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Absolutely, but let’s not pretend this is some magic technology that only cryptocurrency can solve. Nor is it clear cut that we’ll see adoption of wallet logins outside of crypto circles.

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The web3 solution is significantly easier than webauthn, if what I read in the above article is to be believed.

There’s a trade off there though. There are also other standards. People should probably want their cryptowallets to be better secured than they are. But crypto is facing the same UX challenge which leads to a worse model with the same attendant risks as phishing passwords.

The point still is that logging in with public-key cryptography is not exclusively a technology supported by cryptowallets.

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