Re: DIDs and NFTs

Re-emphasizing Adrian’s point of smart contracts. NFTs are always a result of a decentralized system. VCs can be completely agnostic of any blockchain, free, and created manually by a human. 

K.



> On Mar 9, 2022, at 3:19 PM, Adrian Gropper <agropper@healthurl.com> wrote:
> 
> NFTs are fundamentally public (a public hash tied to a public smart contract) as are DIDs tied to a service endpoint. If the service endpoint is public then the DID is equivalent with some added control options.
> 
> - Adrian
> 
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 3:13 PM Simone Ravaioli <simone.ravaioli@parchment.com <mailto:simone.ravaioli@parchment.com>> wrote:
> Not much of an opinion piece, but I have been collecting “shards” of the NFTs vs VCs discourse across CCG, Twitter, LinkedIn.
> … to inform an opinion. Some of it refers to DIDs too.
> 
> It is a scrappy doc, a “collection” of thoughts open to anyone and hopefully useful.
> 
> Feel free to add to it, or use it as a reference. 
> 
> A possible outcome might be to publish a CCG “multi-sig” article/post.
> 
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cFTFNaNzIXok7W9M7QgHinRbsgxh3uALiY_eYZcE78Y/edit <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cFTFNaNzIXok7W9M7QgHinRbsgxh3uALiY_eYZcE78Y/edit>
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> 
> Yours sincerely, 
> -
> 
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>> On 9 Mar 2022, at 20:46, Heather Vescent <heathervescent@gmail.com <mailto:heathervescent@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> 
>> Community,
>> 
>> What's your take on the venn diagram of DIDs, VCs and NFTs? (And if you don't have an opinion yet, what questions do you have?)
>> 
>> -Heather
>> 
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