You are a “being” in the physical world. To be able to navigate this digital world, you will have to own your digital counterpart.

Right now in today’s world, there are multiple copies of you.

Each copy although pretty similar, at the end of the day try to do the same thing.

These companies collect data. Your data. Your behaviors. What you like. What you don’t like. What keeps your attention hooked on? It’s very clear they use advanced algorithms (Machine Learning/AI) to map your behavior. What do they gain from this? Your time. Your precious time. These companies use the information you provided to them, to keep you hooked on the platform. They know your weaknesses and your strengths. History has shown us how they can manipulate the mass population quite easily actually. Quite a few documentaries on Netflix.

How it should be

You should own your profile. All your data, all your information, everything about you should be held by you.

Seems tedious? Don’t worry! That’s what the developers on the blockchain set out to fix. They are building the tools to give freedom to every individual. Sounds exciting…

This is how it would look when everything is ready.

You are a person who happened to be lucky to be born in this world(The probability of you being alive is 1 in 400 trillion, basically 0).

I’m assuming you were put here to do something. Make a dent in the universe. Maybe to make a change, to help the people in your surroundings, to help your loved ones. These are the sort of things you hear in a graduation speech. But for some reason, we do like hearing these things right. Ever asked why?

The world is your platform. Everything that exists is a tool you can use to help yourself grow. To help yourself experience life to the fullest. To realize your true calling. Web3 is the initial technology that can help you build your tools. It can help you navigate this world of the internet. All the knowledge you need to succeed already lies on the internet. You just need to know how to use it.

This online digital presence will be done through a “wallet”. A wallet can be anything. Your mobile. Your computer. Your hardware. All are connected to each other. Either through a server(node) hosted by you or an external source(could be a community). Your wallet is customizable. It’s in your control. What you see, what information you get, and when to get it. Everything.

In this wallet, you will hold your tokens. Protocols you believe in. Protocols you believe will help you in your path in life and provide benefit to others too. The more tokens of a protocol you have, the more you believe in it.

Apart from other tokens/protocols, everyone will have their own token as well. This token will represent what they believe in. Circulating this token amongst people would mean that they believe in the same cause as you. We will discuss the circulation of the tokens and their mechanisms in a future article. Your token will be mapped to the value you bring into this world. The more value you bring, the more value your token holds. Exchanges should showcase this. The value of a token. Why the token(user) is doing so well? Their platforms should highlight successful tokens(people). What are they doing differently? Identify new protocols that are causing change…

This wallet will be used for every interaction with the outside world. Any exchange will be done through your wallet. This will give the control to you. What gets in, what gets out. A very interesting read on a new technology regarding privacy would be Zero Knowledge Proofs! Will definitely cover this in a future article.

There will be tools that will help you decide how to structure your User Interface. Everything will sort of be a no-code solution. Drag and drop. Building blocks for everything. All you need to do is assemble it the way you like.

Authors note:

You see, we were never meant to exchange tokens. It should be what defines us. What makes us who we are? That’s what the tokens you collect should reflect.