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I feel like the way this sort of thing should work is you'd have a class of entities that you would trust to be identity providers, like banks, credit unions, ID.me, maybe cell providers and maybe Google/Apple/Microsoft if you so choose. Then another class of entities like Wise or regular merchants could verify your identity via some sort of OAuth connection with a cryptographic handshake underneath.

Isn't that basically Plaid?

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