Farcaster

The value of an FID is in the social graph—both stated (following) and revealed (activity). Profile is secondary.

There is minimal (no?) value in the onchain primitive absent the above.

This is why digital identity is always emergent from apps with utility.

If you spend a lot of time using an app / platform / OS, it starts to become your identity.

Building an identity layer is the wrong order of operations. You earn the right to be an identity layer by time spent, usage, people building on it, etc.

The primitive of digital identity is the attestation. Who we are is made up of what we do and the connections we make.