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Upcoming Events

Propelling understanding and adoption of verifiable digital credentials: The Digital Credentials Consortium and the W3C Verifiable Credentials for Education Mondays (everyone welcome)

• MeetUp Holland FinTech: The Future of Banking Innopay 4/13 Netherlands

• [Pre-IIW] OpenID Foundation Workshop at Microsoft 4/17

• Internet Identity Workshop 4/18-20, Mountain View, CA ← buy your tickets

• GS1 Standards Week 4/25-27 - business and technical [...] Retail, Consumer Goods, Fresh Foods, Healthcare, Transport, Logistics

• eIDAS 2.0 l New Opportunities in Digital Identity 4/27 Frankfurt

• Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) Demo Week 2023 Washington, DC 5/18-19 [register]

• The 19th Represents Summit on tech, justice, and economic mobility Chicago 5/18-20

• Heroes of Data Privacy – the practise-oriented data privacy conference in Vienna LionsGate 5/24 Vienna, Austria

• Digital Identity unConference Europe 6/7-9 Zurich ← Registration open

• The Closing Conference of the Blockchain & Society Policy Research Lab 7/3-4 Amsterdam (Submissions due 4/15)  

Hiring

Software Engineer, Full-Stack Himalayas

Spruce is building a future where users control their identity and data across all digital interactions.

Explainer

DIDs On The Blockchain: How Decentralized Identifiers Are The Future Of Online Identity

If an identity is decentralized it means that no one group or authority has complete control. A great example of this is your public address on a crypto wallet, such as Metamask. Metamask is an application that allows for the easy use of the blockchain, but it also serves as a cryptographic key for making sure you are in fact the owner of a specific public identity.

[tweet] decentralized identity uses [distributed technologies] to enable peer-to-peer trust and verification  0xArhat

Decentralized: Users data is stored in their own devices and protected by cryptography. Users’ data is not stored or exposed on the blockchain or on any other platform.

Standards Work

KERI Tutorial Series: Treasure Hunting in Abydos! Issuing and Verifying a Credential (ACDC) Kent Bull

According to ATHENA, explorers desiring entrance through the Osireion must present a verifiable, secure proof signed by the Wise Man in order to be accepted by the Gatekeeper. 

Introducing “did:vda”: A fast, cheap web3 identity solution on Polygon Verida 

When a DID is created, a pointer is created on the blockchain to where the actual DID document is stored. The actual DID Documents (and all their historical versions) are stored on low cost, commodity HTTP servers.

Revolutionizing Web3 Storage: A Deep Dive into IPFS and Verida DbStore Verida

Let’s delve into the intricacies of IPFS and Verida DbStore, comparing their architecture, security, performance, storage types, and suitability for handling personally identifiable information (PII).

AU10TIX, Microsoft partner on decentralised verifiable credentials

AU10TIX’s forensic-level document and biometric verification technology together with its Instinct identity monitoring tools for synthetic fraud help provide strong verification, encrypted as verifiable credentials assets.

Artificial Intelligence

Parallels between AI safety and the security mindset and problems LessWrong

[This is part 2 of a 5 part sequence on how security and cryptography can help AI safety, published and linked here a few days apart.]

[video] The A.I. Dilemma Tristan Harris ← watch this video!!!

with leading technologists and decision-makers with the ability to influence the future of large-language model AIs. This presentation was given before the launch of GPT-4

Market Signals

Inside the Massive Projected Growth in the Decentralized Identity Market Anyonyome

valued at USD 379.66 million in 2021 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 88.2 per cent from 2022 to 2030. By 2027, the DI market is likely to be valued at USD 6,822 million and, by 2030, it is expected to reach USD 102.0 billion.

Is Decentralized Identity About to Reach an Inflection Point? DARKReading

In 2022, the decentralized identity market was projected to reach $270 million.

Org News

[report] Trust in Trade: A foundational digital layer underpinning the physical, financial, and information supply chain International Chamber of Commerce (ICC),  Digital Standards Initiative

A new verifiable trust layer, underpinning the existing information supply chain, is needed.

Decentralized SSI Governance Trust Over IP

1. Participatory governance for all three roles in credential exchange (holder, issuer and verifier) to set policy for their respective contexts.

2. Automating decision-making based on arguments (business logic).

3. SSI assurance communities that are built on the existing accreditation, certification and audit regimes.

What the revised charter for the Privacy Enhancing Mobile Credentials Work Group means for our industry Kantara Initiative

to develop the necessary privacy-related guidance for those organizations issuing, verifying, and developing the technologies to hold digital credentials such as mobile drivers’ licenses (mDL) when in person

MOBI Members Demonstrated Privacy-Preserving Vehicle Location Technology MOBI

Modern IT systems allow for the track and trace of connected devices with a big catch — the location of device users (Personal Identifiable Information, or PII) is exposed! Vehicles on dealer lots are filled with sensors that can provide accurate data about the vehicle’s condition, location, and other important information. 

[Wow] Pluriverse Verses

Verses aims to contribute to a clearer set of technologies, infrastructures, institutions, and processes that realize the ethic of the pluriverse in the concrete and material. We build together towards a cyberspace that is interdependent. As such, we follow a method of loose collaboration which we call "stone soup".

Government \ Policy

• [New Zealand] Govt helps to protect New Zealanders digital identities Behive.gov.nz

• [Aruba] Indicio, SITA and Aruba Deliver Verifiable Credentials for Digital Travel Indicio

• [Aruba] Office of Minister Dangui Oduber: Aruba streamlines travel procedures with new Aruba Happy One Pass EANews

• [Canada] Canada’s trusted digital ID leader, the DIACC, welcomes Budget 2023 DIACC

• [Canada] Request for Comment & IPR Review: PCTF Trust Registries Draft Recommendation V1.0 DIACC

• [USA] Lawmakers want to know if the government should validate digital identities SCMagazine

• The UN Wants More Say Over the Future of the Internet. That’s Not Necessarily A Good Thing. Tech Policy Press

[EU, Report] Digital Product Passport Corporate Leaders Group

The EU must foster large-scale demand for domestically produced circular and climate neutral materials and products to support industrial decarbonisation and reduce dependency on primary material imports

[USA] Evolving Government to Citizen Shared Identity Services Anil John

It is time for it to occupy the room it owns instead of outsourcing solutions to private sector entities who do not have the public interest at heart.

OECD Seeks Input On Digital ID Recommendations [PDF] NFCW

• Design and implement digital identity systems that respond to the needs of users and service providers;

• Prioritise inclusion and minimise barriers to access to and the use of digital identity;

• Take a strategic approach to digital identity and define roles and responsibilities across the digital identity ecosystem;

• Protect privacy and prioritise security to ensure trust in digital identity systems;

• Align their legal and regulatory frameworks and provide resources to enable interoperability;

TikTok \ RESTRICT ACT

• [tweet🧵] The RESTRICT Act is not limited to TikTok […] gives the government authority over communication domestic or abroad Mises Caucus - “enforce any mitigation measure to address any risk” to national security now and in any “potential future transaction”

• [tweet🧵] 20 years jailterm for using a VPN?  Blockworks Research - Here's a little more on the infamous Tiktok Bill

Web3 \ DWeb

• [NEW, IPFS] IPFS Principles specs.ipfs.tech

• [NFT] Ticketmaster Debuts NFT-Gated Ticket Sales, Starting With Avenged Sevenfold Decrypt

[tweet thread] what I think about appchains vs shared blockchains. Here's a simple framework to help devs Sergey Gorbunov

If you're so popular that you can't afford bad UX during peak hours on shared environments, or want to innovate in user onboarding journeys -- control your own stack by launching an appchain & connect it with all others. 

Algorithmic choice Bluesky

We want a future where you control what you see on social media. We aim to replace the conventional "master algorithm," controlled by a single company, with an open and diverse "marketplace of algorithms.

Web3 ID

• [video] User Experience and Identity in Web3 JP Bedoya

• The future of KYC on Blockchain CryptoDev

Digital Wallets

• ‘Account abstraction’ supercharges Ethereum wallets: Dummies guide – Cointelegraph Magazine Cointelegraph

• ERC-4337: Account Abstraction Using Alt Mempool

• [thread] The Basics of The Splurge  A guide on Ethereum's:  1. EVM upgrades 2. EIP-1559 changes 3. Account abstraction Blockworks Research

"Money, Money, Money, it must be funny, in a Digital Wallet World" Global Trust Foundation

money needs to follow the data flows, the question is how is that done, and how is it done without an audit trail which will blow a hole in any privacy expectations?

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