web3privacy/Web3privacynowplatform/scoringmodel/Scoringmodel_techies.md

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Privacy scoring modelling > Web3privacy now analytical platform

General

Scoring Techie
Immutability +
Decentralised throughout, including hosting +
Permissionless & accessible to all +
Open-source +

Docs

Scoring Techie
read the documentation +
Good and comprehensive documentation +

Third-party analysis

Scoring Techie
Where's the code? Has it been audited? +
Validation by trusted and respected independent scientists and researchers +

Team

Scoring Techie
ideological team +
Reputation of the team +
is it purely marketing oriented, or it seems created by researchers/developers, are the developers anons? +

Privacy policy

Scoring Techie
Privacy Policy content +
Non-vague and non-intrusive privacy policy +

Infrastructure

Scoring Techie
How much to run a node +
Where are the nodes +
Number of nodes/servers/ -> the larger the footprint the best privacy +

Storage

Scoring Techie
e2e encrypted LOCAL storage +
What user information is stored? (username, IP address, last connection, wallets associate, etc) +
Where is it stored? (centralized server, certain jurisdictions, on-chain, in browser/local cache) +

Data aggregation

Scoring Techie
no email or tel nr for signup +
does not implement KYC or AML +

Traction

Scoring Techie
Amount of transactions +
number of people using it +
is it famous +

Governance

Scoring Techie
DAO structure (if applied) +

Privacy execution

Scoring Techie
p2p / no central server +
Trustless - No ID required (this is where ZKs are useful) +

Product-centric

Scoring Techie
Onboarding steps +

Testing

Scoring Techie
try to trace a transaction +
Other tooling to verify e.g. block explorers +

MVP for non-tecies expanded to techies

Sandbox: DeFi category that has been analyzed

How to use sandbox?

  1. Read takeaways.
  2. Give us feedback via general comments in the Community on Signal or make a Pull request here.
  3. You can always explore 38 DeFi project' assessment here

Scoring model 1.2: validity track

Validity track covers GitHub, Product-readiness, Team, Docs, Audit.

Note: quick assessment helps to decrease privacy dark patterns from obscure language to test-net claiming it has a "state of art privacy". alt text

Sandbox

Extended

Project GitHub Product-readiness Team Docs Audit Contributors Licenses Support Score
Test project available & active GitHub / not (25%) Live or 🚧 (exclusion criteria) public team / not (25%) available & not marketing docs / not (25%) available & up to date third-party audit / not (25%) external contributors outside of the team members What licenses are in use Some form of support available? (telegram, discord, forum) from 0 to 100%
score 12.5% 12.5% 12.5% 12.5% 12.5% 12.5% 12.5% 12.5% 100%