187 - The Ethereum Attestation Service
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🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode we welcome Bryce Patrick and Steve Dakh from the Ethereum Attestation Service. EAS is a new public good, open, permissionless, and token free. Is this the key unlock for decentralized identity through crypto?
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
7:27 What is an Attestation?
11:51 Attestations as a Primitive
14:35 What Are The Good For?
19:15 Defining Identity
22:39 Primitive Before the App
25:55 What is EAS?
30:31 Attestation Form Factors
36:51 Use Cases
40:19 EAS Growth Goals
42:17 Why Do We Need Attestations?
46:10 Why Build This on Ethereum?
52:46 Who is Using EAS and For What?
1:00:04 Web2 vs Web3 Attestations
1:05:17 Decentralized Reputation
1:08:05 The App Layer on Top of EAS
1:15:08 Privacy
1:19:48 Comparing To Sign In With Ethereum
1:21:22 How is it Funded?
1:25:08 Soulbound Tokens
1:30:00 Closing and Disclaimers
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RESOURCES
EAS
https://twitter.com/eas_eth
https://attest.sh/
Steve Dakh
https://twitter.com/stevedakh
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| 0:00.6 | Probably 99% of all the historical video content |
| 0:03.9 | that we have right now in audio content, |
| 0:05.7 | it's probably all legitimate, |
| 0:06.8 | most likely not AI generated. |
| 0:08.6 | In the next few years, you can kind of see how that |
| 0:11.5 | can start to flip. |
| 0:12.4 | One of the things that we think about is like right now, |
| 0:14.9 | if you take some historical content, hash it, |
| 0:17.5 | timestamp it on chain using an attestation, |
| 0:20.1 | you can now prove 1,000 years from now |
| 0:23.1 | that this content existed before we had the AI capable |
| 0:27.5 | to make a perfect replication of that. |
| 0:30.4 | So right now, we can actually use out the stations |
| 0:32.2 | to almost save history, and I think we should. |
| 0:38.9 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the front |
| 0:40.9 | to your internet money and internet finance. |
| 0:43.0 | This is how to get started, how to get better, |
| 0:44.3 | and how to front run the opportunity. |
| 0:46.0 | This is Ryan Sean Adams. |
| 0:47.2 | I'm here with David Hoffman, and we are here |
| 0:49.4 | to help you become more bankless. |
| 0:52.2 | The Ethereum attestation service, a new public good, |
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