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Upcoming
[New Zealand] Digital Trust Hui Taumata: Registrations now open! 8/1
[California] Internet Identity Workshop #37 10/10-12 ← Ticket Sales open
[Germany] Self Sovereign Identity at Eclipse: Why, What, and How? 10/17 Eclipse Con
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Wallet Report
Wallet Wars or Collaborative Wallet Ecosystems? Written by Identity Woman in Business and sponsored by Mattr.
As many are painting the picture of #walletwars, we dissect the digital wallet market based on the roles an organization may take on from a technical development perspective in order to understand where tensions arise, opportunities emerge, and collaboration are needed and widely beneficial.
Here is an outline of the article:
Are Wallet Wars Really Necessary?
Trust — The One Difference That Matters Most
Digital Wallets Are About Value Creation Through Trusted Relationships
Breaking Down the Roles in the Digital Wallet Market
Collaborative Wallet Ecosystems Benefit Us All
We believe that most of us are going to be better off through co-opetition in the wallet market. Many organizations are likely in the position of making digital wallets an opportunity to strengthen their business relationships through collaborative #ecosystem building.
SSI Trending
Log out: A Glossary of Technological Resistance and Decentralization 2023-07-04 Alexandra Giannopoulou, Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Fennie Wang, Dionysus Labs, United States. Network Cultures
The concept of self-sovereign identity (SSI)1 describes an identity management system created to operate independently of third-party public or private actors, based on decentralised technological architectures, and designed to prioritise user security, privacy, individual autonomy and self-empowerment.
Explainers
[Video] Decentralized Identity in Finance (with Kim Hamilton Duffy) 2023-07-25 Dock
In this episode of Identi3, Nick Lambert is joined by Kim Hamilton Duffy, Director of Identity and Standards at Centre. Centre is an independent, member-based Consortium founded by Coinbase and Circle in 2018. They launched the stablecoin USDC and Verite, a set of open-source, decentralized identity protocols.
Exploring the technology behind Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) 2023-07-25 PwC
we delve into the technology behind SSI, exploring the key elements and benefits of decentralised identity management.
Introduction to Web 5.0 2023-07-27 ICX
The status quo is that the Internet is emotionless, as it cannot determine what the user is experiencing, and that user data is owned by third parties. In this regard, however, Web 5.0 should be transformative.
[WhitePaper] Beginner Guide to Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Data Indicio
Learn the basics of decentralized identity and verifiable credentials. Discover how this new Web3 technology makes safer and better user experiences.
The State of Open Banking: Empowering Individuals and Redefining Data Control 2023-07-27 Payments Journal
Open banking is a form of democratization in financial services, and it allows individuals to leverage the information held by banks without necessarily going through traditional banks for every interaction. Instead, they can benefit from tailored financial services provided by third-party companies that excel in user experiences.
Digital Twins
EU Digital Product Passports and enabling compliance in the US pharmaceutical supply chain Spherity, DIF
We caught up with Dr Susanne Guth-Orlowski, Chief Innovation & Solution Officer, Christiane Wirrig, Product Manager CARO, and Ricky Thiermann, Product Owner Digital Product Passports to learn about their work on Digital Product Passports in the EU, and promoting compliance with new pharmaceutical industry regulations in the US.
Self Actioning System, a preferred systemic embodiment of “Digital Self” Human Colossus
digital twins are disruptive to product lifecycle management (PLM) processes in most industries; they enable product owners to access an enormous amount of real-time data collected using sensors to ingest factual information about a physical object (the "product") or behavioural information about how that object responds to changes in environmental circumstance through its digital counterpart in simulation.
Legal Identification
Digital Identity: Blockchain Solutions and How It Could Work in the Real World 2023-07-25 Nasdaq
At the end of June, the Council presidency and European Parliament representatives reached a provisional political agreement on the core elements of a new framework for a European digital identity (eID), expanding the list of “trust services” to include blockchain technology solutions.
SITA plans roll out of decentralized ID passports for travel sector with Indicio 2023-07-28 Ledger Insights
A key aspect of Hyperledger Indy and Self Sovereign Identity is that blockchain plays a very narrow role indeed. It’s used to verify the identity of credential issuers and logs identifiers for expired IDs, so it’s possible to check if a credential is still valid. No traces of personally identifiable information or even current identifiers (codes) are stored on the blockchain.
EU Digital Identity Wallet
Evaluation of Trust Service and Software Product Regimes for Zero-Knowledge Proof Development Under Eidas 2.0 2023-07-10 Raül Ramos Fernández
Our findings suggest that the path we take may lead us to the largest system of surveillance and control in electronic environments to date, or to an environment where instead of sharing data we share proof of its existence to achieve true decentralized identity systems in the EU environment.
How DIF Members Contribute to the Development of a Seamless and Secure European Digital Identity Wallet 2023-07-26 DIF
In this blog post, we will explore the role of DIF in advancing the European Digital Identity Wallet and examine the various activities undertaken by its members in support of this crucial project.
[Podcast] eIDAS 2.0 & the EU Digital Identity Wallet (Part 2) (with Dr. André Kudra) Northern Block
several aspects still need clarification, such as the implementation of verifiable data registries, the security requirements of an individual identity wallet, and the management of trust lists. The large-scale pilots and ongoing work on the architecture reference framework are expected to provide answers to these questions.
Research
Orchestrating Digital Wallets for On- and Off-chain Decentralized Identity Management 2023-07-26 Vid Kersic, Urban Vidovic, Andraz Vrecko, Martin Domajnko, Muhamed Turkanovic
This paper focuses on managing on- and off-chain decentralized digital identities, with the former being used for blockchain networks and the latter for self-sovereignty and privacy. While both types of decentralized identity build on the same cryptographic and identity primitives, there is no single wallet that handles both. Therefore, this paper proposes an orchestration solution for both wallet types, which enables their convergence to a single universal wallet and validates it with a real-life decentralized identity use case.
Assessing e-identity solutions according to Self-Sovereign Identity: application to eIDAS 2023-07-25 Cristian Lepore, Romain Laborde, Jessica Eynard, Mohamed Ali Kandi, Giorgia Macilotti, Afonso Ferreira, Michelle Sibilla
A Digital Identity in the Hands of Swiss Citizens 2023-07-14 Valon Rexhepi, Jean-Luc Beuchat, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
By design, our solution ensures the right to be forgotten by exclusively storing the digests of verifiable credentials on the blockchain. To demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of our SSI solution, we have developed a proof of concept leveraging the Partisia blockchain.
[IOTA] Decentralized Identifiers for IoT Systems: Current Status and Future Vision 2023-07-26 Muhammad Waleed, Knud Erik Skouby, Sokol Kosta
We discuss the current status of the work and provide a future vision for the IOTA-based DID system. This technology offers a more secure, efficient, and sustainable approach to decentralized identity management than traditional systems. The potential of IOTA’s DID system for IoT devices is significant, and we anticipate that it will lead to innovative use cases and solutions in the future.
[Ontario] Designing and Evaluating a Resident-Centric Digital Wallet Experience 2023-07-23 Sukhi Chuhan, Veronica Wojnas
The biometric authentication protocol raised concerns about inaccessibility to the wallet in case of device issues, and the QR code scanning process was not aligned with users’ mental model and posed accessibility challenges. The concept of connections with service providers was also unclear. Based on these findings, we discuss recommendations around user-centric security and recovery framework and alternative accessible patterns for digital wallet experiences to support resident-level adoption.
Company News
Introducing the Sprouts: SpruceKit Example Apps 2023-07-27 SpruceID
ChatBot is an AI chat assistant that uses natural language processing to have human-like conversations, with decentralized identity built in.
Joyce is a social app for finding, reviewing, and sharing books where reviews are verifiable.
Teal is a social networking app based on managing one's own BlueSky data.
Introducing SpruceKit: The Open-Source Toolkit for Decentralized Identity 2023-07-24 Spruce ID
Sign-In with Ethereum: a library that lets developers integrate a new form of authentication that enables users to control their digital identity with their Ethereum account and ENS profile instead of relying on a traditional intermediary.
DIDKit: a toolkit written in Rust that provides Verifiable Credential and Decentralized Identifier functionality across different platforms.
TreeLDR: a schema definition language that aims at describing both the structure and semantics of the defined schema in a comprehensible way.
In addition, we’re adding SSX to the family of SpruceKit libraries
Enhanced Company Branding for Sign-in Experiences Now Generally Available 2023-07-25 Microsoft
The experience controls apply to sign-in for users in the directory and for external users, including use cases for B2B, B2E, Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) and first-party applications running on Entra ID. With enhanced company branding, you’ll be able to create a custom look and feel for the default sign in pages, as well as pages targeting specific browser languages.
SpruceID Bounties for the Encode Future of Blockchain University Hackathon 2023-07-26 Spruce ID
We’re excited to announce SpruceID as a sponsor for Encode’s Future of Blockchain University Hackathon. Over four weeks, university students from blockchain clubs across the world will learn about decentralized identity, build projects, and compete for prizes.
Indicio Launches Cloud Verifier to Scale Verifiable Credential Use 2023-07-26 Indicio
Integrate with organizations and businesses that issue verifiable credentials
Verify any Hyperledger Aries-based credential
Work with any Hyperledger Indy-based ledger
Use the Indicio Proven API to export data to existing systems
Standards Work
International Engagement – Brussels and Beyond 2023-07-18 NIST
Another critical aspect of this trip was NIST’s participation in meetings for the U.S, EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC). A big focus of these discussions was digital identity. [...] In Brussels, NIST presented the planned content and an outline of the fourth revision to Special Publication (SP) 800-63, Digital Identity Guidelines. We also received audience feedback during a public Roundtable Workshop hosted by the NIST-led Digital Identity Subgroup. Other topics for TTC meetings and stakeholder events throughout the week included levels of assurance and international standards.
NIST meets with digital ID experts globally to win wide framework acceptance 2023-07-23 Biometric Update
TNO Terminology Design: Effectively resolving semantic discussions for data sharing 2023-07-26 TNO
Helpful for thinking about how we can work together.
DIGITAL IDENTITY 2020-07-17 FATF Guidance
The Guidance does not establish assurance frameworks or technical standards for assessing the independence or reliability of digital ID systems in terms of its technology, processes and architecture. Instead, it relies on digital ID assurance frameworks and technical standards (referred to as digital ID assurance frameworks and standards) developed, or being developed, by other organisations and in different jurisdictions. See Section II for an explanation of the technical standards, and Section V and Appendix E for further information.
Universal Resolver — Development System 2021-06-16 DIF
A Guide to UCANs 2023-07-26 Fisson
In 2019, Fission's co-founder and CTO, Brooklyn Zelenka, created the UCAN. UCAN stands for User-Controlled Authorization Network. It is a user-originated authorization and revocation scheme that is trustless and secure, with no ACL required. UCANs provide public-key verifiable, delegable, expressive, and openly extensible capabilities by extending the familiar JWT structure.
Protocol-Based Messaging with HomeNode Manager 2023-07-26 TBD
I used the DWN SDK to create a standalone DWN, which I called a HomeNode. To create DIDs I looked at the different methods available and chose ION as I could use the ION Tools repo to do all the hard work. With ION Tools and the DWN SDK I then made a separate repo for interacting with the DWN, which I called a HomeNode Manager.
KERI jargon in a nutshell. Part 3: OOBI and IPEX 2023-07-23 Nuttawut Kongsuwan
TL;DR 1: The OOBI protocol allows the discovery of AIDs and SAIDs using the existing IP and DNS infrastructure. However, the OOBI by itself is insecure, and the information discovered by the OOBI must be verified.
TL;DR 2: The IPEX protocol is a protocol for the issuance and presentation of ACDCs that enable contractually protected disclosure.
New Social
More on the ActivityPub API project 2023-07-27 Werd
If you’re a developer who is interested in building on the fediverse using this kind of API platform, I’d really love to talk to you. Enter your email in the form above and I’ll get in touch. If we have a conversation about this, I’ll send you a $50 bookshop.org gift certificate as a token of my appreciation.
Addressing Child Exploitation on Federated Social Media 2023-07-24 Stanford
In a new report, Stanford Internet Observatory researchers examine issues with combating child sexual exploitation on decentralized social media with new findings and recommendations to address the prevalence of child safety issues on the Fediverse.
Custom Feeds 2023-07-27 Bluesky
For now, it’ll take a bit of developer familiarity to create your own custom feed. We’re still working on improving the search & discovery of custom feeds, as well as the developer experience, but the basics of what it looks like to have a customizable social experience are here. In the meantime, third-party developers have built tools like Skyfeed and Goodfeeds, which allows users to easily create and search for custom feeds.
Identity not SSI
French Data Protection Authority Opens Investigation Into Worldcoin Find Biometrics
CNIL, France’s data protection authority, is now investigating Worldcoin over its “questionable” biometric data collection practices. The web3 startup, which is building a global identity platform that uses iris biometrics as ‘proof of personhood’ for its end users, announced its official launch earlier this week. In so doing, it attracted the attention of the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office, which said it “will be making enquiries” into the startup. CNIL indicated that its investigation will support the work of Bavarian privacy regulators, who have primary jurisdiction over the matter.
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide Electronic Frontier Foundation
The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services, which will destroy end-to-end encryption
Influencers Starting To Realize How The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Will Do Real Damage 2023-07-25 TechDirt
This bill, they claim is to protect kids from restricted material on the internet, but what it’s gonna do is restrict the internet for everybody and then make you prove you’re over 18 before you can look at anything.
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