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Sismo

01Description

Sismo is a sovereign identity aggregator that issues zero-knowledge proofs over user-owned data ('Data Vaults'). Sismo Connect is a ZK-SSO that lets dapps request verified claims (group membership, reputation, age) without revealing the underlying source accounts.

02Best for
  • 01ZK-based gating and airdrops
  • 02Sybil-resistant voting and quests
  • 03selective disclosure of identity claims
  • 04off-chain attestations bound to on-chain proofs
  • 05anonymous reputation
03Install
  • pnpm add @sismo-core/sismo-connect-react
  • pnpm add @sismo-core/sismo-connect-server
  • forge install sismo-core/sismo-connect-solidity
04Environment variables
VariableScopeDescription
NEXT_PUBLIC_SISMO_APP_IDClientSismo Connect appId registered in the Sismo factory.
05Prompt snippet
Use Sismo Connect for ZK identity proofs. On the client, render `<SismoConnectButton config={{ appId }} auths={[{ authType: AuthType.VAULT }]} claims={[{ groupId: '0x…' }]} onResponseBytes={setResponse} />` from `@sismo-core/sismo-connect-react`. Send the `response` bytes to your server and verify with `SismoConnectServer({ appId }).verify(response, { auths, claims })`, or verify on-chain by inheriting `SismoConnect` in Solidity and calling `verify(response, …)` to recover a unique `vaultId` and the proven claim values. Use `vaultId` as a Sybil-resistant pseudonymous user key.
06Gotchas
  • Sismo's hosted infra has been intermittently maintained since the team's 2024 pivot — verify the relayer / data-source endpoints are still serving your `groupId` before depending on it in production.
  • On-chain verification has non-trivial gas cost (hundreds of thousands of gas per proof); batch or move verification off-chain when possible.
  • `vaultId` is per-app — the same user gets a different `vaultId` in each appId, so do not try to correlate users across apps.
  • Group membership snapshots are computed off-chain by the Sismo Hub; new members are not provable until the next snapshot is published.
  • Browser proof generation pulls a sizeable WASM bundle and can be slow on mobile; show a progress UI.
07Alternatives