The situation
The way we login to sites today already feels antique.
We need to create a separate email/password combination that each service handles internally.
SSO by Google, Facebook, have at least some adoption, but of course rely on private, centralized services managing it, as well as watching every site you login in to and when. They also are dependent on sites implementing them, and often aren't there for everything.
So what am i talking about?
Enter crypto.
As anyone who knows me is already aware, I love decentralized anything. Blockchain's are the future of the web, already known as web3.
The current, centralized system, is known as web2.
Logging in
The thing is though, that cryptocurrencies accidentally solved one of the biggest issues of the current web, logins and single sign on.
If you've ever used a web3 dapp (decentralized app), you know what im talking about.
The app simply "connects" to your crypto wallet. Then you confirm whatever it wants to do. No logins, nothing to remember.
And it's all secure, and decentralized. It's pretty amazing.
You could use this for logins.
It's not just useful for financial transactions. You now have a cryptographically secure authentication method.
There is massive opportunity here for hiddenlogin to step in as a couple of providers.
- A web3 to web2 "bridge", allowing sign in to web2 sites with nothing but a wallet
- A web3 alias service, similar to how hiddenlogin currently masks login information on web2, it could provide a similar web3 wallet masking service for multiple identities
It's coming soon
This type of web3 <> web2 connection is something I'm very interested in.
In my opinion, the very nature of logins is changing fast. Just continuing to build out masking functions for the current web isn't a smart idea.
I'm super excited and interested in this new, crypto based identity world.
-hew