Web3 identity solutions center around user-centric ownership models. They also prioritize portability, with solutions promising a foundational identity layer that enables inherent information transferability, rather than retroactively fitted portability solutions as in web2.

To manage data, we need a protocol that makes it easy to store, discover, and route information about an identifier. For Web3 to live up to its promise, that routing table should (a) be unified rather than siloed by application or any other boundary, and (b) be sovereign, give control of data directly to each identifier.This suggests a simple... See more