DIDs & VCs are the z-axis of web3
Blockchains are like flat (x, y) axes
Money is flat, but people aren’t
Account abstraction with
@discoxyz
enables dimension, topography, 360° expression — (x, y, z)
Verifiable credentials are the most expressive form of data the galaxy has ever seen.
You can put any kind of data in an encrypted, signed, independent verifiable, revocable little package.
The only limit is your imagination.
You are the expert on yourself.
Be your own API.
Be your own Oracle.
You should own & control the best data about yourself, not the random dude who made some app you use sometimes.
Thank you
@VitalikButerin
for jamming on the data primitives we love
@TrustlessState
for elevating humanity above implementation
I’m excited to build the future of web3 identity with you 🤝🪩❤️
To the future of consent, data backpacks and beyond
If data primitives were designer brands
👚NFTs are ready-to-wear
-anyone can buy them off the shelf with enough $
-heavy brand aesthetics eg logo
👗Verifiable Credentials are atelier couture
-custom fitted for you alone
-private & personal experience
-use case-specific design
Identity is the core of human coordination
🌎Everyone has one
♾It’s constantly evolving
🤝It’s how we relate and connect to others
🔐Self-sovereignty means you have the most (but not total!) control over your identity
🎮Self-sovereign Identity means Control your Own Adventure
It’s weird if a stranger hugs you without consent.
It’s dangerous if someone sends you a non-transferable NFT with your home address in it.
We need systems of consent AND revocation if we want to build Web3 outside the unsafe panopticon.
Wealthy white men describing data about discrimination as “woke nonsense” is my favorite part of comments on my work.
Please ser, say more about how you’re fed up with women and minorities seeking equal treatment. That will really get your point across.
Self-ownership is self care.
Let’s commit to digital wellness like we do physical, psychological and spiritual wellness.
Data security is the new hydration.
I’m floored by the community’s excitement for Disco
so f*ck it, we ball
DM me if you want early access to the
@discoxyz
private beta
You don’t have to fund a wallet to have fun in web3, just keys and vibes
So let’s dance 🪩✨
Your handle here is owned by twitter
Your driver’s license is owned by the DMV
Your email is owned by google
Your address is owned by the postal service
Your instagram handle is owned by Zuck
It’s time to put the SELF in self-custody with an identity that you own & control
Web3 is a Main Street of shops where every shop sells one Lego piece and no one really knows what anyone else sells or how they fit together.
We need a Lego Store.
“What do you call a panel of all women?”
“A panel.”
Welcome to 2023, web3 is for everyone, and panels of women are not a novelty, they are a mark of excellence as we move toward a more representative community of builders.
What are Verifiable Credentials?
❌Like NFTs, POAPs, SBTs & on-chain assets, BUT revokable, private & gasless
✅The best kept secret in user-owned data, across irl, web2 & web3
🪪🎒🪩Easy w/
@discoxyz
This explainer makes you a VC expert in five minutes:
If you’ve ever deleted a tweet
modified your dating profile
untagged yourself in an unflattering photo
then you get why immutability is not always optimal
Asking hard questions is how I show that I love you
I want to engage your ideas seriously
I want them to be sharp and well-honed
I want to help you defend them so I want them to be the best ❤️
🪩🏰
@guildxyz
&
@discoxyz
present:
Verifiable Credential Access Control
for Discord, GitHub, Telegram, Google Drive
If you can token-gate it, you can reputation-gate it with off-chain data!
So proud of this epic step forward for interop and utility in web3 ✨
Can you hear the music? Do you see the lights?
It's
@discoxyz
time in the Guild castle 🪩🏰
Verifiable Credentials just arrived to a guild near you, and it's kind of a big deal 💫
My definition of the metaverse is showing up to any digital or physical environment and receiving a personalized experience based on the parts of yourself/data you choose to present.
This includes persistent digital environments like VR apps, but let’s think BIGGER.
In 1972, the United States granted women the right to have their own money
in their own bank accounts.
1972.
We are still on the first generations of women allowed to have their own money.
Keep working.
Banning safe abortions means more unsafe abortions
Women of color and low socioeconomic status will be impacted most
It’s discriminatory, it’s dangerous, it’s exhausting to realize the surveillance technology all around us is now an existential threat to women’s safety
The atomic unit of web3 is a human being
Not an address
Not a token
Not a platform
Human coordination tools should be built to deliver amazing experiences for human beings
“Can I pick your brain” is one of the more disrespectful ways to ask for my time.
You bring nothing to the table, and ask me to gift my expertise in service of yr casual interest.
Instead:
Can we discuss your work
Can we review a use case
Can I treat you to a working lunch
Anon, it’s time for you to have a personal data backpack 🎒
Letting apps control your data is SO web2.
@discoxyz
has you covered. Join me at 11am Art Stage @ Art Hotel ETHDenver for spicy memes and metaverse fun!
The blockchain is NOT a place for passports, health records, employment status, dating apps, or any other personal data specific to a human person.
A billboard in Times Square is more private.
I am an American woman.
In some US states, I have more control over my bitcoin than my own body.
That’s insane.
Roe v. Wade is a data privacy case.
Self-custody is now a physical safety issue.
Web3, where you at? Let’s make our keys do more than ponzis and jpgs.
DAOs will be plutocracies (rule by the richest) until we embrace decentralized identity and reputation.
You can’t identify the smartest and most qualified people from only their financial accounting.
You won’t build a community by just putting people in a well-decorated space with snacks, booze and music
Psychological safety and a sense of belonging create better vibes than your stacked event budget ever could
Devs are getting arrested for writing code
Law enforcement is coming for women’s bodily autonomy based on their search history
We’ve been training for this moment of self-custody, privacy, sovereignty, and data ownership hitting hard
The revolution will not be on-chain
LFG
If you’re upset that we’re out here discussing consent
time to reflect on why!
Consent is sexy, and it’s amazing to see human autonomy come to the forefront of web3 conversation 🪩
Who wants a tamagotchi?
I’m going to issue verifiable credentials to anyone who can keep theirs alive for a year
A verifiable slice of the responsibility and accountability we need in web3
GM Denver
Mother Monster has returned
I’ll see you at House of ZK shortly to discuss using ZKPS efficiently at scale
♥️🪩
I’m playing career Cupid today, so come say hello if you’re looking for a sales or eng role and let’s match you with a team
see you in the metaverse!
Everyone in web3 has That Person who took you down the rabbithole
A friend who explained DeFi & helped set up your first wallet
Introduced you to
@BanklessHQ
@
@DefiantNews
Brought you to your first hackathon
Told you web3 is for YOU
Be that person for someone else ❤️
The team at
@appreciate__app
is one of the most scary talented I’ve ever seen
They live in the Web3 we imagine. Their vision for future luxury is the roadmap of our dreams.
I’m so proud that
@discoxyz
is a partner 🪩✨
The other week at a web3 event, a man asked where my husband works
The company I co-founded, where I am CEO, was hosting the event
Next, a male influencer said I didn’t belong in a photo w/ my gfs
The photo was in the women’s restroom at an awards event where I won the award
a man just approached me and
@RosiePerper
to ask us to take a survey on whether or not we were attending the conference with “our boyfriends” or if we actually knew about crypto.
the toxic masculinity in this space has reached a new peak.
The Internet Wizards have spoken.
Decentralized Identifiers - DIDs - shall be the vibe of the party.
Congratulations to all who have worked on this historic achievement for human coordination
@w3c
Preparing to explain web3, public key cryptography and blockchains to a bunch of DC Staffers
They serve Senate committees who decide what rights and freedoms we get in our digital lives
I feel so lucky to share our work
@discoxyz
as we discuss data justice & citizen security
In web3, we need to love our human users more than we love our tech
We are in the service industry
Implementation details are a waste unless they remove friction and add delightful value
If we don’t love, defend, protect & serve our users
what are we even doing here?
In March ‘20, I started listening to
@BanklessHQ
which transformed my vision for the future.
335 episodes later, I got to share that future vision with
@TrustlessState
and our ETHDenver fam.
The Metaverse is magic.
Always meet your heroes.
not your keys, not your crypto
not your DID, not your data
self-custody is safety
keep all your assets secure in your non-custodial wallet & data backpack
and no Bahamian cabal can disrupt your adventures across the metaverse 🪩✨🎒
In the spring of 2021, I started assigning
@nftnow
videos to college students as homework
In the ensuing years, they’ve become the voice of culture in web3 and a constant spark of magic
I am so grateful that
@discoxyz
’s work has been recognized in this year’s NFT100
🪩🎒
Filling out forms by hand is absurd.
Let your data introduce you precisely, according to your consent.
@discoxyz
has got you covered. Automagically rock up with your data for a personalized experience.
No more parties in LA, no more forms in the metaverse.
Crypto isn’t just a guys game
@BoysClubCrypto
rolls deep with hundreds of baddies worldwide
Recruit them. Party with them. Sponsor them. Send your girlfriends and besties and sisters.
and tell them I sent you ✨
Yesterday the
@BoysClubCrypto
Zine provided a colorful, joyful, non-financial spark of joy in an otherwise pretty chaotic day
They were also kind enough to include
@discoxyz
’s work in privacy, consent & fun among the important conversations we are centering as a community
governance is
six girls in a group chat workshopping and approving a spicy text
that is sent to a guy who thinks he’s talking to only you privately
ht
@ldf_gm
I am a globally awarded ichthyology and watershed management researcher
I wrote textbooks still used in science classes today
President George W Bush invited me to the White House
I built public parks
I missed part of my senior year of highschool working with Jane Goodall
We all know what it’s like to live as a function of systems built by men
from the temp of office buildings
to the fact that 55% of unbanked people are women
@maggielove_
will not rest until every femme & nonbinary person is financially empowered
Proud to support
@She__Fi
♥️
eeeeeek
thank you
@EthereumDenver
for hosting the public unveil of
@discoxyz
last year
I am so honored to return and share the Discoverse we’ve built since then
March 4 2:40pm SEE YA BBS
We’ll go on personalized adventures with our data backpacks to
🪩parties…
I just enjoyed the slickest multisig creation ever
certainly the smoothest web3 onboarding in a while
A few clicks, a few seconds, boom 💥
The account is abstract, nice work
@safe
How do you sunset a social token?
What happens when the artist or leader who launched the token turns 80, stops touring and retires?
Do we see a downward falling token price that illustrates this person’s retreat from relevance into obscurity?
I love human beings
I want them to enjoy more fun every day, more time with their loved ones, more space to pursue the ideas & activities that make them feel alive
I work in service of these people & my hope to make their days brighter makes me get out of bed in the morning
People try new apps and tools for 5 reasons:
1) To get paid
2) To get laid
3) To flex
4) To save time or money
5) Because they have to/are forced to by some other party
Web3 isn’t playing with all of the onboarding routes yet, don’t you think anon?
Your web3 adventure doesn’t need to start with your bank account.
Keys are free. Off-chain data is free.
Tokens are cool for financial stuff but for everything else how about we don’t charge people to exist ✨
In May, I explained onstage that web2 surveillance data would be used to prosecute women and limit their bodily autonomy.
On multiple podcasts, I repeated that data self-custody is the key to safety.
Now it’s happening.
Law enforcement is hunting women through their data.
Remember when someone tried to build decentralized AirBnB?
They published this stuff on-chain, publicly
🏠Home address
✈️Travel dates
They built PleaseRobMe, not AirBnB.
Keep your data is on a need-to-know basis. Don’t overshare. Minimum disclosure saves lives 🪩❤️
We don’t talk about web2 assets by their file types
“sick PDF bro!”
“unreal .HEIC you have there!”
I’m excited to talk about the actual web3 things and not just the technical names for their data containers (which I love also)
Implementation details matter but UX rules
Goes on
@BanklessHQ
Tells Zuck to watch out,
@discoxyz
is coming to restore data justice to the universe
Surveillance capitalism adtech pairs us together❤️☺️
h/t
@javipark_
for this stellar shot
💌Crush Credentials💌
You send a Secret Admirer VC to your crush
Your issuer address is encrypted
If your crush sends a Secret Admirer VC to you
both addresses reveal ❤️😍❤️
I love to ask people what they’re excited about
I love when their eyes light up with joy as they explain The Thing, and elaborate with careful focus so we can share the magic
I hope you are so excited about Your Thing that it feels electric in your bones & I hope you share it❤️
>have a lot of work to do
>light a nice candle because wellness
>join zoom call
>candle sets box of tissues on fire
>be cool
>extinguish fire while discussing domain registries
is this balance
Spending money shouldn’t be required to use web3, although the freedom to transact is awesome. Off-chain data and reputation can deliver wild value without crazy fees.
Great design can upgrade this tech from nominally accessible to truly human-enjoyable. This is how we win.
What if soulmates didn’t require consent
Like if you could force someone to be your soulmate without their agreement
Bind your souls together forever even if the other person isn’t cool with it
Unwanted stage five clinger for all eternity
That’s non-transferable NFTs.
Mark Zuckerberg runs a shady organ market where he sells our hearts and minds to the highest bidder behind closed doors.
Ew.
Our team at
@discoxyz
is ready to defend the people and end the black market for our mindshare.
Take the Discopill for an open metaverse 🪩💊
Seriously web3 friends will you please just read about decentralized identity so we can stop getting dunked on about the fact that our ecosystem is embarrassingly uninformed on the subject
@by_caballero
@crabbylions
The crypto/blockchain crowd are human ostriches who largely reject trying to learn/understand anything about the technology areas of identity, distributed systems, and cryptography that happened before a few years ago. These rake-steppers seem to actually enjoy repeating mistakes
💥FlashDIDs
🪪spin up an alias for a specific day, interaction or event
🎟issue & collect reusable credentials
💌messaging endpoint
🎒🪩bring along your data & reputation
🔐w/o exposing other IDs
🗑throw away the alias when you’re done!