zero-knowledge proofs – Ontology News https://ont.io/news Your data. Your choice. Your Web3 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 07:54:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://ont.io/news/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cropped-cropped-cropped-Ontology_color-32x32.png zero-knowledge proofs – Ontology News https://ont.io/news 32 32 Who Really Owns Web3’s Data? 7 Questions for the Community https://ont.io/news/who-really-owns-web3s-data-7-questions-for-the-community/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 07:54:43 +0000 https://ont.io/news/?p=622 Inspired by an article from Geoffrey Richards (Ontology’s Head of Community), let’s pressure-test our assumptions about data, identity, and reputation in Web3 👉 LinkedIn

Geoff’s EthCC reflections spotlight a creeping habit: treating user data as a private moat. If Web3 is about user ownership, we need to design like we mean it — starting with decentralized identity and consented, privacy-preserving reputation. Here are seven questions to guide product, governance, and community decisions.

7 questions for the community

  1. Moats vs. Markets: If your competitive edge depends on locking in user data, are you building Web3 — or rebuilding Web2 with tokens?
  2. Consent by Design: Where — and how — do users grant, view, and revoke consent for every data use?
  3. Portability: Can users take their identity and reputation to another app today without losing status or access?
  4. Proofs, Not Dumps: Which flows can switch from raw data sharing to zero-knowledge proofs (prove X without revealing Y)? Check out Orange Protocol for more information.
  5. Agent-Age Identity: As AI agents arrive, what’s your plan for agent identity that’s transparently tied to a real user’s intent and permissions?
  6. Value Share: If data creates value (better matching, lower fraud), how do users capture a fair share?
  7. Exit Rights: What’s the one-click path for users to export, delete, or re-permission their footprint?

If we wouldn’t be proud to explain our data model to users, it’s the wrong model.

Read Geoff’s original article and tell us how you’d implement user-owned identity and reputation in your corner of Web3. 👉LinkedIn

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