Evin McMullen is the CEO of Disco, a toolkit that allows users to own and control their data and digital identity.
Evin McMullen is the CEO of Disco, a toolkit that allows users to own and control their data and digital identity. She’s also an active member of DAO Jones, Boys Club, and one of the OG members of $INK DAO.
If you’re interested in digital identity, verifiable credentials, or decentralized identifiers, this episode is for you and Evin has got you covered. We start by defining digital identity to lay the groundwork for listeners who may be new to the space and we cover Kim Cameron’s 7 Laws of Identity and how blockchain companies can improve user experience by implementing them more consciously.
Now that we have some context, we hit the ground running and Evin dives deep into off-chain vs. on-chain data storage, off-chain vs. on-chain reputation, Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), Verifiable Credentials (VCs), and how these technologies can help bring some humanity and understanding to the highly technical world of web3.
We discuss identity more broadly and Evin shares her analogy between identity and a disco ball. We touch on topics like social capital, reputation, tattoos, identity in DAOs, and discoverability in web3. Evin shares how disco helps users control and own their digital identity with their personalized disco data backpack, and the ways in which disco is exploring monetization.
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⌛ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
5:04 Evin’s background
6:43 Defining digital identity
7:02 Kim Cameron’s 7 Laws of Identity
9:24 How blockchain companies can improve utilizing the 7 Laws of Identity
12:24 Off-chain data storage
14:41 Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)
16:03 Verifiable credentials (VCs)
19:40 On-chain vs. off-chain reputation
25:18 The Disco Ball identity analogy
28:56 Evin’s ERC-721 tattoo
31:33 DAOs and identity
35:35 Disco and VCs
38:01 Social capital and reputation
40:08 Launching Disco
44:16 How Disco makes money
47:54 Discoverability in web3
50:38 Rebranding seed phrases
51:33 I’m not a bot
52:50 Britney Spears
53:33 The Metaverse
54:13 Follow Evin!
54:36 Shoutouts!
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