SoulSync is the first community focused on exploring the implications of soulbound tokens and ‘soul’ related technology at the advent of a decentralised society.
A brief history to date;
It’s been over a year since Vitalik Buterin posted a blog, Soulbound.
The energy contributing to conversations surrounding the concept was amplified by the proceeding paper, “Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul” by E. Glen Weyl Microsoft Research; RadicalxChange Foundation, Puja Ohlhaver, Flashbots Ltd & Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Foundation.
We have a feeling this is only the beginning of a core to a decentralised society and future economy combining many of the technologies and disciplines:
Identity
Key Management
Privacy
Smart Contract Technology
Governance
Political Economy and Social Sciences
Cryptographic Proofs
Distributed Ledger Technology
Zero-Knowledge Technology
Reputation Economics
Data Dignity
To name a few 🔮
The true implications of soulbound token technology are yet to be discovered.
Our Journey
For this reason, Joseph and I have been on a quest of sorts over the past 12 months, discovering and connecting value, weaving context into the emerging soulbound token tapestry.
August 2022
After a few critical encounters, we realised a shared vision. We founded Soulbis to dedicate our combined time and resources to research and empower businesses to think and act on decentralised innovation.
The first significant milestone along this path was at the Radical Exchange Unconference of 2022, where we hosted a couple of open-topic discussion rooms on soulbound tokens and identity. These three days of discussion around the topic got the gears going.
A serendipitous connection between uniquely knowledgeable people beginning to share a common drive around ensuring soulbound token technology, as a new primitive, is developed on the most positive trajectory.
September 2022
The following groundbreaking moment along our journey toward what we believe to be a ‘best-case’ proliferation of soulbound token technology thus far has been invited to participate in the Identity, Key Management and Privacy working group for BGIN (Blockchain Governance Initiative Network).
What happened next was truly special.
October 2022
The community organised around a paper studying and transcribing many of the early discussions we were having and thought to be crucial to explore as this technology continues to find more and more use cases in attempts to create value for society. A paper with over 1000 comments from 50 different individuals worldwide.
You can find the published paper here;
Soulbound Tokens (SBTs) Study Report Part 1: Building and Embracing a New Social Identity Layer?
September 2022
Joseph had the pleasure of speaking at the BGIN Block #7 Meeting at the University of British Columbia on Soulbound Tokens (video below - timestamp 01:04:10)
The Soul System
One of the core concepts we introduced in this paper was the idea of a “soul system”.
The collection of stakeholders involved throughout the lifecycle of Soulbound Token; and ‘Soul’ related technology.
As we continued down this path, meeting many of the industry's most interesting and interested people, ears always perked when musing on the potential soulbound tokens have to change how we interact with value and others in web3. We soon realised this was the genesis of a soul system before our very eyes.
A trust network focused on proliferating decentralised society was forming, thing is, they all came from uniquely different approaches. Whether here to solve for web3 identity, key management, zero-knowledge, gamefi, reputation economics etc, there is a purpose to SBTs on the horizon for many.
The origins of the SoulSync can be attributed to many of the isolated conversations we’ve had with early members and supporters, aiming to bridge knowledge on soulbound tokens, build the technology ethically, and discover numerous opportunities for positive-sum collaboration.
We have only just begun thinking about how web3 networks may evolve using SBTs.
There is no better time to start a connected ‘soul system’ to pioneer its path forward, sharing such progress with you all along the way.
Building a decentralised society where pluralistic goods, services, and collective intelligence are seamlessly interwoven, creating a more vibrant and dynamic world will require a galaxy of many interconnected Soul Systems.
We hope SoulSync may offer a beacon for many more communities to emerge as their very own soul systems and cooperate to realise a more equitable future.
This is the genesis of SoulSync…
AI Art Gallery: Soul System
