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Community Update
Recorded: July 18, 2025 Duration: 0:20:49Space Recording
Short Summary
Ontology's latest team call unveiled significant updates including the launch of the Orange Humanity Score campaign, a $2,000 staking prize pool, and insights into the 2025 roadmap, all aimed at enhancing decentralized identity and user engagement in the crypto ecosystem.
Full Transcription
Hey folks, GM, GM, happy Friday.
Just to do a quick tech check to make sure you guys can hear me okay.
I'll be kicking off in a few seconds.
Just throw me an emoji or something just to know that you can hear me okay. Thank you. Okay, cool.
I assume you guys can hear me okay.
I haven't heard anything to tell me otherwise.
I just saw a couple of emojis pop up, so I take you guys can hear me well.
As I said, happy Friday.
So it's already July 18th.
We're kind of coming towards the end of the month, which is crazy.
This year is going by very fast and I'm on the road today I'm in back in Ireland for a couple of days so hopefully we should be fine with connection though pretty well organized but
unfortunately I'm stuck having hotel room coffee instant coffee which isn't great but we'll suffer
through this morning so just for the call today we're
going to go back over the team call that we had last week. So we had most of the marketing team
join us to go through essentially just to take a look back at like seven years of Ontology.
I see some of the team have been on you know kind of with Ontology longer than I have. So
we had Kenny who's like our lead developer which was great to kind of get his insights. He's been
obviously on the team.
He's one of the OG.
And then for us just to do a quick check-in on any live campaigns, check-in with Orange Protocol,
and then also to do a quick pulse check on Web3.
See what's happening in this space. It's always a crazy time.
And then for us to understand if there's any kind of interesting topics as well.
Cool, so I wanted to kick today off with like, I haven't done this actually in a very long time, I don't think I've done it this year, is where we kick off with like an explainer block or do a
quick introduction to ontology for anybody that's
you know kind of checking in on the space i think it would have made sense for me to do this when we
first started off the other campaign you know just a little bit more educational but i'm i'll
definitely kind of put a reminder in that we should be doing this every so often so for anyone
that's going to tune in i guess it isn't familiar to ontology i mean we're always hoping to introduce
new folks so it makes sense to have this information here. So I guess at the very basis, like our basics, ontology is a layer one blockchain,
kind of purpose built as what we describe as like this trust layer, right?
So we're always talking about weaving decentralized identity, that's our ont ID, reputation data,
and now secure messaging kind of directly into anything that's usable for the community.
So you're looking at multi-EVMs, EVM and more,
also making it super friendly for builders
who need identity and any privacy tools.
You can do a deep dive into kind of a lot more technical aspects
of what Ontology offers.
I mean, actually, I can do that on one of the calls.
That might be a really interesting call
to see if we could get some more builders or developers involved
in asking questions and letting us know what they'd like to see from Ontology.
But just to kind of backtrack slightly, if you're looking for more information, maybe during this call or afterwards, we have everything kind of on the Ontology site.
So that's ont.io.
It's like either in the news section with updated articles or in the news section, which is kind of more geared towards developers.
So anybody that's not familiar is we do have this dual token system so it's ONT and ONG. So ONT is our governance staking token
so you can lock ONT to help secure the network so vote for nodes or it's ONG so this is our gas
token kind of used to pay network fees all of your transactions smart contract executions as well.
Again you can deep dive into all of this and also if you have
any questions, I'm really happy to dive into anything with anybody after the call or if
there's anyone else on the team that you'd like to chat to. But again, we have nodes docs on
ont.io for you guys to check out. If there's anything there that doesn't make sense, then
please don't hesitate to reach out. But also I wanted to kind of draw everyone's attention to the fact that we have a consensus around 258. So it's only for the next couple of days so if
anybody wants to get involved in the staking element of the campaign then it's going to be
really important for you to be tracking these dates. So I guess it's really important for
everybody to be following us on social and ensure that you're keeping up to date with this. So I
think Geoff just put out a reminder tweet yesterday but but it is only two days. So I think today is probably your last day. Again,
if you have any questions, don't hesitate to let me know. I'm always really happy to answer. So
I mean, with the consensus around 258, I guess, yeah, this is kind of a current staking. So
for the seventh anniversary, this is why we're kind of talking about this. We've added obviously
that $2,000 ONG prize pool. So this is a r raffle so I guess if you're like new to ONT or new to staking
entering during kind of round 258 like qualifies for this so you don't need like massive staking
amounts or like a whale size so just stake before the round ends so we've two days left I must get
the exact date on that because I don't know if it was
two days from yesterday or if it's if it's if it's finished today so I'll see if we can we can
follow up with an exact date on that
also outside of our kind of campaign, a brief introduction to Ontology. We also have an
update from Orange Protocol. So, I mean, what is Orange Protocol for folks in plain English?
I guess I forget that maybe it's not super easy to understand because obviously we work
with Orange Protocol. So let's think of Orange Protocol as kind of like this middle man or middle layer when it comes to reputation.
So ideally, it should be able to plug these identity signals like behavior data, right,
and third party checks into portable scores and credentials so that projects can use this
without warehousing everyone's personal information, for example.
So it helps them
tell whether a person's real or not so builders choose data sources these are your data providers
when it comes to orange protocol and then scoring modules so these are your module providers then
this is all called kind of or comes under the orange apis and sdks so this is then used to
mint reputation nfts or run track run checks so this is what you to mint reputation, NFTs or run checks.
So this is what you would consider like your credit like O score, your humanity score as well.
So all of this is being used and is essentially designed to be chain agnostic, privacy aware, civil resistance, right?
This is what Dave is always talking about.
So this is perfect for civil resistance, under collateralized lending, potentially and gated community access. So that's, I guess, what I've been using to
summarize things and I call it like Orange Protocol in a nutshell. Very much
summarized, but if you go to orangeprotocol.io, there's a bunch
of information there and there's also links to Orange Protocol throughout
Ontology, which is on ont.io, it's docs.ont.io
as well. Do let me know if you have any questions but the
reason I'm bringing this up on the call today is obviously to do like the basics block that I just
mentioned but also because um they have they've just started another campaign so this is the OHS
so this is the orange humanity score and I guess you're wondering like why does this really matter
so with OHS the whole idea around developing something like this is, it lets you prove that, as I mentioned, you're a real
human account. So obviously, we're all used to these bot farms across a bunch of different types
of Web3 apps. So you can connect a wallet, complete optional verification steps. So think of it as like maybe your social ID, phone number, etc.
Whatever it is, depending on these campaign settings, which can differ.
So, you know, not every campaign is the same.
Sorry, hotel coffee is terrible.
So then you can generate a humanity score credential, but you can reuse this.
So this kind of can stay with you.
So now all of these campaigns like the one that's live now was only tweeted out yesterday, you can get a bunch of different rewards. So this campaign is up to $1200 in ONG. This is all in
different prizes. So yeah, so I mean it works really well for if you wanted to use it as like
an airdrop filter, as as we mentioned anti-civil voting
and then community loyalty programs so there's a bunch of different uses um and yeah so make sure
that you're i guess keeping up to date with how this can be used for yourself for your own data
for your own reputation maybe you want to bring it to another campaign that you're already involved
in if that's the case reach out to myself or reach out to dave anybody on the team will be happy to
to assist you in that but also for you to get involved with the campaign
and just win some rewards I always think that that's very nice so then we come
to O score so the O score analyzes on-chain transaction a history so
payments liquidations kind of credit mixes length of history so this goes
across different chains produce kind of this programmable kind of credit
trust score tied to OUNT ID so this is like or any other kind of decentralized identity ideally
so platforms can tune which data counts then use Oscore to offer better potentially offer better
better borrow limits or kind of consider lower collateral ratios and then again we're kind of
back to these campaign tiers as well.
So again there's a lot of these different details are found within our documentations and more than happy to answer any other questions or push you towards Dave. He's
quite friendly and always happy to answer questions as well.
So we move on to the team call that we had that was hosted by Jeff, our head of community.
I'm sure we're mostly Harbingers on the call today.
Oh, we have Antti D here.
So that must be Jeff.
So yeah, our head of community, he hosted the call this week.
As I said, we had most of the team on the call and we kind of just went through a bunch of different questions when it came to what ontology looks like now, our own experiences with Ontology. So you know I joined the team about two years ago and I was really,
my main focus was the development and launch of the 10 million dollar DID fund which was last April.
So for me that was like one of my standout moments. I think up to that point there was obviously,
it was something that Ontology has been developing for quite some time. And there was a huge amount of talk around this whole self-solving identity.
And I think the purpose of the fund was to kind of obviously support builders to give them some money.
But to, I ultimately, Ontology learned a lot from this.
So they had took away a lot from like kind of pain points when it came to builders and developers.
And it wasn't just as simple as offering them funds,
but more so producing more educational content and understanding that at that time,
there still wasn't a huge need for a lot of folks
to consider decentralized identity
to be a part of any of the platforms
that they were creating.
I think they just didn't really understand
that there was such a need for it.
So that was a really interesting part to be involved in.
And hopefully we're going to see that revitalized again towards the end of the year or into next year.
And I think, again, just focusing on what we learned from that as well as being able to kind of support developers.
But it showed that we had to update a lot of our documents.
And I think it was kind of a big catalyst for and what influenced the development of our 2025 roadmap. So for everybody that's checked in on that, it breaks everything down into different tiers
or into different sections where we're looking to have use cases for ONTID or decentralized
identity when it comes to healthcare, gaming as well, also AI marketplaces.
So I think it really pushed the team forward to, as I said, take those learnings and continue
to develop.
So it was interesting as well. This was another section of the chat. It was like early days challenge.
Right. So it was considering like building DID before these standards.
So I still, I guess it was interesting to look back on this. Right.
So I think in 2018 it was definitely, there was like decentralized identifier and verifiable credentials I don't think were really phrases that were typically used or or really used within like say VC decks for example.
I think a lot of these conversations had to start with like identity 101 or decentralized
identity 101 like what exactly what exactly is this so and I don't think it wasn't obviously
as easy for folks to kind of get involved there was no like sign up with your DID buttons or kind of access to a lot of this information.
So it was still extremely new.
And I think around that time there was more competition around airdrops and tokens
than there was about understanding decentralized identity.
So it's been really interesting to kind of take that look back
and then to consider how things have changed, even to look at our own content
that we're producing and how the community
has changed when it comes to decentralized identity as well.
So that kind of brings us nicely into, I guess, as I mentioned, the shift of in the narrative.
As I mentioned, unfortunately, there has been a lot of these never ending data breaches
and AI deepfakes.
So I think, again, that kind of reiterates the fact that I think there is much more of a need for privacy and DID kind of since Maynet with Ontology. So it was interesting as
well we had Bella our community manager I'm sure everybody's aware joined the call as well so it
was great to have her and hear her voice because I think she works mostly with community or out of
everybody on the team is kind of really well connected with the community and it was great
to hear her input when it came to specific stats or community highlights and I think one of them as
well that was great to mention Jeff touched on was the OntoNotStarter package. I really like this
package specifically because it ties together like all of Ontology's products so it gives you like
step-by-step support exactly how to do everything
with Ontology to like download OntoWallet create your Ont ID if you want to stake and there's
support there with tokens and also we've connected you better I think it's a much better system now
for connecting anybody new to the community with Harbingers and also linking you guys to the
content that you're going to need as well so I think a lot from the community over the past year as well.
And then a couple of other topics that we touched on for the team call was, again,
linking back to the roadmap and how it's been developing is this cross-chain bridge and
like DEX integrations and obviously why it's important for users and just in a really basic
sense.
I mean, fewer steps means more retention.
So it's better for us.
It's better for you guys.
It's more staked ONT securing the network.
So as this develops,
obviously we're going to be kind of giving
more and more updates.
And also we touched on kind of ZK, right?
ZK knowledge, ZK tech,
like making ZK real.
What does this actually mean?
Why is Ontology and Orange
kind of talking about this as well?
So, I mean, we were trying to just kind of come
to really highlight the community. And I'm sure most of you have seen this again I think ZK as well as AI has
been a really strong narrative for this year but trying to move away from the fact that could
potentially just be hype but also educate the youth educate the community into really understanding
that it but it actually does hide data that you don't want to expose essentially. So with Orange
Protocols kind of architecture there's a model providers and data providers.
So and then also then there's going to be the feed of ZK RAT proofs.
So I guess this is the meets the humanity threshold, for example.
So that's kind of how we get under collateralized potential for under collateralized lending.
So we're resisting campaigns, as I mentioned, and then this age gated experiences at scale while respecting privacy.
Again, there's a bunch of different content that we've created. And also there was the launch of Orange ZKTLS, which I think they're going to have an update on as well. So it's going
to be interesting to share that with everybody here. And then finally, with our real world
scenario. So I focused on my take on everything that's happened in ontology and I focused on gaming for this.
So it's really interesting to see how things have been developing when it comes to gaming in the space.
Also, when it comes to decentralized identity and reputation.
Again, there was a lot of content created around this, but I'll focus on the gaming spaces that the guys had hosted.
So that was Humpty and Jeff.
So they hosted these gaming spaces over four to six weeks.
I think we had four sessions, but I think it happened over six weeks.
Again, I've created summaries of the outlines that Humpty created, and they're all on the blog.
If you want to kind of do a quick recap, we had a bunch of folks within gaming, like developers and just gamers in general,
come to the spaces to talk about, like decentralized identity of cloud, or to talk about gaming in general as
well for ontology to take learning away from and like to
understand pain points for gamers because for us to then
kind of create a better pitch to understand if our product
kind of met their demand.
So if you haven't, if you didn't have a chance to log or
tune into the spaces, then I'd recommend to go back and listen to them.
They were super interesting. . Thank you. easy Thank you. Thank you.
