ZuSocial @Istanbul - Nov 14th Daily Roundup

1/ Intro to iExec

Guest: Yamine @Yamine

The challenge

In Marketing

• User consent is often lacking

• User privacy is compromised

• User data is monetized by unknown parties

In Web3 Communication

• Hard to reach users since they interact using wallets

• The wallet represents the user's identity, thus privacy is important

What iExec proposes to tackle the problem

iExec's developer tools incl. DataProtector and Web3Mail.

• DataProtector: Through DataProtector, users may allow apps to use their data without revealing the data itself, which is empowered by confidential computing.

• Web3Mail: Enables an entity to email on Ethereum account holder without knowing her email address.

Developer rewards program

Currently, iExec also has the Developer Rewards Program of up to $1m funding to inspire developers to discover the protocol. There are 2 grants tracks to choose from: The fast track, and the advanced track.

Relevant link

• iExec dev rewards program: https://iex.ec/grants/#:~:text=The%20Developer%20Rewards%20Program,available%20for%20more%20ambitious%20projects

• Official site: https://iex.ec/

2/ Brand lab: Everybody can create an image that early adopters will love

Guest: Ira @eirenadesigns

What is brand?

Brand is a common opinion about your proudct, service or company in minds of people who interact with it.

Branding also has different stacks and layers including:

1. Rational knowledge: related to product & category

2. Sensory memory: related to identity

3. Personal (moral) judgements: related to value & mission

The methodology of design research

Research the soil: Design research helps to articulate and form the brand strategy

1. Product-market fit

2. Customer personas: The "3 Whys" method

3. Competitor/ alternatives analysis

4. Landscape visual research

Relevant link:

• Positioning and personas for website architecture and brand strategy (Video)

• What's your design taboo? Or, a lost-treasure exercise to get your product noticed in a competitive market

Pick the right seeds: The right crossover between brand personality and visual anchors

The customer journey of meeting a new product/ project/ service is a reputation forming experience through brand visual identity, verbal identity & content strategy, user experience of onboarding, and customer experience. For the brand itself, it's a self-awareness process for personality building.

And visual design is the first thing exposed to customers/ audience, which needs the "North Star", i.e. Brand moodboard and visual tokens.

• North star: Brand moodboard

• Identifier: Logo

• Tokens: Typefaces, Colors, Shapes, Visual heart

Identity PoC: Concepts and designs also need to be tested through Identity PoC to get feedback and iterate. The whole journey would include

• Min viable brand

• Brand position & design taboo

• Brand personality

• Moodboard + visual token

• Identity PoC

• First customer experience touchpoints

Relevant link:

• What's brand personality and how to discover one?

• Ira's website: https://nezhynska.com/

3/ Autonomous Community Governance with Axiom

Guest: YJ and Roshan from Axiom @axiom_xyz

What is Axiom

Axiom is the ZK coprocessor for Ethereum. ZK coprocessors are a new class of blockchain infrastructure that allows smart contract developers to statelessly prove offchain computation over existing on-chain data.

Possibility with Axiom in Governance

Off-chain governance relies on multisigs to implement decisions on-chain, which leads to censorship of decisions the multisig opposes. With Axiom, the entire governance proces can be verified in a zk proof on-chain, which gives off-chain governance the same guarantees of on-chain governance without the costs.

Other potentials for governance within the community includes:

• Transparent parameters for rewards

• Reward the most dedicated members in the community

• Autonomous governance

Where Axiom fits in

Axiom fits in:

• Used to generate zk proofs of historical data

• Have both on-chain and off-chain components

• Used in conjunction with some method of getting the data, such as an indexer

• Developer's contract can trustlessly use the data once the proof is generated

Reference link

• Introducing Axiom: https://blog.axiom.xyz/introducing-axiom/

• Docs: https://docs.axiom.xyz/

• Official site: https://www.axiom.xyz/

4/ Intro to Solid

Guest: Jackson Morgan

The problem

Our personal data on different platforms, including social media and beyond, are siloed within each every of the platform and the ownership of the data is controlled by the platform.

What's Solid

Solid is an architecture that lets there be a utility for data. Solid lets people store their data securely in decentralized data stores called Pods (personal online datastore). Pods are like secure personal web servers for data.

• Any kind of information can be stored in a Solid Pod

• You control access to the data in your Pod. You decide what data to share and with whom (be it individuals, organizations, and/or applications). Furthermore, you can revoke access at any time

• To store and access data in your Pod, applications use standard, open, and interoperable data formats and protocols.

Build a Solid app live!

Reference link

• Official site: https://solidproject.org/

5/ Mini Demo time @CryptoKitchens

Diverse ideas around decentralized social/ identity from our ZuSocial hackers with an amazing view in the background