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What Does The Ledger Do, Anyway?

What Does The Ledger Do, Anyway?

In the grand picture of decentralized identity, the leger plays a relatively boring role; it’s an important role however, and we’ll discuss why.By Sam Curren When exchanging verifiable credentials, there is information that needs to be known by all participants in the...

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What is DIDComm? (With Pictures!)

What is DIDComm? (With Pictures!)

The goal of DIDComm is summed up well by Daniel Hardman, CTO of Provenant:  “The goal is to help DIDs interact while retaining properties of DID methods. [The] Goal is not [to] use DIDs to authenticate people (though it enables this).”By Sam Curren DIDComm — short for...

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Souls, Tokens, and Verifiable Credentials

Souls, Tokens, and Verifiable Credentials

Soul-bound tokens are not designed for privacy, verifiable credentials are—and they can be deployed nowBy Sam Curren Privacy by design means, as the European Union explains, “nothing more than ‘data protection through technology design.’” But in this case, “nothing...

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