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Weekly Community Update
Recorded: Sept. 19, 2025 Duration: 0:26:49Space Recording
Short Summary
In a recent community call, Ontology discussed key trends in Web3 identity, highlighted the launch of a new article on smart wallets, and emphasized the importance of privacy-first verification amid rising regulations. The team also showcased growth within the ecosystem and announced strategic partnerships for upcoming events.
Full Transcription
Thank you. so gmgm folks um on tonight's happy friday um you guys let me know if you can't hear me okay. Just drop me
or actually drop me an emoji there if you can hear me okay. We're just going to kick things
off today. Quite a bit to get through. I'm on the road as well so yeah I don't want to have too many
delays. Awesome thank you so much I appreciate that. So we're already halfway through September, I just wanted to take some time today to have
a look at some of the content that's recently gone up on our blog, a couple of events that
we've gone to and that we're going to, and then just to do a quick recap of the chat
that I had with Dave last week from Orange.
So I talk a lot about content, we mention things like SEO and stuff and I wanted to highlight one of the pieces that recently went on the Ontology blog.
It's around smart wallets, account abstraction, and Web3 identity.
It's quite a long, detailed, a little bit more of a technical piece.
The idea of this is that it acts like a guide, right?
So it's this kind of one core topic that we have. So it answers kind of all
of these main kind of what we would consider big questions, but all in one article. So that's why
it's longer than the other parts. And then at the bottom of each section, there's seven sections in
this article, you'll see that there's a prompt mentioning that other parts are coming soon.
So these are your shorter kind of supporting pieces.
So everything will link back to this kind of main piece.
This is essentially a really simple way
to describe pillar content, right?
So it's very good for SEO.
And then all the other smaller articles
are your content clusters.
So that's what we're working on at the minute.
And that's what I wanted to go through
kind of quickly with you guys today
is around this whole smart wallets,
account abstraction and Web3 identity.
So this main piece was put together by Jeff and we will be breaking this down over the next seven
weeks because there's seven sections so we'll be dedicating kind of a thread to each section
probably infographic and then over the next seven weeks I'll probably go into each section deep dive
into each section and if Jeff can join then we'll probably chat through that but for today we'll
just do kind of a high-level overview and I would
love for you guys to go and check out the piece. So essentially as I mentioned
we're going to ideally try to consider how we can make Web3 Identity feel
simple right. So if you consider what EOAs and what they're doing well kind of
going through how account abstraction changes the experience, and then consider OntID, OntO, and then our upcoming Ontello, as well as Orange Protocol,
kind of how they all fit into this picture. So hopefully by the end of this call or by the end
of the article, you'll have this kind of clean mental, I guess, model, right, with these short
list of steps that you can ideally take. And the article is live.
The main piece is live on the blog.
It's a featured piece.
So once you click in news, it's there.
It's also pinned on X as well.
And we'll have a lot more stuff going out around it.
So I guess let's kick things off
of kind of considering why EOAs are great,
or such a great start, but not a great identity, right?
So this is your externally owned accounts.
I mean, brilliant faults, right? But one not a great identity, right? So this is your externally owned accounts. I mean, brilliant faults, right?
But one key controls one account, right?
So that is perfect for long-term holdings, as we know,
staking positions, for example,
and anything you kind of plan to set and maybe forget, right?
So the problem begins when you try to live with that model every day.
There is no kind of built-in recovery, no flexible permissions.
And then the identifier as well is like this long hex string,
very complicated that is easy to copy wrong, too easy, right?
And then hard to trust at a glance because it's always,
as I mentioned, it's kind of complex, so it is difficult to remember.
So in short, great for storage, brittle for identity.
So with your account abstraction,
essentially turns an account into
a small program that can follow rules you define. So essentially you can bundle all these routine
actions like pay gas and what you actually hold and then even have like this service sponsor fee.
So more importantly you can then add like recovery that fits into your real life, into like everyday
life. So lose a phone and you aren't locked out forever.
Identity stops, I guess, being this kind of single point of failure
and then becomes something that you can ideally design.
And then with pass keys and recovery that actually feel human,
so these seed phrases made sense for early adopters.
They do not match how most people use tech, right?
So with kind of a smart wallet, you sign with a pass key tied to your device,
like face ID
or some type of system pin but we're cryptography well the cryptography obviously stays hidden or
under the hood and so some if something goes wrong you can recover through guardians maybe
a backup device if you have one or a hardware key all depending obviously on this policy that you
can set so this is kind of how identity becomes usable without giving up self-custody.
So people shouldn't really need to kind of parse 42 characters to know it's you.
This whole idea around human readable domains fix that.
So this is where we're trying to understand readable names make identity recognizable.
So a name like name.ont.id, for example, is short, portable and easy to share in a chat or on social.
So over time it becomes part of your reputation across apps and then this is that kind of small change that removes a lot of different friction.
So I guess as well something that we talk about quite often is this whole kind of multi-chain
reality. Dave touched on portable identity last week and we do mention that in a lot of our
conversations as well but I guess most of us, well probably on this call or obviously in this space,
already live on more than one chain right. so the old way meant rebuilding the same setup again
and again but with smart wallets um they let you carry the same rules across environments so one
recovery flow sounds ideal one permission model one recognizable identity that travels with you
so ontid connects your did to those smart contracts so the logic stays intact as you move and then
this this again was your portable reputation.
So this is your identifier that without history tells,
oh, there's nothing about you.
So reputation gives identity meaning.
So that's where Orange Protocol comes in,
Orange Humanities score that you can hold all of these credentials
that then prove things like totally completed KYC,
long-term staking or even DAW participation.
These are the three areas that we talk about quite often.
And we touched on this with Dave last week as well.
So you present these proofs when needed
without exposing all that other data, right?
So the smart wallet can even store
and release those credentials according to your rules,
trust increases, and then we're all about privacy as well.
So around this though, we have to obviously consider
and appreciate the fact that regulation is rising.
So their choice is not surveillance or chaos.
So this is where your verifiable credentials and zero knowledge techniques
kind of let you prove facts like age or residency
without handing over those documents.
So you can confirm
over 18 without sharing your birthday and confirm a balanced threshold without sharing the number.
So concepts like ZKTLS, again, strongly linked. This was just released from Orange Protocol,
pushed this further by allowing verification of all of this data, right, in exchange over HTTPS
without revealing the data itself so actually this is a
good prompt I think we can have probably a quick chat with Dave over the next couple of weeks
around this particular section within the article linking back to ZKTLS as I mentioned this was
recently released by Orange Protocol so I think this could fit quite nicely so I guess we should
consider right this is a lot to be talking about. And these are areas
that we discuss quite often. But where does this really link in with ontology, right? So we have
OntoID, Onto, upcoming Ontello, and then we have Orange. So how does this all really fit together?
So I guess if you think of it as OntoID is like this anchor for decentralized identity and
credentials, then consider OntoWallet as the everyday interface
or your kind of gateway to create and use the identity,
like including support for account abstraction features like pass keys.
And then Ontelo brings the account abstraction layer
so that your identity rules can be portable and programmable across chains.
And then Orange adds a portable reputation.
So they add this through OHS so that your history can then strengthen trust wherever you show up.
So essentially we're working with creating additional layers to kind of
support what has already been created. So it is really interesting and it's
exciting to see how this has been developed and how the team has been
working on this and hopefully what the next steps will be. But essentially you should like ideally
treat your EOA as a vault for long-term assets. Kind of create or refresh your Ont ID in Onto and
then try an account abstraction smart account where supported. So I mean they are a secure
foundation, smart wallets are
identity usable, Ont ID connects the two, Ontelo brings portability and Orange adds reputation.
So kind of this is how Web3 identity moves ideally out of the vault and then into your everyday
life so that it's much easier to use and it's not as complex. So that's pretty much the kind of an overview of the article,
very high level. As I mentioned, there's seven key sections in this article and each section
is going to have kind of an article dedicated to it in itself as well. So we will be kind of
diving deeper. I hate saying deep dive now, it's coming across as very AI, but we will actually be diving deeper into each section over the next few weeks.
Probably have Jeff on, as I mentioned, we'll probably have Dave on as well
to kind of discuss ZKTLS, Orange, Reputation, and how all of this just makes sense.
But it's definitely a really interesting piece.
Please feel free to go check it out.
Let us know if you have any questions, but definitely stay tuned
for additional information and for additional sections to be added. So let's consider, just to wrap this
up, let's consider how privacy first verification works in practice, right? So imagine I need to
prove that I'm over 18, a little bit more than just slightly over 18. Well, on Ant ID I receive
a verifiable credential from a trusted user that encased my date of birth, right?
So it sits in my wallet signed by the issuer.
When an app asks for proof, I do not hand over my birthday.
It presented as zero-knowledge proof.
That says the issuer confirmed that I'm at least 18 and nothing else.
So then the app can verify the signature, do all the math, but it never sees my personal data.
So then if you take a quick look at live web checks sometimes I guess a service wants to
confirm something that lives behind a website so for example an account status or like a residency
residency check so this is where your ZKTLS kind of lets me prove a fact about a page I fetched
over a normal https connection without revealing the whole page right so think of it like this if
I fetch the page I prove the line that matters I redact the rest so the verifier
learns only the specific claim not the underlying document so this kind of
connects back to smart wallets the wallet is where I share the rules I can
say only release an over 18 proof for example approved apps like require face
ID each time and expire the proof after one day so i can keep an
audit trail so i know what i shared and when um so it definitely is um really interesting and yeah
stay connected as we dive deeper as i said into each section of this article but do go check it
out on the blog um as i mentioned it's pinned in the blog and it's pinned on X as well.
So last week, Dave joined us.
For those of you who don't know, Dave kind of leads the way with pretty much everything that happens in Orange, from marketing to growth.
But we had a chat about private proof of funds for OTC, launch pads, and this kind of VIP access.
So this was last week.
We walked through Orange Pass, but this article is available on the blog,
and also you can listen to last week's session if you'd like.
This kind of series is like five series, five pieces,
or five individual case studies.
We've one left around GitHub, so Dave might join us next Friday and we can chat through that but I think he's releasing another
series as well so essentially this was a walk through orange pass we were chatting about how
it lets you run private checks on all of these kind of major exchanges without seeing any of
these balances username usernames or any documents so you get this simple pass or fail result, right?
So that is enough to open OTC rooms,
assign like launch pad tiers or grant VIP features.
Yeah, and it's live today, as we said.
So the key takeaways, something just to highlight is
you never see a user's exact balance.
So you only learn if they meet a threshold,
such as like having at least $1,000, for example.
Yeah, supported by Binance, OKEx, Bybit gate checks include account ownership, KYC status and like funds tiers.
You can also combine checks, right?
So teams can pair funds plus KYC for OTC safety and then results can feed reputation.
So pass or fail signals, as I mentioned previously.
And then this replaces screenshots and these heavy KYC flows because these screenshots can be faked.
This was something that we chatted about last week as well.
So I'd recommend checking out the original piece, the article, and then also listening to our chat last week.
And as I mentioned, Dave should hopefully join us next week
and we can chat through,
there's a final case study around GitHub.
And then I wanted to do a quick look back at August.
It was a pretty busy month for the team
and because we've kind of had some busy weeks
and then we skipped a couple of community calls because
of travel from my side i didn't get a chance to kind of do this overview of like what happened
within the ontology ecosystem for august so i'm going to do that we're going to kind of take a
quick walk through um just as a quick reminder for what happened around the wallet and everything
that happened with um orange protocol as well as just kind of doing a quick pulse check for the for the um for the industry so there's a really interesting release from sony
So there's a really interesting release from Sony. They released the Sonium score
on its new Ethereum layer 2. So this is this reputation driven system. So the
Humanity Protocol launched Mainnet with kind of this whole reported validation
at 1.1 billion dollars and positioned itself as a privacy first bridge for
digital identity. So it's really interesting to see how this is spreading.
Then Polkadot is also experimenting with proof of personhood for civil resistance.
And then you've got MetaMask shipped this social login.
So identity abstraction is entering mainstream wallets, right?
So each of these points kind of to the same theme,
the trust and usable identity are becoming the deciding factors
for growth across multiple
industries. So we also activated the AntID loyalty quest on Intract. That was really cool to run for
a couple of weeks. You could have collected loyal NFT plus or loyal NFT plus rewards. And then once
you have any of these 10 NFTs, you can swap for ONG. So you get these across the board. You get these for attending Discord quizzes as well.
Any of also our Telegram chats
and any of our kind of collaboration campaigns.
So hopefully we will be launching another bunch of quests as well.
I think there's some work that's being done by our Harbingers
when it comes to Zeely too.
But definitely watch this space as we wrapped up that campaign with Interact.
We should have another one coming up soon.
We also hosted a really interesting privacy airspace
that kind of included the folks from my Ether wallet as well.
And then we had a really interesting kind of article
that was released on global finance.
So there was a poll about new integrations for the Ontidee account too.
And then there was also this really great video
that was uploaded to YouTube that explained zero knowledge proofs definitely go and check that out
then we also had a bunch of events so the team headed off to WebEx in Tokyo
and then WebEx in Osaka as well so that was really cool to see and then we also
logged the OG trader competition outcome and published the round 259 consensus
obviously in summary there.
So August in itself was actually quite busy.
But as I mentioned, every time we go through kind of these community updates,
when I mention a campaign, would love to have your input.
I see some of our Harbingers here and some of our regular community members.
Don't hesitate to DM me if you have any ideas for these campaigns.
We've racked up and tracked, so there should be something else coming,
but would always love your input here. And then just on Onto wallet operations, so
Onto obviously you know we kind of describe it as like this hub for our ecosystem. There's
version 4.9, point 10 was shipped, it expanded bridges to Solana, Ton and Tron, so say that
quickly. And then Wallet Connect saw optimizations and then we published top 10 dApps and top
10 change for Onto looking back at July.
And then there were several rounds of Ton Trading, Lucky Draw and Ston Fi and four waves of winner announcements as well.
Maybe you guys were involved in that.
It would be great to hear.
And then there was a mix of a bunch of product work and then campaign updates.
And then more updates coming from Onto in terms of campaigns as well.
So make sure that you guys are following them on X.
Some really interesting updates from Orange.
I touched on this, but this is where we were talking about ZKTLS.
And there's links back to that piece that I just mentioned.
So we might have Dave on to talk about ZKTLS again.
But we chatted a lot about use cases that boost trust and reduce civil risk.
So, again, we looked back at all these
guides that showed how Orange passed Paris grants, like bounties, like retro funding, and then this
whole idea around DAO civil resistance kind of true multi-sorts ZKTLS proofs as well.
One area that was really cool and I'm really excited to see this launched was the community
writing bounty. So this has been
going on for the last two weeks, but it's essentially a three-week community writing bounty.
We really wanted to create this to get the community involved and let us share their
content. But we really wanted to see the spotlight to shift from EOAs to smart contracts through
account abstraction. So each week is going to
focus on a different topic. Week one was account abstraction, week two was smart
contracts. I have the piece here we can highlight that. Yeah it was it's really
cool to see this price. I think we're gonna continue with doing community
writing bounties kind of going forward. The winner of week two actually we'll
just go through this quite quickly is how smart accounts are reinventing the Web3 wallet.
So make sure this has already been shared in our X.
So make sure that you reach out to the winner, just kind of congratulate them.
But just as a highlight for folks who want to get involved in the writing bounty, I'll go through quite quickly why they won.
Right. So there's a very clear definition here they explain explains smart accounts as contract based wallets that are programmable and
policy driven which matches the week to brief perfectly we'd accurate standards
overview so covers EIP 4337 in a way newcomers can follow just to make it
super easy to understand and then it was much easier to understand without
getting kind of lost in all this lost in all the kind of complexities of protocols.
And then they did this user first value.
So they kept the focus on what people can actually do with it today, like social recovery, batch action, session keys.
And then there was an actionable model.
So they framed EOAs as kind of rigid key pairs and smart accounts as flexible programs.
So I think it was just easier for readers to really understand this,
look through like a usable lens, not just a bunch of jargon.
So I'd recommend folks to go and check out this piece.
Any questions around like this bounty, do let me know.
And also just listen as to why they won clear definition, accurate standards,
user value first and actionable mental model.
Would love to see more folks join in.
I'm looking forward to see how we can kind of further expand the bounty as well.
So we have upcoming events, so Token 2049 in Singapore.
We're connected with House of ZK in Boundless, but also these guys are there in partnership with Google Cloud too.
So they're hosting this Verifying Intelligence.
It's a one-day program and ontology is on the speaking
roster there so it's going to be really great um the link is for this event um i believe jeff is
is hosting um jeff will be presenting so as everyone knows our head of community but if um
the the link should be shared um on our x as well so really looking forward to that but make sure
you folks are going to be able to tune in um And also a quick shout out to kind of long-term collaborators at Upbit.
We had Randy was there.
So Upbit is like Korea's leading exchange.
That was just last week.
So it's run by Dunamu, who has like kind of been a cornerstone,
I guess we could describe, of the regions like Web3 growth since 2017.
So it was really great to see that.
They're on the ground at kind of UDC in Seoul,
the flagship conference kind of up at hosts,
if you guys aren't familiar with that.
But the theme this year was kind of all centered around
taking blockchain mainstream, which is always nice to see.
So perfect timing around like Dunamoo also showcased the GIWA.
So this is their Ethereum L2 testnet. I believe
there was really great energy some great conversations obviously we were there we
had Randy there catching up with a lot of partners always discussing identity and kind of aligning
around all of the developments there as well. There's also an upcoming event that I should
be attending tomorrow for anybody that's in the Czech Republic but it's just outside of Prague so it's kind of
this community-run Bitcoin conference. I'm really looking forward to it. So it's in Ostrova but
I have a lot of folks that I know that I've worked with in the past should be there so it
should be really interesting to reconnect with some developers but essentially yeah as I mentioned
it's community-run so it's kind of like this full day program kind of framed around expanded workshops, right?
So these are all for practical takeaways.
You've got your wallet ops, like Node Basics, Merchant Tolling, for example.
Now, I'm not a developer, but I know a lot of folks there, so it'll be interesting to see them.
And hopefully we'll be able to make that.
That is tomorrow.
So what's coming up is we have some more partner campaigns to launch
over the next couple of weeks some of them are just around content i believe we're going to be
launching like a wallet series we'll probably be reconnecting with a lot of folks a lot of
our other partners we have stuff upcoming with my ether wallet around content there as well
i know orange is launching some campaigns so we should have more folks joining the community calls over the
next few weeks and then yeah we've more content to upload to the blog and then
as I mentioned like a big focus for us is going to be this kind of smart
wallets account abstraction and web3 identity piece that is on the site.
Seven sections that'll be expanded on over the next seven weeks and then I'll
be focusing some time on that in the community call.
And then, yeah, I'd just like to take another minute or so to kind of reach out
or to ask you guys for input on what we should be doing next.
That's really important for us.
It's all well and good.
Obviously, the team is very well kind of established in the space,
but it's always great to kind of get input from the wider community um and also from our harbingers who we really appreciate and then just finally as i like
to do kind of on every call just to remind folks about the onto not starter package so this was
developed really just to kind of get folks involved in kind of every stage of the ontology
process so downloading your own um downloading onto staking so you get support
there's prizes um you get some kind of funding support um to kind of get you started and then
also to get you connected with harbingers in your area so if you go into the english channel um and
telegram and then also there's a section there's a channel in discord as well um folks will be super
uh helpful and walk you through kind of anything that you need there. But if anybody has any other questions, as I always say, more than happy to reach out to everyone.
So I appreciate everybody's time.
Happy Friday.
I hope everybody has a great weekend.
And if anybody's in the Czech Republic and you happen to be at this hackathon kind of session tomorrow, I might see you there.
But I'll give kind of a brief overview of everything that, you know, folks I was chatting to or any themes or pieces of content that we might be able to develop outside of that
but appreciate everybody's time as always and yeah reach out with ideas we always love to
hear from you guys so okay take care everyone
