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Indicio Wins British Columbia Code With Us Challenge to Upgrade Hyperledger Indy
Indicio will upgrade Hyperledger Indy to support “did:indy” DID Method Specification, which will enable greater interoperability across Indy-based networksBy Trevor Butterworth Indicio has won the BC Gov "Code With Us" Challenge to develop the did:indy DID Method for...
Indicio CMO and VP of Governance Join Leadership of Linux Foundation Projects
Helen Garneau joins the Hyperledger Foundation as Vice Chair of the Marketing Committee and Trevor Butterworth joins the Steering Committee of the Covid Credentials Initiative.By Tim Spring The Hyperledger Foundation, an open source collaborative effort created to...
Into 2022 with the Indicio Network
In just a year, the Indicio Network has grown into the leading platform for enterprise-grade decentralized products and services—and a community of ground-breaking companies in decentralized and Web3 identity products and servicesWhat a year. Last January, we launched...
New Indicio Executive Workshop Provides Essential Grounding in Digital Identity: The Business and Investor’s Guide to Self-Sovereign Identity
Indicio’s newest workshop is designed to provide the business community with the knowledge and confidence needed to make informed decisions about adopting and investing in the transformative power of trusted data ecosystemsBy Scott Harris, COO, SSI Trainer Today,...
Eight Simple Rules for Creating Decentralized Covid Credentials
As you build, as you implement decentralized digital health credential systems, keep these broad points in mindBy Tim Spring Indicio is a leading developer of decentralized digital health credentials and leads the Cardea community group at Linux Public Health...
How COVID-19 Catalyzed Digital Identity
The emergence of a global pandemic has driven the digitalization of services making reliable authentication online a critical need, says Charlyn Ho, a privacy and technology expert at international law firm Perkins Coie, in a new white paper. We caught up with Charlyn...
Indicio Leads Hyperledger Foundation Community Training
Accelerate your decentralized identity skills with two free Hyperledger Indy and Hyperledger Aries workshopsHyperledger Indy and Hyperledger Aries are two of the popular open source repositories that can help propel development of decentralised identity products and...
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...
Verifiable Credentials are Coming to Card Payment Rails
A ground-breaking development in decentralized fintech from Liquid Avatar Technologies, Dynamics Inc., and Indicio — and what it means for the future.Liquid Avatar Technologies’ PassmateTM shows how decentralized identity will transform the world: by easily...
Enterprise Blockchain Awards Names Ken Ebert Winner in Blockchain Leadership Award Category
Indicio CTO regarded for vision and leadership in developing interoperable blockchain-based Trusted Data EcosystemsSEATTLE — November 16, 2021 — Indicio, the world’s leading provider of decentralized identity and hosting solutions is pleased to announce that company...
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...
Identity Blockchains and Energy Consumption
Bitcoin has given blockchain the carbon footprint of Godzilla; but when it comes to identity, blockchain-based distributed ledgers are light on energy use and long on benefitsBlockchain has become synonymous with cryptocurrency, and crypto is rapidly becoming to...
Node Operator Spotlight: Anonyome
A distributed ledger is a database that has copies distributed across a network of servers (nodes), all of which are updated simultaneously. A network like this is the foundation of decentralized identity, a way of generating robust trust and collaboration free of the...
Indicio Expands Decentralized Identity Possibilities with Transaction Endorser Wizard
Build your business and customer base fast by simplifying ledger writes with Indicio’s easy-to-use toolkit. Scale products and services in minutesSEATTLE — October 08, 2021 — Indicio, the world's leading provider of decentralized identity development and hosting...
Indicio-SITA Pilot Named 2021 Enterprise Blockchain Award Finalist
Decentralized identity solution developer and air transport technology provider nominated for Blockchain Services Award in the Tools & Middleware categorySEATTLE — October 06, 2021 — Indicio, the world's leading provider of decentralized identity development and...
Indicio CTO Named 2021 Enterprise Blockchain Award Finalist
Ken Ebert nominated in Blockchain Leadership Award category for vision and leadership in developing interoperable blockchain-based Trusted Data Ecosystems SEATTLE — October 05, 2021 — Indicio, the world's leading provider of decentralized identity and hosting...
Node Operator Spotlight: IdRamp
A distributed ledger is a database that has copies distributed across a network of servers (nodes), all of which are updated simultaneously. A network like this is the foundation of decentralized identity, a way of generating robust trust and collaboration free of the...
Trust Registry or Machine-Readable Governance?
The world will move towards decentralized identity if we make it easy for them to do so—and easy means, above all, fast. The solution is machine readable governance—a smart way of implementing rules for how to manage trust.If you want a high-speed train to go fast,...
Trusted Data Ecosystems: The Indicio Way
We missed commemorating our first birthday because we were simply too busy.When we launched Indicio in May 2020, a global pandemic was disrupting the way we shared information. Lockdowns triggered a global migration from work to home, and centralized systems...
Indicio Named Finalist in IDC’s Inaugural Best in Future of Digital Infrastructure North America Awards
Indicio Named Finalist in IDC’s Inaugural Best in Future of Digital Infrastructure North America Awards Seattle WA – September 14, 2021 – Indicio today announced it has been named a finalist in the inaugural IDC Future Enterprise, Best in Future of Digital...
Indicio and Liquid Avatar Technologies Launch Canada’s First Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Technology for Sharing Health Data
Jointly-developed LAVCE platform solves the problems of privacy and security for sharing sensitive health data, such as COVID tests and vaccine records. SEATTLE, August 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Indico, the leading developer of decentralized identity blockchain...
The decentralized identity revolution is powered by machine-readable governance
Machine-readable governance is the key to making decentralized identity accountable, effective, and trustworthy. Much is talked, much is written about governance in decentralized identity. “Trust frameworks,” “trust marks,” “transitive trust” all form part of a...
21 Industry leaders from five continents join Indicio Network consortium to drive global adoption of decentralized identity
Indicio.tech, a public benefit corporation, today announced the twenty-one companies backing its global network for blockchain-based decentralized identity. With each company hosting a copy of Indicio’s public ledger, the Indicio Network enables companies and...
Trusted Data Ecosystems open the doors for safe travel and tourism
Learn how Indicio and SITA worked together using privacy-preserving technology to reshape contactless health information sharing.Proof of testing or vaccination has become central to how we reopen travel to countries, admit visitors, and bring tourism economies back...
Implementing the Good Health Pass’s recommendations with Cardea
Cardea is a fully open-source and field-tested verifiable digital credential that meets the major requirements of the Good Health Pass.With the rollout of the EU Digital COVID Certificate (previously called the Digital GreenCertificate), digital health credentials for...
Introducing the Indicio DemoNet—a new decentralized network for product demonstration
Business-critical decentralized identity product demonstrations now have a dedicated platform at Indicio.Indicio.tech, a public benefit corporation providing hosting and build services for decentralized identity ecosystems, today announced it has launched a new...
Paving the way to safer travel
SITA, INDICIO PAVE WAY TO SAFER TRAVEL EXPERIENCE WITH LAUNCH OF ARUBA HEALTH APP Using blockchain, the app creates a secure travel credential that is accepted by airlines, hotels and hospitality partners without sharing private health information ORANJESTAD – 5 May...
One woman’s open-source journey to decentralized identity—with the help of Indicio.tech
Noha Abuaesh, a Bahrain-based computer scientist, has been exploring decentralized identity for the last year, often with assistance from Indicio.tech’s open-source tools and free communications channels. She took a moment to answer some questions about her work and...
Indicio contributes novel UI messaging design for digital wallet to open source community
Indicio open sources a text messaging UI for digital wallets.Technology provider Indicio.tech, a public benefit corporation advancing decentralized identity software and solutions, today announced the public availability of the Indicio Wallet UI Design, a user...
Meetup with Indicio to explore decentralized identity
As a public benefit corporation, Indicio is committed to advancing decentralized identity as a technology that will benefit everyone. To help people understand how this technology works, we are hosting Meetups once per month on a Wednesday, except holidays.We started...
Indicio launches blockchain-enabled network for identity
Professionally-staffed MainNet supports mission-critical, enterprise-grade decentralized identity market solutions Technology provider Indicio.tech, a public benefit corporation advancing decentralized identity software and solutions, today announced the public...
Why 2021 is the year for decentralized identity
When we eventually look back at the legacy of Covid-19, what technological change will we see? What's happening now that will define the coming decade? When it became apparent that Covid-19 would scale to a problem of world historical proportions, speculation...
Indicio expands decentralized identity workshops and introduces new certification program
Responding to strong demand, Indicio now offers certification upon completion of its virtual, instructor-led decentralized identity training.Technology provider Indicio.tech, a public benefit corporation advancing decentralized identity, today announced a new...
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...
Be a part of the most dynamic network community in decentralized identity
Join the growing list of forward-thinking companies and organizations across the globe who are actively building the future of digital identity. This is your chance to be a part of the newest and most dynamic network in decentralized identity technology, open for...
Because decentralized identity can make life better: Why we converted to a public benefit corporation
In December, Indicio.tech reincorporated as a public benefit corporation, joining a worldwide movement committed to align profit with a positive material impact on society. Here we explain why
Indicio becomes a public benefit corporation
New structure supports the company’s mission, values, and its belief that identity technology should serve the public interest. Decentralized identity is a transformational technology that can protect an individual’s privacy, enable their consent in data sharing, and...
Decentralized identity use case spotlight: Supply chains
One of the most successful applications of blockchain technology has been to the management of supply chains, making it possible to create a tamper-proof history of source, custody, alteration, and authenticity. But what role, if any, can decentralized identity play...
Indicio.tech redefines decentralized identity network stability with new monitoring tools
Indicio.tech announces the open source contribution of monitoring tools to Hyperledger Indy.Indicio.tech, a professional services firm specializing in decentralized identity, today announced the general availability of Indicio.tech Monitoring tools for Hyperledger...
Helping the Community with the Indicio TestNet
We’re creating a stable home for the growth of decentralized identity One of the most rewarding parts of my job is being at the center of decentralized identity innovation and witnessing our community’s rapid growth. It is inspiring to see more and more developers,...
A Global Pandemic Lights the Fuse on a Technology Revolution
The time to build decentralized identity solutions is nowThe inability to decisively prove who we are in the digital world is frustrating our ability to use the internet effectively and efficiently, not to mention safely, and in a way that enables us to trust the...
Decentralized Identity: Weekly Reads June 15 2020
New to self-sovereign identity? Looking to learn more? I’ve made you a list of this week’s top five reads along with brief summaries to help you keep tabs on the latest developments, thought leaders, and innovations in the digital identity world. ION, Microsoft’s...
Lead the Way in Decentralized Identity
Decentralized identity can transform your business by protecting your company and your customer from data theft; it can increase privacy by allowing secure peer-to-peer interaction; and it can reduce costs by mitigating the risk from data privacy regulation...
Decentralized Identity: Weekly Reads June 5 2020
New to self-sovereign identity? Looking to learn more? I’ve made you a list of this week’s top five reads along with brief summaries to help you keep tabs on the latest developments, thought leaders, and innovations in the digital identity world. How self-sovereign...
Decentralized Identity: Weekly Reads May 22 2020
New to self-sovereign identity? Looking to learn more? I’ve made you a list of this week’s top five reads along with brief summaries to help you keep tabs on the latest developments, thought leaders, and innovations in the digital identity world. Why We Need...
Blockchain for Newbs
I'm going to help you learn about Blockchain and how it's shaping the Digital Identity industry.Blockchain: the basics Decentralized and Self-Sovereign Identity are all run on the technology called Blockchain (check out my Decentralized Identity for Newbs post to...
Decentralized Identity: Weekly Reads May 15 2020
New to self-sovereign identity? Looking to learn more? I’ve made you a list of this week’s top 5 reads along with brief summaries to help you keep tabs on the latest developments, thought leaders, and innovations in the digital identity world.
Trust Over IP—A Governance Standard for Decentralized Identity?
New technology is transforming how we think about identity online, how we verify who we are, how we share information, and who should control our data. Gathered under the concept of decentralized identity, all these technologies—blockchains, zero knowledge proofs,...
Decentralized Identity: Weekly reads May 4 2020
New to self-sovereign identity? Looking to learn more? I’ve made you a list of this week’s top five reads along with brief summaries to help you keep tabs on the latest developments, thought leaders, and innovations in the digital identity world. Why self-sovereign...
Digital Identity for Newbs
Hello world. I’m new to SSI, decentralized identity, online privacy, blockchain and nodes. Still, that’s not going to stop me from learning all about it. And the more I learn the more I want to share what I’ve found with my friends and family.
Decentralized Identity in the Age of COVID-19
Will the cure for coronavirus mean a fundamental loss of privacy and the emergence of a super-surveillance state? Not with Decentralized identity.
Introducing Indicio.tech
We launched Indicio to help enterprises and organizations of all sizes reimagine identity for a better online world—and to help them build that world through identity solutions that customers and users will value.
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