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JSON Web Tokens, or JWTs, are being used heavily now for many aspects of web, and the main one is authentication. JWTs are signed tokens that can be stored to define anything.
If you want more information on JWT's, you can see the IETF RFC 7519 which lays out exactly what one is at the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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