Incentives

Humanity leverages existing work on Token Curated Registries, a type of game with the following incentives:

• Applicants demand to be on a list.

• Applicants stake a fee on their candidacy. If the applicant is rejected, they lose their application fee.

• Token voters are incentivized to curate the list honestly in order to generate demand from new applicants.

In Humanity, applicants demand to be included on the registry of unique humans in order to gain access to Sybil-resistant smart contract applications that reference the list.

The registry has a method called isHuman that any smart contract can query to see whether a given Ethereum address has been confirmed as a unique human.

As a sample application, there is a Universal Basic Income smart contract with 2,500 Dai (~$2,500). Early applicants who are successfully voted into the registry can claim 1 Dai per month until the supply runs out!