Decentralized Identity Foundation

🚀DIF Monthly #21 (Aug, 2021)

DIF "Frequently Asked Questions" Knowledgebase and many more news.

Newsletter

10 Aug 2021 · 7 min read

DIF Grant #1: JWS Test Suite

DIF announces its first community microgrant, sponsored by Microsoft and rewarding the timely creation of a comprehensive test suite for detached-JWS signatures on Verifiable Credentials

Working Groups, Foundation

22 Jul 2021 · 4 min read

🚀DIF Monthly #20 (July, 2021)

Table of contents 1. Group Updates; 2. Member Updates; 3. Funding; 4. DIF Media; 5. Members; 6. events; 7. Jobs; 8. Metrics; 9. Join DIF 🚀 Foundation News DIF "Frequently

Newsletter

15 Jul 2021 · 6 min read

Setting Interoperability Targets Part 2 of 2

Having shown in our last piece how interoperability "profiles" are designed, we now tackle some key technical problem areas ripe for this kind of profile-first interoperability work across stacks.

Working Groups

5 Jul 2021 · 9 min read

Bloom donates WACI

A simple starting point for cross-stack Wallet-Credential Interactions

Foundation

21 Jun 2021 · 2 min read

newsletter

🚀DIF Monthly #19 (June, 2021)

📯 Between Good Health Pass work, WACI-PEx, and lots of OIDF activity, there has been more prototyping and less discussion than average this month, but there are plenty of announcements just

Newsletter

7 Jun 2021 · 6 min read

🚀DIF Monthly #18 (May, 2021)

📯 The last month has seen a lot of activity on interoperability (test suites getting mature and documented, with profiles on the horizon) and #IIW32 had a distinctly heads-down, "let&

Newsletter

5 May 2021 · 7 min read

Setting Interoperability Targets Part 1 of 2

Our short-term roadmaps need testable, provable alignment goals that we can all agree on for our little communities and networks of technological thinking to converge gradually. Simply put, we need a few checkpoints and short-term goals, towards which we can all work together.

Working Groups

30 Apr 2021 · 7 min read

Introducing DIF Grants

DIF is kicking off a program to administer narrowly-scoped financial support for community initiatives, ranging in format from grants to more competitive implementation bounties, hackathon-style open collaborations, and security reviews.

Foundation

29 Apr 2021 · 5 min read

🚀DIF Monthly #17 (April, 2021)

📯 Sidetree has reached v1, lots of groups are preparing sessions and demos for IIW (see below for DIF coupon!), Steering Committee elections are just around the corner, a whole hackathon

Newsletter

12 Apr 2021 · 7 min read

Sidetree Protocol reaches V1

The DIF Steering Committee has approved the first major release of the Sidetree Protocol specification, "v1" so to speak. Here is a snapshot of the four companies and four implementations that stretched and built the specification.

Working Groups

12 Apr 2021 · 5 min read

The Steering Committee is growing

An operating addendum was adopted last month which contains all the procedures for periodic elections and distribution requirements. This article repackages those policies in the form of a Frequently Asked Questions document.

Foundation

8 Apr 2021 · 4 min read

Drilling down: Co-Development

Foundation

29 Mar 2021 · 9 min read

🚀 DIF Monthly #16 (March, 2021)

Newsletter

3 Mar 2021 · 6 min read

KERI: For every DID, a microledger

Working Groups

3 Mar 2021 · 8 min read

🚀 DIF monthly #15

Newsletter

1 Feb 2021 · 6 min read

DIF Face to Face Jan 2021 Highlights

Come for the summaries, stay for the clip reel, bookmark for the links!

Foundation

27 Jan 2021 · 6 min read

Trinsic donates did-key.rs to I&D WG

This marks the first donation of a Rust “crate” (package) to the I&D WG.

Working Groups

25 Jan 2021 · 3 min read