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History (2015-2019) Emergence of Blockchain for Identity and the United Nations

The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015. This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet a...

Updated: 2020-01-05 25 minute read

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GDPR
Humanitarian
IBM
ID2020
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Learning Machine
Linked Data
Mastercard
Microsoft
MyData
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UN/CEFACT
UNDP
UNHCR
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Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C
WEF
XDI
uPort

Identity Articles, Research and Literature

A selection of DID related literature and top level resources for discovery of more.

Updated: 2019-07-11 6 minute read

Accenture
DKMS
DPKI
Danube Tech
ID2020
Literature
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XDI
Zug
uPort

Decentralized Identity. Pre-history + resources for further exploration.

These pages are loosely categorized by year and era. The date ranges, are somewhat arbitrary and not perfectly adhered to, and the headings are not perfect descriptors of those date ranges. Rather those are some major themes occuring within that time period.

Updated: 2020-01-05 6 minute read

DPKI
History
IDCommons
IETF
IIW
PGP

Rebooting Web Of Trust - Papers and Advance Readings Index

The Web of Trust. It’s the buzzword for a new model of decentralized identity. However, it’s also a phrase that dates back almost twenty-five years and has been heavily overloaded with meaning during that time. The classic definition of Web of Trust derives from PGP, but the top Google results re...

Updated: 2020-10-10 31 minute read

BTCR
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Blockcerts
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California
Consensys
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DKMS
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XDI
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Data Hubs

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Secure Data Storage WG - DIF

Secure, encrypted, privacy-preserving storage and computation of data is a critical component of decentralized identity systems. As with identifiers and names must be self-sovereign to the owning entity, a user’s identity data must remain private, only accessible to the entities they allow. DIF m...

Updated: 2020-11-26 3 minute read

DIF
Data Hubs
Encrypted Data Vaults
Secure Data Storage
Storage and Compute WG
W3C

Rebooting Web Of Trust - Papers and Advance Readings Index

The Web of Trust. It’s the buzzword for a new model of decentralized identity. However, it’s also a phrase that dates back almost twenty-five years and has been heavily overloaded with meaning during that time. The classic definition of Web of Trust derives from PGP, but the top Google results re...

Updated: 2020-10-10 31 minute read

BTCR
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Blockstack
California
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DKMS
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Digital Bazaar
Ethereum
GDPR
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PGP
RWoT
Self Sovereign Identity
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
XDI
eIDAS

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Spherity

Spherity’s Digital Twins enable innovative customer journeys across mobility, supply chain transparency, risk assessment, audit trails for data analytics, and many more use cases.Our developers and systems designers combine years of deep research in the emerging decentralized identity space with ...

Updated: 2023-03-30 less than 1 minute read

AI
Cloud Identity Wallet
DID
Enterprise
EU
European Data Infrastructure
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IDUnion
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ISO 27001
Kuppinger Cole
Legisym
Ontology
Secure Digital Identity Association
Sovrin Steward
Supply Chain
Verifiable Credentials

Mattereum

We help people to sell, organise, and communicate about their property with confidence. Strong product knowledge ensures everyone derives maximum value from objects they buy, sell, and own. Mattereum’s first customer is legendary actor William Shatner’s company Third Millenia. Using Mattereum Ass...

Updated: 2023-03-22 less than 1 minute read

DWeb
Enterprise
Ethereum
IOT
Metaverse

Spherity

Spherity is building decentralized identity management solutions to power the 4th industrial revolution, bringing secure identities (“Digital Twins”) to machines, algorithms, and other non-human entities.

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

AI
DID
DIF
Digital Twins
eIDAS
IOT
ISO 27001
Ontology
Sovrin Foundation
Swisscom
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

Karyl Fowler and History of Transmute

Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to elim...

Updated: 2021-04-19 12 minute read

Element Block Explorer
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Consensys
Custom Authz Servers
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Element
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Microsoft
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OIDC
Okta
Okta Identity Cloud
Oracle
Sidetree
Transmute
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Transmute

Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to elim...

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

Element Block Explorer
Blockchain
Consensys
Custom Authz Servers
DHS
DID
DID:GITHUB
DIF
Element
Encrypted Data Vaults
Ethereum
IOT
IPFS
Microsoft
OAuth
OIDC
Okta
Okta Identity Cloud
Oracle
Sidetree
Transmute
Verifiable Credentials

SSI-Meetup - Use Cases

SSI Meetup is an open, collaborative community to help SSI evangelists around the world, independent of company interests or standards. Our main mission is to help you connect with other SSI enthusiasts and create a dynamic, local, yet globally connected community.

Updated: 2019-07-20 1 minute read

Financial Services
Healthcare
IOT
Media
SSI-Meetup
Truu
Verifiable Credentials

Adoption of Hyperledger Identity Initiatives

“Founding members of the Accelerator include industry leading organizations ATB Financial, IAG, Irish Life, the International Federation of Red Cross, Spark New Zealand, Truu and three provincial and state governments. Collectively, these organizations represent the interests of 100’s of millions...

Updated: 2019-03-05 5 minute read

ATB
Accenture
Adoption
Aries
Blockchain
CULedger
Cisco
Consensys
Ethereum Enterprise Alliance
Evernym
Fabric
Hyperledger
IOT
IOTA
Indy
MyData
RDF
Sawtooth
Sovrin Foundation
Truu
Tykn
UNSDGs
Ursa

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IOTA Foundation

The IOTA Foundation is the Next-Generation Blockchain and was initiated with a very clear and focused vision of enabling the paradigm shift of the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0 and a trustless ‘On Demand Economy’ through establishing a de facto standardized ‘Ledger of Everything’. It aims to e...

Updated: 2021-04-14 3 minute read

Blockchain
Dark Matter Labs
Eclipse
IOTA

Dragonchain & Factor

On Factor/MyFii DID, the identity factors are decentralized to the individual owners. Individual users hold their own identity information in granular form as “factors”. Factors can be any data attributed to an individual and can be based on verifications by one or more external 3rd parties, or t...

Updated: 2020-11-17 7 minute read

Blockchain
Dragonchain

Ontology

Ontology is a high performance, open source blockchain specializing in digital identity and data. Ontology’s unique infrastructure supports robust cross-chain collaboration and Layer 2 scalability, offering businesses the flexibility to design a blockchain that suits their needs. With a suite of ...

Updated: 2020-11-11 5 minute read

Blockchain
Consensys
Ethereum
Microsoft
NEO
Ontology
Polkadot
Universal Resolver
Verifiable Credentials

Handshake

Handshake is a UTXO-based blockchain protocol which manages the registration, renewal and transfer of DNS top-level domains (TLDs). Our naming protocol differs from its predecessors in that it has no concept of namespacing or subdomains at the consensus layer. Its purpose is not to replace DNS, b...

Updated: 2020-11-10 2 minute read

Blockchain
DNS
Handshake

Veres One

Our vision is to enable all people and organizations in the world to create and own their online identifiers, control their identity data and with whom they share that data.

Updated: 2020-11-10 1 minute read

Blockchain
DID
Digital Bazaar
Veres One
Veres One CG
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

Blockstack

Blockstack builds an alternate DNS and alternate public-key infrastructure. It’s the first implementation of a decentralized DNS system on top of the Bitcoin blockchain It combines DNS functionality with public key infrastructure and is primarily meant to be used by new blockchain applications.

Updated: 2020-11-10 2 minute read

Bitcoin
Blockchain
Blockstack
DID

Karyl Fowler and History of Transmute

Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to elim...

Updated: 2021-04-19 12 minute read

Element Block Explorer
Blockchain
Consensys
Custom Authz Servers
DHS
DID
DID:GITHUB
DIF
Element
Encrypted Data Vaults
Ethereum
IOT
IPFS
Microsoft
OAuth
OIDC
Okta
Okta Identity Cloud
Oracle
Sidetree
Transmute
Verifiable Credentials

Transmute

Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to elim...

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

Element Block Explorer
Blockchain
Consensys
Custom Authz Servers
DHS
DID
DID:GITHUB
DIF
Element
Encrypted Data Vaults
Ethereum
IOT
IPFS
Microsoft
OAuth
OIDC
Okta
Okta Identity Cloud
Oracle
Sidetree
Transmute
Verifiable Credentials

Hyperledger Aries

One of the architectural components of Indy is called an Agent. This is software that acts on behalf of an identity owner to communicate off-ledger with other Agents. As Agent work continued with the development of message encryption standards, extensible message typing, and common protocols, int...

Updated: 2020-01-07 4 minute read

Aries
Bitcoin
Blockchain
DKMS
Indy
Verifiable Organizations Network

Cryptonomica

We make verification of key owner’s identity and store data about this verification: who, when, using which document made verification. And unlike in ‘Web of trust’ there is an established procedure for key verification, i.e. known rules according to witch identity of the key owner have to be pro...

Updated: 2019-07-11 2 minute read

Blockchain
Ethereum
PGP

Bitcoin Identity Standards and Applications

The Bitcoin Reference DID method (did:btcr) supports DIDs on the public Bitcoin blockchain. The Bitcoin Reference method has minimal design goals: a DID trust anchor based on the Bitcoin blockchain, updates publicly visible and auditable via Bitcoin transactions, and optionally, additional DID Do...

Updated: 2020-01-07 4 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockchain
Ethereum
History
ION
Microsoft
RWoT
W3C
XDI

Adoption of Hyperledger Identity Initiatives

“Founding members of the Accelerator include industry leading organizations ATB Financial, IAG, Irish Life, the International Federation of Red Cross, Spark New Zealand, Truu and three provincial and state governments. Collectively, these organizations represent the interests of 100’s of millions...

Updated: 2019-03-05 5 minute read

ATB
Accenture
Adoption
Aries
Blockchain
CULedger
Cisco
Consensys
Ethereum Enterprise Alliance
Evernym
Fabric
Hyperledger
IOT
IOTA
Indy
MyData
RDF
Sawtooth
Sovrin Foundation
Truu
Tykn
UNSDGs
Ursa

AI

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Spherity

Spherity’s Digital Twins enable innovative customer journeys across mobility, supply chain transparency, risk assessment, audit trails for data analytics, and many more use cases.Our developers and systems designers combine years of deep research in the emerging decentralized identity space with ...

Updated: 2023-03-30 less than 1 minute read

AI
Cloud Identity Wallet
DID
Enterprise
EU
European Data Infrastructure
Healthcare
IDUnion
IOT
ISO 27001
Kuppinger Cole
Legisym
Ontology
Secure Digital Identity Association
Sovrin Steward
Supply Chain
Verifiable Credentials

Spherity

Spherity is building decentralized identity management solutions to power the 4th industrial revolution, bringing secure identities (“Digital Twins”) to machines, algorithms, and other non-human entities.

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

AI
DID
DIF
Digital Twins
eIDAS
IOT
ISO 27001
Ontology
Sovrin Foundation
Swisscom
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

IIW Session Topics (Unofficial)

If you want to stay current in digital identity, keeping an eye on the session topics of the biannual internet identity workshop is a good place to start.

Updated: 2020-11-10 102 minute read

AI
Aries
BBS Signatures
Blockstack
CCPA
California
DID
DIDComm
DIF
DKMI
DKMS
Danube Tech
Ethereum
Evernym
FIDO
GDPR
GS1
ID2020
Indy
JLinc
JSON-LD
KERI
MATTR
MyData
OASIS
OAuth
OIDC
Onfido
Respect Network
Trust Framework
Universal Registrar
Universal Resolver
Ursa
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
WebAuthN
XDI
eIDAS
iRespond

MyData

We are entrepreneurs, activists, academics, listed corporations, public agencies, and developers. For years, we’ve been using different words for what we do – MyData, Self Data, VRM (Vendor Relationship Management), Internet of Me, PIMS (Personal Information Management Services) etc, while sharin...

Updated: 2019-07-11 31 minute read

AI
DKMS
GDPR
JLinc
Meeco
MyData
OAuth
Verifiable Credentials
eIDAS

Email

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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 69 minute read

51nodes
ABT Network
Aergo
Alastria
ArcBlock
Ardor
BCGov
BIF
BOTLabs
BSC
Baidu
Besu
BiiLabs
Binance
Bitcoin
BlockchainCommons
Blockcore
Blocko
Blockstack
Celo
Ceramic Network
Chainyard
Cloudchain
Commercio
Consensys
Consent
Corda
Cosmos
Credentials Community Group
DID
DID:AERGO
DID:ALA
DID:AVVCYBER
DID:BBA
DID:BID
DID:BNB
DID:BRYK
DID:BTCR
DID:CCP
DID:CELO
DID:COM
DID:CORDA
DID:DID
DID:DOCK
DID:DOGE
DID:ECHO
DID:ELASTOS
DID:ELEM
DID:EMTRUST
DID:EOS
DID:ERC725
DID:ETHO
DID:ETHR
DID:EVAN
DID:FACTOM
DID:GATC
DID:GIT
DID:GITHUB
DID:GRG
DID:HEDERA
DID:HOLO
DID:ICON
DID:INDY
DID:IO
DID:ION
DID:IPID
DID:IS
DID:IWT
DID:JLINC
DID:JNCTN
DID:JOLO
DID:JWK
DID:KEY
DID:KILT
DID:KLAY
DID:LIFE
DID:META
DID:MOAC
DID:MORPHEUS
DID:NEAR
DID:NFT
DID:OBJECT
DID:OCKAM
DID:OMN
DID:ONION
DID:ONT
DID:OP
DID:ORB
DID:PANACEA
DID:PEER
DID:PISTIS
DID:PKH
DID:PTN
DID:SAN
DID:SCHEMA
DID:SELFKEY
DID:SIGNOR
DID:SIRIUS
DID:SOV
DID:STACK
DID:TAG
DID:TANGLE
DID:TRUSTBLOC
DID:TRX
DID:TTM
DID:TWIT
DID:TYRON
DID:TYS
DID:TZ
DID:UNDID
DID:UNISOT
DID:UNS
DID:V1
DID:VAA
DID:VAULTIE
DID:VID
DID:VVO
DID:WEB
DID:WLK
DID:WORK
Digital Bazaar
Dock
EOS
ERC725
Echo
Elastos
Element
Email
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Evan Network
Evernym
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Factom
GRGBanking
Gatica
Github
GrgChain
Halialabs
Hashgraph
Holochain
Hydra
Hyland Credentials
Hyperledger
IBM
ICONLOOP
IIW
ION
IOP
IOTA
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InfoWallet
IoTeX
JLinc
JWK
Jnctn
Jolocom
KILT
Klaytn
MOAC
MediBloc
Metadium
Microsoft
NEAR
Ocean Protocol
Ockam
OmniOne
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Panacea
ProximaX
Quorum
RChain
RWoT
Raonsecure
SecureKey
SelfKey
SelfKey Identity
Sovrin
Sovrin Foundation
SpaceElephant
Sphereon
SpruceID
Swisscom
TIFAC-CORE
TMChain
TOR
TRON
Teleinfo CAICT
Token.TM
TranSendX
Transmute
Twitter
UNISOT
UNS
VP
Vaultie
VeramoLabs
Veres One
Vivvo
W3C
Weelink
Workday
YLZ Inc
Zilliqa
bryk
cryptonics
lifeID
uPort

TOR

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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 69 minute read

51nodes
ABT Network
Aergo
Alastria
ArcBlock
Ardor
BCGov
BIF
BOTLabs
BSC
Baidu
Besu
BiiLabs
Binance
Bitcoin
BlockchainCommons
Blockcore
Blocko
Blockstack
Celo
Ceramic Network
Chainyard
Cloudchain
Commercio
Consensys
Consent
Corda
Cosmos
Credentials Community Group
DID
DID:AERGO
DID:ALA
DID:AVVCYBER
DID:BBA
DID:BID
DID:BNB
DID:BRYK
DID:BTCR
DID:CCP
DID:CELO
DID:COM
DID:CORDA
DID:DID
DID:DOCK
DID:DOGE
DID:ECHO
DID:ELASTOS
DID:ELEM
DID:EMTRUST
DID:EOS
DID:ERC725
DID:ETHO
DID:ETHR
DID:EVAN
DID:FACTOM
DID:GATC
DID:GIT
DID:GITHUB
DID:GRG
DID:HEDERA
DID:HOLO
DID:ICON
DID:INDY
DID:IO
DID:ION
DID:IPID
DID:IS
DID:IWT
DID:JLINC
DID:JNCTN
DID:JOLO
DID:JWK
DID:KEY
DID:KILT
DID:KLAY
DID:LIFE
DID:META
DID:MOAC
DID:MORPHEUS
DID:NEAR
DID:NFT
DID:OBJECT
DID:OCKAM
DID:OMN
DID:ONION
DID:ONT
DID:OP
DID:ORB
DID:PANACEA
DID:PEER
DID:PISTIS
DID:PKH
DID:PTN
DID:SAN
DID:SCHEMA
DID:SELFKEY
DID:SIGNOR
DID:SIRIUS
DID:SOV
DID:STACK
DID:TAG
DID:TANGLE
DID:TRUSTBLOC
DID:TRX
DID:TTM
DID:TWIT
DID:TYRON
DID:TYS
DID:TZ
DID:UNDID
DID:UNISOT
DID:UNS
DID:V1
DID:VAA
DID:VAULTIE
DID:VID
DID:VVO
DID:WEB
DID:WLK
DID:WORK
Digital Bazaar
Dock
EOS
ERC725
Echo
Elastos
Element
Email
Ethereum
Evan Network
Evernym
Fabric
Factom
GRGBanking
Gatica
Github
GrgChain
Halialabs
Hashgraph
Holochain
Hydra
Hyland Credentials
Hyperledger
IBM
ICONLOOP
IIW
ION
IOP
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IPFS
Indy
InfoWallet
IoTeX
JLinc
JWK
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Jolocom
KILT
Klaytn
MOAC
MediBloc
Metadium
Microsoft
NEAR
Ocean Protocol
Ockam
OmniOne
Ontology
Panacea
ProximaX
Quorum
RChain
RWoT
Raonsecure
SecureKey
SelfKey
SelfKey Identity
Sovrin
Sovrin Foundation
SpaceElephant
Sphereon
SpruceID
Swisscom
TIFAC-CORE
TMChain
TOR
TRON
Teleinfo CAICT
Token.TM
TranSendX
Transmute
Twitter
UNISOT
UNS
VP
Vaultie
VeramoLabs
Veres One
Vivvo
W3C
Weelink
Workday
YLZ Inc
Zilliqa
bryk
cryptonics
lifeID
uPort

Digital Signatures

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ValidatedID

With ViDSigner we offer a SaaS multichannel electronic signature platform that combines the security of cryptographic technology, biometrics and easy use from email certification to website and mobile integrations, smartcard and handwritten in-person signing.With ViDChain we provide a Blockchain ...

Updated: 2023-03-22 less than 1 minute read

DIF
Digital Signatures
EBSI
Education
eIDAS Bridge
Enterprise
ESSIFlab
Europe
Interop
SaaS
ValidatedID
ViDChain
VIDSigner
Wallets

GS1 - The Global Language of Business

Gs1 introduced the barcode in 1974. We are a global, neutral, non-profit standards organisation that brings efficiency and transparency to the supply chain. Our standards are proven by industry and can help you achieve your public policy goals. Designed by consensus, our standards are proven, ope...

Updated: 2020-11-21 9 minute read

Barcode
Digital Link
Digital Signatures
Enterprise
GS1
Global Standards Management Process
Healthcare
KERI
RFID
Supply Chain

Wallets

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ValidatedID

With ViDSigner we offer a SaaS multichannel electronic signature platform that combines the security of cryptographic technology, biometrics and easy use from email certification to website and mobile integrations, smartcard and handwritten in-person signing.With ViDChain we provide a Blockchain ...

Updated: 2023-03-22 less than 1 minute read

DIF
Digital Signatures
EBSI
Education
eIDAS Bridge
Enterprise
ESSIFlab
Europe
Interop
SaaS
ValidatedID
ViDChain
VIDSigner
Wallets

Global ID

Our mission is to bring decentralized digital identity to all people — a self-sovereign identity they can use to communicate, transact, and create value within any context. At GlobaliD, we believe that your identity is the key to unlocking your social and economic potential. This applies to the p...

Updated: 2023-03-22 less than 1 minute read

Compliance
COVID
Indicio
PRIVATE
Verifiable Credentials
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Magic Labs

When users want to sign up or log in to your application: User requests a magic link sent to their email address User clicks on that magic link User is securely logged into the applicationIf it’s a web application, users are logged into the original tab, even if the user clicked on the m...

Updated: 2023-03-22 less than 1 minute read

DWeb
Enterprise
IAM
ID
Magic Link
Onboarding
Passwordless
SMS
Web3
WebAuthN