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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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    Guest Blog: Spherity — EU Digital Product Passports and enabling compliance in the US pharmaceutical supply chain
            Spherity builds Decentralized Identity management solutions designed to power the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The company participates in standards-setting processes and interacts with developer, industry, and research communities to enable compliance
        
        Foundation
        
    28 Jul 2023
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    How DIF Members Contribute to the Development of a Seamless and Secure European Digital Identity Wallet
            By Adrian Doerk

Decentralized Identity is a rapidly evolving field. Its potential to transform the way digital identities are managed and protected has not gone unnoticed. The Decentralized Identity Foundation
        
        Foundation
        
    26 Jul 2023
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    Revolutionizing Supply Chain Management with Data Agreements
            By Jan Lindquist, Christoph L. Fabianek and Sebastian Haas

Introduction

In the era of digital transformation, data has become the lifeblood of businesses, especially in the realm of supply chain
        
        Foundation
        
    21 Jul 2023
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    Guest blog: Karyl Fowler, CEO, Transmute
            Transmute has been a member of DIF since 2018 and was a leading contributor to Sidetree, a protocol that enables scalable Decentralized Identifier (DID) networks that can run on top
        
        Foundation
        
    5 Jul 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
        
    30 Nov 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
        
    25 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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