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Upcoming 

• Kaliya hosting a meetup in the Netherlands on 6/18 (details TBD) reach out if interested - yes this is happening but location and time are still being set

• Identiverse in Denver 6/21-24 (Kaliya is talking there re: Seeing SSI in Historical Context)

  • Identity in the Metaverse

• DIF All-Hands - 6/22nd

• Claims and Credentials New: JWT-VC Interop Profile Kickoff - 3rd Wednesday 

• DIDComm User Group is meeting over on DIF Discord! 6/15 (biweekly)

• Velocity Network is hosting a Membership Assembly 7/13-14 in NYC 

• Member meeting of ESRA the Electronic Signature and Records Association 7/14 Portland OR  - has a session on SSI

• Decentralized Web Camp 8/24-28 in Northern California (Kaliya’s attending & encouraging SSI folks to participate)

• Hyper Ledger Global Forum 9/12-14

• Open Source Summit Europe Linux Foundation , Dublin Ireland 9/13-16

• Identity Week USA (formerly Connect:ID) Washington DC 10/4-5

• Internet Identity Workshop #35 11/14-16, Mountain View California

Soulbound NFT vs Offchain VCs 

SOULBOUND Tokens with @VitalikButerin & @provenauthority Bankless Podcast

What does decentralized, trustless, digital identity look like?
On-chain Soulbound NFTs?
OR
Off-chain Verifiable Credentials?
Where will the future of Web3 identity live?

Struggle for Web3’s soul: The future of blockchain-based identity Cointelegraph

Some also worried that SBTs, given their potentially public, non-transferable qualities, could give rise to a Chinese-government-style “social credit system.” Others took shots at co-author Buterin personally, criticizing his “lack of understanding of the real world.”

Non transferable NFTs land from Sekuritance

Sekuritance is implementing an identity-based ntNFT (non-transferable non-fungible token) to be utilized not only within the Sekuritance platform but also within its partner ecosystem

Web5 (new marketing)

Real World Party! making DIDs and VCs cool & useful

DISCO had a real life Disconaut party in Los Angeles! Kaliya attended with her Data BackPack where she verified the credentials created the day before proving i owned my twitter account and my discord account. (photos from party)

JACK DORSEY’S TBD PRESENTS BITCOIN-BASED DECENTRALIZED WEB5 Bitcoin Magazine

Fairly decentralized developments in the internet over the past couple of decades such as BitTorrent and Tor have shown that blockchain technology is not a necessary component for decentralization.

Namcios · Jun 10

1/ Jack Dorsey’s @TBD54566975 unit has just announced it is building “Web5”. [...] Here’s a thread with all you need to know
[...]
6/ Self-Sovereign Identity Service (SSIS). The SSIS interacts with Verifiable Credentials by creating, signing, issuing, curating, requesting, revoking, exchanging, validating and verifying them. It wraps the next component on the list, the self-sovereign identity SDK…
[…]
7/ The ssi-sdk encapsulates self-sovereign identity standards.

What Even Is Web5? Forbes

The actual definition given in the TBD presentation pack is as follows: “Web5 is a Decentralized Web Platform that enables developers to leverage Decentralized Identifiers, Verifiable Credentials, and Decentralized Web Nodes to write Decentralized Web Apps, returning ownership and control over identity and data to individuals”

introducing tbDEX TBD (featured in Identosphere #61)

We propose a solution that does not rely on a federation to control permission or access to the network; nor does it dictate the level of trust required between counterparties.

Public Sector & Europe

Drafting of the eIDAS 2.0 report with amendment tracking Europa.eu

Kaliya is working on a commentary about it

Vedran L. Head of Office at European Parliament has released a draft report with tracking of amendments on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 as regards establishing a framework for a European Digital Identity

European Commission adopts decision to license European Blockchain Services Infrastructure software as open-source

The Decision to make EBSI software available for licencing under the European Union Public Licence is an example of how the European Commission is not only using, but also contributing to the open-source community and thereby growing the ecosystem around EBSI.

Meet the eSSIF-Lab ecosystem: “Completing the Framework” Programme participants

PCDS-DP - Product Circularity Data Sheets Digital Passport
ESSIF - 4 Logistics SSI based authorization for cross- border government and business representatives in logistics
Symfoni AS - Infrastructure to facilitate payments for verifiable credentials
Datarella GmbH - Go Aries – Enabling CL-Support on Aries Framework Go

The DIACC partners with HTF on recommendations for a trusted and safe adoption of Digital ID

Both organizations are proud to declare their resulting white paper as a free, publicly available resource upon completion. 

Members of both the DIACC and HTF communities who wish to review [...] may sign up here.

Company News

Transmute has a NEW Website! 

You can also learn about our success stories, open source contributions, and our world-class team of security experts.

You can see it here

New Companies we aren’t sure about: 

• Proof ID and Self Sovereign Identity by 5ire  we can’t find out much about them

• Daon Provides Biometric Authentication for African Blockchain Identity Platform

• BTE and myNFT Announce AssetDIDs for NFTs, Built on KILT

• We’ve Introduced the Sudo Platform Decentralized Identity Relay

Markets

Global Identity Market Signals by Indicio 

Decentralized Identity has gone international! In this week’s GIMS, we’ll talk about some of the most exciting projects and some of the lessons learned from around the globe.

Decentralized Identity Market See Huge Growth for New Normal | Microsoft, Accenture, Persistent Digital Journal

Chapter 2 Global Economic Impact on Industry
Chapter 3 Global Market Competition by Manufacturers
Chapter 4 Global Production, Revenue (Value) by Region
Chapter 5 Global Supply (Production), Consumption, Export, Import by Regions
Chapter 6 Global Production, Revenue (Value), Price Trend by Type
Chapter 7 Global Market Analysis by Application
Chapter 8 Manufacturing Cost Analysis
Chapter 9 Industrial Chain, Sourcing Strategy and Downstream Buyers
Chapter 10 Marketing Strategy Analysis, Distributors/Traders

Funding

NGI OPEN CALLS 

NGI Assure: Closing 8/22

design and engineer reusable building blocks for the Next Generation Internet as part of a complete, strong chain of assurances for all stakeholders regarding the source and integrity of identities, identifiers, data, cyber-physical systems, service components and processes. 

ONTOCHAIN: Closing 7/25

a new software ecosystem for trusted, traceable and transparent ontological knowledge management. The specific objective of the ONTOCHAIN Open Call 3 is to complete the missing blocks of the ONTOCHAIN infrastructure, as well as to exploit the ONTOCHAIN infrastructure

Web 3

GitCoin working with Ceramic on “GitCoin Passport”

PoPP signs and issues “stamps” to the user’s Passport that publicly attest to the user’s claims. Behind the scenes, these are Verifiable Credentials (VCs) that are stored on the user’s Ceramic streams.

The Blockchain Sheep of Reason: Why the blockchain works for the young and old people hate it Ian Simmons, Mattereum

There is practically no boomer control of bitcoin or web3

Building a Consent Management System for Web 3.0 Affinidi

Affinidi’s consent manager has a simple architecture as it comprises only a few modules and this is what makes it easy to implement across any application stack.

Consensus 2022 SSI Sessions 

If folks are talking at the event, reach out, we will share info - its not just where Kaliya is going in the world. 

The Promise of Self-Sovereign Data and Web3.0 Identity Solutions: Real or Mirage?  <-Viewable Online Now but $$

Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer, Evernym
Joe Cutler, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP
Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Director of Product & Engineering, Identity, Unstoppable Domains
Mr. Tobias Batton, CEO, Ex Populus
Mr. Richard Widmann, Global Head of Strategy, Google Cloud

Scalability

Blockchain Trilemma for Decentralized Identity: Learning from Hyperledger Indy Paul Dunphy, OneSpan, Cambridge, UK

The current credential verification process relies on transaction processing by a ledger with transaction processing bottlenecks, which may constrain the ideal of non-repudiation.

Standards + WorkGroups

Call for Participation: Value Stream Management Interoperability (VSMI) Oasis Open

[a] https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/vsmi/ 
[b] See http://www.oasis-open.org/join/ 
[c] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/vsmi/ 

DIF Monthly

Limari Navarette, DIF's new Community Manager!

Secure Data Storage

• User Controlled Authorization Network (UCAN) model and how it contrasts with decentralized approaches

• APAC/ASEAN Community Call now a colloaborative initative between DIF and ToIP, launched Thursday 26th May 2022, kicking off with an IIW34 recap. (Recording)

Explainers

• The 5P’s of a Self-Sovereign Identity

• Can Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) fit within the GDPR? : a Conceptual Data Protection Analysis (Part II)

• Can Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) fit within the GDPR?: a Conceptual Data Protection Analysis (Part I)

• Why Self-Sovereign Identity is a Game Changer for Government-Resident Interactions

• New Encyclopedia entry Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)

Use Cases

@tmarkovski Jun 10

1/ Can QUIC use DIDComm as a Handshake protocol instead TLS1.3? The spec provides enough abstraction for the session handling, and most crypto operations are the same. The main difference is the trust architecture and model: certificate chain vs DID Documents.

Identity Terms Provide Value along the Supply Chain: How We Know When to Buy the Farm  Jessica Tacka, Transmute

Supply chain credentialing in the form of bills of lading, certificates of origin, or letters of credit is used to protect honest parties and their merchandise from being confused with dishonest parties or entities that are engaged in unethical practices, such as environmental destruction, or forced labor.

SSI Essentials: 35 use cases of decentralized identities that will make your life easier

The Importance of Verifiable Credentials to Training Providers Credivera

Great report!

Digital badges or PDF credentials lack proof of being authentic and current, and can be easily reproduced or falsified, impacting both the individual and the reputation of the training provider. 

How badges can change the world WeareOpen

This model […] shows how systems have a lifespan and what happens as that lifespan peaks.

As one system begins to deteriorate, a new system begins to emerge. This got us thinking about how this model applies to the world of Open Recognition.

SSI Fixes This

Why Location Data Brokers Put All Communities At Risk Zach Edwards M2BA

New work that may leverage decentralized ID from the supply chain side of things…but not sure (lots of links inside on data brokers harm)

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