I've been thinking about what a Web3 profile page should actually do.
Not what most of them do — which is show a wallet address, a grid of NFTs, and maybe a transaction list. That's a wallet explorer with a coat of paint. It's not a profile.
A real profile says: this is a person. This is what they've built, what they hold, what they've done on-chain. And it does all of that under a name that means something — not a hash that proves they control a key.
The moment you wire identity resolution into a profile page the whole thing changes. Suddenly the address at the top of the page has a name. That name is the same name they use on every other chain. When someone searches for them, they find a person instead of a cryptographic identifier.
The technical architecture for this is not complicated. The interesting decisions are design decisions. What do you show on a profile that resolves an on-chain identity? What does it mean to have a presence across 17 chains under one name? How do you represent someone's full on-chain history in a way that's readable to another person?
These are the problems worth spending time on. The resolution layer is solved. The experience layer is where the real work is.
I think the developers who figure out what a genuine Web3 profile looks like — one built around an identity rather than an address — are going to build the products that finally make this space feel like somewhere real people live.
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