For several years now, airdrops, these sometimes generous token distributions, have transformed the crypto landscape by offering incredible opportunities for both projects and their users. But behind this new way to make yourself known and reward participants, lies the real fight against the “cheaters” who use bots and multiple accounts to maximize their profits, at the expense of the community and projects. Here comes Anima. This project aims to build trusted Web3 communities, free of bots and fraudulent users. Find out how this revolutionary initiative fights against unfair practices and protects the value of airdrops.
Le Journal du Coin brings you this promotional article in collaboration with Anima.
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The context in which Anima intervenes
Initiated by Uniswap in 2020, Airdrops is one of the means web3 projects favor to reward their community. This very popular mode of operation actually represents significant benefits for both users and projects. The former sometimes land very significant sums in their wallets (see the very recent Hyperliquid drop), while the latter benefit from huge publicity (and a “carrot”) that attracts even more users.
Of course, these token streams are falling from the sky arouse desire. Some people devise ways to get the most by “cheating”. They are evolving robots communicate with protocols for them This allows them to use multiple accounts get multiple allocations etc. In addition to getting tokens that were supposed to be paid out to other users, they very often resell the tokens they receive immediately after receiving them, thus lowering the prices and penalizing the project and its entire community.
A question of justice
Anima offers anti-sybil tools. They allow identifying wallets managed by human and unique users. The aim is that projects can distribute your drops to their real communityrather than a handful of developers creating an army of bots and themselves getting 25% of the distributed tokens.
A redistribution that allows a fair distribution of the value granted by protocols and that primarily blocks access by bots. A solution to reserve this share for invested users who spend time discovering and supporting different projects. Anti-sybil tools guarantee that more rewards for every real participant.
At a time when privacy is a priority for everyone, Anima recognizes that web3 users do not necessarily want their true identity traced. Therefore, the solutions they provide allow you to prove that you are a unique human being. without revealing who you are.
Solutions provided by Anima
Proof of Personality and Soul Bound Tokens
Anima allows you to generate Soulbound Tokens (SBT). It’s about Non-transferable NFTspermanently linked to a specific portfolio.
To get SBT from Anima you must prove your humanity. No need to provide your ID as with most KYC. Here you just have to scan your face using your phone or webcam.
After identifying you as a human, Anima compiles a facial chart your face It is an encrypted vector graph that has an advantage do not contain biometric information. It allows you to prove that you are both human and unique, but it does not allow you to reconstruct your face.
This chart represents yours proof of identity (PoP) or, proof of humanity in French. Thanks to it, you can mint SBT, which is associated with your address on the blockchain.
Reputation in the chain
Obviously, if SBTs were valid indefinitely, it would still be easy to cheat. Some would certainly ask their grandmother or their cousins who are not web3 users to handle the process for them to manage multiple wallets. Moreover, there is a black market where valid identities are exchanged in bulk …But Anima thinks of everything!
Primarily, SBTs become inactive after a month. So once a month, the user is invited to a PoP challenge if they want to prove that they are still the happy owner of their wallet. So this greatly complicates the task for those who would like to use SBT linked to other people’s faces.
Second, Anima lets you do it refresh SBT mint every two weeks for it to evolve. Each new mint shows that you remain active on the chain and increases your SBT level. Combined with all the other on-chain data associated with your address (transaction history, tokens held, votes, stakes, interactions with dApps, etc.), airdrop distributors can very easily identify the oldest and most active members involved in their community and reward them accordingly.
Finally, Anima offers tools to enable projects create your own anti-bot questswhich offers them the possibility to choose the criteria they wish to keep.
Anima, a protocol that has already proven itself
If you are hearing about Anima for the first time, you should know that the protocol is not very new and has already been used by many projects.
With over 150,000 SBT holders mined on various blockchains, Anima has already been used in over 140 projects including Phaver, Alpha mind, Playbox, Linea, LibertAI, Non-codex, PrivadoID, Eternal protocol, StarkNet ID, Sunflower country, Sandpit AND Scribe.
In addition, Anima was launched Synapsea company that already specializes in online identity and especially KYC solutions. The company has helped to verify the identity of investors in more than 600 private sales and counts among its clientele renowned web3 projects such as Just mining, Deskoin or even Polka starter AND solanium.
If you are interested in the concept, don’t hesitate and go for SBT now. By upgrading it, you could be entitled to a larger allocation from the next one Airborne which you will get!