Your crypto wallet is the key to your Web3 identity
2022.07.11 10:18
Digital identity has been a fraught subject since the earliest days of the internet. Web2 bridged the gap between people’s offline lives, online identities, and creative and consumer habits, which has given way to a thoroughly integrated internet experience designed to be as personalized and targeted as possible. As a new phase of virtual interaction and digital identity appears on the horizon — one even more interconnected than Web2 — we need to rethink personalization and ownership with an eye to what did and didn’t work in the world of Web2.
While there is no blueprint for the Web3 identity procedure, we can predict the trajectory that digital identity in the metaverse will follow. This trajectory is already taking shape.
Michael Calce is the founder and CEO of DecentraWeb. He is the chairman of the board of advisors for HP (NYSE:HPQ) and works with many Fortune 500 companies. Michael gained notoriety in 2000 for launching one of the highest-profile DDoS attacks in history at the time, taking down Yahoo, eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY), CNN and other high-profile sites. Since then, Michael’s mission has been to raise awareness around cybersecurity and to make the internet a safer place.
