The Ethereum Wildfire Project

A Very Brief Summary

The goal of the Ethereum Wildfire Project is to bring Ethereum’s tools into

the Mainstream; that is, into the hands of the population that is completely

un-connected with crypto-currency.

Our strategy is to promote the use of Ethereum for general-purpose authentication. On our website, https://ethereumwildfire.org, we have a demo of how MetaMask can be used to login to a web service. But we are also going to popularize Ethereum-based authentication techniques for corporate settings, for example, logging in to your company’s intranet.

The advantages of this sort of authentication for end-users are profound:

Greater security

No passwords to remember

Overall ease of use

The advantages to the Ethereum eco-system are obvious. We believe that getting Ethereum’s tools, such as MetaMask, into the hands of millions of people will create a fertile garden for an explosion of (currently unforeseeable) DAPPS. Also note that the authentication techniques that we are promoting do not require any on-chain transactions. So they could be adopted before the current Ethereum scaling work (Sharding) is complete.

The Ethereum Wildfire Project is in a seed-funding phase. Although we are generating tokens for contributions, we are not projecting any revenues, nor any appreciation of those tokens. At this time the tokens are just a sort of “badge” showing that a person supports our cause.

For more information about the Ethereum Wildfire Project, please visit our site, https://ethereumwildfire.org.