{"title": "Potlatch", "logoImg": "bafkreigalonftrs4pnyyuir44oxtspvxnbymbaquznb4cvbrhe4u5ilbam", "website": "https://potlatchtrade.io", "createdAt": 1734201828740, "credentials": {}, "description": "Potlatch is a decentralized protocol/infrastructure enabled by a smart escrow that allows for anonymous physical commerce protocol for P2P trade. It is a hybrid solution to the problem of privacy in physical trade. While crypto has allowed for fully anonymous digital transactions, the trade in physical goods still requires sharing your physical identity. To receive goods in the mail requires providing the vendor with your name and physical address at the very least. Crypto has already been added to physical commerce (as a payment method), of course, but a solution has not until now been designed for allowing physical goods to flow with the same privacy characteristic of crypto. Potlatch solves this problem, playing the role of a physical oracle and router, enabling anonymous trading partners to connect and trade goods without sharing their physical identities with each other. No names, no addresses. And Potlatch never has access to the traders' digital identities or footprints, including no visibility of their transactions or their wallets. A modular onion routing model also prevents Potlatch from being able to connect the physical addresses with each other, and any address with the contents of a package. The protocol is trustless, and is structured in such a way that the buyer, not Potlatch, is the final arbiter of verification and the release of funds from the escrow into the seller's wallet. The infrastructure scales toward full decentralization, by which users act as routers for goods. The infrastructure further decentralizes auditing and monitoring, with users ensuring that routers do not maintain data pertaining to isolated physical addresses. This is the first protocol developed allowing for atoms to move like bits.", "logoImgData": {}}
Potlatch
Potlatch is a decentralized protocol/infrastructure enabled by a smart escrow that allows for anonymous physical commerce protocol for P2P trade. It is a hybrid solution to the problem of privacy in physical trade. While crypto has allowed for fully anonymous digital transactions, the trade in physical goods still requires sharing your physical identity. To receive goods in the mail requires providing the vendor with your name and physical address at the very least. Crypto has already been added to physical commerce (as a payment method), of course, but a solution has not until now been designed for allowing physical goods to flow with the same privacy characteristic of crypto. Potlatch solves this problem, playing the role of a physical oracle and router, enabling anonymous trading partners to connect and trade goods without sharing their physical identities with each other. No names, no addresses. And Potlatch never has access to the traders' digital identities or footprints, including no visibility of their transactions or their wallets. A modular onion routing model also prevents Potlatch from being able to connect the physical addresses with each other, and any address with the contents of a package. The protocol is trustless, and is structured in such a way that the buyer, not Potlatch, is the final arbiter of verification and the release of funds from the escrow into the seller's wallet. The infrastructure scales toward full decentralization, by which users act as routers for goods. The infrastructure further decentralizes auditing and monitoring, with users ensuring that routers do not maintain data pertaining to isolated physical addresses. This is the first protocol developed allowing for atoms to move like bits.
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