TLDR:

A competition between protocols that are similar in nature - powered by user attestations, where users would use Clique’s identity infrastructure to push off-chain + DeFi attestations that will be used to ascertain power users for each category/protocol. Competition will be designed in a way to increase:

• Higher retention rates
• Cross-Pollination between users of similar protocols/Optimism
• Identification of power users
• Targeted growth through user recognisability

Programmed Event List

⏩ 3 weeks each

• Event #1: Cross-Chain Actions (Bridges)
  • Estimated Timeline: Early Nov 2023
• Event #2: DEXes
  • Estimated Timeline: End Nov 2023
• Event #3: Staking Actions (Lending/ Yield Aggregators/ LP)
  • Estimated Timeline: Mid Dec 2023
• Event #4: Trading Actions
  • Estimated Timeline: Jan 2024

There will also be a prize pool Clique will be disbursing part of the OP Grant to that users can access by providing feedback about the protocols they’ve interacted with, which will factor their activity during this initiative.

Estimated Timeline: Mid-October Earliest

Overview

What is Clique

Clique builds a new type of primitives, identity oracles, that bring web2 user behavior and identity data on-chain with advanced cryptographic tools like ZKP, TEE, and MPC. It serves two primary goals: establishing more robust reputation and identity systems on-chain, and bridging the gap between value-creating activities in web2 and incentive distribution layers in web3.

Our goal as identity issuers (”attesters”, in on-chain terms) is to enable users on Optimism to push informative attestations on EAS from both off-chain & on-chain data sources. Once we’ve managed to bootstrap significant growth at the base identity layer, the next logical step is to create meaningful use cases surrounding these attestations that will enable the following benefits:

• Trustworthy Reputation Data