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Your Wallet IS Your Identity: Understanding Identity on Solana (for Web2 Devs)
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Your Wallet IS Your Identity: Understanding Identity on Solana (for Web2 Devs)

DEV Community·Anish·about 1 month ago
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If you come from a Web2 background, identity probably feels… fragmented. You have a login for GitHub, another for your bank, maybe OAuth through Google, and a dozen passwords you reset every few months. Each service owns a piece of “you,” and your access depends on their database, their auth flow, and their policies. Now contrast that with Solana. On Solana, your identity isn’t spread across services. It starts—and ends—with a keypair . The Keypair = You A Solana keypair consists of: A public key → your address (like a username) A private key → your proof of ownership (like a password, but far more powerful) If you’ve ever used SSH, this should feel familiar. You generate a keypair, add your public key to a server, and prove your identity by signing requests with your private key. No password required. Solana works the same way—but instead of one server, the entire network verifies you.…

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