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by Leace 2831 days ago
> FIDO2 can be used as a replacement for a username/password, so you can go to a site, insert your FIDO2 key and log in without any other information.

Technically U2F can be used to design passwordless scheme too (returning a big array of all key handles known to a service) but FIDO2 probably has some optimizations in this area.