A user's story illustrates how losing access to a single email account can lock you out of your entire digital life, highlighting the need for data ownership.
Web5 is a decentralized platform that combines the convenience of Web2 with the user-control ethos of Web3, built on open standards.
Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are user-owned, globally unique identifiers, anchored on a blockchain or the web, that are not controlled by any central authority.
Verifiable credentials are a W3C standard that allows users to prove claims about themselves, like income or identity, without revealing unnecessary personal data.
Decentralized web nodes (DWNs) are personal data stores that allow users to control their data and take it with them across different applications that understand the same schemas.
Examples like portable music playlists and user-owned medical records demonstrate how Web5 can improve data portability and user control.
A code walkthrough demonstrates the core CRUD operations for managing data in a decentralized web node using the Web5 JS SDK.
The Q&A session addresses common questions about Web5's naming, its relation to protocols like Solid, and the business incentives for adoption.
Bitpanda
Vienna, Austria
Sensory-Minds GmbH
Offenbach am Main, Germany
30:04Angie Jones, Mike Brock, Daniel Buchner, Markus Sabadello & Nalin Mittal
26:34Darrel Idiagbor
29:31Adam Larter
30:32Ed Marquez
42:19Soumaya Erradi
56:45Peter Busch
28:50Ed Marquez
32:15Michael Ionita
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
Wynd Labs
DigitalOcean, LLC
Seattle, United States of America
Anduril Industries
Washington, United States of America
