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Verify your Gitcoin Passport with Avail

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Verifying Your Identity

Navigating Avail’s Account Verification Process

The following guide walks you through verifying your Gitcoin Passport with Avail. To learn how to create a passport, please have a look at Creating a Gitcoin Passport.

Account Verification Process

Avail has introduced a mandatory verification process based on Gitcoin Passport to prevent spam and to ensure testnet tokens are distributed in a fair manner. If you are not already a member of the Avail community, please join the Avail Discord server first.

The following guide will show you how to verify your Gitcoin Passport with Avail and how to link your Gitcoin verified wallet to your Discord account.

Please Note

To successfully verify your passport with Avail, you need a Gitcoin Passport with a score of at least 20. If you haven’t done so already, please create a Gitcoin Passport before continuing.

Completing the Verification Process

Step-by-Step Guide for Verifying Your Identity

Visit the Avail Faucet Verification Page

To get started, please visit the Avail Faucet Verification page.

Connect Wallet

Please click on “Connect Wallet” to connect your wallet with the verificaiton page. Make sure you connect the wallet that holds a Gitcoin Passport with a score of at least 20. Several different wallet provides, such as MetaMask are supported. 

Authorize Sign In

In the next step, your wallet provider will ask you to verify that you wish to connect your wallet to the Avail verification page. Please click on “Sign In” to accept the connection request and to continue.

Connect Discord Account

If you have successfully connected your wallet, you will see your linked wallet address on the top right-hand corner of the page. The UI will then ask you to connect your Discord account in the next step.

Please do so by clicking on “Connect Discord.” Review the message prompt and if you agree with it, please click “Authorize”.

Submit Gitcoin Passport

Once both your wallet address and your Discord account are connected to the verification page, you can click on “Submit Gitcoin Passport” to finish the verification process.

Request Role

In the last step, all that is left to do is to click on the “Give role” button. Doing so will automatically assign the verified-faucet role to your linked Discord ID.

That’s it!

Congratulations, you can now claim AVL tokens from the faucet. We’ll show you how this is done in the following guide: Claiming Tokens from Faucet.

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