Refunite is the world’s largest missing persons platform designed for refugees and displaced populations. This project aims to empower Refunite’s network of over 100,000 community leaders representing 100 million members across Africa by introducing decentralized technology to support a self-managed, trust-based network.
The primary goal is to create a decentralized network for community leaders within Refunite's ecosystem, enabling:
- Onboarding of community leaders to acknowledge their role within the trust network.
- Secure role recovery via peer-to-peer social recovery mechanisms when access is lost.
The first iteration is a pilot with leaders in Uganda, where leaders can recover their credentials from fellow Ugandan leaders.
- Role Management: Community leaders receive on-chain credentials through the Hats Protocol to attest to their roles.
- Social Recovery: Leaders who lose access to their credentials can regain access through peer validation.
- Decentralized Trust Network: No central control over the state; managed entirely by leaders themselves.
- Scalability: Designed to support up to 100,000 leaders, grouped by geographic or other predefined subsets.
- Hats protocol: Powered by Hats Protocol for role management and governance.
- Frontend: NextJS web application built with Web3 connectivity.
- Silk wallet: Silk Wallet for Web3 connectivity.
- Gnosis Safe: Gnosis Safe for multi-sig wallet management.
- Blockchain: Blockchain-based for immutable, secure credential management.
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Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/syntro-fi/refunite-network.git cd refunite-network -
Install dependencies:
bun install
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Run the application:
bun dev
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Open in your browser at
http://localhost:3000.
sequenceDiagram
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New Leader->>+Existing Leader: Seeks acknowledgment
Existing Leader->>+New Leader: Peer validation
New Leader->>+Existing Leader: Provides wallet address
Existing Leader->>-New Leader: Issues leadership token
sequenceDiagram
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Trusted Leader->>+Peer Leader: Reports credential loss
Peer Leader->>+Trusted Leader: Peer validation
Trusted Leader->>+Peer Leader: Provides new wallet address
Peer Leader->>-Trusted Leader: Issues new leadership token
Peer Leader->>System: Burns old credential token
1. Self-Curation: Empower leaders to onboard new members autonomously, further decentralizing control.
2. Privacy Layer: Introduce zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) technology (e.g., Semaphore) to obfuscate user data on-chain for increased privacy.
3. Enhanced UI/UX: Streamline user interactions for better accessibility to non-technical users.
4. Expanded Governance: Support varied governance models with flexible voting quorums (e.g., 1-of-n, n-of-n) for approvals.
Refunite welcomes contributions! Please open an issue to discuss any proposed changes or submit a pull request.
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
