(Groth16) in less than 10 secs even on a 2015 Android Device!** - **Hackathon Organizer** The team from Reclaim Protocol will organize this hackathon. Reclaim Protocol is built by the team at CreatorOS Inc. We are a 35+ member engineering and web3 product development & research team including ZKP researchers and with previous affiliations to Stanford, Microsoft, Meta and Google . We have also built - [Questbook.app](http://Questbook.app), an industry leading on-chain grants management tool that is used by some of the major L1/L2s including Polygon, Solana, Compound, Arbitrum, Ton, among others. CreatorOS is also a YC W21 company. **Hackathon Experience:** - Organized a [Reclaim Hackathon](https://x.com/madhavanmalolan/status/1672998248330534915?s=20) with ~50 ‘ACM ICPC World finalists’ attending it in May’23 - Organized 3 hackathons on behalf of Compound Grants Program (CGP 2.0) with a combined submissions of more than 350 applications - Questbook has access to about 40K developers accessing the grants platform and this can be leveraged to get better outreach for this hackathon **Core Team:** - Madhavan Malolan : CEO - Building in crypto since 2016. - Among first 5 contributors to Plasma (ethereum scaling solution) specifications. - Open source contributor. - ex-Microsoft, Computer Science IIIT-H. - [LinkedIn.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/madhavanmalolan/) [Github](https://github.com/madhavanmalolan) - Abhilash Inumella : Co-founder, Leads Product - Building in Crypto since 2019. - ex-CEO of Samosa Labs (10M users, funded by Sequoia, Xiaomi). - Ex-Google, Ex-Facebook, Computer Science IIIT-H. - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhilash-inumella-89a92421/). - Divyanshu Dagar, Leads BD and Hackathons - Previously head of initiatives at Devfolio, one of the largest hackathon companies - Max Allman, Mechanism Design Researcher - PhD from Stanford in Mechanism Design and Game Theory - Co- author of the [Reclaim Whitepaper](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wmfdtIGPaN9uJBI1DHqN903tP9c_aTG2/view) - [Kirill Kutsenok](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirill-kutsenok/), Cryptography & Security Researcher - [Adhiraj](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adiwajshing/) Singh: Lead Developer - [Sweta](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sweta-shaw/) Shaw: Developer Relations - Aleksai Ermishkin: Lead Blockchain Developer - **Targeted areas** Developers can chose to build on their own ideas with the only caveat that these applications should be built on NEAR BOS and use Reclaim Protocol to import user web2 data into their applications. These applications should aim to solve problems related to identity, verifications, and reputation in both web3 and web2. To trigger the imagination of the developers, we have already identified some potentially impactful usecases/ideas here: https://blog.reclaimprotocol.org/posts/usecases/. [NEAR Tasks](https://neartasks.ai/) is another project where we encourage developers to explore and build features that can contribute to the success of the project. - **Impact to NEAR (including KPIs)** Our targeted KPIs of this hackathon would include: - Reach out to ~500 devs and curate ~50 hackathon participants to target 15 submissions . - Identify and fund 5 promising projects that meet the hackathon objective and that will add significant value to the NEAR ecosystem. The goal of this hackathon is to achieve the following in the long run: 1. **Enhanced Interoperability**: - By allowing Dapps on NEAR to access data from Web2 platforms, we can significantly expand the range of applications and use cases that can be developed in NEAR ecosystem, especially those focussed around KYC, sybil resistance, proof of personhood, thus driving significant ecosystem growth. 1. **User-Centric Data Access:** - Reclaim’s commitment to self-sovereignty and user consent in data access aligns with the decentralized and user-centric principles of the NEAR ecosystem. This ensures that Dapps built on NEAR utilizing Reclaim Protocol are adhering to robust data privacy and user consent norms. 2. **Enabling New Use-Cases:** - By facilitating access to off-chain user data, Reclaim Protocol can enable the development of [new, innovative use-cases](https://blog.reclaimprotocol.org/posts/usecases/) on NEAR, such as Skill IDs, P2P onramp/offramp, Gossip marketplaces, or social Dapps that utilize user data from Web2 platforms. 3. **Enhanced Developer Mindshare:** - By facilitating new and unique use cases that leverage off-chain data, Reclaim protocol will attract a broader developer community to NEAR enriching its ecosystem and increasing its competitive edge - **Evaluation Criteria** There will be a panel of six judges to evaluate the hackathon projects and the panel would be a mix of leaders from NEAR ecosystem, Reclaim Protocol and external web3 product leaders in Identity and reputation space. The panel would evaluate the projects with the following criteria: 1. Impact on NEAR Ecosystem 2. Innovation 3. Technical skills of the team 4. Adherence to the theme 5. Clarity of presentation - **Funding Request Overview** The online hackathon will be scheduled between 7-Nov and 6-Dec. The total fund request for this hackathon is US $42,000 **************Awards:************** 5 projects get $7000 funding in NEAR tokens = $35,000 ********************Operations******************** Marketing = $2000 Reclaim Program Management Remuneration = $5,000 - **Relevant Links** Website - https://www.reclaimprotocol.org/ Whitepaper - https://link.reclaimprotocol.org/whitepaper-draft Blog - https://blog.reclaimprotocol.org/ SDKs: https://docs.reclaimprotocol.org/install