# Doing Decentralized Identity Right with Kelvin Fichter

- Speakers: [Kelvin Fichter](https://streameth.org/speakers/kelvin-fichter)
- Channel: [Ethereum Denver](https://streameth.org/ethereum-denver)
- Date: 2023-10-07
- Duration: 12:14
- Topics: Entertainment
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-o0N1Z9AyrEM
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0N1Z9AyrEM

## Description

In this talk I'll be describing the Right Way to do decentralized identity: attestations. I'll explain how attestations are a fundamental building block for identity and how these attestations can be combined to derive useful information both on-chain and off-chain. I'll even get into Zero Knowledge proofs, this talk has a little bit of everything! And since theory is boring, I'll finish out the talk by showing off how the Optimism Collective is applying attestation-based identity to create a human-centric blockchain.

https://twitter.com/kelvinfichter
Kelvin Fichter
Benevolent Chaos Monkey
The Optimism Collective
Hi, I'm Kelvin. I've been working on L2 related things since 2017, first on Plasma and now on Optimism with the Optimism Collective.