A Technical Commentary on DeSoc: Part I

unlike web2 profiles, decentralized identities are backed by hard evidence: a permanent, timestamped record of a person’s accomplishments, contributions, interests, and activities to date.

Such strictness means the supplier and consumer don’t need to know each other, and without knowing each other they also have zero-recourse in meatspace-land, where things can get messy, slow and expensive.

...blockchain-based accounts are particularly apt at persistent pseudonymity through providing a public, pseudonymous, and cross-platform address that displays its actions over time, what Shreyas Hariharan calls on-chain reputation. What we need, then, is a technical stack that supports not an identity, but a collection of identities to navigate th... See more