We’re proud to announce that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has approved a charter for a new Working Group tasked with standardizing the data model and syntax of decentralized identifiers (DIDs)—the linchpin of self-sovereign identity. The W3C Decentralized Identifier Working Group will be co-chaired by Daniel Burnett of ConsenSys and our own senior crypto...Read More

Last week, we were joined by over 250 registrants and three expert panelists for a webinar discussing what self-sovereign identity means for banks, credit unions, FinTechs, and other financial service businesses—and how organizations can prepare for this shift. The event was moderated by our own Andy Tobin, a veteran of Europe’s mobile banking industry, and...Read More

While August may have flown by, it was a major month for self-sovereign identity (SSI). To recap some of the new developments and conversations, we’ve rounded up our ten favorite stories from the month along with a list of upcoming SSI events and conferences coming in September and October. If you’d like to get our...Read More

Last Thursday, we organized the first in a series of webinar-style product demos and were humbled to be joined by nearly 100 professionals from 18 countries and just as many industries. For all of us at Evernym, it was a sure sign that decentralized, self-sovereign identity truly is taking off at a global scale. On...Read More

When it comes to driving the adoption of decentralized identity, it truly does take a village. It takes credential issuers, credential verifiers, identity owners (consumers), and a behind-the-scenes army of blockchain engineers, cryptographers, and policy wonks all working in unison. And today, the Canadian province of Alberta has taken the first steps of building this...Read More