Whales, degens, anons, influencers, frens..all lead to one common key word: identity. As Web3 enables data ownership and accessibility, decentralized identity has been an emerging hot topic. This week we have Identity as the key word of Mirror Weekly: what kind of revolutionary future can we foresee via decentralized identity?

• Welcome to the Mirror Spotlight Series: It's your time to shine.：Writers and curators share entries on the Mirror Discord #pitch-spotlight-project channel. Based on spotlight eligibility criteria, community engagement and feedback, and members voting, winners will be awarded with $WRITE tokens.

• How to be an early user of Web3?：Need a beginner's guide to the Web3 world? This one might be right for you. This article provides online courses and tutorials along with getting-started guides to new investors, contributors or builders.

• Connecting Web3 Creators with Audiences：Diamond DAO developing Chainverse, a social graph to connect entities.

• The 4 Key Web3 Trends at EthDenver：Four Web3 trends from Alex Tsu coming back from ETH Denver: scaling DAO, the creator economy, the post-profile picture NFT, and solving cross-chain interoperability.

• Growth in Web3 Just Hits Different：Growth of Web3 turns new users into owners and contributors. This article illustrates values on Web3 growth regardless of the Layer 3 shill at the end.

• The Actual* Web3 Curation Landscape：This one as a reply to JO7.eth’s Web3 curation landscape, as it was included in Mirror Weekly 17. Authors argue the decentralized curation framework over the JO7.eth’s web2 curated web3 data.

• web3 starter pack for non-technical ppl：Another resource pack for web3 newbies.

• Learning to Work With Ethereum Storage and State Data：Data scientist Andrew Hong deep dives into Ethereum storage and state data, with example queries using Uniswap and Chainlink on-chain price oracle.

• Getting Into Web3 as a Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer：As a senior data scientist, the author talks about how to get started and offers his toolbox.

• The Unbundling of Opensea：Analog to how eBay’s shares were taken by other Web2 competitors, authors argue it’s likely Opensea loses its dominance to other vertically-oriented NFT marketplaces (editor: guys recall blockchain 3.0 in 2017?)

• The Spirit of NFT: Can, Frog, and A 15-Minute Hero Dream of Everybody：Translation from a once populr Chinese-written article regarding the spirit of NFT. The original version has been widely known among normies.

• Solarpunk! Reimagining Public Goods in the Age of Ethereum：From cyberpunk to cyperpunk, now the concept of solarpunk is proposed among Ethereum community. Human beings are underway to construct its living environment with cyber technology enabling.

• Fem3 Voices Volume 1: Station's Conductors：A piece outlines how women individuals and gender identity are realized in the Web3 industry, written by the two female co-founders from Station. Also cover the latest production form Station: Waiting Room.

• Identity as Information：An identity system links information and identifiers. Dependability, flexibility and accessibility are the three criteria to judge an identity system.

• On-chain identity landscape：Another article on onchain identity. Contrast to the one above, this article focuses on a summary of decentralized identity application and protocols.

• What Lies Beyond Patronage? Crypto's Role in the Creator Economy：More about interpretation of Kevin Kelly’s 1000 True Fans rather than crypto, but authors illustrate how the theory can be applied in the creator economy.

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