Prototypes

During our research we've built a few things which will make their way to production over time.

Recovering Accounts

Recovering Accounts

We needed a new way for users to recover accounts, this is the story of how we created an entirely new way to recover an account designed around the needs and skills of ordinary people.

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Securing Crypto

Securing Crypto

For crypto to be able to transition into the 'real world' its speed and power at processing transactions will need to be met by equally powerful checks on senders and receivers of funds.

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Simplifying Liveness

Simplifying Liveness

Really good UX ensures processes like checking liveness don't get in the way of the user as they try to do something. We explore how liveness at Self has evolved.

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Blog

Secure in Name Only
Secure in Name Only
Exploring how metaphors like “vaults,” “keys,” and “wallets” shape our sense of safety—and the risks that confidence creates.
Are we getting closer to a true identity layer?
Are we getting closer to a true identity layer?
Initiatives like W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) are moving us toward an identity layer
The internet was built for machines not people
The internet was built for machines not people
The internet has no built-in identity layer — it only knows devices and keys, not people. Everything we call “online identity” is an application-level patch, and that’s why the web’s trust and security problems are so persistent.‍