MetaMask Institutional, Cobo and Gnosis DAO team up for soulbound token project

Soulbound tokens (SBTs) are becoming a mainstay successful the Web3 abstraction for users and projects to specify themselves successful integer reality. 

A Dec. 13 announcement from Cobo, a integer plus custodian and blockchain exertion developer, revealed a caller SBT task which unites crypto manufacture giants to cater to users’ processing integer identities.

Cobo, MetaMask Institutional and Gnosis DAO teamed up to make “Evolution,” an SBT project, a instrumentality to assistance users specify themselves successful integer world and enactment up to day connected manufacture trends.

A spokesperson for Cobo told Cointelegraph that since SBTs cannot beryllium sold connected the market, it helps make a span betwixt Web2 and Web3 surrounding idiosyncratic identity.

“This provides assurance to the token supplier and allows them to springiness exclusive entree and benefits to their targeted users by giving them an identity."

While SBTs whitethorn beryllium the caller inclination to people a integer persona, they volition not regenerate nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and the inherent utilities that travel with tradable assets.

However, according to the Cobo spokesperson, SBTs whitethorn beryllium progressively utilized to make different level of exclusivity not achievable by a modular NFT. Using the “Evolution” postulation arsenic an example, holders volition person exclusive quarterly probe connected the decentralized concern space unavailable to those extracurricular their SBT community.

“Although the tokens tin beryllium utilized to place and reward definite users, they tin besides beryllium utilized to bounds and exclude users from definite projects oregon benefits.

From a position of brands oregon wallets, SBTs whitethorn “dissuade users from changing wallets oregon rotating keys for information purposes,” says the Cobo representative

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This improvement from large Web3 players comes arsenic the abstraction shifts with the improvement and instauration of SBTs.

These caller integer assets are present being looked astatine arsenic a imaginable key to the metaverse of the future, successful which users person citizenship arsenic a portion of their integer identity.

Recently successful Japan, the fiscal elephantine Sumitomo Mitsui announced it is experimenting with SBTs to assistance conscionable section societal needs.