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2026-04-25 10:42
Your Wallet IS Your Identity: Understanding Identity on Solana (for Web2 Devs)
If you come from a Web2 background, identity probably feels… fragmented.
You have a login for GitHub, another for your bank, maybe OAuth through Google, and a dozen passwords you reset every few months. Each service owns a piece of “you,” and your access depends on their database, their auth flow, and their policies.
Now contrast that with Solana.
On Solana, your identity isn’t spread across se...