Social Layer

Social Layer is a social protocol built around badges that connects offline events with online identity. An organiser mints a badge for a gathering, a course or a community and issues it to participants; the badge is a soulbound token bound to the holder's identity and cannot be transferred, so it works as proof of participation. Offline communities, DAOs and event organisers are the main users.

Identity rests on two profile tokens: a personal profile token that records a description and cannot be transferred, and a group profile token that represents an organisation and can move through governance. Badges are issued by these subjects, and one badge can go to many recipients. Four other social tokens sit alongside: transferable NFTs, gift cards carrying a consumption right, private badges visible only to sender and receiver, and points issued for contribution. A merger combines several tokens into a new one to express more complex standing. An early trial at an offline space in Dali used an NFT as an entry pass, testing the path from issuing at a venue to recording on-chain.