Did you know that Unlock DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization that governs the actual protocol? These are ordinary people, like you, making decisions about the protocol and its future development in a decentralized manner, using the $UP token as the governance currency. DAO Members propose new ideas through proposals and vote on them to help the protocol be future-proof. However, aside from DAO Members, we also have DAO Contributors, Ambassadors, and Stewards. These members have dedicated additional resources and time to the ever-evolving future of Unlock Protocol.
Today, it is my pleasure to introduce you to Thibaut Segura, aka TheDesignIconoclast, one of our newest members who joined us with a mission.
One day, about four weeks ago, a new member showed up in the Unlock Discord and introduced himself as TheDesignIconoclast. Naturally, as a designer myself, I got curious, and upon my invitation, he joined our weekly DAO debate. In case you didn't know, it is not rare for new people to show up in the Unlock Discord or even at the DAO Calls, but what stands out are people who come with a plan. Precisely that was the case with TheDesignIconoclast, aka Thibaut Segura.
With a strong background in design and user-centric development work for the past 15 years, he has put his primary focus on user adoption. Now that he has joined the world of Web3 development equipped with the right tech skills (Solidity + React), he is set on creating a positive and long-lasting impact. Looking for projects with real-life impact is what drew him to Unlock Protocol and made him join a DAO Call a few weeks ago, suggesting a new integration that will specifically make certifications with Unlock even more attractive to users.
Segura is clearly a new wave of cross-disciplinary builders combining design, technical execution, and decentralized identity principles to create user-centric blockchain products. In my personal opinion, exactly what this space needs right now.
While Thibaut was looking for aligned protocols that thought about real-life use cases, he came across Unlock. He was positively surprised that we were not the next tech project trying to optimize latency or TPS (transactions per second). Apparently, he connected immediately with what the protocol provides and what Julien, Clément, Txbi, and CCarfi had been putting so much attention towards over the years: A simple UI, the avoidance of jargon, and most of all, tying the tech with real-life problem solving. Or to quote his own words:
At the same time, he saw an opportunity to improve the protocol even further by tackling the Certification flow. Currently, the certifier (e.g., a university) cannot make the certificate specific to the student (e.g., have their name, age, grades, thesis, etc., show up).
This is where he formed the connection and how the Ethereum Attestation Service (also an open-source protocol) could become part of the current certification flow at Unlock and allow certifiers to create attestations that are additionally verifiable on-chain.
This would make for a truly enhanced certification flow, providing the certifier with two options:
Basic: Pure NFT with only the certifier information
Premium: Attestation, containing student-specific data. Easy to share and easy to verify.
With his previous work in Web3, Thibaut had a chance to work with the Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS) for tenant reliability verification. For this specific project, each on-time rent payment generates an onchain attestation, creating a privacy-preserving and portable record of trust between tenants and landlords. This project illustrates his capability to create a handy integration for Unlock Protocol with EAS.
If you believe, as I do, that this idea is brilliant and will level up your and all of our users' experience with Unlock, please ensure to support the project via the current Giveth round (until the 28th of October). Any support matters, monetary or by sharing this article on socials and tagging Unlock as well as Thibaut:
I believe this is not the last we hear from Thibaut. He is driven, organized, and comes with a needed mix of skills in Web3! If you want to keep tabs on his story, feel free to connect and follow him through his favorite channels:
Your Steward for Operations & Coordination,
Stella ✨
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