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    Veramo User Group
            DIF is thrilled to announce the donation of the Veramo project and the formation of the Veramo User Group.

Veramo is a broadly-used SDK that is a popular choice for
        
        Foundation
        
    31 Jan 2024
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    Announcing the DIF China Special Interest Group (SIG)
            DIF is honoured to host the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), one of China’s leading scientific research institutes, founded in 1957, as the founding member of
        
        Foundation
        
    9 Nov 2023
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    Guest Blog: Dock — How Verifiable Credentials Drive Business Value
            Founded in 2017 with a vision of empowering organizations and individuals with verified data, Dock has established itself as a pioneer in the decentralized identity space.

Dock’s Verifiable Credential
        
        Foundation
        
    10 Oct 2023
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    Steering Committee Election Results
            Following the recent Steering Committee elections, we're delighted to announce that Yodahe Zemichael, Executive Director at National ID Ethiopia, Ankur Banerjee, Chief Technology Officer at cheqd and Steve
        
        Foundation
        
    2 Oct 2023
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    Last chance to nominate for the Steering Committee!
            Let us know your nomination!
Today is the deadline for nominations to the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)'s Steering Committee, with the election itself taking place during the course
        
        Foundation
        
    4 Sep 2023
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    5 days left for nominations!
            Let us know your nomination!
The Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) annual Steering Committee election is approaching fast, with the deadline for nominations next Monday, September 4.

The Steering Committee is
        
        Foundation
        
    31 Aug 2023
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    DIF Steering Committee Elections
            Let us know your nomination!
The Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) annual Steering Committee election is approaching fast, with the deadline for nominations next Monday, September 4.

The Steering Committee is
        
        Foundation
        
    21 Aug 2023
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    DIF Member Spotlight with Pakorn Leesakul, CEO of Finema
            DIF recently sat down with Pakorn Leesakul, the CEO and Founder of Finema, and his innovation Manager Nuttawut Kongsuwan, to learn more about their decentralized identity platform and how they
        
        Foundation
        
    5 Aug 2023
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    DIF Member Spotlight: Otto Mora of Polygon ID
            We recently interviewed Otto Mora, Business Development Lead in the Americas for PolygonID and discovered more about their platform and vision. The full interview can also be viewed on YouTube
        
        Foundation
        
    16 Jun 2023
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    Guest Blog: Park Kyoung-Chul, CEO of K4 Security
            DIF recently announced the formation of the new DIF Korea Special Interest Group (SIG).

We invited group Chair Park Kyoung-Chul, CEO of K4-Security.inc, to share some insights into the
        
        Foundation
        
    16 May 2023
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    Rouven Heck Welcomes Clare Nelson as New Executive Director of DIF
            Dear DIF community,

After my 3.5 years as the voluntary Executive Director of DIF, I am excited to announce my successor Clare Nelson who has joined as full time
        
        Foundation
        
    17 Feb 2023
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    Announcing Presentation Exchange v2
            DIF Claims & Credentials Working Group announces the release of the Presentation Exchange (PE) version 2 specification
        
        Foundation
        
    10 Feb 2023
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    DIF Member Spotlight with Tarun Gaur of Qixfox
            In the second installment of our DIF Member Spotlight series we sat down with Tarun Gaur, the CEO and founder of qixfox, a cybersecurity system that includes a decentralized browser.
        
        Foundation
        
    4 Jan 2023
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    DIF Member Spotlight: PassiveBolt's Kabir Maiga
            In the first of our series of upcoming member spotlights we interviewed
PassiveBolt’s co-founder Kabir Maiga. His company is an Associate Member of DIF
and he shares some of
        
        Foundation
        
    1 Dec 2022
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    New DIF Interoperability Survey
            Our DIF Interoperability Group is conducting a survey and we need your help!

🧩 With these results we we are looking to support more interoperability
activity and testing this fall and
        
        Foundation
        
    13 Oct 2022
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    Universal Resolver - resolve practically any DID
            The Uni Resolver is a utility developed at DIF to resolve Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) across many different DID methods, based on the W3C DID Core 1.0 and DID Resolution Specifications
        
        Working Groups, Foundation
        
    1 Sep 2022
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    DIDComm v2 reaches approved spec status!
            DIDComm v2 has now reached DIF Approved Status, joining SideTree as a complete and approved open-source specification.
        
        Foundation
        
    26 Jul 2022
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    The Verifier Universal Interface (VUI) donates its work to DIF with the goal of obtaining global impact
            The Verifier Universal Interface (VUI) aims to build a set of standard APIs to enable interoperability between ID Wallets and Verifier components. This work has now been donated to DIF with the goal of furthering its evolution and reach to the international community.
        
        Foundation
        
    19 Jul 2022
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