Inspiration
Looking out at the Boston skyline, we pondered the existential question of how we could make our community inclusive, safer, and more trusting. The state and corporations promise protection, but rarely deliver and do more to erect themselves as rentiers extracting payment than actually acting as benevolent members of our society. We knew crypto, web3, and the power of incentivized communities could do better.
What it does
It takes surveillance data (any video), encrypts it to a decentralized storage network. That video is then releasable to certain parties (e.g. police or other community members) upon vote or other condition set by the community (judicial order, time delay, etc.)
How we built it
We used Arweave for the data storage, Threshold's taco for encryption and conditional gated access, and then tellor (a decentralized oracle) for signaling community intent.
Challenges we ran into
Getting some of these to work proved difficult. Classic blockchain early tech issues
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We got it all to work and it sets us up for a promising future.
What we learned
Encryption techniques are difficult, but important.
What's next for Recon Network
We'd love to expand control of other chain wallets as well as formalizing the token control systems and incentives.
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