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.
contributors: Killushine, Ethanolo, ant, Coinmandeer, Develit, Mykola
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.
Latest updates (jun 24)
- Merged PRs
- PRs from CultDAO, Oasis Network, PSE
- Contribution guide has been published on Mirror
- Fixed non-working search
- Sample project yaml updated
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |