Decentralized Identity: Passport to Web3

The success of web3 hinges on innovation to solve new security challenges created by different application architectures. In web3, decentralized applications or “dApps” are built without relying on the traditional application logic and database layers that exist in Web 2.0; instead, a blockchain, network nodes, and smart contracts are used to manag... See more

A shared database seems like a great place to put a unified user table, and get rid of the archaic need for every application to create their own identity system.This is the promise of decentralized identity and a core pillar of the Web3 vision: every user and builder is in control of their own data, value, relationships, and information. In this v... See more

...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