Privacy Explorer
3in1: a ranking system, database & comprehensive profiling to empower the general public in discerning the privacy levels, security, and reliability of Web3 projects.
Live demo here
Despite the foundational role that privacy is meant to play in shaping Web3, genuinely impactful initiatives remain scarce. Many projects leverage the concept of privacy as a buzzword or for public relations advantage, rather than addressing tangible issues or enacting substantial changes at the infrastructural and transactional level.
That’s why a ranking system of all privacy-related projects in the Web3 could help a lot the users to discern and decide who to trust.
Value
General public
- Find projects you can trust
- Explore your privacy stack
- Compare projects’ privacy features
- Filter projects by scoring
- Filter projects by ecosystems
- Explore which projects match your use case (like “swap assets”)
Devs
- Explore projects delivering privacy
- Research on use-cases
- Improve existing solutions
Security audit companies / white hackers
- Find clients lacking security audit (privacy-focused)
Investors
- Explore early-stage projects
- Find outstanding builders
- Back critical privacy stack
About the Scoring Mechanism
Quick preview module
Value: rapid snapshot of the privacy readiness
Filtering module
Value: match projects within your search or use-case (filter “zk”, “stealth addresses”, “Ethereum” etc)
Ranking module
Value: explore the most secure projects within category
Activity module
Value: explore latest updates from the product-readiness to the GitHub activity
Team module
Value: explore team, it’s reputation (historical privacy track record per person)
Privacy features module
Value: explore key privacy features & practices from the data collection to compliance-readiness
Funding module
Value: find out about funding behind the project (VCs, donations, crowdloans)
Recommendations module
Value: explore similar services matching your search or use-case
Reviews module
Value: explore or contribute with the transparent feedback by the community
Additional features
We plan to include more modules from guides & checklists to academy & available jos in privacy
References:
About the Scoring Mechanism
It will incorporate both expert analysis and community input, to offer impartial resources for evaluating projects.
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Professional scoring would be a joint R&D with the key web3 people from protocol architects to security specialists. We are collecting feedbacks from privacy experts from the Ethereum Foundation, Railgun, Waku, NYM…
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In parallel to the top-down scorecard method, we’ll develop and implement a bottom-up community scoring platform too (think of Metacritic exters + users scorings) -> at the end of the day it’s the users who have to become the real watchdogs of the industry, signaling about flaws and shortcomings of solutions.
We interviewed 100 privacy players & gathered an MVP vision — we are running a series of 1-on-1 feedback loop sessions to make the scoring model community validated.
Delivery
- Design: Explorer UI: GitHub, V1.0,V1.1, V 1.1 mobile, V1.2
- Research: Privacy Explorer breaf: Brief. Pull requests by Railgun_, Waku, Lit, Brume, Webb
- Research: Scoring matching: Brief, Non-techies validity, MVP: GitHub
- Research: Privacy Explorer product features: GitHub
- Research: Data Manifest for Privacy Explorer platform: GitHub
- Research: Privacy Explorer data survey: Typeform
Milestones
| Area | Date | Link |
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| MVP | dec, 2023 | 1. Landing. 2. DeFi category scoring benchmark. 3. Easily upgradable Project data via GitHub. 4. Basic documentation. |
| QA | jan, 2024 | 1. Bug fixing. 2. Content update. 3. Content filled by the projects themselves |
| V 1.0 | Feb, 2024 | 1. Category expansion (200 projects). 2. Scoring model major update (built by community). 2. Content update. 3. Content filled by the projects themselves (plus moderation). 5. Extended documentation. |
| V 2.0 | March, 2024 | 1. Full database synchronization (600 projects). 2. Content update (actualisation). 3. Content filled by the projects themselves (plus moderation). |
Team
- Core project manager: Mykola Siusko GitHub, Twitter, LinkedIn
- Research track: Mykola Siusko, PG
- Product:Coinmandeer, Tree, Cryptomar1o
Project Repositories
| Repository | Description |
|---|---|
| @web3privacy/explorer | Privacy Explorer project main repository |
| @web3privacy/explorer-app | Privacy Explorer application frontend |
| @web3privacy/explorer-data | Data repository for Privacy Explorer project |