Giving
DIDs and
VCs a
push
Cardano Catalyst Proposal
F7: Accelerate Decentralized Identity
Evolution of the Internet
The internet is changing fast but the biggest changes are yet to come.
WEB 1.0
Read Only
decentralized
individual sites
WEB 2.0
Writable
highly centralized
google, facebook, etc
WEB 3.0
Executable
decentralized
DIDs and VCs
smart contracts
blockchain
Imagine
a Future
Where...
This is
what
Web 3.0
Promises
ANYONE ANYONE EVERYONE
We need DIDs
and VCs. Few
people even
know what they
are.
Governments
and Institutions
are not thinking
about them.
Therefore DIDs
and VCs are not
available.
History of DIDS and VCs
ADOPTION
20??
2015 DID & VC
CONCEPTS
2017 WORKING
GROUPS FORMED
2019
STANDARDS
WORK
2021 DID SPEC
Internet 3.0, the Executable Web is wiating
Talk to the people creating new and
novel projects using Cardano, and
they are using a workaround for
identity.
Projects resort to non-scaleable
manual identity verification as their
first step because they don't have
any other options.
We don't
need to wait.
Let's make this
happen today!
We realized
EDUCATION
PERSONAL
IDENTITY
FINANCE
REAL ESTATE
MEDICAL
BUSINESS
Bringing People, Reputation, DIDs,
VCs and Blockchain together
Solution
We studied applications in other
ecosystems that brought data
from off-chain web services and
turned it into trusted data.
We studied reputation based
systems that can use prior
performance, staking, and other
mechanisms to provide a
reputation to a person who would
do the work.
We studied gig economy systems
that require people to perform
tasks for compensation.
The Process
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Experience
25 Years of Software Development, Leadership, and Architecture
Industries: Banking, Telecom, Finance, Hospitality, Retail, eCommerce, Media,
Advertising
Worked for Wells Fargo Bank, Choice Hotels, Discount Tire, Ancestry, founder of 2
companies
Plutus Pioneer, Atala Prism Pioneer, Trust Over IP Foundation Member,
Decentralized ID Foundation Member
Languages: Java, Swift, Kotlin, Haskell, Scala
Tell us what you
think!
scott@exemine.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewissk/