2026-01-16 09:34:45

The bottleneck of Web3 infrastructure is no longer on-chain performance. The real obstacle lies in the liquidity of user identities — when you jump between different applications and chains, your identity gets stuck.

Portable identity is the missing foundational layer. A unified identity standard allows users to freely move across different ecosystems, carrying credit records and asset permissions without having to re-authenticate each time. This changes the entire user experience logic of Web3.

idOS Network is working on exactly this — building identity infrastructure to ensure that user identities truly belong to themselves and are not locked into a single platform. The maturity of this kind of infrastructure may determine the next phase of Web3 growth more than pure TPS or Gas fees.

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MemeEchoer

· 1h ago

Wow, I didn't think about identity liquidity from this perspective. Compared to constantly competing over TPS, this really hits the sore spot.

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SatoshiLeftOnRead

· 5h ago

From the perspective of identity liquidity, this hits the mark. TPS and Gas fees have long ceased to be the main contradiction; now it is indeed authentication hell.

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alpha_leaker

· 5h ago

I haven't really thought about identity liquidity from this perspective, but it feels like hitting the nail on the head. Every time you switch chains, you have to re-verify, which is a huge hassle. Doing it this way definitely results in a poor user experience. The key question is who will set this unified standard. Will it be monopolized by a major platform again? Whether idOS is reliable or not depends on how it actually performs in practice; the theory sounds good. I agree that the maturity of infrastructure is more important than Gas fees, provided it can truly solve the problem.

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