Decentralized Identity Foundation Blog+Newsletter

European Commission announces the interoperability wallet for identity wallets

April 1, 2026. Inspired by the Paris transportation system, Brussels has released a third type of wallet specification to join the other eIDAS specifications for digital identity across the European Union.

Decentralized Identity Foundation

1 Apr 2026 · 2 min read

DIF Welcomes Aven Hospitality as Associate Member to Advance Trusted, Interoperable Identity in Hospitality

Mar 25, 2026 — The Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) welcomes Aven Hospitality as an Associate Member. Aven provides the largest native hospitality transaction platform in the industry. Through their SynXis platform,

Decentralized Identity Foundation

25 Mar 2026 · 2 min read

DID:UNCONF AFRICA Hot Takes with Eric & Gideon — March 23, 2:30 PM UTC

Following DID:UNCONF AFRICA, join Eric Scouten and Gideon Lombard for a conversation unpacking key insights from the event — from emerging use cases and regional challenges to the role of

Decentralized Identity Foundation

19 Mar 2026 · 1 min read

DIF Newsletter #59

March 2026 DIF Website | DIF Mailing Lists | Meeting Recording Archive Table of contents 1. Decentralized Identity Foundation News 2. Working Group Updates 3. Upcoming Events 4. Get involved! Join DIF

Newsletter

17 Mar 2026 · 8 min read

Digital Identity for Agentic Systems

Two Enterprise Use Case Explorations Member Report by Contributor Damian Glover Executive Brief Enterprises are moving from AI copilots toward more autonomous, agent-based systems capable of executing workflows, negotiating terms,

Decentralized Identity Foundation

12 Mar 2026 · 12 min read

Why We Brought MCP-I to DIF (and Why DIF Said Yes)

Alex Keisner, Head of Know Your Agent @ Vouched Dylan Hobbs, KYA Principal Founding Engineer @ Vouched As AI agents become a fixture of daily digital life, a deceptively simple question is

Decentralized Identity Foundation

5 Mar 2026 · 7 min read

Building the Agentic Economy

Building AI Trust at Scale — Series Part 5 By DIF Ambassador Misha Deville Previous in this series: Part 4 – Authorizing Autonomous Agents at Scale → View all parts “The utility of

Decentralized Identity Foundation

20 Feb 2026 · 7 min read

MOSIP Hot Takes with Juan — February 17, 9:00 AM UTC

MOSIP Connect may have wrapped in Rabat, Morocco — but the conversations are just beginning. Join Juan Caballero for a focused reflection on key insights from the event: the signals that

Decentralized Identity Foundation

17 Feb 2026 · 1 min read

DIF Newsletter #58

February 2026 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

16 Feb 2026 · 8 min read

Case Study: Designing for a Regulated Messaging Community

Member post from LedgerDomain, by Alex Colgan and Victor Dods When LedgerDomain began building identity infrastructure for the U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain, we understood immediately that this was an

Decentralized Identity Foundation

13 Feb 2026 · 4 min read

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 2026 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

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20 Jan 2026 · 6 min read

DIF Newsletter #56

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17 Dec 2025 · 4 min read

Welcoming Grace Rachmany as DIF’s New Executive Director

Decentralized Identity Foundation

2 Dec 2025 · 5 min read

Authorising Autonomous Agents at Scale

Decentralized Identity Foundation

17 Nov 2025 · 11 min read

DIF Newsletter #55

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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