Decentralized Identity Foundation Blog+Newsletter

DIF Welcomes Kyndryl as Associate Member to Advance Secure, Decentralized AI Ecosystems

February 10, 2026 — The Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) is pleased to announce that Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, has joined DIF as an Associate Member. Active

Decentralized Identity Foundation

10 Feb 2026 · 2 min read

DIF Newsletter #57

January 2025 DIF Website | DIF Mailing Lists | Meeting Recording Archive Table of contents 1. Decentralized Identity Foundation News; 2. Working Group Updates; 3 Special Interest Groups; 4. Community Events; 5.

Newsletter

20 Jan 2026 · 6 min read

DIF Newsletter #56

December 2025 DIF Website | DIF Mailing Lists | Meeting Recording Archive Table of contents 1. Decentralized Identity Foundation News; 2. Working Group Updates; 3. Special Interest Group Updates; 4. User Group

Newsletter

17 Dec 2025 · 4 min read

Welcoming Grace Rachmany as DIF’s New Executive Director

We’re excited to welcome Grace Rachmany as the new Executive Director of the Decentralized Identity Foundation! Grace joins DIF at a critical time. Digital identity is evolving in multiple

Decentralized Identity Foundation

2 Dec 2025 · 5 min read

Authorising Autonomous Agents at Scale

Series: Building AI Trust at Scale Part 4 · By DIF Ambassador Misha Deville View all parts → Think about how you share a Google Doc. You can add specific people to

Decentralized Identity Foundation

17 Nov 2025 · 11 min read

DIF Newsletter #55

November 2025 DIF Website | DIF Mailing Lists | Meeting Recording Archive Table of contents 1. Decentralized Identity Foundation News; 2. Working Group Updates; 3. Special Interest Group Updates; 4. User Group

Newsletter

12 Nov 2025 · 6 min read

Steering Committee Election 2025: Candidate Statements

Quick links: * Sam Curren (Indicio, US) * Jan-Christoph Ebersbach (Identinet, Germany) * Rouven Heck (Independent, US) * Matthew McKinney (ArcBlock, US) * Doug Rice (Hospitality Technology Network, US) * Markus Sabadello (DanubeTech, Austria) * Eric Scouten

Decentralized Identity Foundation

23 Oct 2025 · 13 min read

DIF Newsletter #54

October 2025 DIF Website | DIF Mailing Lists | Meeting Recording Archive Table of contents 1. Decentralized Identity Foundation News; 2. Working Group Updates; 3 Special Interest Group Updates; 4 User Group

Newsletter

2 Oct 2025 · 11 min read

Why your content needs an ingredient list

Series: Building AI Trust at Scale Part 3 · By DIF Ambassador Misha Deville View all parts → In the 1990s, when mass food production introduced hundreds of novel ingredients and industrial

Decentralized Identity Foundation

2 Oct 2025 · 9 min read

DIF at the UN: Bringing Decentralized Identity and AI to the Global Stage

Today, two Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) members brought their expertise to the "Trusted Digital Identity for People & AI” panel at the "Digital@UNGA", part of the 80th U.N. General Assembly.

Foundation

26 Sep 2025 · 3 min read

Nominations open for Steering Committee Election 2025

DIF was established to represent our fast-changing community and create a safe space for designing and prototyping ambitious new identity architectures. From the original handful of members 9 years ago,

Decentralized Identity Foundation

11 Sep 2025 · 2 min read

DIF Newsletter #53

September 2025 DIF Website | DIF Mailing Lists | Meeting Recording Archive 1. Decentralized Identity Foundation News; 2. Working Group Updates; 3 Special Interest Group Updates; 4 User Group Updates; 5. Announcements;

Newsletter

5 Sep 2025 · 9 min read

Translating Promise into Value

Decentralized Identity Foundation

25 Aug 2025 · 7 min read

The Missing Growth Lever

Decentralized Identity Foundation, Foundation

8 Aug 2025 · 4 min read

DIF celebrates v1.0 release of did:webvh, with 3 complete implementations

Working Groups

7 Aug 2025 · 9 min read

Building AI Trust at Scale: Series

Decentralized Identity Foundation

6 Aug 2025 · 1 min read

DIF Newsletter #52

August 2025 DIF Website | DIF Mailing Lists | Meeting Recording Archive Table of contents 1. Decentralized Identity Foundation News; 2. Working Group Updates; 3. Special Interest Group Updates; 4. User Group

Decentralized Identity Foundation, Newsletter

28 Jul 2025 · 9 min read

DIF Labs Beta Cohort 2 Kick Off! 🚀

DIF Labs Beta Cohort 2 officially kicks off tomorrow, June 24th at 8 AM PST! This cohort brings together three projects that will advance privacy, legal frameworks, and governance in

Decentralized Identity Foundation

23 Jun 2025 · 3 min read