Refactoring the Web
summary
Clear claim: a working decentralized web platform built from three open standards — decentralized identifiers (DIDs), verifiable credentials, and decentralized web nodes — that keep personal data off‑chain (DIDs are just strings on Bitcoin/Ethereum), store DID documents on IPFS, and use cryptographic signatures plus revocation for trust. Examples: employer issues a verifiable credential for loans, BlueSky‑style social profiles and Spotify playlists live in personal web nodes, airline apps rewrite trip data to a user’s node via service endpoints and JSON schemas.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 0:44The Identity Layer
- 2:08Core Pillars to the Decentralized Web Platform
- 5:57Verifiable Credentials
- 8:03Cryptographic Signature
- 8:51Centralized Web Nodes
- 11:37How the Web Nodes Work
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