What is ERC 725?

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.

Why ERC 725?

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.

Developers


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

Projects

News

First impressions with ERC 725 and ERC 735 — identity and claims

"Fabian Vogelsteller, the creator of the Mist Browser and web3.js, is working on a new identity standard for Ethereum, ERC 725."

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Q&A with DREAM Advisor, Fabian Vogelsteller, Author of ERC20 & ERC725

"To have an identity that people use and trusts, it needs to be on a trustless layer like Ethereum, or another public blockchain."

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ERC725: A Self-Sovereign Identity Standard For Ethereum

"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."

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Origin DApp gets ERC 725 Identity, Transaction Steps, Escrow, and Reviews

"You can think of ERC 725-enabled identity a bit like Facebook Connect, but without the Facebook."

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What is Ethereum ERC725? Self-Sovereign Identity Management on the Blockchain

"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."

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Managing Identity with a UI for ERC 725

"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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