Marek Olszewski

I think you're going to need to use incentives.

Incentives have primarily been the mechanism that companies have used to onboard folks.

But when you offer incentives in a Web3 world, you know, your ability for people to game you is just so much higher.

It's just really, really hard.

And so we need really good civil protection.

And it's ironic that, you know, Bitcoin obviously started with kind of a civil resistance mechanism and proof of stake was another really good one.

But that only works for people with basically money, either to run a, you know, mining those or to stake capital that they have.

If you want to onboard everyone, you need to be able to have a civil resistant mechanism that works for everyone.

And, you know, I think you can argue that world has an interesting design for, for say, onboarding the whole world.

And so when we thought about self, we wanted to do something that I think is

was equally compelling, but maybe it took a slightly different approach.

And maybe that addressed some of the shortcomings of the hardware-based approach.

At the end of the day, to onboard everyone in the world, the world needs to get people in front of physical hardware.

And that means they have to travel.

That means that you have to... There's just a lot of friction.

There's a whole supply chain problem.

And so instead, what we wanted to do is we wanted to piggyback on the most trusted...

attestation of humanhood that people have today.

And that right now is your biometric ID, either your biometric passport or many countries now are issuing biometric national IDs.

And these tend to be just, you know, in the meat space, the best attestation of your uniqueness, of your humanity.