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Interoperability of Self Sovereign Identity Systems

Interoperability moves from theory to reality when companies have meaningful ability to choose. It is predicated on open standards foundations that enable easy movement of data and vendors.

Updated: 2023-07-02 5 minute read

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Aries
DHS
Danube Tech
INTABA
Indicio
Interop
Open Badges
Transmute

Digital Wallets and Self Sovereign Identity

SSI and identity wallets will make it easier for citizens, organizations and governments to manage (digital) identities. It will make registrations and transactions across the internet private and secure. It will also make organizations more efficient and effective.

Updated: 2023-07-01 17 minute read

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User Experience
Wallets

Trust Frameworks, Trust Registries, and Machine Readable Governance in Self Sovereign Identity

The trust infrastructure is concerned with the question of how and why the presented information can be trusted. It defines the rules for all stakeholders and enables legally binding relationships with the combination of governance frameworks, which are built on top of trust frameworks.

Updated: 2023-07-01 9 minute read

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Governance
Machine Readable Governance
Trust Frameworks
Trust Registries

Business [Value, Models, Practice] and Self Sovereign Identity

Self-Sovereign Identity not only presents an opportunity for businesses to build smarter, more secure, and more scalable relationships with customers; but it will enable them to completely rethink how they build trusted digital relationships from the ground up.

Updated: 2023-06-30 12 minute read

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Business
Markets
Trends

Personal Privacy and Self Sovereign Identity

But with challenges in the offing and platforms preparing to do battle, we must all support initiatives that support privacy and security, as well as the services that will bolster it. We must expect better and support the solutions that help us do better.

Updated: 2023-06-29 10 minute read

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Data Privacy
Privacy

Critique and Caution regarding Self Sovereign Identity

It is evident that our ongoing discussions about identity, ethics, bias, privacy and consent revolve around a lot of noise (opinions) but little signal (alignment), but why? Recognising that in 30 years of digital identity, we still lack coherent and coordinated action to make it work for everyon...

Updated: 2023-08-19 8 minute read

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Caution
Critique
Decentralized Identifiers
Verifiable Credentials

Decentralization and Self Sovereign Identity

Decentralization is a commonly misunderstood concept. For example, it is sometimes said that the reason cryptonetwork advocates favor decentralization is to resist government censorship, or because of libertarian political views. These are not the main reasons decentralization is important.

Updated: 2023-06-29 4 minute read

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Decentralization

The Metaverse in Web3 and Self Sovereign Identity

the first thing you should know about the metaverse, even as it’s still emerging and being defined, is that the time to act is now. The metaverse is expected to contribute USD 3 trillion to global GDP by 2013 and customers will expect immersive and interactive activities and apps from your brand

Updated: 2023-06-28 7 minute read

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Ethereum
Metaverse
NFTs
Web 3

Decentralized Finance, KYC and Self Sovereign Identity

Decentralized finance, or DeFi, is a cryptocurrency area that has recently been attracting significant attention. DeFi refers to financial services using smart contracts. These are automated enforceable agreements that do not need intermediaries, such as banks or lawyers, and use online blockchai...

Updated: 2023-06-28 4 minute read

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CeDeFi
DeFi
Ethereum
JPMorgan
KYC
KYC-Chain
Opulous
SelfKey
Web 3

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) and Self Sovereign Identity

Because DAOs do not have a sovereign above them, and are often explicitly in the business of providing services (like currency and arbitration) that are typically reserved for sovereigns, it is precisely the design of sovereigns (political science), and not the design of corporate governance, tha...

Updated: 2023-06-28 3 minute read

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DAO
Ethereum
Web 3

Non Fungible Tokens (NFT) and Soulbound Tokens (SBT)

avatars (the visualisation of self-sovereign identities) go beyond simply providing users with further ownership and control over their cryptographically secure identities, by offering an end-to-end application ecosystem designed to facilitate the commerce and exchange of digital and physical ser...

Updated: 2023-06-28 7 minute read

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Ethereum
NFTs
Soulbound Tokens
Web 3

Data Governance and Self Sovereign Identity

We should absolutely all be taking care of the data that belongs to us, our data that we create, that we have a right to be able to control and share exactly as we choose. But we should also bear in mind the power of that data to help each of us, every day, benefit from the good that can come whe...

Updated: 2023-06-29 14 minute read

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Data Governance