Metamask serves as a strong mental model of what a broader DID solution could look like, as well as highlighting the promise and perils of self-sovereignty. Because Metamask users hold their own private keys, they truly own the assets in their wallets. There is no need to trust third parties with security and custody. Furthermore, users can... See more

Web2 identity solutions are centralised. You give your identity data to third party providers. As a result, there is a security and privacy risk. With Web3, you would be the single owner of your identity data. Your credentials would be stored on-chain and validated once by credential verifiers. Third party services which want to verify your... See more

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