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+# 📍 Location Proof Protocol
+
+The Location Proof Protocol aims to address the challenge of proving location on the decentralized web in a flexible, yet standardized way.
+
+Given the diverse requirements and approaches for location proofs, our goal is to support innovation across a wide range of proof strategies
+while providing a standard data model for creating and verifying these proofs.
+
+This repository currently contains the code necessary to deploy the core Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS) schema for the protocol. The
+standard includes a framework (in development) for building "recipes" that allow for many different strategies for proving location to be
+added.
+
+## The Challenge
+
+### Broad Approaches to Location Proofs
+
+- **Authority-based Strategies**: Authorized individuals attest to someone's presence. i.e. ticket checkers, event hosts
+- **Social Strategies**: People verify each other's claims, confirming or challenging their validity. i.e. permissionless social
+  confirmation, perhaps with sybil-resistant scoring of confirmer accounts; PIN exchange
+- **Near-field Machine Strategies**: Hardware devices attest to the presence of another device through information exchange or cryptographic
+  'endorsement' of a claim. i.e. RFID; NFC; Bluetooth
+- **Network Machine Strategies**: Nodes on a local network or hardware wallets triangulate position and sign confirmation attestations. i.e.
+  Time of Flight; Time Difference of Arrival
+- **Sensor Data Strategies**: Where devices sense local networks, environmental conditions, images + audio, accelerometers, etc, and
+  location is discerned from analysis of this evidence. i.e. radio frequency / optical / inertial / acoustic / magnetometer localization
+
+In addition to these different categories of strategies, various verification schemes can be employed to endow location proof recipes with a
+different attributes, such as privacy, game theoretic assurances of validity, etc.
+
+- **Time-based Schemes**: Involves waiting or challenge periods.
+- **Cryptographic Schemes**: Zero-knowledge proofs verified on-chain or in peer nodes.
+- **AI-based Schemes**: Analyzing photos or contextual information.
+- **Economic Schemes**: Requires payment or staking value for proof creation.
+
+This is an incomplete list, and we hope to support a growing set of experiments in location proof design.
+
+### Diverse Spatial Reference Systems
+
+Location proofs may not always relate to Earth-based coordinates but could be relative to other objects or within different spatial
+reference systems, such as:
+
+- Being with a person at a particular time
+- Location in a metaverse space
+- Presence in a vehicle or a specific room
+
+Astral's Location Proof Protocol aims to support location proofs within a wide range of different spatial reference systems, both global and
+relative. However, initial development of the protocol will focus on positioning objects / events on Earth.
+
+## Our Approach
+
+### Generalized Location Proof Protocol
+
+We are developing a protocol that accommodates various proof strategies while maintaining a standard data model and tools for creating and
+verifying location proofs.
+
+## Repository Contents
+
+- **Contract Deployment Scripts**: Scripts to deploy the core EAS schema for the Location Proof Protocol
+- **Proof Creation Documentation**: Detailed documentation on how to interact with the EAS schema
+- **Location Proof Strategy Development Guides**: Detailed information on how to create and register recipes for creating location proofs
+  based on different strategies
+
+## Core Schema v0.1 (Sepolia Testnet)
+
+The current working schema described [here](./schema/README.md) is deployed on Ethereum Sepolia testnet, UID
+`0x9efcbaa4a39a233977a6db557fd81ba5adc9023ca731db86cfd562c4fbf4073e`
+([view on EASScan](https://sepolia.easscan.org/schema/view/0x9efcbaa4a39a233977a6db557fd81ba5adc9023ca731db86cfd562c4fbf4073e)).
+
+## Contributing
+
+We welcome contributions to improve the protocol and tools. Please read our
+[contributing guidelines](https://github.com/AstralProtocol/astralprotocol/wiki/Contributing-guidelines) for more details.