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Jolocom

The protocol logic encodes a granular, claim-based model of identity that is highly generalized and unrestrictive in scope in order to accommodate a multiplicity of potential use cases and broad range of subjects of identity (users), including individual persons as well non-person entities like o...

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

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MATTR

We’ve designed our products based on a few key principles: extensible data formats, secure authentication protocols, a rigorous semantic data model, industry-standard cryptography, and the use of drivers and extensions to allow modular and configurable use of the platform over time.

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

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Accumulate Network (Was Factom Inc.)

The Accumulate protocol is based on many of the best concepts that came of the Factom protocol, including data and identity focus while combining the components in a new and unique configuration. The Accumulate protocol is designed by Paul Snow. Paul Snow is the Chief Blockchain Scientist at Inve...

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

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Evernym

The world’s leading platform for verifiable credentials. Build and deploy self-sovereign identity solutions, with the technology and go-to-market resources powering the largest implementations of digital credentials in production.

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

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Department Homeland Security (DHS)

The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) is keeping pace with the innovation community to tackle the hardest problems faced by DHS and the Homeland Security Enterprise. SVIP expands DHS S&T’s reach to find new technologies that strengthen n...

Updated: 2020-11-02 17 minute read

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Governments of Canada and the Pan Canadian Trust Framework

“The Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada (TBS) and Shared Services Canada (SSC) are seeking a standardized method to issue and rapidly verify portable digital credentials across many different contexts, thereby reducing human judgement error, increasing efficiency and ensuring digital credential...

Updated: 4 minute read

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Verifiable Credentials

Verifiable credentials (VCs) are the electronic equivalent of the physical credentials that we all possess today, such as: plastic cards, passports, driving licenses, qualifications and awards, etc. The data model for verifiable credentials is a World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation, “Verifiab...

Updated: 2022-12-12 20 minute read

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(DID) the Decentralized Identifier

Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity. A DID identifies any subject (e.g., a person, organization, thing, data model, abstract entity, etc.) that the controller of the DID decides that it identifies. In contrast to ty...

Updated: 2022-12-11 68 minute read

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Linked Data and the Semantic Web

In 2001, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, published an article in Scientific American. Berners-Lee, along with two other researchers, Ora Lassila and James Hendler, wanted to give the world a preview of the revolutionary new changes they saw coming to the web. Since its introdu...

Updated: 2020-01-09 8 minute read

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Welcome to Decentralized-ID.com!

I discovered decentralized identity as a freelance content creator, when I was hired to write a few in-depth articles about Hyperledger Indy.

Updated: 2020-11-21 1 minute read

DecentralizeID


Introduction to Decentralized Identity

The essence of Decentralized-ID is in creating open standards for a privacy preserving internet-wide identity layer — not owned by any one particular organization, but interoperable between all.

Updated: 2020-11-21 6 minute read