The approach to on-chain identity has been fundamentally flawed for too long.

When projects needed to meet compliance requirements, they did the obvious thing: capture everything, store everything, hope nothing gets breached. It's the playbook everyone defaulted to.

But this model was never going to scale. Security risks pile up, user trust erodes, and the whole thing becomes a liability.

There's a better way emerging. Projects are starting to rethink how identity infrastructure should actually work—focusing on privacy-first design rather than data accumulation. The shift matters because it changes the entire equation for what on-chain identity can become.