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> > the ability to claim a unique username

> Which would require a centralisation, presumably. We have things like OpenID, but that hasn't really caught on.

The article addresses this. We already have a decentralized, credibly neutral identity layer with unique names in production (and pretty wide use, at least in the web3 space): Ethereum Name Service.



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