IntroductionWhat do you think of when you hear the word “identity”? Do you think of usernames and passwords? Do you think of your name or your nickname? How about how you express yourself? Maybe it has something to do with your culture, or family, or a particular group you belong to. Ask 100 people and you will get 100 different answers to the question of “what is identity”? No matter how you answer this question, an identity requires at least one “identifier”, if not more. You can think of a...

IntroductionWhat do you think of when you hear the word “identity”? Do you think of usernames and passwords? Do you think of your name or your nickname? How about how you express yourself? Maybe it has something to do with your culture, or family, or a particular group you belong to. Ask 100 people and you will get 100 different answers to the question of “what is identity”? No matter how you answer this question, an identity requires at least one “identifier”, if not more. You can think of a...

Granular community access control has never been easier with free, off-chain proofs of membership, vibes, and more thanks to our friends at Guild.xyz. The best tokenized communities in web3 are known for being more than their tokens. And now, we are able to combine on and off-chain proofs to create custom, permissionless, personalized experiences in the places we spend our time, in an easier and more cost effective way than ever before. How? Now with the power of verifiable credentials, Disco...

Granular community access control has never been easier with free, off-chain proofs of membership, vibes, and more thanks to our friends at Guild.xyz. The best tokenized communities in web3 are known for being more than their tokens. And now, we are able to combine on and off-chain proofs to create custom, permissionless, personalized experiences in the places we spend our time, in an easier and more cost effective way than ever before. How? Now with the power of verifiable credentials, Disco...

Welcome to DIDs 201In our last post, we covered what DIDs are and more importantly why DIDs exist. Now it’s time to diver a little deeper into how they actually work. An identifier, as we know, is not magical by itself, but DIDs are not just identifiers they also have something called a DID Document. The DID Document is where the power of a DID truly resides.What is a DID Document?A DID Document (DDO) is, you guessed it, a document! An identifier by itself can only tell someone so much. Just ...

Welcome to DIDs 201In our last post, we covered what DIDs are and more importantly why DIDs exist. Now it’s time to diver a little deeper into how they actually work. An identifier, as we know, is not magical by itself, but DIDs are not just identifiers they also have something called a DID Document. The DID Document is where the power of a DID truly resides.What is a DID Document?A DID Document (DDO) is, you guessed it, a document! An identifier by itself can only tell someone so much. Just ...

Disco District is a proof of concept by Disco and District Labs that allows your to use your off-chain identity to gain access to mint an on-chain NFT. Head to disco.districtlabs.com to check it out!Breaking The Glass CeilingWeb3 is bumping up against a glass ceiling of utility. DAOs struggle to coordinate to solve problems beyond capital allocation. NFT artists have few means to identify true fans from speculators and bot. DeFi products are reaching the limits of financial engineering. And m...

Disco District is a proof of concept by Disco and District Labs that allows your to use your off-chain identity to gain access to mint an on-chain NFT. Head to disco.districtlabs.com to check it out!Breaking The Glass CeilingWeb3 is bumping up against a glass ceiling of utility. DAOs struggle to coordinate to solve problems beyond capital allocation. NFT artists have few means to identify true fans from speculators and bot. DeFi products are reaching the limits of financial engineering. And m...

Hanging in there? We’ve covered a lot in the past two posts. But don’t worry, we’re in the final stretch. In this installment of our series on Verifiable Credentials we’ll talk about the different implementations of credentials, the lifecycle of a credentials and finally, we’ll cover some of the sexy (to nerds like us, anyway) cryptographic techniques we can use with VCs, such as zero-knowledge proofs. Are you ready? Ok, let’s go!The 2 Types of Verifiable CredentialsNow, it would be great if ...

Hanging in there? We’ve covered a lot in the past two posts. But don’t worry, we’re in the final stretch. In this installment of our series on Verifiable Credentials we’ll talk about the different implementations of credentials, the lifecycle of a credentials and finally, we’ll cover some of the sexy (to nerds like us, anyway) cryptographic techniques we can use with VCs, such as zero-knowledge proofs. Are you ready? Ok, let’s go!The 2 Types of Verifiable CredentialsNow, it would be great if ...

In our previous post we introduced the concept of Verifiable Credentials and the problems they exist to solve. If you haven’t read that post, we recommend starting there so that everything in this post will make a lot more sense. As we covered in VCs 101, Verifiable Credentials have 9 key attributes:Hard to fakeImpersonation resistantEasier to custodyEasier to replicateCheap to create, issue, and deliverPeer to peer verifiable and validatablePrivacy preservingCensorship resistantPortableThat ...

In our previous post we introduced the concept of Verifiable Credentials and the problems they exist to solve. If you haven’t read that post, we recommend starting there so that everything in this post will make a lot more sense. As we covered in VCs 101, Verifiable Credentials have 9 key attributes:Hard to fakeImpersonation resistantEasier to custodyEasier to replicateCheap to create, issue, and deliverPeer to peer verifiable and validatablePrivacy preservingCensorship resistantPortableThat ...

Meet your Data Backpack 🎒Disco is your identity for the Metaverse. At Disco, we believe you are the multifaceted center of the party, and so you should be able to own, control, and reflect data about yourself to the world however you choose. Our identities are complex and ever-evolving, and so too should the way we reflect the parts about ourselves in our daily interactions–on or offline. In the public internet today, ownership of data/identity is currently controlled by incumbents and third...

Meet your Data Backpack 🎒Disco is your identity for the Metaverse. At Disco, we believe you are the multifaceted center of the party, and so you should be able to own, control, and reflect data about yourself to the world however you choose. Our identities are complex and ever-evolving, and so too should the way we reflect the parts about ourselves in our daily interactions–on or offline. In the public internet today, ownership of data/identity is currently controlled by incumbents and third...

Introduction We all carry around things that are specific to us: our driver’s license, our passport, and our membership cards to name a few. Additionally, we often store a number of other artifacts specific to us for varying lengths of time. These could be really important things like our birth certificate or diploma or more ephemeral items like a boarding pass. All of these things prove something about us. That is to say that they are tied to our identity. To keep things consistent, let’s re...

Introduction We all carry around things that are specific to us: our driver’s license, our passport, and our membership cards to name a few. Additionally, we often store a number of other artifacts specific to us for varying lengths of time. These could be really important things like our birth certificate or diploma or more ephemeral items like a boarding pass. All of these things prove something about us. That is to say that they are tied to our identity. To keep things consistent, let’s re...