A bit over a year ago, Unlock Labs integrated the Gitcoin Passport hook into the protocol. A lot has changed since then, starting with the fact that the Gitcoin Passport is now called Human Passport and has become part of human.tech and the Holonym Foundation. Human Passport has matured and is now more focused than ever on laying the foundations for an internet where people and not bots hold the keys to trust in a trustless world.

The internet was built for connection, but automated accounts and sybil attacks have eroded trust. Hacks and exploits of an AI nature have soared 1025% this year (according to Hacken), yet roughly 34% of Web3 projects deploy now AI components that widen the potential attack surface.

With the Human Passport in Unlock Protocol, you can guarantee that whoever buys your membership, reserves a free ticket to your event, or subscribes to your product is a real human, not a bot-driven wallet. The beautiful part, though, is that that type of authenticity doesn't come at the price of surveillance or personal data collection, and therefore is extremely end-user-friendly.

“Together, we’re not just building for humans — we’re building with them.”

Proof-of-humanity is the foundation of credible decentralized ecosystems. Human Passport provides a solution through aggregated verification called Stamps — credentials that represent verifiable human activity patterns, such as KYC attestations, biometric proofs, Web3 activity, and social connections. These build a Unique Humanity Score that protocols such as Unlock can use to assess the trustworthiness of an address while protecting user privacy using zero-knowledge methods.​

How it works? Well, it's easier than you'd think.

• Create your lock (smart contract) with Unlock Protocol or navigate to an already existing one in your dashboard.

• On the Unlock lock dashboard, head to the Settings menu in the upper right corner

• In the side menu, choose the "Advanced" tab and add the Passport Hook from the drop-down list.

• Don't forget to set a reasonable score and deploy the change onchain by signing a transaction. The Human Passport team suggests a score of 20.

Now, every time someone wants to access or purchase your membership, product, or event ticket, they will need to prove their personhood has been validated through the Human Passport (verification is done via the Passport app). This makes tracking your stats more reliable and, most of all, guarantees that whatever you put out there with Unlock is actually used and appreciated by fellow humans.

Daniel Brunsdon is the Lead for Growth and Product at human.tech. Before Daniel joined the Gitcoin Passport and eventually the human.tech crew, he worked at Twitter, where he had a front-row seat to a network of bots impersonating people's identities, resulting in fake engagement and false analytics. This often leaves communities and projects with empty shells of numbers that should see a return but won't.

After joining Gitcoin, his sole focus became solving the hardest challenge in digital systems, such as verifying real people without surveillance or exclusion. At human.tech, Daniel is driving the adoption of important tools, just like the Human Passport, to create a positive impact on humans through advanced technology.

Daniel will be with us on a Livestream on the 30th of October at 2 PM EST. He will showcase firsthand how the Human Passport hook works and how you can implement it with a few clicks into your event, membership, subscription program, or certifications with Unlock. Get notified below.

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