Bandada is live!

This post was written by the Bandada team.

We are happy to announce the public release of Bandada V1! Try our app out or run it yourself locally v1.0.0-alpha

Background

Bandada is a public infrastructure project that allows you to easily create and manage privacy-preserving groups of anonymous individuals. It is a plug-and-play, free SaaS or self-hosted solution, for developers, DAOs, governments, and individuals that care about privacy.

Anonymous Groups and Credentials

Groups are an important concept when we speak about privacy and zero knowledge technologies, they can be thought of as anonymity sets. Credentials are a way to establish necessary trust between a set of participants while letting users keep control over how their identities are stored and used.

Bandada allows you to create groups and establish trust within the participants by ensuring that everyone who joined the group needed to meet the credential requirements.

Why Bandada?

In Spanish, "Bandada" means "flock" or "group” of birds or animals moving together in a coordinated manner.

1. Representation of Anonymous Groups: Just like a flock of birds or animals moving together, Bandada aims to create privacy-preserving groups where individuals can act collectively without revealing their identities.
2. Coordinated and Secure Interaction: Birds in a flock exhibit coordinated movements for navigation, safety, or foraging. Similarly, Bandada enables coordinated and secure interactions among the members of anonymous groups. The infrastructure provided allows for seamless communication and collaboration within these groups without compromising individual identities.

Highlights

Features

• Easily create onchain or offchain anonymous groups with a few clicks using our Bandada Admin Dashboard
• Decide how members will join, with a unique invitation URL or by proving credentials
• Select which credentials they will need to prove to join the group (GitHub, Twitter, etc.)
• Build your application on top of Bandada, leveraging completely anonymous signals (like votes, endorsements, claims, messages, etc.)

Use Cases

• Group with members who have contributed to a specific GitHub repository
  • “Whitelist” a group of GitHub devs who have contributed to top DAOs repositories.