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# From Wallets to Personas

Wallets gave Web3 its first foundation. They proved that value can be stored, sent, and secured without permission. But a wallet is still a flat surface. It shows assets, not people.

But a wallet cannot tell if it belongs to a long-term builder, a curious newcomer, or a leading voice in a community. It carries balances and transactions, but not intent, reputation, or interests. This limits how people connect and how projects grow.

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Personas extend the wallet into something richer, five orders of magnitude richer. They represent people as multi-dimensional: not only what they hold, but how they act, what they know, and where they contribute. This is how the on-chain economy moves from static addresses to living participants, setting the ground for the Value Graph.