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!)
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...
Hyperledger Aries is the Present and the Future of Internet-Scale Trusted Verifiable Credential Ecosystems
Hyperledger Aries, AnonCreds, and Hyperledger Indy have given enterprises and governments a powerful way to build and use open source, interoperable decentralized identity technology. The reasons? A large and diverse community of developers and users is driving a...
Decentralized Ecosystem Governance: Better, More Effective, and More Robust than Trust Registries
Trust registries are relics of centralized thinking that undo many of the benefits of decentralized identity. But there is a better way to implementing governance in a verifiable credential ecosystem—and Decentralized Ecosystem Governance is on its way to becoming an...
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...
The Perfect Signature Style is the Enemy of the One that Works Today
BBS+ signature styles are not going to be ready for deployment anytime soon. This is precisely why you should build today and in a way that allows you to add them later.Sam Curren, Senior ArchitectNew technology is inevitable: some of it will be evolutionary, some of...
Indicio’s support for the W3C DID Specification and its path to standardization
The W3C’s DID Specification is critical to building a better digital world.Sam Curran and Ken EbertThe World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in 1994 to develop standards for the World Wide Web. Over the years, this collaboration between membership organizations...
Hyperledger Aries sees new coordinated effort to produce complete mobile agent
New community effort, Aries Bifold, targets an open source Aries mobile agent interoperable with other Aries projects.Hyperledger Aries is infrastructure for blockchain-rooted, peer-to-peer interactions. It includes shared cryptographic storage for blockchain clients...