ZenChain’s Battle Against Sybils with BotBasher

It is said that no snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.  Thus, it was only natural that BotBasher found its place in the ZenChain Discord Server last December.

In trying to develop a better and stronger community that was fair, many of their obstacles stemmed from Sybil attacks or Sybil accounts.  So the ZenChain team had asked a simple question, “What if we could find a way to ensure that every snowflake, or in this case, a user, is unique?”.  The obstacle was the path that led them to BotBasher, Humanode’s private and secure biometric authentication that can tie one user to a single Discord account.

BotBasher only has one function. To see if the user who is authenticating is in the system, thus currently tied to an account, or not.  The heavily encrypted data, which does not include the original biometric data, can only be used for that function and is completely wiped from the system every six months.  No one, not even ZenChain or Humanode, can access that data.

How ZenChain uses the role that a user is assigned after verifying that they are a unique user is simple but powerful.

ZenChain has its own airdrop questing platform where participants can earn points by having certain roles in the Discord server.  They basically made it necessary to hold the verified human role in order to obtain all other roles in the server. 

So, if you are interested in airdrops on ZenChain, you need to prove that you are a unique user.

The ZenChain team tells Humanode that “BotBasher has really helped in filtering out multi-accounts/botters/sybil attackers”.

With another upcoming round of Airdrops on ZenChain on the way, the Humanode team is confident that the BotBasher will fulfil its role in making sure that every user participating has a living, unique user behind their account.