Hype over web3 and the Metaverse put selling the future ahead of building the infrastructure for digital transformation. But that infrastructure is the source of business opportunity. By Trevor Butterworth The current malaise over web3 and the metaverse feels very...
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Market Signals — Increased Interoperability, Regulations, and Adoption to Come!
Our regular review of recent news from around the decentralized identity community. In this edition, we look at some predictions on what 2023 will hold for digital identity, increased interoperability between countries, and an interesting new intersection of AI and...
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...
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...
Increasing Awareness of Digital Identity Market Signals
Our regular review of recent news from around the decentralized identity community. In this edition, advice for financial institutions, how more global equality can be achieved through digital identity, and how following regulations does not always mean your data is...
Indicio Demonstrates Decentralized Ecosystem Governance
Indicio is demonstrating a “Governance Editor” at the Internet Identity Workshop in Mountain View, California, as the company collaborates with the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) on a specification for Decentralized Ecosystem GovernanceBy Mike Ebert It can be...
Who Develops Decentralized Ecosystem Governance?
Machine-readable governance files simplify the governance in a decentralized verifiable credential ecosystem: but who develops these files—and how?By Mike Ebert Decentralized Ecosystem Governance using machine-readable files is the most effective and efficient way to...
From Home to Airport to Hotel and Back Again: Indicio’s Route to Seamless Travel
A DTC-based travel credential creates a single check in experience for an entire tripBy Yuri Feliciano The International Air Transport Association (IATA) recently held its first post-pandemic, in-person meeting for IATA’s One ID working group in Montreal, with...
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...