Ohana DAO Whitepaper

In today's digital landscape, trust is the foundation of meaningful interactions. From online communities to AI-driven systems, we increasingly rely on the internet to connect, collaborate, and transact. Yet, as Web3 (the decentralized internet) and artificial intelligence (AI) evolve, we lack reliable tools to assess the credibility of individuals, organizations, and even AI agents.

This challenge grows more urgent in a world where misinformation, unverified collaborators, and opaque AI decision-making threaten our digital ecosystems.

For centuries, humans have used reputation as a tool to navigate social life, trusting people, brands, and products based on community perceptions. In the physical world, reputation guides us daily—yet in digital spaces, we often take it for granted or struggle to adapt it effectively.

Ohana DAO proposes a solution: a decentralized reputation framework that brings a "human hand" to Web3 and AI, fostering trust, accountability, and collaboration across diverse contexts.

The shift to decentralized systems and AI introduces unique trust-related problems.

Web3 Challenges: • How do we identify reliable sources of information in a decentralized internet? • How can we trust collaborators or project contributors without centralized oversight? • How do we measure ethical behavior or influence in a blockchain-based ecosystem?

AI Challenges: • How do we verify the reputation of AI agents acting on our behalf? • How can we hold AI creators accountable for their systems' actions?

The Human Element: • How do we ensure digital ecosystems retain a human-centered approach, avoiding over-reliance on automation?

Existing reputation systems—centralized or fragmented—fall short in addressing these nuances, leaving users vulnerable in an "Internet of Things" world.

Ohana DAO introduces a flexible, adaptable framework to create and manage reputation scores across Web3 and AI onchain. Built on blockchain technology, it empowers users to define, track, and leverage reputation in a decentralized, transparent way.

Key Features:

• Verified Influence: Track contributions to social and environmental causes via on-chain profiles (e.g., using Lukso's ERC725 standard)

• Community Reputation Curation: Users set custom criteria for reputation scores, weighted as they see fit, with a vouch system for validation

• Economy Participation: Issue proof-of-participation tokens to reward user actions and engagement

• Performance Metrics: Evaluate AI agents on accuracy, fairness, bias mitigation, and efficiency

• Data Provenance: Ensure transparency by tracking data sources and usage

• Reputation for AI Agents: Extend the framework to assess the social credibility of AI entities

The framework is decentralized, customizable, cross-chain compatible, and on-chain focused—leveraging on-chain profiles and data to create valuable reputation assets.

Ohana DAO has developed several decentralized applications (dApps) to power this framework:

Reputation Station: A platform where developers and communities define reputation criteria and metadata, building custom reputation systems.

Impact Ledger: A dApp that quantifies and tracks social/environmental impact (e.g., via NFTs or actions), rewarding users with reputation scores. Learn more: http://bit.ly/3ZVRp5C

P.O.A.P. Forge: Simplifies the creation of Proof of Attendance Protocols (POAPs), storing event data on-chain and linking participation to reputation. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4iUm0ZV

Handshake: An Onchain Vouch protocol that allows users to vouch for other user creators and developers, adding to the overall social aspect of reputation. Vouches can be given and revoked at any moment and are stored onchain in a central vouch registry.

Decentralized Knowledge Graph: A multi-chain data curation tool that streamlines reputation score creation by aggregating and organizing on-chain activity.

This framework has broad applications across the ecosystem:

DeFi (Decentralized Finance): Enhance governance and provenance tracking with reputation scores

ReFi (Regenerative Finance) & Social: Support meritocratic governance, giving greater influence to high-reputation members

NFT Space: Authenticate creators and collectors, boosting trust in marketplaces

Gaming: Reward players for achievements and ethical behavior with reputation-based incentives

AI Agent Reputation: Assign socially verified reputation to AI agents, ensuring accountability

Decentralized On-Chain Will Service: Leveraging Universal Profiles on LUKSO blockchain, create a robust on-chain "will" service for secure and automatic issuance of digital assets upon unexpected passing or incapacitation. Uses multi-party attestation and time-based triggers to verify life status, with the Universal Profile acting as the digital executor.

Increased Trust and Transparency: Build confidence in Web3 and AI ecosystems by making actions and relationships verifiable

Improved Decision-Making: Provide reliable data for choosing collaborators or systems

Enhanced Collaboration: Connect trustworthy individuals and entities across the ecosystem

Incentivized Positive Behavior: Reward contributions to social and environmental good

Revolutionary Digital Asset Inheritance: Secure, transparent, and automated solution for the inheritance of digital assets, significantly reducing legal complexities, disputes, and reliance on traditional, often opaque, probate processes. Ensures digital legacies are managed efficiently according to the owner's explicit on-chain instructions.

The Ohana DAO framework operates on blockchain networks that support smart contracts and the ERC-725 universal profile standard, providing a secure and standardized foundation for managing user identities and data.

Central to the framework is a decentralized knowledge graph, which aggregates data from all dApps within the ecosystem. Each dApp curates its own data, contributing to this unified data layer that enables reputation score calculation and curation, stored on-chain in users' universal profiles.

How It Works:

1. Data Curation by dApps: Each dApp collects and curates its own data—impact metrics, attendance records, ensuring accuracy and contextual relevance

2. Aggregation in the Knowledge Graph: Curated data is standardized and contributed to the decentralized knowledge graph, acting as a comprehensive repository

3. Reputation Score Calculation: Reputation Station utilizes the knowledge graph's data, allowing users to define custom algorithms and criteria

4. On-Chain Storage: Reputation scores are stored on-chain within users' universal profiles, adhering to the ERC-725 standard, guaranteeing transparency, security, and interoperability

Ohana DAO aims to generate revenue to support the longevity and ongoing development of its reputation protocol through:

• Platform Fees: Small fees applied to specific features and services within the ecosystem

• Subscriptions: Recurring charges for premium access or enhanced functionalities

• Data Curation: Fees for specialized data management or curation services

Community Reinvestment: 10% of all revenue will be used to purchase $FAM tokens on the open market. These tokens will then be allocated to a community treasury, which will fund initiatives such as community projects, user rewards, or further development efforts.

This strategy not only supports the value of the $FAM token but also strengthens the ecosystem by empowering its community with resources for future growth.

The Fam Token is the native utility token powering the Ohana DAO ecosystem, designed to encourage participation, enable governance, and support community-driven initiatives.

Total Supply: 420,000,000 Fam Tokens

Use Cases:

• Governance: Token holders vote on proposals, protocol changes, and key decisions

• Access to Premium Content: Tokens provide access to exclusive features, tools, and content in Ohana DAO's dApps

• Tipping and Rewards: Users can tip or reward others for valuable contributions

• Discounts and Loyalty Programs: Holding or staking tokens unlocks discounts on services and loyalty-based perks

• Staking: Tokens can be staked to earn rewards, support network security, or gain additional benefits

• Impact Funding: Tokens can fund social and environmental projects, reflecting Ohana DAO's commitment to positive impact