Verite is a collection of standardized protocols for decentralized identity that can help make it safer, easier, and more efficient to do business across the transformative world of DeFi and Web3 commerce. Verite credentials are portable, interoperable, and easily stored in a crypto wallet. Critically, these privacy-preserving credentials eliminate the need for sharing personally identifiable information, and users have total control over when and how their identity attestations are accessed by different organizations or protocols that accept the credential. The same credentials can also make it simpler for protocols to protect against bad actors in their networks and can help ensure the integrity of a community by providing KYC requirements.