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Provable and Computable Identity for Future-Proof Scientific Wor… — OpSci

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Decentralized Science (#DeSci) is a nascent web-native movement seeking to deploy scientific applications on decentralized internet protocols that are autonomous and community owned. The automation of scientific web services — such as permission-less publishing, laboratory protocol marketplaces, and grant making — requires a portable persistent identifier that links data across applications, verifies credentials, and maximizes the discoverability of research activity. Most importantly, this identifier must be controlled by who it describes and protect against impersonation. Current infrastructure for assigning identifiers to academic entities falls short of this requirement list, yet there is a chance to bridge existing tooling with new technology to solve these problems.

Holonym is a decentralized protocol for bridging credentials across web applications, blockchains, and physical records. The protocol was originally developed to support the needs for scientists building research web apps in Web3. You can check out the DeSci DID registry (alpha), a Web3 scientist “yellowpages,” powered by Holo at https://verse.opsci.io 🤖 Automation in Science Requires Strong Identity Claims Decentralized Science (#DeSci) is a nascent web-native movement seeking to deploy scientific applications on decentralized internet protocols that are autonomous and community owned. The a

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