🔒 Building Continuum - Chap 2 - Keys Not Accounts
🔒 Building Continuum - Chap 2 - Keys Not Accounts
This chapter explores the structural difference between accounts and keys — and why that distinction reshaped my thinking. Decentralization at the protocol layer does not automatically produce sovereignty at the user layer. “Keys, Not Accounts” explains why identity must be possession-based rather than permission-based, and how that realization became a foundational boundary for Continuum’s architecture.
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