# 154 - Sign-in With Ethereum with Wayne Chang

*Author: Ryan Sean Adams, David Hoffman*
*Published: Jan 23, 2023*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/fr/154-sign-in-with-ethereum-with-wayne-chang*

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**Wayne Chang** is the co-author of EIP4361, otherwise known as the Sign in with Ethereum (SIWE) Standard. He’s also the co-founder and CEO of Spruce, a company that is working to grow SIWE adoption to make the internet more user-first.

Can Ethereum help us take back our identity on the internet? There will be two phases of crypto–in phase one we take back our money. In phase two we take back our identity. Tune in to find out how.

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### TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro

8:50 Identity on the Internet

17:15 Current State of Identity on the Internet 

23:25 Web2 Log-in Risks & Incentives

25:50 Authentication vs. Authorization vs. Identity vs. Identifier 

30:52 Sign-in with Ethereum 

36:12 The Benefits of SIWE

39:15 The Rest of the SIWE Iceberg

40:50 Bringing Your Own Data Vault

46:19 Data Representing Identity

48:54 Identity & Data Vaults

50:40 Dapps & Use Cases

56:16 The Future of SIWE

1:02:33 Zero Knowledge Proofs & Minimal Disclosure

1:07:09 Bots

1:08:30 Deep Fakes

1:09:39 Session Keys & No More Cookies

1:15:14 Ethereum the Blockchain’s Role

1:17:25 Ethereum & Identity

1:19:40 Why Log-in with Ethereum?

1:22:30 Censorship Resistance 

1:24:40 Festival of the Commons

1:29:40 SIWE Next Steps

1:31:43 Why SIWE is Important

1:32:52 Closing & Disclaimers

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#### RESOURCES
Sprue

[https://spruceid.com](https://spruceid.com/)

Read EIP 4361

[https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4361](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4361)

Wayne Chang

[https://twitter.com/wycdd](https://twitter.com/wycdd)