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Privacy-Preserving Proof-of-Personhood Protocol

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We are building what we call a Privacy-Preserving Proof-of-Personhood Protocol (PPPoPP). We originally set out with the goal of airdropping a token to a billion people. Along the way, we found that we had to develop a lot of foundational infrastructure not only on the hardware side (which became the Orb), but also on the crypto/protocol side.

What Are We Building? We are building what we call a Privacy-Preserving Proof-of-Personhood Protocol (PPPoPP). We originally set out with the goal of airdropping a token to a billion people. Along the way, we found that we had to develop a lot of foundational infrastructure not only on the hardware side (which became the Orb ), but also on the crypto/protocol side. While there are many projects out there building general purpose rollups (e.g., Arbitrum , Optimism , zksync ), we came across the open source project Hubble , a minimal, application-specific rollup. It allows a highly efficient, bu

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