The 2026 First Person Project Summit held in Seattle brought together builders and researchers to establish a global infrastructure for social verification, led by the First Person Project. At the Summit, the Applied Social Media Lab presented a live demonstration of the ASML Wallet to technologists, governance leaders, and community builders working on digital trust and decentralized systems. The session focused on how individuals can use the ASML Wallet to form verifiable, privacy-preserving connections with people they meet—such as at events or within shared communities—and carry those connections forward as durable, user-controlled signals of trust.
We invited participants to try out the following features of the ASML Wallet themselves:
- In-person relationship credential exchange via mobile app and QR code
- Optional local biometric attestation of credential signing to enhance trust
- Automatic discovery of witnesses on the local network
- Demonstration of the relationship credential exchange with witness attestation
- Explored the code behind the relationship credentials exchange protocol
Session participants mapped how the ASML Wallet could integrate with existing community tooling, open-source workflows, and emerging standards. Discussions during the session centered on interoperability, developer experience, and governance boundaries, with strong alignment around prioritizing simple, auditable flows in early implementations while leaving room for future extensibility. This collaborative exchange helped refine both technical and conceptual directions for the project.
Overall, the Summit helped to validate the ASML Wallet’s core premise: that trust online can be built through human relationships and shared norms, supported by interoperable technical infrastructure, rather than imposed through centralized or invasive identity systems.
Be on the lookout for upcoming launch events with the ASML Wallet this spring.
