 But wasn't the web meant to be decentralized? Indeed, it was from the very beginning, actually. However, it's missing a key element that enables it, an identity layer. So applications that require user accounts have to collect our information in order to persist it with our content. And this model has made it very difficult for us to have agency over our information, if not impossible. What if we could own our identity and our data across the web? This is possible with Web 5.