Introduction

There’s a big movement of digitizing Government-issued IDs (e.g., driver’s licences or passports) through technologies such as OCR, and then conducting liveness testing on the person. This method basically just digitizes a processes that was needed for conducting in-person transactions. But now since more transactions are happening digitally, and since many new Internet-native use cases don’t require knowing someone’s Government name, how can alternate sources of verifiable credentials fuel the Internet Economy?

About Episode
During this conversation, we discuss:

• Why the common saying ‘data is the new oil’ is false?
• Alternative forms of identity verification for the web.
• The Social KYC product.
• Use cases in the Gaming industry and why gaming is poised to become early adopters of SSI.
• What should Identity look like in Web3
• The KILT protocol (permissionless blockchain as a root of trust)
• The Value flow in a decentralized identity model.
• Use cases for VCs such as Ratings/Reputation in the DeFi space.

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