The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is facing a critical decision on decentralized identifiers (DIDs) that may come down to a democratic vote on how much decentralization really matters. We've analyzed what it means and why it matters.Read More

Following the Sovrin Foundation’s announcement detailing reductions in their team, we thought we’d share our own thinking. Sovrin is now the world’s premier network dedicated to decentralized identity, with 60+ stewards including organizations such as IBM, NEC, and CULedger. Sovrin is one of the few identity networks with real-world use cases in production today. It’s...Read More

Last Thursday evening, during an internal summit meeting, a group of Evernym employees gathered to discuss why they work here—to articulate precisely what makes us so passionate about building a global self-sovereign identity (SSI) ecosystem. It was a highly memorable meeting because the more we talked about our “why,” the more the passion surfaced. Empowering...Read More

Engadget started their coverage of Apple’s “Sign in with Apple” announcement on Monday this way: “Apple’s WWDC 2019 was full of announcements, but few of them garnered as big a cheer from the crowd as when Sign in with Apple was introduced. The feature, which lets people use their Apple IDs to sign up for...Read More

Two weeks ago, I joined Hyperledger Executive Director Brian Behlendorf at the Consensus blockchain conference in New York City to announce the newest addition to the Hyperledger family of blockchain-powered projects: Hyperledger Aries. Aries was born out of the work on identity agents and identity wallets that began in the Hyperledger Indy project. As a...Read More