Gm human,

Your inbox has now become a path to prove your personhood! We’ve teamed up with ZK Email to launch a new Stamp, built for crypto beginners and a global audience.

• Verifies Amazon and Uber activity using email inbox (Gmail only for now)

• Powered by zero-knowledge proofs = all private data stays private

• Beginner-friendly, free, boosts Unique Humanity Score

• And yes, it earns you HUMN Points too

What’s included

ZK Email checks for real receipts in your inbox (ride or shipping confirmations), verifies their authenticity, and generates proof.

You can unlock up to 6 credentials with this Stamp, worth a total of 4 points:

Uber receipts

• 3+ rides = 🟢 1 point
• 25+ rides = 🟢 0.6 points
• 75+ rides = 🟢 0.4 points

Amazon shipping

• 1+ orders = 🟢 1 point
• 10+ orders = 🟢 0.6 points
• 50+ orders = 🟢 0.4 points

This Stamp is free to verify, at no extra cost.

HUMN onchain SUMR is live

Season 1 is ON. Earn HUMN Points by verifying Stamps, minting onchain, and showing up as a real, unique human.

By collecting the ZK Email Stamp, you can earn 100 extra HUMN points for each credential verified!

Claim your HUMN Points → app.passport.xyz

Hello HUMN 👋

It’s live! HUMN onchain SUMR — Season 1 has officially begun.

If you verified your humanity with Human Passport in the past, you’re probably already earning HUMN Points.

These aren’t your Humanity Score points, they’re something new. A reflection of your onchain presence. As a person. With proof.

They grow as you use Human Passport: through collecting Stamps and other in-app actions.

Here’s how to get started 👇

Start collecting HUMN Points

👉 Log in to app.passport.xyz

✅ Check your Humanity Score (20+ is the threshold)

🧩 Collect Stamps

📍 Interact with the app

🥚 Look for easter eggs

👀 Watch your HUMN Score grow

Early-bird bonus!

If you achieved a score of 20+ before the snapshot on July 13 at 23:59 UTC, you’ve earned a 2x multiplier as a thank-you for showing up early.

You’ll see it highlighted on top of your Passport profile if it applies to you.

We’re glad to have you onboard, HUMN. Together, we keep this space real.

— the Human Passport team,

part of human.tech

Hello human,

At human.tech, we’ve always believed that the internet should belong to people. Not bots, not middlemen, not Sybils.

This summer, we take that belief forward and start something new.

Something deeply human.

HUMN onchain SUMR is about to begin

We invite you to join HUMN onchain SUMR, our first campaign celebrating real, verified onchain presence. It’s our way to recognize those who’ve been showing up with identity, intention, and proof.

Season 1 is all about HUMN Points in Human Passport — and if you’ve been using Passport before, you might already be earning them!

Here’s how it works:

• If your Humanity Score is 20+

• …you’re in!

Once the campaign begins, you’ll start collecting HUMN Points as you interact with the Human Passport ecosystem. These are separate from your Humanity Score — they’re something new. A proof that you’ve shown up onchain, as a human.

2x points multiplier

It’s good to be early

If you’ve ever verified your humanity with a score of 20+ before our snapshot on 13 July at 23:59 UTC, you’ll be eligible for a 2x points multiplier as a thank-you for being early.

Check your Passport score

Can you still join? Yes! The campaign hasn’t started yet, so now’s the best time to prepare.

What you can do today:

• Check your Humanity Score: app.passport.xyz

• Collect Stamps, aim for a score of 20+

• Stay connected via X, Telegram, Discord

• Wait for further announcements

Learn more about the program on our HUMN onchain SUMR introductory blog.

We’ll share more about what these points lead to and how to collect them over the coming weeks. But for now, know this: the internet we’re building together starts with people like you.

Thanks for being here. Thanks for being human.

The human.tech team

Hi human,

We’ve made some updates recently, and even more are on the way.

This one’s all about clarity:

The Human Passport app just got a fresh new look, better reflecting our new human.tech home. We’ve also significantly improved the user experience around collecting Stamps.

The same powerful tools, now in a new, friendlier form.

Here’s what’s changed:

Smarter Stamp Cards

Most of you know Passport for its Stamps. No surprise, they’re still the most widely recognized verification method in our toolkit. Easy to use, easy to implement, tested in 150+ campaigns. And now they’ve gotten even better!

We redesigned the Stamp cards to be more informative, aiming for less friction and a higher success rate in verifying the credentials. Less guesswork, more action.

• Step-by-step guides are now right inside the cards

• Clearer info on time, cost, and requirements is there too

Cleaner UI, Smoother Flow

We cleaned up the UI and made it look a whole lot fresher! The app now reflects the new design language, reinforcing the image of all human.tech products as one comprehensive proof of humanity suite.

Login with Human Wallet

One more update on the list! You can now sign in directly using Human Wallet, making it easier to connect and verify.

New Stamps are Live

We keep updating our Stamp offering with both new Stamps and recalculated weights, to better reflect the humanity (and Sybil) patterns.

Our latest Stamp additions include:

• Proof of Clean Hands

• Biometrics

…and more are on the way (including something for web3 newcomers 👀)

A few other Stamps got recalculated. You can see the full rundown of the weights on our support page.

Want to take a closer look?

Head to app.passport.xyz and explore what’s new.

If you have feedback, we’re all ears. And as always, our support team is here to help.

Stay tuned!

We're announcing something BIG today.

Twitter tweet

It’s good to be human this summer.

Stay verified,
— The Human Passport team

TL;DR

• Donate to Human Passport during Gitcoin Grants 23 (GG23)

• Human Passport is protecting GG23 using Model-Based Detection

• We break down how the Gitcoin Stamp works

• Passport Embed is coming soon - details below

Donate to Human Passport

In addition to being part of GG23’s Sybil protection strategy, we’re excited to share that Human Passport is also a grantee you can support in the Developer Tooling and Libraries category! Your donations enable us to continue innovating with novel protection mechanisms in the web3 ecosystem. And with Quadratic Funding, every donation truly matters.

Let’s keep the web3 community safe and growing together. Learn more and donate to support Human Passport during GG23!

Protecting GG23 with Human Passport

Did you know that Human Passport (formerly Gitcoin Passport) is still playing a key role in Gitcoin Grants Round 23 (GG23)? We are continuing the fight against Sybil attacks, making sure matching funds are fairly allocated.

For GG23, Gitcoin powered its Sybil resistance strategy with two high-impact tools:

• Human Passport’s Model-Based Detection: Leveraging Passport's best-in-class Sybil defense, Gitcoin is analyzing the onchain history of donors to prioritize unique individuals with proven activity across multiple chains. 

• Connection-Oriented Cluster Matching (COCM): This innovative method analyzes donation patterns to detect groups of users who donate to similar sets of projects. By reducing the influence of these patterns, we can better identify and mitigate the effects of Sybil attackers and airdrop farmers.

What do you need to do to have your donation matched? Nothing! Model-Based Detection checks your address’s history in the background, and doesn’t require you to have a Passport. 

Although GG23 isn’t utilizing our Stamp-based verification, dozens of other projects and campaigns still rely on Passport’s Stamp-based verification to ensure their communities stay safe from Sybil attacks.

Gitcoin Stamp Clarification

Let’s chat about the Gitcoin Stamp.

We’ve been offering points for Gitcoin contributions for quite some time, and always receive questions around the time of their core rounds. 

The Gitcoin Stamp awards points to all contributors to the core round projects who pass the Gitcoin Sybil defenses. You can see a full list of rounds included in the Gitcoin Stamp at the following link: Eligible Gitcoin rounds.

However, a very important detail:

We don’t add contributions from rounds until a few weeks after the round closes!

This delay provides Gitcoin the time they need to run their Sybil defense check so we don’t award points to bad actors.

This means that – if you make a contribution to the current round, GG23 – your points will be awarded in early May, once the round has closed and the Sybil defense checks have been completed.

No worries if you forget these details! We included all of this information within the Stamp description on the Passport app.

Product Launch: Passport Embed

Human Passport is 𝓮𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓿𝓲𝓷𝓰 – after the acquisition by human.tech in January 2025, we’re excited to share a new product sneak peek:

Passport Embeds

Passport Embed is an embeddable component, similar to CAPTCHA, that lets you verify your humanity directly inside a partner app or website. No redirects. No extra steps. No hassle. 

Embed checks your wallet for existing Stamps and, if needed, guides you through verification with additional Stamps like KYC, biometrics, or socials.

We are currently running alpha testing of Passport Embeds with selected partners. You can check out the Embed demo page and reach out to the Passport team if you’re interested in testing the Embed product early. 

Thanks for helping make web3 safer and fairer for real humans! The Sybils aren’t slowing down, and neither are we.

— The Human Passport team

TL:DR

• November was a big month for new partner launches!

• The API is ~evolving~

• Our periodic Stamp weight update is coming

• And a quick recap of our GG22 success!

New partners this month

This month has been big for humans… not so much for Sybils. 

Over this past month, we’ve seen a significant number of new humans sign up for Passport to gain access to some pretty great partner programs. Here’s whose jumping on the Passport train:

⭐️ Story Protocol -- Protecting testnet faucet
⭐️ Scroll -- Earn developer talent badges
⭐️ Liquid.Fun -- Protect early memecoin purchases
⭐️ Sunrise -- Protecting testnet activities

Make sure to follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date with the most recent launches: @gitcoinpassport

And you can always see a full list of Passport XYZ partners on our ecosystem page. 

Passport API v1 v2 ✅

We’re in the process of rolling out a new version of the Passport API!

This update both simplifies and adds key functionality to the API, ensuring developers can take advantage of our best-in-class Sybil defense with ease. 

✔ Less API requests to pull user scores
✔ Access to historical scores
✔ More intuitive routes
✔ Simplified developer onboarding
✔ Less Gitcoin, more Passport XYZ in our base URL ;)

Existing partners – no worries. We aren’t planning on retiring v1 of the API anytime soon. You only need to update if you’d like to take advantage of some of the new features. 

• V2 Overview

• Migration guide

Please feel free to reach out on our Developer Telegram if you have any questions: t.me/passportxyzdevs 

Stamp weight updates are coming!

Sybil defense in an ever-changing web ecosystem is a constant cat and mouse game. 

Every time we make adjustments to our Stamp offering and weights, we are disrupting Sybils and other bad actors; creating more friction and reducing their chances of gaming the system. This means, they can’t as easily take advantage of the programs that are built for you, the genuine humans of the web. 

We’ve put our data scientists to work, reviewing how effective our Stamp lineup is, and making adjustments to ensure that the 100+ partners who’ve chosen Passport XYZ for Sybil defense are satisfied with the results. 

~Stamp updates are coming before the end of the year~

Don’t worry though! We are making these adjustments less disruptive for Passport holders. 

1. Any Stamps that are changing will still be valid in your Passport until they expire.

2. The 1-click flow will automatically verify Stamps quickly, meaning you won’t have much to update when the changes happen.

Our data scientists are rockstars. With each adjustment, we are focused on how we can make things easier for humans, more difficult for Sybils, and improve the overall effectiveness of the Passport XYZ defense for partners.

We look forward to this improvement for humans, and thank you for trusting us to be your unique humanity proof  🙏🏼

GG22, a recap

A massive thank you to the thousands of contributors who donated to Passport XYZ as part of the Developer Tooling and Growing the Gardens rounds during #GG22!

We received the full match amount from the massive Developer Tooling round, and had a great showing with the Growing the Gardens round as well. The results:

GG22 OSS Developer Tooling & Libraries round
We received $30k in matching funds based on the 6509 contributors who donated $7299.94. 
Results

GG22 Growing the Gardens round
We received $1170.19 in matching funds based on the 164 contributors who donated $301.06
Results

Thanks for helping make web3 more safe and fair for real humans! Enjoy the holiday celebrations this month, and we will be back soon with some exciting updates for what’s next for Passport XYZ.

Make sure to follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date with the latest: @gitcoinpassport

TL:DR

• Donate to Passport XYZ during Gitcoin Grants 22 (GG22)

• Passport XYZ is protecting GG22 using Model-Based Detection

• We go into details on how the Gitcoin Stamp works

• And we announced Custom Passport this week, a new product available to partners

Donate to Passport XYZ
(Formerly Gitcoin Passport)

In addition to being part of GG22’s Sybil protection strategy, we’re excited to share that Passport XYZ is also a grantee you can support in GG22! Your donations enable us to continue innovating with novel protection mechanisms in the Web3 ecosystem.

Let’s keep the Web3 community safe and thriving together. Learn more and donate to support Passport XYZ during GG22!

Donate to Passport XYZ

Protecting GG22 with Passport XYZ

Passport XYZ is still playing a key role in Gitcoin Grants Round 22 (GG22) Sybil defense strategy? We are continuing the fight against Sybil attacks while ensuring that matching funds are fairly allocated.

For GG22, Gitcoin has evolved its Sybil resistance strategy with two powerful tools:

• Passport XYZ’s Model-Based Detection: Leveraging Passport XYZ's cutting-edge Sybil defense, Gitcoin is analyzing the onchain history of donors to prioritize unique individuals with proven activity across multiple chains.

• Connection-Oriented Cluster Matching (COCM): This innovative method analyzes donation patterns to detect groups of users who donate to similar sets of projects. By reducing the influence of these patterns, we can better identify and mitigate the effects of Sybil attackers and airdrop farmers.

What do you need to do to have your donation matched? Nothing! Model-Based Detection checks your address’s history in the background, and doesn’t require you to have a Passport. 

Although GG22 isn’t utilizing our Stamp-based verification, dozens of other projects and campaigns still rely on Passport’s Stamp-based verification to ensure their communities stay safe from Sybil attacks.

Gitcoin Stamp Clarification

Let’s chat about the Gitcoin Stamp.

We’ve been offering points for Gitcoin contributions for quite some time, and always receive questions around the time of their core rounds. 

The Gitcoin Stamp awards points to all contributors to the core round projects who are able to pass the Gitcoin Sybil defenses. You can see a full list of rounds included in the Gitcoin Stamp at the following link:

Eligible Gitcoin rounds

There is one very important detail that we want to call out:

We don’t add contributions from rounds until a few weeks after the round closes!

This delay provides Gitcoin the time they need to run their Sybil defense check so we don’t award points to bad actors.

This means that – if you make a contribution to the current round, #GG22 – your points will be awarded later in November once the round has closed and the Sybil defense checks have been completed.

No worries if you forget these details! We include all of this information within the Stamp description on the Passport app.

Product Launch: Custom Passport

Passport XYZ is 𝓮𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓿𝓲𝓷𝓰 – We’re excited to share a new product with you:

Custom Passport

Now available to all partners who need a proof of humanity verification solution built around their ecosystem’s unique needs.

Throughout the past year, we’ve been experimenting with this feature across several campaigns with some major partners, including the following:

• Scroll

• Linea

• Shape

• Avalanche

• zkLink

• Octant

And these partners have used these dashboards for a variety of different use cases, including creating unique humanity proofs onchain to help inform rewards programs, use a curated set of Stamps to protect quadratic funding matching pools, and protect contract secured revenue!

Check out Scroll’s custom dashboard

So what’s available with Custom Passport?

• A branded dashboard with your messaging and CTA

• A curated set of Stamps and custom score weights

• Create your own Stamps: GuestList and DeveloperList

• Elevated Rate Limits 

Read all about it in our announcement Tweet, and reach out to the Passport team if you’re interested in building one for your community.

Thanks for helping make web3 more safe and fair for real humans!