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See a proposal. See also slinky in the context of Object ID.

DApps (blockchain-based apps) use signing transactions for authentication instead of the troublesome passwords. They will also be using keys managed by wallets for encryption and identity management.

There is two lines of thought evolving:

1. Really Powerful Wallet. Wallet acquires more and more app features. Allows to search for data, view, edit, etc.
2. Standalone Wallet. Wallet is a separate app, open sourced, peer-reviewed, as thin as possible, which communicates with other apps on a local machine only to sign, encrypt, etc. but does not have any network access privileges itself. This allows the Wallet to be written in any language. Possibly easier to put on a dongle/hardware device.
3. Wallet as a library/SDK. More secure as there is no network traffic, even locally on a device. Less secure as an app may access the keys maliciously. Requires wrappers for every language.

Domain modeling is a powerful tool for rapid app development which became a mainstream technique with the advent of MVC frameworks.
The challenge is model evolution across different apps. Blockchain gives us a a first ever global database and as such will require our models to be understood globally, in many new contexts. For example a person may mean different things in Facebook app, as a patient in a hospital and as an employee in a corporation.

One technique of bounded contexts can come to the rescue. Let's discuss how we turn it into best practices for developing object models for the blockchain.

A recent massive banks breach is notable for not stealing account data, but for manipulating data, specifically account balances, to a loss of at least $300M, likely close to a $1B. This could be prevented in the future with the blockchain.

But we need to be careful, when loading data into corporate DBs we lose the benefits of the blockchain.
We need to see if we can port some of the blockchain principles to our DB structures and/or continuously verify them against the blockchain. I suggest this as a topic for further discussions.