# Community is all u need (3): digital identity

Source: https://warpcast.com/casslineth/0xa8d6ee63
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Community-is-all-u-need-3-digital-identity?index=0x66d9653348b83e2a9ba45ee92fadb98525b32fab66eba20c9e4d98e49d119961e9fc9e3e
Submitted by casslin.eth on 2024-09-05 UTC, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

## Summary

The author's central point is that real-world KYC should not be codified onchain for every dapp, since users shouldn't need to hand over details like their address, phone number or country of residence to take part. The text cites @july's observation that most of life is shaped by things people cannot control, such as where and when they were born, and argues that the part people can control, including their efforts, contributions, actions and relationships, should matter more onchain. It adds that participating in a forum like Devcon's does not require such personal information.

## Article

Community is all u need (3)

Pillar Stone of Onchain Community: Digital Identity

1). Stop putting real world kyc onchain for everything

One thing really bothered me this cycle is the trend to codify real world kyc onchain for dapps.

@july said: 90% of our lives are actually downstream of things we can't control: where & when we are born. People born w/ a higher ranked passport on henley index may never understand people who didn't get a nice passport at birth.

Yet the rest 10% we can control should matter more for our onchain lives: our efforts, our contribution to our communities, our actions, relationship built.

We don't need to put our address, phone number, country of residence when gets on devcon forum and started discussing how we collaborate to make the experience. We should not need those info for using every dapp onchain.