Sage Protocol manages decentralized user identities entirely onchain through a dual-object architecture. This design balances user privacy, data ownership, and social connectivity—empowering users with complete control over their digital identities, while ensuring seamless interoperability across Sage-compatible applications.

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Dual-Object Identity Architecture

Sage identities consist of two clearly defined onchain components:

UserOwned Object (Private Data)

The UserOwned object securely stores private identity data and analytics, under the exclusive control of each user:

  • Ownership: Directly controlled by the user’s own wallet.
  • Data Contents: Profile metadata (avatar, banner, description), private engagement metrics, earnings analytics, and personalized bookmarks (favorite posts, channels, users).
  • Access Control: Only the user’s wallet can modify data.
  • Key Functions: Private profile management, personal analytics tracking, favorites management, earnings monitoring.
  • Storage Pattern: Uses dynamic fields to handle app-specific data, such as epoch-based analytics and indexed favorites per application.

UserShared Object (Public Interactions)

The UserShared object handles public-facing interactions and relationships, making social data transparent and available across the ecosystem:

  • Ownership: Publicly shared onchain object, accessible by all Sage-compatible applications.
  • Data Contents: Social connections (follows, memberships), public user-generated posts, and interaction analytics.
  • Access Control: Protected explicitly by protocol rules and clearly defined operations to ensure secure access and prevent unauthorized modifications.
  • Key Functions: Facilitates social interactions, including posting content, following other users or channels, and managing interaction metrics.
  • Storage Pattern: Uses dynamic fields to manage app-specific data, including epoch-segmented analytics and content indexing per application.

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UserRegistry – Unified Identity Mapping

The UserOwned and UserShared objects integrate via the UserRegistry, a decentralized mapping that links usernames, wallet addresses, and user identity objects. This integration ensures user identities remain consistent, verifiable, and fully interoperable throughout the Sage ecosystem.

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Decentralized Social Graph Storage

Social interactions and relationships within Sage Protocol are transparently recorded onchain through dedicated Move modules and data structures:

  • Membership (membership): Captures user participation in channels and communities, including join timestamps and interaction histories.
  • Follows (implemented within membership): Manages transparent user-to-user and user-to-channel relationships, providing verifiable social connections across all Sage apps.
  • Friends (implemented within membership): Records friendships between users, explicitly tracking relationship changes, timestamps, and interaction details. This ensures friend connections are clear, accurate, and verifiable across the ecosystem.

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Key Advantages of Sage’s Architecture

  • Interoperability: User identities, relationships, and reputation data seamlessly integrate across all Sage-compatible applications.
  • Ownership & Privacy: Users retain complete, centralized-authority-free control over their personal identity data, enhancing privacy and autonomy.
  • Censorship Resistance: Decentralized onchain storage ensures resilience against censorship or arbitrary restrictions, safeguarding user data integrity and ecosystem reliability.

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Practical Benefits

  • For Developers: Easily integrate decentralized identity components (UserOwned, UserShared) and social graph structures (Membership, Follows, Favorites) without complex protocol-level modifications.
  • For End-Users: Effortlessly maintain consistent identities, relationships, and reputations across multiple decentralized apps, maximizing autonomy and minimizing friction.
  • Ecosystem-Wide Integration: Facilitates cohesive identity management and social interactions across diverse decentralized applications, fostering a unified, frictionless user experience.