Mapping the web3 Identity Landscape

If decentralized identity were widely adopted, people would be able to carry their full selves with them as they traverse cyberspace: their affinities and experiences reflected by what they’ve created, contributed to, earned, and owned online, no matter the specific platform. This would bring us closer to how things work in the physical world, wher... See more

When I reflect on the lived experience of identity, I think of something that is complex, personal, intersectional, situational, intersubjective. It seems like the thing we are gesturing toward when we say “on-chain identity” is not this personal lived experience of identity, but something else. What is it?

One of the biggest shifts in Web 3 is the extraction of your identity/reputation out of the application layer into the user layer.

...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

Wallets and Profiles will serve an important role in the web3 interface. It’s likely that one of the existing wallets, or a new company like Crucible, will roll up multiple wallets and Profiles into one Decentralized Identifier that lets a user bring his or her activity, contributions, relationships, and inventory from across chains with them where... See more