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Modern digital identity primitives strive to simultaneously maintain user privacy and user expressiveness through a clear notion of “identity.” Recent explorations of private, verifiable, and unique digital identities include: private message boards that validate user credentials upon registration and governance systems (e.g. DAOs) that facilitate collaboration between on-chain identities. Anonymous “proof of organization” allows users to prove group membership of existing, real-life organizations, without having to reveal any other aspect of their identity. Blind, an app that allows tech company employees to anonymously post about their salaries and work experiences, does proof of organization semi-anonymously. The site checks for organization membership by sending you a verification code to an email address that includes your organization’s domain. However, Blind’s server will see your email address, which may include your name, thus revealing additional information about your identi

by Emma Guo and Sehyun Chung Circuits , Application code Motivation Modern digital identity primitives strive to simultaneously maintain user privacy and user expressiveness through a clear notion of “identity.” Recent explorations of private, verifiable, and unique digital identities include: private message boards that validate user credentials upon registration and governance systems (e.g. DAOs) that facilitate collaboration between on-chain identities. Anonymous “proof of organization” allows users to prove group membership of existing, real-life organizations, without having to reveal any

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