A single account to access any website or platform. This is the idea of Gamium, a startup based in Barcelona known for its involvement in the development of the metaverse and web 3, and in which companies such as Telefónica or youtubers like Willyrex and Mr. Beast. To make this a reality, the company has developed Didita service that works as an interoperable financial and identity protocol that allows users to surf the web with a single digital identity, and which aims to implement a standard on the Internet: a login unique for all websites whose advantage goes beyond forgetting passwords once and for all.
It is, in a way, a service similar to what Google, Apple and other platforms offer users: the possibility of logging in through an account so that, firstly, we avoid remembering more passwords and, secondly, the web can access our data or information automatically, without the need to enter them manually. Didit, however, has important differences.
With Didit, for example, users can create a unique profile with your personal information and, subsequently, have control of your information and personal data. Companies, in return, receive access to that data in a much more precise way, and it also allows them to easily identify it. In this way, for example, a person only has to log in through Didit on an online shopping website, select the product, pay and that’s it.
The service developed by Gamium starts from a fundamental base: digital identity, it has blockchain technology, and it is prepared to work on web 2 —the internet we know today—, as on web 3, with benefits not only for ordinary users, but also for companies. Can this product really mark a before and after in one of the most common problems of the Internet?
The goal: an interoperable identity to put an end to multiple accounts
Didit, we reiterate, was born with a clear objective: to solve one of the most common problems when browsing the internet, which is the creation of multiple accounts for different services. To do this, as explained by Alberto Rosas, coCEO of Gamium, to hypertextualit is necessary create an “interoperable identity” in which we only have one account to be able to access any site with our data.
Rosas highlighted that he and his team have been working on the development of “technology to achieve an interoperable identity for more than a year, in which you do not need to have 50 [cuentas] scattered everywhere, with your data scattered. If not that you have one, and that with a single account you can go to any platform, log in or register and pass your data and be able to make payments automatically”. The person in charge of Gamium affirms that it is the first time that something like this has been achieved on the internet.
Didit, which is launching today with a first version intended for implementation by companies and organizations, may seem like a product aimed at users more familiar with blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. In a way, it is.
In order to create a digital identity, it is necessary to have a digital wallet or walletl, “which is normally used by people in the blockchain sector,” says Rosas. In future updates, however, the product will have features more focused on individual users, such as an option to create a digital identity “with an account that does not have to be a wallet.”
For version 1, for example, you can choose any wallet on the market to use the system. There are more than 200 wallets that are now compatible with Didit. And for version 2.0, in the end our goal is to make the user experience as good as possible. So, as of version 2.0, what we do is that, apart from being able to register and have your identity with Didit, you can also do it from a Social Provider, like Gmail or Twitter.
Alberto Rosas, CoCEO of Gamium.
How does Didit work?
In any case, using Didit is really easy, even for those who are not familiar with blockchain technology or cryptocurrencies. In the end, the platform uses the chain of blocks with the objective of generating a shared database so that users can track each transaction. In addition, and as Rosas details, it is compatible with up to 200 different wallets; so it is very likely that one of them has an interface.
However, How does Didit work? First of all, it is necessary to create that digital identity which, we reiterate, is done through a digital wallet compatible with the service. It is, basically, as if we created an Amazon account, since we must enter personal information that other platforms can later use, such as the name, surname, date of birth, shipping address or even more specific data, such as a biography, our position of work, etc.
Once that digital identity is created, yesand will generate a unique user code that will serve as a personal identifier. The next step is to access a website that integrates Didit, use the service as a login method, and perform any management. If, for example, we access an online store through Didit, the user will only have to select the product and confirm the purchase, since the website will fill in the shipping and payment data automatically from the Gamium service.
Didit also serves as a payment gateway. At the moment, yes, it only accepts payments with cryptocurrencies through the same wallet in which the user has created their digital identity. Later, however, more payment options will be added, says Gamium’s co-CEO to hypertextual.
What we want to do in versions 2.0 and 3.0 is add a lot more Open Banking functionality. Add debit cards directly, so that you can store them in your identity safely, so that you can make SEPA payments, so that you can even make Bizum. Yet another type of financial functionality now in version 1.0. But yes, the idea is to grow this financial function much more and allow much more types of transactions.
Alberto Rosas, CoCEO of Gamium.
Didit has other advantages beyond a quick login
Although Didit’s main advantage is the use of a single account to log in to any website that implements the service, there are other benefits of using this service compared to any other login gateway.
One of these advantages in data interoperability. That is, being able to share data between various websites and applications without the need for them to be compatible with each other. Didit also offers some additional privacy featuressuch as being able to choose what data or not to include in your digital identity.
For the companies, Didit also has several advantages. Among them, the possibility of easily identifying a user, being able to streamline the registration and login process for those who access your website or platform or improve your payment gateways through the economic APIs developed by Gamium.
Didit, moreover, is free. The user does not need to pay for this service, and for the moment, Gamium does not plan to charge a commission to those companies that decide to implement it on their websites or platforms. Alberto Rosas, in fact, points out that the objective is to standardize the product and, subsequently, monetize it. As? Through the financial part of the platform —let’s remember that Didit also allows transactions—, or through exclusive services that users pay for.
Companies, companies and organizations, yes, play a fundamental role in the standardization of this service, since they are the ones who have to implement Didit on their platforms so that the user can use it as an alternative to the Google gateway or their own registry.