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Decentralized Identity as a Meta-platform: How Cooperation Beats Aggregation

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Maintainer: Michael Shea; Samuel M. Smith; Carsten Stöcker; Juan Caballero (editor); Matt G. Condon · 2019-11-19 · checked 2026-10-14

A Rebooting the Web of Trust IX white paper arguing that an open decentralized identity framework can act as a meta-platform whose cooperating networks gain more value than competing, aggregating platforms. It covers network scaling laws, trust as a transaction cost, competition at the edge of a meta-platform, and identity for things in a circular economy. An economic argument for business and policy readers; it does not discuss KERI by name.

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