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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.

privacy dashboard

contributors: Ethanolo, Juan, Coinmandeer, Develit, Mykola, Rsscono1, Mf

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 Web3 could help a lot the users to discern and decide who to trust.

Major update (10 October)

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

It incorporates both expert analysis and community input, to offer impartial resources for evaluating projects.

  • 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…

  • 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.

Have a read about how the current mechanism works here

References:

Research

Explorer Articles

All of our articles can be found on our Mirror, curious about the ones specifically about explorer? Check them out here:

Milestones

AreaDateLink
MVPdec, 20231. Landing. 2. DeFi category scoring benchmark. 3. Easily upgradable Project data via GitHub. 4. Basic documentation.
QAjan, 20241. Bug fixing. 2. Content update. 3. Content filled by the projects themselves
V1.0Feb, 20241. 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.
V2.0March, 20241. database synchronization . 2. Content update (actualisation). 3. Content filled by the projects themselves (plus moderation).
V3.0Oct, 20241. Front end UI/UX Update. 2. Scoring mechanism implementation & update. 3. Creation of Editor mode to create new and edit existing projects outisde of github 4. Creating new documentation 5. Content creation to push new projects to add data 6. Over 500 projects submitted 7.Transparent open-sourced project management system

Smaller updates:

jun 24 update

Team

Project Repositories

RepositoryDescription
@web3privacy/explorerPrivacy Explorer project main repository
@web3privacy/explorer-appPrivacy Explorer application frontend
@web3privacy/explorer-dataData repository for Privacy Explorer project