Please describe your proposed solution.
The PRISM ecosystem is not easily navigable or comprehensible due to a lack of an overarching overview. Who is doing what? Which projects have been funded, and what is their status? How does one begin integrating digital identity into their projects? What can one currently use? What is in the prototype stage and what is production-ready?
We (blocktrust) have been active in the PRISM ecosystem, building for about 1.5 years. Many aspects are clear to us since we interact with a range of projects on a regular basis. However, it can be difficult for newcomers to understand. The Atala PRISM team is focused on building infrastructure but doesn't provide comprehensive information about all participants in the ecosystem.
This project is an attempt at a community initiative aiming to enhance visibility for the multitude of exceptional projects currently under development. It will provide links, showcase demo videos, offer comparisons between different offerings, and supply guides to help beginners get started.
We intend the project to be a relatively simple website, maintained by us, but with authoring rights for all the main participants in the ecosystem: RootsId, Proofspace, Snapbrillia, Continuum Loop, IOG and anyone else who wants to contribute and is building on/around PRISM. While doing this, the explicit goal is to offer a friendly and objective place to share news, links and new projects without any marketing speech and branding, neither from us as from other parties.
How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?
The proposal is squarely at the heart of the challenge's idea: to aid the growth of the ecosystem and assist both veterans and newcomers in navigating the world of digital identity on Cardano (and beyond).
This will therefore bring new participants into the ecosystem and increase the adoption and SSI integration efforts.
After a certain ramp-up period, it is reasonable to expect approximately 100-500 page visits per day. While this might not seem like a large number, we anticipate that many of these visits will be from professionals in this field seeking specific answers. Moreover, this will generate traffic and potentially direct customers to all listed vendors and projects.
How do you intend to measure the success of your project?
Success could be gauged by the number of monthly visitors, as well as the number of contributing authors from other projects, or entities like IOG, the Cardano Foundation, or EMURGO.
We plan to make user statistics publicly available. All other metrics, such as interactions (including comments, sharing, and tweets) and external contributions, will be directly visible on the site.
To maintain transparency and accountability with the Catalyst community, we'll publish a blog post each month, reporting these interaction numbers.
Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?
The outcome will be a hosted website (the final name and domain are yet to be discussed). The GitHub repository will be open source. We will provide at least bi-monthly updates to the website, reflecting the current state and new developments in the ecosystem. We warmly welcome other authors to join, as this is intended to be more than just a single-party effort. We believe that all participants will greatly benefit if we can reach a broader audience.
As already exlained, we'll also share the interactions statistics of the projects with the Catalyst community.