Who are we? — Context: The Atlas is meant to be a forum for the discussion of topics at the intersection of decentralized identity, data, knowledge, reputation, social, etc., since this thread of conversation did not yet have a neutral home. We will be hosting periodic “Expeditions” on specific topics to get the conversation…

Understanding our reflections in the hall of mirrors — “I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.” — Charles Horton Cooley Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” found in Book VII of The Republic, has been a cornerstone of philosophical discussion for…

The global hub for decentralized identity, data, reputation, social, and beyond. — A rising tide lifts all ships. Preamble The wind blows in your hair, the air thick with mist. Stalwart, your peaceful warriors of a brighter future stand beside you at the helm of your ship. …

Where we’ve come from and where we are going. — The Beginning In the earliest days of Ethereum, a novel concept emerged — instead of only signing codified transactional data with our Ethereum accounts, what if we made it easy to sign ANY piece of data? Though signing messages with private keys to make statements / attestations / pieces of data “cryptographically…

And so it begins… — For 9 months, a rag-tag team of core contributors from a diverse set of backgrounds have been toiling tirelessly to impact the following change in the world: Make information more discoverable/utilizable Do this by: Developing methods to extract information/knowledge from our biological wetware and capture it in digital format Using…

Minimally-invasive technology — Extracting data is one thing — making sense of it is another. Though there is much progress to be made on the data-extraction front, we still have access to more data than ever before. …

Making Sense of an Exponential World — In the last post, it was mentioned that Intuition is an attempt to “incentivize the extraction and translation of people’s “mind maps” of the world”, so we can “capture this knowledge in a digital format”. Why do we need this? Why is it important? We need to continue to outsource our cognition to technology so that we can make better sense of our exponential world.

The Beginning — About 2 years ago, I took a leave of absence from ConsenSys to travel the world. Though COVID dampened my travel plans, the space that was created by stepping away from ConsenSys allowed a beautiful idea to take root in my mind. This idea concerned Layer 0 — or, the…

We must heal ourselves to heal our technology — Technology amplifies. It increases the scale at which we can operate. Technology is built in our image, to fulfill our wants and needs. This can be both good and bad. Because it amplifies, technology will amplify both the good and the bad. If we are unhealthy as a society, technology…