IIdentity
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An identity object that is used to uniquely identify a stakeholder in a request. Today, a stakeholder's IIdentity
is expressed as an Ethereum address, but it is conceivable that future implementations may include alternative identity formats, perhaps W3C DIDs.
Examples of IIdentity
are: payee, payer, signer, creator, and any 3rd party that can view an encrypted request's contents.
The payee
identity and payer
identity are NOT necessarily the same as the payment recipient (paymentAddress
in the PaymentNetworkCreateParameters) or the payment sender (from
address in the payment-subgraph). Conceptually, the payee
and payer
identities are used only for notifications and access control, NOT payment routing.
Name | Type | Required | Description |
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Name | Value | Description |
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type
Identity type
value
string
Identity address
ETHEREUM_ADDRESS
'ethereumAddress'
Externally owned account (EOA)
ETHEREUM_SMART_CONTRACT
'ethereumSmartContract'
Smart contract account. Don't use this.
It is not possible to create or update a request using an IIdentity
of this type. This type was added to support creating/updating requests using multisig wallets via EIP-1271 but this feature has not yet been implemented.