The Optimist NFT is a fully customizable digital avatar that allows you to showcase your personality and build your onchain identity. Powered by digital certificates called attestations, the Optimist NFT is one of the first applications built on top of the AttestationStation, an attestation smart contract on OP Mainnet.
Why is identity on the blockchain important?
Identity is a fundamental aspect of human experience that encompasses the relationships, interests, and values that define individuals and groups. However, the current online identity landscape is fragmented, non-interoperable, and controlled by centralized gatekeepers.
Decentralized identity solutions empower individuals to customize their identity according to their preferences, move it seamlessly across services, and regain control of their personal information from centralized platforms. These solutions are designed to enable users to prove specific attributes about themselves in a trustworthy and verifiable way, without compromising their privacy or security.
The Optimism Collective is building a better economic engine that fuels positive-sum games (opens new window)and decentralized identity is central to that mission. For example, the two-house governance system of the Optimism Collective is composed of token holders and community members who participate in a one-person-one-vote system based on reputation and community contributions.
In addition to democratic governance, decentralized identity expands the design space for innovation and gives individuals greater control over their finances, and enables them to participate in the global economy on their own terms.
What is the AttestationStation?
Attestations are one of the building blocks of decentralized identity.
Our journey towards decentralized identity begins with the AttestationStation, an attestation smart contract for creating, verifying, and revoking on/off-chain attestations. Attestations in the AttestationStation serve as the data layer towards the goal of enabling a decentralized identity and reputation system on any OP Chain in the Superchain. You can think of the AttestationStation as a multiplayer database.
What does the Optimist NFT use attestations for?
The Optimist NFT is one of the first applications built on top of the AttestationStation. The Optimist NFT uses the AttestationStation to determine eligibility for:
- Minting: Addresses with the relevant attestations recorded in the AttestationStation are able to mint the Optimist NFT.
- Unlocking new traits: New traits, that can only be unlocked with certain attestations, will be added to the Optimist NFT and will allow people to further customize their Optimist NFT.
What are the contract addresses for the AttestationStation and Optimist NFT?
- Visit the dev documentation to find the contracts for the AttestationStation
- The Optimist NFT uses the following contract:
- OP Goerli: 0x2335022c740d17c2837f9C884Bfe4fFdbf0A95D5
- OP Mainnet: 0x2335022c740d17c2837f9C884Bfe4fFdbf0A95D5
How do I learn more about the AttestationStation?
To learn more visit our developer docs and our developer blog.