The Internet was built without an identity layer, and so was the blockchain. This put us in danger when there are rising problems ravaging the decentralized finance, like scams and theft.

Suppose we want to navigate life in Web3, staking values to our communities, control and maintain our own identity related data. It is essential to have a decentralized social identity.

Relation is building the Social Identity Protocol, which is a platform-less Soul Bound Journal (SBJ) for Web3 natives to manage their evolving-over-time social related information among Soul Bound Tokens (SBTs). Our SBJ defines not only who we are, also to whom we are connected. The SBJ is fragmentary in SBTs, is social because we are related to others, is verifiable in decentralized manner because the information in SBJ has a mirror in other SBJs, and trustable.

The SBTs are collected verifications of various memberships, social positions, and experiences. It forms people’s on-chain reputations, just as people can aggregate physical documents to build offline ones. The Semantic SBTs are primitive building blocks of SBJ introduced by Relation Labs. It is built on top of existing ERC721 standards with the use of Semantic Triples, described by the graph data model Resource Description Framework, to enrich the SBT’s social metadata.

The Semantic SBTs could help resolve issues surrounding trust in the emergent decentralized social structure by providing the means to verify reputation. So, we can Know Your Souls in decentralized cooperations, reference checks and decentralized credits.

What’s more by applying semantic web technologies, we create the foundation for publishing and linking data, integrating data from multiple sources and subsequently being able to query and retrieve information across these different sources. This is the foundation future plural intelligence. It weakens the dominance and control of big names, make the web more personalizes, and makes info easier to reach.