But if we look at what’s being tested now: central banks moving real money through tokenised settlement systems, public institutions working with blockchain for credentials and trusted records, and web standards making cryptographic verification easier to use, we’re talking about a very different kind of adoption.
Now it’s much more about the technology being used for specific jobs: settling value, verifying credentials, proving ownership and supporting identity across services.
In our latest article, 𝐈𝐬 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞?, we look at some of the projects already testing that in practice, and at how SourceLess is applying blockchain to identity, ownership and verification across its own ecosystem.
The things we rely on to tell us whether someone online is really who they appear to be are getting easier to reproduce.
AI-generated media, cloned voices and convincing impersonation are making familiar signals less reliable.
Proof in the digital space is becoming indispensable. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) now addresses deepfakes and forged media directly in its identity-proofing guidelines.
SourceLess uses blockchain technology to make online identity something the user owns for life and can prove they control. An 𝐒𝐓𝐑.𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 is recorded on-chain and designed for identity and access across the SourceLess ecosystem.
A passkey uses cryptography instead of a password to authenticate you to an account. It’s resistant to phishing and easier to use than remembering another password.
But authentication is only part of digital identity.
A passkey gives you a better way into an account. It doesn’t give you one identity across different services.
SourceLess uses STR Domains as its identity layer. An STR Domain is one cryptographic name, owned by you and designed to be recognized across all SourceLess services as integrations expand.