{"signature": "0xb0c953755f7c5c09fe66e57c9ed7e7e8588f4c0311fce138ae22b5cd66210f081f1dce8927b677917424a882e79580d5342bf26f70d597f3cb19958023b5ba541b", "application": {"round": "0xd2d99614321becd7cd0636715bbb4c94968e6271", "answers": [{"type": "email", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "iedO5MeTIasrW4DVj1LOeK13cKC38nRq2XkEWPpX4q6nw8KxAsWRnh2oIQ76+ctf", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "345bcbb27d74ee77fd5d01421ca53cc4675391164f85a3e9c2ce9349372922660d329cda097bc6d8221cc2953ab8f018152d1d498525e7bd0099f75e8c8f0297bd50991ca12625fc28ee8f79731d64598c0784413c997e8f7f3a146a9593fd8c5002f462ae8a6af78a77868df7280383e938d2b5f7ef94035766d455500b269d0000000000000020e6d740ae46fa3b0dc3d9268db51b04e31305bbb1b90e8cbfff4538ea62934666310586da7adc33da0f034f1d4a3de8af"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "CMCDragonkai", "hidden": true, "question": "Telegram Handle", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://github.com/MatrixAI/Polykey", "hidden": true, "question": "Project GitHub Repo", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://discord.com/invite/82zyKWRc", "hidden": true, "question": "Link to your Public Group Chat", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "No first time.", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you participated in a previous Gitcoin Grants Round? If so, please name the rounds or link the builder profile associated with previous rounds.", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Polykey is a decentralized key management and secret-sharing platform designed to operate without centralized servers or intermediaries. It provides a secure, peer-to-peer solution for managing and distributing encrypted data, such as credentials, API keys, and other sensitive information. By leveraging end-to-end encryption and immutable sigchains for verifiable actions, Polykey ensures that only authorized users can access and control their secrets, all while eliminating the need for third-party trust.\n\nThe specific problem Polykey addresses is the inefficiency and security risk inherent in centralized key management systems, which often become single points of failure and bottlenecks in security infrastructure. In traditional setups, secrets are vulnerable to breaches, misuse, and central authority control. Polykey solves these issues by decentralizing secret management, enabling users to maintain full control over their data and securely share it across distributed networks, reducing the risk of compromise while enhancing operational resilience.", "hidden": true, "question": "Provide a brief overview of your tool, library, or framework. What specific problem or inefficiency in the development process does it address?", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Polykey reduces development barriers, improves efficiency, and enhances the security of Web3 projects by providing a decentralized, peer-to-peer platform for managing secrets and sensitive data. It eliminates reliance on centralized key management solutions, which are prone to being single points of failure, and offers secure, verifiable secret-sharing across distributed environments. This makes Polykey a crucial tool for Web3 projects where decentralization and trustlessness are essential.\n\nFor example, in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, developers need to securely manage private keys, API tokens, and other sensitive data across multiple nodes without exposing them to external threats. Polykey ensures that this data is encrypted end-to-end and distributed across peer networks, with no single entity having control. This improves the security of Web3 infrastructures by reducing the attack surface.\n\nPolykey also streamlines DevOps workflows in decentralized applications (dApps) by securely synchronizing secrets across multiple environments without manual handling. In a traditional system, manually updating and managing secrets across different services can be error-prone and slow, leading to potential misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. By automating this process in a decentralized manner, Polykey boosts efficiency while ensuring secure operations.\n\nMoreover, Polykey’s sigchains provide an immutable audit trail of all actions taken within the system, improving accountability and enabling quick verification of changes. This transparency reduces the complexity of auditing secrets, an important factor in the security of Web3 systems. Polykey enhances security and operational resilience in Web3, while reducing the risk of data breaches, configuration errors, and inefficiencies in secret management workflows.", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project reduce development barriers, improve efficiency, or enhance the security of Web3 projects? Please provide specific examples or metrics if available.", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Polykey is still in the early stages of adoption, with a steadily growing community of around 50 active members in our Discord group. These members, including developers and early adopters, are actively engaged in discussions about decentralized key management and secret-sharing, providing valuable feedback that helps shape the platform’s development. Although we are currently building out comprehensive documentation, the community has been instrumental in testing Polykey and offering insights into its use in decentralized and Web3 applications.\n\nPolykey has already garnered interest due to its focus on privacy, security, and decentralized control. Early users have praised its ability to simplify secret management in peer-to-peer networks without relying on centralized infrastructure. While formal metrics such as GitHub stars and downloads are still growing, the platform is seen as a critical tool for enhancing security and efficiency in decentralized workflows, particularly within Web3 projects.\n\nThe feedback we’ve received highlights how Polykey improves the management of sensitive data, enabling secure and seamless integration across distributed environments. As we continue to refine the platform, expand documentation, and grow our open-source community, we anticipate broader adoption and even greater support from the Web3 developer community.", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe the current usage and support for your tool within the developer community. This could include GitHub stars, downloads, or testimonials from developers.", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Polykey’s roadmap focuses on enhancing decentralized secret management and authority delegation to meet the evolving needs of Web3 and decentralized systems. The primary development goals over the next year include the continued refinement of core features and expansion of the platform’s capabilities to meet both enterprise and individual use cases.\n\nKey milestones on the roadmap include:\n\nFirst, advanced secret vault sharing and history management will be refined. Polykey will introduce features like secret schemas and automated synchronization. This will include completing the integration of Git-based workflows into the decentralized peer-to-peer network, ensuring secure and flexible secret sharing.\n\nSecond, Polykey will further develop the dynamic authority management and empowerment framework, enabling programmable smart tokens for authority delegation and control in decentralized systems. This will involve automating delegation and revocation processes to reduce configuration complexity while enhancing security.\n\nThird, the roadmap includes creating a decentralized single sign-on (SSO) solution, allowing seamless and secure identity authentication across decentralized systems without relying on central authorities. This will bridge the gap between centralized identity authentication and decentralized identity management.\n\nFourth, the team will continue to refine the decentralized network architecture, focusing on improving NAT traversal capabilities and local network discovery to ensure robust peer-to-peer connections in complex network environments.\n\nFinally, for Polykey Enterprise, integration with orchestration tools will be a key focus, enabling scalable deployments and automated authority management across distributed infrastructures. This will include improvements in bootstrapping private nodes and managing secure access in enterprise environments.\n\nThe grant funds will primarily be allocated to hiring full-time technical employees focusing on Polykey's development.", "hidden": true, "question": "Outline your project's roadmap and how the grant funds will be used to achieve your development goals.", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "For any project deploying smart contracts on blockchain networks, please list all your deployer addresses and their corresponding blockchain networks. Use this format for each entry: [deployer_address], [chain_id]—for example, 0x123abc..., 42161 (This represents a deployer address on the Arbitrum network). 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It securely manages and distributes encrypted data, such as credentials and other sensitive information, across distributed networks. Users maintain full control over their secrets without relying on third parties, using a peer-to-peer network where they communicate directly to share and manage secrets. This approach prioritizes privacy, security, and user sovereignty.\n\nPolykey enables decentralized secret management by allowing nodes to manage encrypted databases distributed across the network. Instead of depending on centralized services, Polykey’s nodes handle secrets in a way that is both secure and resilient. All communication and data sharing between nodes are end-to-end encrypted, ensuring only authorized parties can access the information. Users create vaults to store and share secrets, which can be synchronized across devices and nodes, providing seamless and secure access. The platform employs sigchains, immutable ledgers that record the actions of each node, enhancing transparency and accountability. Its peer-to-peer networking eliminates intermediaries, reducing vulnerabilities and ensuring robustness.\n\nPolykey delivers significant impact by granting users full sovereignty over their sensitive information. It allows individuals and organizations to manage cryptographic secrets without outsourcing trust to centralized entities like cloud providers, addressing the security risks associated with centralization. The platform aligns with the growing trend toward decentralized infrastructure, particularly in areas like Web3, where decentralization is essential for ensuring privacy, security, and resilience.\n\nPolykey enhances security by focusing on inside-out protection, securing data at the source rather than relying on external perimeter defenses. This method reduces exposure to external threats such as data breaches or third-party compromises. For enterprises, Polykey revolutionizes secret management, particularly across distributed systems and DevOps pipelines, by providing a decentralized solution that eliminates the risks tied to centralized key management. Polykey integrates efficiently into enterprise environments, offering a secure, decentralized approach to managing sensitive data.\n\nIn addition to its enterprise applications, Polykey plays a crucial role in decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain ecosystems by enabling secure, peer-to-peer value transfers. The platform extends beyond key management, supporting secure and decentralized network architectures. 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