Configure an IP domain with any information you would like to be cryptographically verified and linked to your registered domains.

The vast applications of Verified Credentials (VC.iD) range anywhere from securely verifying official social media accounts to activating access control keys, cards, fobs, badges and even fully customizable and scalable tracked achievements for specific tasks and communities. A great example of a core implementation of this is a POAP (Proof of Attendance Protocol) which can be automatically issued based on completely customizable and programmable criteria.

Scalable, composable and secure blockchain infrastructure can now be implemented in the most practical and accessible user context. VC.iD represents a new paradigm of user sovereignty and custody.

EBPTO developed the VC.iD to configure domain specific verifiable credentials. The system employs a hybrid architecture with both on-chain and off-chain components for maximum efficiency and flexibility.

Each domain is issued a VC.iD scope containing a cryptographically signed message. These signed messages are tamper-proof and self-authenticating. This concept is very similar to a traditional passport—additional credentials are saved in these passports just like stamps are as recorded proofs.

The VC.iD scope is saved on Ethereum through the EBPTO domain registry. Additional signature data is replicated on Gnosis Chain (xDAI) and IPFS for cost optimization.

The credentials can remain pseudonymous. Individual users can operate multiple domains simultaneously. For example: a real-name personal domain as well as a company domain.

Why Verifiable Credentials?

Today, most domain products solely focus on resolving complex addresses to readable names using a DNS like interface allowing people to enter anything they like into plain text input fields.

While this free field method is flexible, it does not at all prevent misinformation or impersonation. (e.g. Using the free field model, one could easily enter "ElonMusk" into a Twitter record or "Vitalik" into a Mastodon record).

EBPTO's Verifiable Credentials employ a bi-directional signed proof, containing and requiring additional information from a valid authenticated session from the issuer side (Twitter, Google, etc). This more robust system is becomes exponentially more secure vs. the now dated uni-directional models used by other domain protocols.

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VC.iD uses the W3C standards for cryptographically verifiable digital credentials. VC.iD is fully compatible with all EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) accounts and EVM-based wallet authentication.

From a single domain page you can view all verified credentials corresponding to that specific domain. Credentials can be a mix of OpenID based protocols, standard or custom schemas. This structure is scalable, sovereign, and secure.

The vision of Web 3.0 is one where users control their own data. VC.iD makes this possible.

Structure

Type

A credential can have one or more types. It is specified in an array of strings/URIs. The "VerifiableCredential" is mandatory.

The credential type can be used to determine if a credential is appropriate for a specific use case. For example, the credential type: "EthereumAddress" might be used to validate a web3 address or a specific on-chain transaction.

The applications of this model are vast and scalable.

Issuer

Represents the issuer of the credential. In the case of a social media account verification, the issuer may be the social media network itself (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) authenticating a session proof.

Context

The credential context contains one or more properties that are related to the context of the verifiable credential.

The context identifier may be an array of subjects (e.g. Twitter account credential, followers account credential, etc).

Cryptographic Proofs

One or more cryptographic proofs that can be used to verify the authorship of a credential, its context and issuer, ultimately proving the credential is valid.

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There are limitless use cases that can be implemented using VC.iD verifiable credentialed domains. Unlike traditional domains, VC.iD are stored at the wallet level, outside of the custody and control of any 3rd third party.

Domains are stored on-chain in the EBPTO Registry Ethereum smart contract, fully leveraging the security, composability, and consistency guarantees outlined in our model.

A manager (registered to an Ethereum address) controls the on-chain records associated and corresponding to each domain.

Credentialed data records are cryptographically signed by the domain manager and stored on L2 Gnosis Safe (formally xDAI) and mirrored to IPFS. The signature of these records is saved on the primary domain itself. This key is called the VC.iD.

Public Profile

Public profiles with verified social accounts can be used to create a fully decentralized and portable user identity record. This can be used in a variety of scalable applications.

At the highest level, authenticate ENS simply by registering a domain. Or personalize your domain page by uploading custom images, connecting verified accounts of your choice, and resolving your domains to your Ethereum wallets, and create customizable QR codes corresponding to any source of your choosing.

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Social & E2EE

We are rapidly entering the next era of digital communication and social networking—one where users data is portable, and they can take their profile, graph, interactions, and communications wherever they want to; credentialed profiles become essential.

Credentialed profiles operate as an extended authentication layer, providing fully end to end encryption (E2EE) in everything from timelines, social graphs to chats.

Using Public Profiles and domains, one could easily build and monetize entire robust social networks with hardly any technical abilities or upfront capital required.

Content creators will unlock potential uses cases and rapidly take their micro-platforms and ability to engage directly with their supporters to new and previously unimaginable heights.

Cross-chain identity & reputation

Any registered user can link crypto wallets and annotate activity from many different blockchains. Weight, score and roll up data into a programmable and customizable user credit profiles.

On-chain resume

Complete tasks, learn skills and earn credentials that prove contribution via user activated achievements and metrics. Build a decentralized school or institute and seamlessly track performance and participation.

Entitlements & Automated Reward Distribution

Teams can build bridges between products and users based on verifiable achievements to unlock airdrops, content, specific rewards and more.

Trustless governance & Sybil defense

Users can create and operate decentralized governance systems. Create proposals, submit votes and create a sybil resistant governance app. Verified credentials establish non-Sybil traits, preventing capital capture via Sybils.

Activities designed to benefit the growth of community can be seamlessly and programmatically rewarded to members of a governance model assigning different voting weights to each given criteria.

Proof of Reserves

Wrangle and group wallets to create a transparent audit, providing completely unbiased and transparent data reports of any given assets held in reserve.

Make the most of the blockchain's immutable public ledger and bring precious, curated and interoperable data directly into focus.

Multi-app & Global Gaming Profiles

Using the identity protocol (VC.iD) to store profile data and gaming data in a way that can be consumed, added to, or extended by any app or game in Web3.

Federation

Create a new layer of identity portability across web3. Using the EBPTO issue new domains (.example, .developer) and federate them across the network.

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The EBPTO Marketplace is a Reservoir powered aggregator gathering sales orders and listing activity across Opensea, LooksRare, Blur, X2Y2, Elements and Reservoir's implementation of Seaport.

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Overview

• EBPTO's Marketplace order book gathers and displays the best listing for each domain name on any leading market.
• Accept Bids from other order books.
• Aggregator: Buy & Sell your IP domains right on EBPTO.com or across any of the other leading marketplaces.
• Transparently and seamlessly see any associated marketplace fees across the board.

Fees

An initial gas fee to approve marketplace transactions is required and cannot be waived. It is a network (Ethereum) fee. Once approved, you can list, delist, bid and alter any listing with no additional gas costs.

Gas-free transactions include:

• Listing an IP domain.
• Changing the price of a listing.
• Making an offer on a IP domain.

When listing on external marketplaces (OpenSea, LooksRare, Rarible, or X2Y2) their specific fee structures apply.

Sales made directly on EBPTO Market have a 1% fee applied (Fee is currently disabled).

Listing in the Marketplace

From an individual domain page, click 'list for sale' to open the listing window. From the listing window select which markets you wish to list in. Marketplace royalties will display to give you the option to choose which is best.

Buying & Accepting Bids

Click 'Buy Now' and the best available offer from the aggregate order book will guide you through the checkout process. Icon indicators will inform you which marketplace you are completing the transaction on.

First off, thanks to everyone for the huge amount of support and encouragement! We are looking forward to seeing what ways people use their .ip domains.

The EBPTO is a verifiable identity domain registry.

EBPTO aims to make IP portable, memorable, chain agnostic and fun. EBPTO is designed to be decentralized in both it's infrastructure and governance.

General

What is the goal of the IP Domains?
The most important objective of .ip domains is to become the distributed identity domain protocol standard.

What can I do with my IP domain?
IP domains work on EBPTO's blockchain-based cross-chain registration system that provides a globally unique naming system that can be used in many ways including transferring ETH & NFTs, creating a personalized identity hub, domain name resolution, portfolio management, validated credentials and more.

IP domains are ENS-compatible allowing you to send ETH assets to your assigned .ip domain. (Ex: Send 1 ETH to "mywallet.ip")

Resolve addresses with an .ip domain for E2EE messaging, verifiable credentials and more. View the XTMP powered E2EE messaging demo here.

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What’s the difference between a .ETH ENS domain name and a .IP domain?
An IP domain is an enhanced, Ethereum compatible domain built on the same rails and fundamentals as ENS.

ENS names are human readable with a ‘.eth’ at the end, while IP names are ENS-compatible names that contain ‘.ip' at the end.

• bob.eth
• bob.ip

Getting an .ip domain does not prevent you from getting an .eth domain from ENS and using it in your Web3 wallet.

In research, we found that most people associate .eth domains solely with Ethereum. We believe you should have maximum control of your IP; that it should be free of limitations. IP domains are designed to be used on multiple blockchain networks.

How are names registered?
Hashes provide a fixed length identifier that can easily be passed around between contracts with fixed overhead.

What are the costs to register ip domain?
Initial registrations are auctioned publicly. Reserve premiums apply for names with 4 characters or less.

5+ characters - $2.50 / year
4 character - $80 / year
3 character - $320 / year
2 character - $640 / year
1 character - $10k / year

Fees are paid in ETH. The ETH/USD exchange rate is set by the Chainlink ETH/USD oracle. Network fees (gas) applies.

How many transactions are required to register an IP domain?
You can register in a single transaction.

Is there anything needed to ensure the continued use of existing IP domains?
Make sure you renew your IP names before they expire. There is a 90 day grace period following expiration.

From the profile view or directly in the smart contract, you can add registration years to any name at any time and extend the registration for as long as you like.

Why do .ip domains use a custom ERC721 base contract (ERC-721PTO)?
ERC-721PTO uses structs to efficiently pack ownership and loyalty metadata information.

Loyalty metadata stored in the ERC-721PTO includes the number of IP domains, initial (minted) registrations, earliest registration period and longest registration period of every active address. The objective is to use this data in a similar fashion as ENS.

struct AddressData {
        uint64 balance;
        uint64 numberMinted;
        uint64 firstRegistrationTimestamp;
        uint64 largestExpiryTimestamp;
    }

ERC-721PTO is deployed with our BaseRegistry contract and can be found here: 0xEB668b89be0C33d1A1559305d75F91e0a54e69Ab

The .ip domain NFT rendering engine defaults to a contract-generated HTML page contanining the registrant, domain name, registration date metadata, and avatar record based presentation. This information is provided in the tokenURI's animation_url param.

Auctions

Why are there auctions?
Initial registrations are handled through public auctions with a goal to achieve fair access. While names with 4 characters or less are priced in, the auctions are designed to reduce cybersquatting given initial market visibility.

How do the auctions work?
Interested parties can search for a name they have interest in. If the name is not yet in auction, they can activate the auction by meeting or increasing the bid reserve. The bid reserve follows standard pricing guidelines.

Once the initial reserve is met and deposited, the auction lasts 24 hours.

Whenever a new bid is submitted, the prior bid funds are automatically returned and, if less than 15 minutes remain in the auction, the timer is extended 15 minutes. The time extension is an anti-bot mechanism to prevent programmatic sniping.

How Long do I have to settle an auction?
You can settle an auction at any time. When an auction is settled the registration is assigned to the auction winner, who can then claim/settle the auction.

If someone settles an auction on your behalf, only you will receive the .ip domain.

In the event you attempt to settle an auction you've won and the claim button is disabled, it's likely someone has settled the auction on your behalf. Don't worry, no one can take the domain you've won in auction.

Auction Halving
Once the halving begins, at the end of each period the auction length will be reduced by half until auctions are only 1 minute in length. Following the last halving auctions will be disabled and EBPTO will only support open registrations.

24h→12h
12h→6h
etc.

During the halving the 15 minute last bid extension will apply.

Learn more about how open registrations work.

Registrations & Renewals

How do renewals work?
Anyone can extend registration years to any existing name by paying the registration fee. You can extend registration at any time.

What is the minimum renewal period?
Renewal duration is recorded in the smart contracts using seconds. While there is no maximum time, there is a minimum period of 28 days.

What if I forget to renew and my domain expires?
There is a 90 day grace period to allow you to extend any registration. After the grace period ends, if not extended you will no longer own the domain.

What happens to the registration & renewal fees?
All fees collected in the registrar contract will be periodically sent to the EBPTO multisig. The multisig roots will determine how to distribute funds across and for the benefit of the protocol. Considerations for fund allocations are largely inspired by ENS, focused on long-term growth, funding DAO, token, external projects that use the protocol and the core EBPTO team.

Management

Where can I manage all my IP names?
Visit www.ebpto.com. Make sure your wallet is connected and click "Profile" from the menu. View all of your IP domain names at a glance, or select them individually for details and configurations.

Can I trade or sell my IP names?
You can use the EBPTO Marketplace directly on the site. It allows you to trade IP domains on ebpto.com in addition to other popular secondary marketplaces that support ERC-721, all at once.

When I transfer my IP domains will they still be tied to my public key?No, EBPTO contract clears all registration data including signatures, images and portfolio works when transferring IP domains.