Each online service account requires you to create a user & password, that is
terrible user experience, not to mention that it can get hacked or you could
forget your passwords . With this tool you wont need more login and passwords
for every website. Hand them your public key and sign a login message to
authenticate yourself. It removes the need to use passwords for each
account(thus eliminating the need for a password manager), and by the fact that
you need your crypto wallet, it is a 2FA(two factor authenticator) by default.
Why do we need this?
Because using password is terrible.
Your browser extension web wallet is great, it comes handy when you need to pay
online. However, that is the smallest part of your needs online. Most of the
time you must manage each of your accounts with service providers. You must
authenticate to access their service, most of the time by username and password.
Your service provider stores those users & passwords, and when they get hacked,
your account passwords end up floating on the internet. To reduce that risk you
use password managers, to use a different password on every service & keep track
of it.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if your wallet would take care of authenticating you?
Your wallet can sign authentication messages. Then it is your keys, your coins,
your accounts. You are in complete control & ownership.
It is already possible. In the Hive blockchain, they use this system to
authenticate users, their web extension wallet manages different types of keys.
One for authentication to their social network, one for spending your funds.
Their innovation can be incorporated to be compatible with Cardano and allow us
to profit from it and use also our own innovations. It will unlock, as it has
done in Hive, not only social media applications, but the highest growing sector
in crypto: Gaming.
Status: Iterating prototypes
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