Eric Nakagawa Actually A is a crypto identity founder who co-founded Self Protocol, a privacy-first identity verification protocol built on zero-knowledge proofs. Eric Nakagawa Actually A's Twitter Score is 76 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #10,617 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Eric Nakagawa Actually A co-founded Self Protocol, which operates under Self Labs, the doing-business-as name of SocialConnect Labs, Inc. The protocol lets users verify facts such as age, nationality, sanctions status, and proof-of-human status by scanning the secure chip in a biometric passport or national ID, without exposing the underlying documents or personal data. Attestations are recorded on the Celo blockchain. As of July 2025, Self reported serving more than 8 million users, with biometric passport support across 129 countries and biometric ID support across 27 EU countries as well as Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam, Ghana, and Saudi Arabia.
Eric Nakagawa Actually A previously worked at Libra as head of open-source, the Facebook-backed permissioned blockchain stablecoin project that was later rebranded as Diem before the Diem Association shut down and sold the project to Silvergate Bank in January 2022. Eric Nakagawa Actually A also previously co-founded SimpleHoney, which was acquired by Ripple in April 2013.
Eric Nakagawa Actually A has posted 71,156 times on the platform and has been mentioned by 92 accounts a total of 268 times, reflecting ongoing attention from the Web3 identity and privacy community. In July 2025, Self announced a partnership with Google Cloud covering Web3 developer ecosystem support, including faucet integrations with Self's proof-of-humanity zero-knowledge proofs and OFAC list exclusion proofs. Self Protocol also integrated with Karma GAP and Karma Gov in April 2025 for Web3 funding and governance use cases.
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