62 / Soulbind

In episode 62, we delve into the world of soulbound tokens. We discuss the proposed EIP-6049 and the mechanisms of Ethereum consensus changes. We also cover various concepts around these tokens such as EOA evaluation, attributes, personhood, and business models. Lastly, we explore the potential of soulbound tokens in ticketing.

Timeline

00:00 Intro

00:43 EIP-6049

02:49 How do Eth consensus changes happen?

08:38 Intro to Soulbind

10:03 Existing standard for soulbound NFTs

10:38 Can we standardize EOA evaluation?

14:31 Attributes and personhood

15:32 Business model and product interview

20:38 Mintable tokens and spam

21:44 Content moderation: keys = calls

22:30 Is burnable really soulbound?

23:03 Can SBT be mutable?

25:12 I Leveling up token

26:44 Ticketing

Badges

@fulldecent

William Entriken Stayed to end

@Rito_Rhymes

Ritorhymes Stayed to end

@037

AKM Stayed to end

@exstalis

??? Stayed to end

@0xrobrecht

Robrecht Stayed to end

@cer_andrew

Andrew Cer Stayed to end

@EllieVoxel

??? Stayed to end

@dtedesco1

Daniel Tedesco Stayed to end

Episode notes

• Implemented our EIP-6049 to deprecate SELFDESTRUCT in smart contracts

• Accepted and implemented our https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-6049 / noted at https://blog.soliditylang.org/2023/02/01/solidity-0.8.18-release-announcement/
  • Longtime consensus to get rid of this, but not officially documented
  • Warnings will now appear when someone tries to use SELFDESTRUCT
  • For CREATE2 will Etherscan mark the old source code as invalid?
    • Lots of great ways to attack this when used for proxy deployments
  • Steal my oldest NFT, the oldest NFT on Ethereum https://fulldecent.blogspot.com/2021/09/there-are-no-nft-contracts-before-terra.html
    • Tell them in the EIP
    • https://etherscan.io/address/0xcde4de4d3baa9f2cb0253de1b86271152fbf7864
• We are working on Soulbind (https://www.soulbind.app/) and want to discuss soulbound tokens, more specifically:
  • should there be a standard for soulbound tokens
    • Lots of discussion previous on Community Service Hour & Eth Magicians forum
  • restricting soulbound tokens to EOAs
    • tx.origin
    • signed messages
    • any transaction from that person
    • any tx from that person ON ANY CHAIN/NETWORK
    • there is a choice: allowing wallets ⇔ allowing wrapping tokens
  • should soulbound tokens be consensual?
  • updatable tokens – educational course, learn something, get token, learn more, update that token
    • level 1 badge, level 2 update – or a trophy shelf
  • ticketing as a use case for soulbound tokens

TWEETS

• Thank you everyone for joining episode 62! We discussed #EIP6049 and @0xSoulbind with @0xrobrecht @cer_andrew

• How fast does Ethereum community make changes?

  Look at EIP-6049 https://youtu.be/rlePJziAY6Y?t=43s

• … and the bigger picture at https://youtu.be/rlePJziAY6Y?t=169s

• The main video starting on Soulbind

  https://youtu.be/rlePJziAY6Y?t=518s

• What about attributes and personhood? @exstalis

  https://youtu.be/rlePJziAY6Y?t=871s