👋 Hello, World!

• **Emblem is a Wave 1 Grant Recipient**
  • Formerly known as Badgeth
  • 75k funding (March 22, 2021)
  • WIP Grant: Wave 5 Grant Application
• Primary Goals
  • Analyze the Ethereum blockchain to capture and recognize that which is meaningful, noteworthy, heroic, foolish, or exceptional, as defined by Web3 communities
  • Develop a public persona and reputation for any Ethereum addresses
  • Explore how on-chain reputation can be used for governance applications, smart contracts, social spaces, protocol onboarding, off-chain accreditation, and more

🌊 Vitalik Philosophy 101

“Even though the system is supposed to bundle governance power and economic interest, it can easily end up not bundling those two things, and once it does... governance becomes an auction and every decision gets sold to the highest bidder.” 83 - Beyond Coin Voting Governance | Vitalik Buterin

What if DAO governance of blockchain protocols could somehow make governance power conditional on participation? Once again, a large and fruitful design space opens up that today is difficult to access. Soulbound | Vitalik Buterin

🚀 Soft Launch (April, 2022)

• Emblem <> The Graph Subgraph
  • https://github.com/EmblemDAO/subgraph-the-graph-badges
  • Badge Pathways:
    • 3 Indexer Pathways
    • 1 Delegator Pathway
    • 1 Curator Pathways
    • 2 Subgraph Developer Pathways
  • On-Chain Storage:
    • Mainnet Registry (Compressed)
    • Polygon Registry (Uncompressed)
• Soulbound NFT
  • Sign Message → Receive NFT Airdrop on Polygon
  • New Badge Awarded → Visually Updates to Reflect Progress
• The Graph Protocol Page
  • Badge Pathway Progression: Level 1 → Level 2 → Level 3
  • Education: Guides ➕ Glossary ➕ Resources
  • Protocol Leaderboard: Protocol-Wide ➕ Role-Specific Filters
  • Network Feed: “Etherscan for Humans”

🔮 Reputation Categories**:** 🏆➕ 🔢 ➕ 👋

• Reputation can take the form of badges for historical activity (🏆), badges for off-chain participation (👋), or up-to-date metrics (🔢)
• Metrics and badges are both tied to a specific protocol role
• Metrics and badges have community scores, scalar values between -10 and 10 to represent the metic’s or badge’s positive or negative impact to the network
• Metrics and badges are both accessible via on-chain registry or subgraph
• Release Priorities: Historical Activity → Metrics → Off-Chain Participation
• Community-Driven Reputation:
  1. Reputation Subgraph awards badges to recognize meaningful achievements
  2. Badges bestow governance rights to Reputation Subgraph
  3. Reputation Subgraph NFT controlled by badge awardees
  4. Badge awardees propose new badges to recognize new achievements and contributors
  5. Reputation Subgraph regularly updates to reflect community values