Comparison: Soulbound Tokens VS Verifiable Credentials
The recent DeSoc paper illustrated how Soulbound tokens (SBTs) could combat the over-financialized phenomenon in Web3, and encode a trust network where human connection and broad collaboration across differences can flourish. Amid a heated discussion about SBT and alternative solutions such as VC or ‘signed claim’, we want to give a general comparison of Soulbound Token and Verifiable Credential (VC) and explore constructing identity on the implementation level. This article is reproduced fro...
Comparison: Soulbound Tokens VS Verifiable Credentials
The recent DeSoc paper illustrated how Soulbound tokens (SBTs) could combat the over-financialized phenomenon in Web3, and encode a trust network where human connection and broad collaboration across differences can flourish. Amid a heated discussion about SBT and alternative solutions such as VC or ‘signed claim’, we want to give a general comparison of Soulbound Token and Verifiable Credential (VC) and explore constructing identity on the implementation level. This article is reproduced fro...
Identity’s Discourse I: Core Identity Is the Most Profound Need in On-Chain Self-Exploration
Identity is a subtle social construct that is often deconstructed in a group or political context. By observing the origin of identity, one can find that identity is in essence a coherent, information-composing, social-interaction-generated aggregate. In Symbolic Interactionism, human identity is conceptualized into different levels: role identity → group identity → social identity → core identity. Among them, role identity, such as occupation and education, has a weak tie with one’s self, wh...
Identity’s Discourse I: Core Identity Is the Most Profound Need in On-Chain Self-Exploration
Identity is a subtle social construct that is often deconstructed in a group or political context. By observing the origin of identity, one can find that identity is in essence a coherent, information-composing, social-interaction-generated aggregate. In Symbolic Interactionism, human identity is conceptualized into different levels: role identity → group identity → social identity → core identity. Among them, role identity, such as occupation and education, has a weak tie with one’s self, wh...
身份絮语 I：核心身份是最深层的链上自我探索
身份是一种微妙的社会构造，它常常在群体或政治的背景下被解构。通过观察身份的渊源可以发现，身份本质上是一个连贯的、人和社会互动所产生的、由信息组成的有机整体。在符号互动学里，人的身份由浅层到深层被分为：角色身份→群体身份→社会身份→核心身份。其中，角色身份诸如职业学历和人的自我有弱联系，而核心身份对人的自我有最深刻的反映。从群体身份到更多身份需要PFP社区如Punk、BAYC、Doodles、Azuki、Crypto Coven等，带动了匿名角色的身份趋势。人们使用PFP来代表自己的虚拟形象，让个人身份和PFP画像融为一体。PFP为成员带来新的群体身份和归属感：拥有PFP就是加入某个社群，是对个人身份的拓展。况且，PFP画像背后是一个个生动的加密圈文化：Crypto Punk是加密元老，BAYC是new power/money，Azuki是亚文化社区，Coven是精致女性群体等。所以，PFP社区的性质和传统意义上的Social Club非常相似：通过艺术设计、故事调性、经济门槛等，对成员进行初级筛选，吸引喜爱其文化调性的人群加入。这些社区立根于一个高度垂直的文化，或清晰统一的目标，...
身份絮语 I：核心身份是最深层的链上自我探索
身份是一种微妙的社会构造，它常常在群体或政治的背景下被解构。通过观察身份的渊源可以发现，身份本质上是一个连贯的、人和社会互动所产生的、由信息组成的有机整体。在符号互动学里，人的身份由浅层到深层被分为：角色身份→群体身份→社会身份→核心身份。其中，角色身份诸如职业学历和人的自我有弱联系，而核心身份对人的自我有最深刻的反映。从群体身份到更多身份需要PFP社区如Punk、BAYC、Doodles、Azuki、Crypto Coven等，带动了匿名角色的身份趋势。人们使用PFP来代表自己的虚拟形象，让个人身份和PFP画像融为一体。PFP为成员带来新的群体身份和归属感：拥有PFP就是加入某个社群，是对个人身份的拓展。况且，PFP画像背后是一个个生动的加密圈文化：Crypto Punk是加密元老，BAYC是new power/money，Azuki是亚文化社区，Coven是精致女性群体等。所以，PFP社区的性质和传统意义上的Social Club非常相似：通过艺术设计、故事调性、经济门槛等，对成员进行初级筛选，吸引喜爱其文化调性的人群加入。这些社区立根于一个高度垂直的文化，或清晰统一的目标，...
