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2025Product / Identity / Sybil Resistance

Passport XYZ

A privacy-first identity hub designed to help people prove their humanity and resist Sybil attacks without exposing sensitive personal data.

Passport XYZ interface artwork showing identity verification and scoring.

Impact

Human Passports

2M+

Ecosystem Partners

120+

Credentials

43M+

Secured Public Goods Matching Pools

$25M+

In Airdrops Secured Against Sybils

$512M+

In Web3, trust was fragmented across wallets, platforms, and communities, which made it difficult to distinguish real participants from bots and coordinated Sybil behavior. The challenge was to design a product that could aggregate proof of humanity into one clear system while staying privacy-first and understandable for everyday users.

Step 01

A Modular Trust Layer

Designed a modular dashboard where users choose how they show they are human by collecting and verifying individual Stamps, turning scattered identity markers into one coherent trust profile.

Entry into the Passport experience, where users begin assembling proof through modular Stamps.

Step 02

The Unique Humanity Score

Structured the experience around a central Unique Humanity Score built from four stamp categories: Blockchain & Crypto Networks, Government IDs, Social & Professional Platforms, and Biometric Verification. This gave users a clearer mental model for how different proofs contributed to their score and credibility.

Passport stamp selection for Web2 identity sources.
Web2 and platform-based credentials expanded the trust model beyond onchain activity alone.
Passport stamp selection for Web3 and blockchain credentials.
Blockchain-native stamps translated wallet history and ecosystem participation into scoreable signals.

Step 03

Transparent Verification Details

Used a sidebar-driven information architecture to make each verification step legible, with clear guidance on time, effort, cost, points gained, and whether a Stamp was verified, expired, or needed an update.

The ETH stamp flow showed how individual credential details and verification states were surfaced inside the product.

Step 04

Thresholds, Titles, and Minting

Added stronger incentive loops through score thresholds, program eligibility, activity-based titles like ETH Enthusiast and ETH Pioneer, and a final minting flow that turns reputation into an onchain asset.

The result was a privacy-first verification product that unified identity signals into a user-controlled dashboard, made trust and status easier to understand, and helped lay the foundation for Passport XYZ's evolution into Human Passport.