📚Glossary

Words used in this documentation

• Stamp/Check: Proof of Sybil resistance used in nada.bot's global registry.

• Sybil Attack: An attack where fake identities manipulate reputation or voting systems.

• Validating a Check: Verifying a Sybil proof (aka 3rd party authorization, identity) through a NEAR smart contract method provided by a Sybil Provider.

• Sybil Provider: An independent service offering Sybil resistance checks via NEAR smart contracts.

• Human Threshold: Minimum score in nada.bot's registry (initially set by core, later by DAO) required to be considered "human." Through aggregated checks x wieghts an individual must have after calculate_score(accountId) function is called

• Weight: Points assigned by nada.bot to each Sybil Provider based on factors like reliability and accuracy.

• Nada.bot Registry (v1.nadabot.near): A NEAR smart contract storing all stamps, calculating user weights against the human threshold, and providing standardized access to Sybil Providers.

• Gas: NEAR tokens required for on-chain transactions.

• NEP413: A NEAR standard enabling user ownership verification by requiring gas payment.

• Near Protocol: A Layer 1 blockchain built in Rust and compiled to WASM, focusing on fast and scalable dApp development through sharding.