ERC 725 is a proposed standard for blockchain-based identity authored by Fabian Vogelsteller, creator of ERC 20 and Web3.js. ERC 725 describes proxy smart contracts that can be controlled by multiple keys and other smart contracts. ERC 735 is an associated standard to add and remove claims to an ERC 725 identity smart contract. These identity smart contracts can describe humans, groups, objects, and machines. ERC 725 lives on the Ethereum blockchain.
ERC 725 allows for self-sovereign identity. Users should be able to own and manage their identity instead of ceding ownership of identity to centralized organizations. We have seen the negative effects of having centralized identity with damaging leaks and unfair selling of user data and identity. An open, portable standard for identities will enable decentralized reputation, governance, and more. Users will be able to take their identity across different Dapps and platforms that support this standard.
Fabian Vogelsteller
Author of ERC 725
Founder of LUKSO
Nick Poulden Engineer at Origin Protocol
Josh Fraser Cofounder Origin Protocol
Ricardo Schmidt Engineer at Status
Adam Dossa Engineer at Polymath
Pablo Ruiz Engineer at Polymath
Stan James Engineer at Origin Protocol
Tyler Yasaka Engineer at Origin Protocol
Doug King CTO at Verity
Júlio Santos CTO at Fractal
Marek Kirejczyk Engineer at EthWorks
Fausto Vanin Partner at OnePercent.io
Richard Burton Designer at Balance
Marcin Rudolf CTO at Neufund
Nathan Aw Engineer at OCBC Bank
Peter Product at Tenzorum
Luke Shipley Co-founder at Zinc
Dimitar Popov Engineer at Zinc
George Bennett Engineer at Zinc
Ali Azam Engineer at Zinc
Fabrice Croiseaux CEO at InTech creator of EDDITS
Antoine Detante Lead Architect at InTech creator of EDDITS
Thomas Brillard Engineer at InTech Developer of EDDITS
Davis Gay Co-founder at Rate3 Network
Yann Suissa CEO at wiji.io
Olivier Ricca CTO at wiji.io
Abhishek Agarwal Founder at Credit Hydra
Taiju Sanagi CEO at BlockBase
Kentaro Yamamura COO at BlockBase
Daiki Yamamoto TechLead at BlockBase
Jim Flynn Co-founder at The Kuwa Foundation
Victor J. Wiebe Engineer at Svandis.io
Sascha Hellermann Member of the Board at Cocus AG
Evgeny Yurtaev CEO at Zerion
Alexey Bashlykov CTO at Zerion
Vadim Koleoshkin COO at Zerion
Francisco Aréchaga CEO at LydianVentures
Juan Ignacio Perez Engineer at LydianVentures
Daniel Esteban Engineer at LydianVentures
Guillaume Duveau Lead developer at Talao
Hadrien Croubois Research Engineer at iExec
Mike Fluff CTO at Chronobank
Joachim Lebrun Head of Innovation at Tokeny - OnchainID
Dilip Chouhan Head of Blockchain at Tokeny - OnchainID
Kevin Thizy Engineer at Intech - OnchainID
Nathan Meynaert Engineer at Tokeny - OnchainID
Lee Jun Jie Engineer at TORUS
Claudio Weck CTO at FanZone
Adam Boudjemaa Blockchain Developer at Tokeny - OnchainID
"Fabian Vogelsteller, the creator of the Mist Browser and web3.js, is working on a new identity standard for Ethereum, ERC 725."
Read more »"To have an identity that people use and trusts, it needs to be on a trustless layer like Ethereum, or another public blockchain."
Read more »"If you are who you say you are, then why must you prove it over and over again? One day, a blockchain-based standard could make the monotony of identity verification a relic of the past."
Read more »"You can think of ERC 725-enabled identity a bit like Facebook Connect, but without the Facebook."
Read more »"User identity management, however, remains critical to any dApps and is currently managed by “trusted” third parties—a problem the ERC725 identity standard aims to solve."
Read more »"Although ERC 725 is still at an early stage, we believe it has great potential and our intention is to use it as the basis for managing identity and trust at Origin."
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