Decentralized Identity Foundation Blog+Newsletter

DIF Announces Public Release of HATPro Schema for Hospitality, Travel, and Leisure

DIF’s Hospitality and Travel Working Group has been taking on a herculean task: creating a protocol for travelers to manage their travel preferences in a privacy-preserving way, through

Decentralized Identity Foundation

16 Jun 2026 · 1 min read

DIF Is for Humans

Two small but major changes to AI policy have been integrated into DIF’s governing documents. While other organizations are struggling to agree on how to deal with Agent participation

Decentralized Identity Foundation

28 May 2026 · 4 min read

DIF Newsletter #61

May 2026 DIF Website | DIF Mailing Lists | Meeting Recording Archive Table of contents 1. Decentralized Identity Foundation News 2. About the Universal Resolver 3. Working Group Updates 4. Upcoming Events

Newsletter

15 May 2026 · 11 min read

DIDcomm: Tell DIF about Your Implementation

Fill out this survey if you are using DIDcomm DIDComm is one of the earlier protocols developed in DIF, designed to enable trusted interactions between parties. The main difference between

Decentralized Identity Foundation

11 May 2026 · 1 min read

DIF and Vouched Advance Agentic Identity with KYA-OS as International Demand for Open Agent Identity Standards Grows

Know Your Agent Operating System extends DIF's open identity standards across the full range of agentic protocols; new members join the Trusted AI Agents Working Group (TAAWG) as

Decentralized Identity Foundation

22 Apr 2026 · 3 min read

DIF Newsletter #60

April 2026 DIF Website | DIF Mailing Lists | Meeting Recording Archive Table of contents 1. Decentralized Identity Foundation News 2. Update from the Executive Director: Specification Graduation 3. Working Group Updates

Newsletter

16 Apr 2026 · 8 min read

Asia Alive: ED Report on DIDs and Agentic Identity in China and Korea

For historical reasons, DIF has been focused on Europe and North America for much of its activities, with membership coming mostly from those countries. In the first quarter of 2026,

Decentralized Identity Foundation

7 Apr 2026 · 5 min read

Hot Takes from MOSIP Connect

Description: Juan Caballero, aka Bumblefudge, discusses what was hot at MOSIP Connect in February 2026. Bumblefudge noted the rapid adoption of technology in Global South countries, highlighting how they often

Decentralized Identity Foundation

3 Apr 2026 · 1 min read

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

Decentralized Identity Foundation

12 Mar 2026 · 12 min read

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

Decentralized Identity Foundation

5 Mar 2026 · 7 min read

Building the Agentic Economy

Decentralized Identity Foundation

20 Feb 2026 · 7 min read

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

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