Your Wallet IS Your Identity: Understanding Identity on Solana (for Web2 Devs)

If you come from a Web2 background, identity probably feels… fragmented. You have a login for GitHub, another for your bank, maybe OAuth through Google, and a dozen passwords you reset every few months. Each service owns a piece of “you,” and your access depends on their database, their auth flow, and their policies. Now contrast that with Solana. On Solana, your identity isn’t spread across services. It starts—and ends—with a keypair . The Keypair = You A Solana keypair consists of: A public ke