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Why I Love Web5

"Bring your own key. Prove what matters. Leave everything else behind."

Web5 flips the script. You don’t sign up — you show up.

With Web5, I’m not asking permission to access apps — I arrive with my own identity, and only prove what’s relevant. No central profile, no cloud auth, no leaked passwords. Just cryptographic presence.

Identity as a Foundation

I carry my PGP key across devices and environments.
With Beatify, I extend that key with public proofs and signed metadata:

  • My identity = my key
  • My profile = signed JSON, served from static storage
  • My reputation = web-of-trust + verifiable signals
  • My apps = read from the keybase FS, no backend required

This isn't theoretical — it's how I run half my life.

Blockchain as Coordination Layer

Instead of using a cloud backend, I use the blockchain to:

  • Coordinate shared state
  • Trigger app behavior via events
  • Reference data using deterministic hashes (content addressing)
  • Act as a public timestamped bus between peers

This allows even an index.html on Keybase to function as a smart, discoverable app — because the logic lives on-chain, and the identity is self-contained.

Apps That Just Work

With this model, apps become:

  • Static files
  • Verified logic
  • Publicly observable state
  • Peer-routable

Peers find each other by key, not username. And access is granted not by email/password, but by capability — what you can prove, not who you say you are.

Why It Matters

  • No cloud
  • No login
  • No vendor
  • Just sovereign presence, secure messages, and local code

Web5 isn’t a company or product. It’s a direction. It means:

  • Bringing your own identity
  • Bringing your own data
  • Declaring your capabilities
  • Skipping every middleman

With Web5, I can boot an app from my file system, share it over ZeroTier, discover peers by key, sync state via CDN chainpack, and never once ask permission from Google.

My Stack in Practice

  • Beatify = social+proof+extension to PGP
  • Keybase FS = local + synced storage
  • UTXO Blockchain = coordination + exchange rate + state
  • eCoinCore = app API to blockchain cache
  • koad:io = CLI for packaging the whole thing

The web is mine again — portable, peer-aware, cryptographically controlled.