The web's Identity crisis: a talk and demo from Angie Jones on Web5 | DevDay at Oktane 2023
Channel: OktaDev
Date: 2023-10-16

The web democratized how we connect with each other and how we exchange information.

However, it was never built with an identity layer.

Because of this, we struggle to secure personal data with hundreds of logins and passwords that we can’t remember.

What if we could own and control access to our data? Our identity, our content, our preferences - all within our own personal data stores.

In this talk, Angie Jones (@techgirl1908 ) discusses and demos Web5, an open source decentralized web platform that returns ownership and control over data to individuals where it belongs. It does this by providing a new layer for the web that enables developers to build decentralized apps and protocols. And because the platform abstracts away the complexity of decentralization, developers are free to focus on building great things that push the web forward.

Chapter Markers:
00:00 Introduction
02:22 Web5 and its pillars
03:38 Decentralized Identifiers
04:55 DIDs
07:10 Verifiable Credentials
09:24 Decentralized Web Nodes
11:40 How it works
15:10 Examples
17:58 Web5.js Demo
25:52 Conclusions

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