This on-chain business card may appear simple, but there’s more than meets the eye. The card can be amended on-chain w/ gas fee. Implications:
- Buy new ENS digits, reflect change
- Lose access to hot wallet, re-issue, delete original text
- Retire as degen: Rebrand - SBT
Business Cards as SBTs - @VitalikButerin
recently co-authored a paper on Soul Bound Tokens
- “SBTs would enable us to trace the social provenance”
- Holding an SBT verified by digits community, shows you own an ENS digit AND are active as a personality in the community
Origin Story P1
- Early May 006, 587, 562, and I zoomed
- That night 006 bought 006 for 32 ETH and I bought 005 for 50 ETH
- I wanted to commemorate these buys by giving 006 a memento
- I sent a test-net squiggle (cool, $0 price NFT)
- Memorializing connection on-chain
Origin P2
- Few days later, met IRL w/ graphic designer about 10k club merch
- Felt sweatshirts & hats didn’t represent us - What about business cards?
- Posted & got 300 likes in 1 hour
- Thought these should be on-chain, cement web3 connections, $0 but meaningful NFT
Why Digit Community P1
- ENS digit community is tight knit w/ known personalities
- Digits holders are active in twitter, discord, spaces, IRL events
- Genesis mints are people I can personally attest as persistent personalities within community
Why Digit Community P2
- 999 and 10k have no centralized governance, there’s no wen devs
- This is a project built by an ENS Degen for ENS Degens - 0 mint fee, 0 gas, 0% royalties, no wallet connect
- A way to connect more than a twitter follow
Fully On-Chain
- The image of the card is rendered from the Ethereum blockchain, not a 3rd party hosting site like AWS, IPFS
- Any amendments to card require spending gas to process, fully recorded on the blockchain
- As long as you can access ETH, can view, no firewalls
Things to Come P1
- The next step is adding a polygon layer, currently getting finishing touches on test net - Each card holder will get 50x Polygon copies of their card
- Card holders will receive sufficient MATIC to cover cost of sending cards to people you meet in web3
Things to Come P2
- If 3 Genesis holders send their polygon card to you, you can request a custom card
- Community attesting you are a real person
- Goal is to create a self-regulating SBT network
- People who receive many cards are more likely to be reliable & active
Future of Crypto is Increasingly Social
- 2021 ushered in era of flexing your wallet
- The next step is connecting to each other on-chain, not just via OS or Uniswap … but forming social & professional connections
By 008