Does Real Identity Matter for Networks?

The hope is that one day blockchain-based social media and community tools can create a portable resume or data set that will allow one to take one’s curiosity and obsession data from platform to platform; for now though, creating holistic cross-platform portraits of experts is key. Allowing active discourse participants / future experts to share t... See more

This is the classic social media chicken-and-egg cold start problem. Every Silicon Valley PM has likely heard the stories about how Twitter and Facebook's critical keystone metrics were similar: get a user to follow some minimum number of accounts. Achieve that and those users turn into WAUs, or even better, DAUs. Users failing to follow enough acc... See more

Occupying the middle ground between Facebook’s real-name policy and 4chan’s posts without accounts, platforms like Reddit and Twitter are home to many pseudonymous accounts. The key quality, here, is that these accounts display persistent pseudonymity.

• Existing web2 social networking platforms cause issues like data and security breaches, manipulation of public opinion, and relaying false information.


• Digital assets created according to interoperable standards on public blockchains are portable and transferable so user history is not stuck on a particular platform.


• A core philosophical principle of

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