The Deep Revolution of WalletConnect: It 'Decouples' Your Identity and Applications
The most intuitive benefit WalletConnect brings to users is convenience, but its most profound and revolutionary impact on the Web3 architecture lies in its realization of 'decoupling identity from applications'. In the world of Web2, your identity and data are often deeply bound to the platforms you use. Your social relationships on WeChat cannot be transferred to Weibo; your shopping records on Taobao cannot be synchronized with Amazon. Your digital identity is, in fact, an asset of the platform.
WalletConnect fundamentally disrupts this model. It allows your true digital identity—the wallet address controlled by your private key—to become an independent, freely transferable entity. You can switch the wallet app you use at any time, just as you would change browsers to access the same website, while your assets, reputation, and history across all dApps remain unchanged. Today you might use Trust Wallet; tomorrow you can seamlessly switch to MetaMask Mobile, and the day after you can even interact with the same dApp using a hardware wallet like Ledger. This complete decoupling breaks the attempts of any wallet application to build a 'walled garden' and lock in users, fundamentally ensuring user autonomy and data portability, which is the purest and most core manifestation of the decentralized spirit. @WalletConnect #WalletConnect $WCT