📢 New DIF Blog: DIF Newsletter #42 👀 Here's a preview: July 2024 DIF Website | DIF Mailing Lists | Meeting Recording Archive Table of contents 1. Decentralized Identity Foundation News; 2. Working Group Updates; 3. Open Groups; 4. Announcements at DIF; 5. Community Events; 6. DIF Members; 7. Get involved! Join DIF 🚀 Decentralized Identity Foundation News DIF Hackathon Join Us this fall for a Transformative Hackathon Experience! The Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) is thrilled to announce a groundbreaking hackathon in Octob 🔗 Read the post: https://lnkd.in/eXgmQZtv
Decentralized Identity Foundation
Civic and Social Organizations
Wakefield, MA 4,359 followers
Fostering co-development in the decentralized identity space on open standards and open source implementations.
About us
DIF is an engineering-driven organization focused on developing the foundational elements necessary to establish an open ecosystem for decentralized identity and ensure interop between all participants.
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http://identity.foundation/
External link for Decentralized Identity Foundation
- Industry
- Civic and Social Organizations
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Wakefield, MA
- Type
- Partnership
- Specialties
- Digital Identity
Locations
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Primary
401 Edgewater Pl # 600
Wakefield, MA 01880, US
Employees at Decentralized Identity Foundation
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Rohan Pinto
Ξ CTO / Founder / 1Kosmos - BlockID / Security Architect / Blockchain / Identity Management Maven / Cryptography Geek / Investor / Author
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Steven McCown
Chief Architect, Applied Crypto R&D, CISM, CDPSE, Patented Inventor
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Kim Hamilton Duffy
Executive Director @ Decentralized Identity Foundation | MOSIP Technology Committee
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Jeffrey Schwartz
Founder and CEO, Dentity | Chair, Decentralized Identity Foundation | Fellow, Aspen Institute
Updates
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📢 New DIF Blog: DIF Hackathon 👀 Here's a preview: Join Us this fall for a Transformative Hackathon Experience! The Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) is thrilled to announce a groundbreaking hackathon in October 2024, coinciding with Hacktoberfest. This event will focus on harnessing the power of decentralized identity across key sectors: Education, Reusable Identity, and Travel. Who should participate? We invite experienced developers and product managers to participate in two entry styles: * Applications with Code Provided * Idea Su 🔗 Read the post: https://lnkd.in/ghsVJdFa
DIF Hackathon
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📢 New DIF Blog: Guest Blog: Daniel Buchner 👀 Here's a preview: More than 9 in 10 submissions to the inaugural DIF Hackathon last October used Web5 and DWNs. There’s obviously a lot of interest in this! Did that surprise you? In a way, no. There’s only so much you can do with Decentralized Identifiers and VCs on their own. The majority of use cases today are these stodgy things like government credentials or proving your humanness. The IAM (Identity and Access Management) industry has a very dry view of identity. A human wouldn’t think “my login credenti 🔗 Read the post: https://lnkd.in/gVkePeny
Guest Blog: Daniel Buchner
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⏳ We're just two weeks away from our very first HackAlong event! Extrimian, in partnership with the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF), is hosting an exciting series of webinars starting on August 8, 2024 | 12:00 hs. GMT-3 ⏰. Don't miss out on the chance to deepen your knowledge of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), decentralized technologies for data management, security, and privacy. More info on this video: https://lnkd.in/dbCiK2iq 🔎 👉 Register now and learn more: https://lnkd.in/entEUqjf 📅 When: Starting August 8, 2024 📍 Where: Online via Extrimian Academy: extrimian.io/academy Join us to explore the innovative use of DIDs, Decentralized Digital Identity, ZKPs, and engage in interactive, hands-on sessions led by industry experts. Watch the video below for more information! #SSI #DigitalIdentity #HackAlong #Extrimian #DIF #Blockchain #Innovation #DecentralizedIdentity Parque de Innovación LACChain Ecosystem ONG Bitcoin Argentina
⏳ ¡Faltan un poco más de 2 semanas para que comience nuestro evento HackAlong! Extrimian, en colaboración con la Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF). Se trata de webinars durante 5 jueves, que comienzan el 8 de agosto de 2024 a las 12:00 hs. GMT-3 ⏰. No te pierdas la oportunidad de profundizar en tu conocimiento sobre Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), tecnologías descentralizadas para la gestión y verificación de datos, seguridad y privacidad. Más información en este video: https://lnkd.in/dbCiK2iq 🔎 👉 Regístrate ahora y obtén más información: https://lnkd.in/entEUqjf 📅 Cuándo: A partir del 8 de agosto de 2024 📍 Dónde: Online vía Extrimian Academy: extrimian.io/academy Únete a nosotros para explorar el uso innovador de DIDs, Identidad Digital Descentralizada, ZKPs y participa en sesiones interactivas y prácticas dirigidas por expertos de la industria. ¡Mira el video a continuación para más información! - ENG: ⏳ Only a bit more than 2 weeks left until our HackAlong event kicks off! Extrimian, in partnership with the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF), is hosting an exciting webinars starting on August 8, 2024 | 12:00 hs. GMT-3 ⏰. Don't miss out on the chance to deepen your knowledge of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), decentralized technologies for data management, security, and privacy. More info on this video: https://lnkd.in/dbCiK2iq 🔎 👉 Register now and learn more: https://lnkd.in/entEUqjf 📅 When: Starting August 8, 2024 📍 Where: Online via Extrimian Academy: extrimian.io/academy Join us to explore the innovative use of DIDs, Decentralized Digital Identity, ZKPs, and engage in interactive, hands-on sessions led by industry experts. Watch the video below for more information! #SSI #DigitalIdentity #HackAlong #Extrimian #DIF #Blockchain #Innovation #DecentralizedIdentity Parque de Innovación LACChain Ecosistema ONG Bitcoin Argentina
Explore SSI: HackAlong by Extrimian & DIF (August 2024)
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📢 New DIF Blog: Extrimian HackAlong 👀 Here's a preview: We’re excited to announce the first ever DIF HackAlong, co-produced with DIF Associate member Extrimian! These HackAlongs are dynamic educational sessions designed to equip both developers and business leaders with essential knowledge about decentralized identity. Join us for the first of it’s kind, beginner friendly Spanish-language event. The series will consist of five one-hour sessions, starting on Thursday, August 8, and running through September 12. Want to participate? Visit the Extrim 🔗 Read the post: https://lnkd.in/gD_S4wqB
Extrimian HackAlong
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Join us this week as DIF Coffee Breaks returns with a discussion with Dock.io co-founder Elina Cadouri and head of product Richard Esplin on what makes Dock the #1 Reusable Digital ID platform. Set a reminder on spaces ➡ https://lnkd.in/gvNgM3Qw
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Decentralized Identity Foundation reposted this
Join me and Andor Kesselman to learn more about how and why the Decentralized Identity Foundation and Google Cloud are collaborating to host Web5 DWNs!
Last week, we announced a community DWN instance, operated by DIF and hosted on Google Cloud. Join us to learn what DWNs are, how to build with them, and why this collaboration matters. 📆 Friday, July 26 at 9am PT / 12pm ET 📺 Tune in on your platform of choice at http://linktr.ee/tbdevs 💬 Join the discussion on Discord at http://discord.gg/tbd 📚Learn more in this announcement blog post (https://lnkd.in/gtbCJsHg
Beginner’s Guide to DIF & Google's Web5 Community Node
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🔥 Discover the power of DIF's DWN Community Node from the Experts 🔥 Join DIF Steering Committee Members Daniel Buchner and Markus Sabadello for their panel at We Are Developers. They'll discuss the just-announced collaboration between DIF, TBD, and Google to provide a free DWN Community Node. This allows anyone to build their apps and products on the next generation web infrastructure right away! This Main Stage panel will feature: ✨ Mike Brock, CEO at TBD ✨ Daniel Buchner Head of Decentralized Identity at Block ✨ Angie Jones, Global VP of Developer Relations at TBD (Block) ✨ Nalin Mittal, Web3 at Google ✨ Markus Sabadello, CEO Danube Tech and Decentralized Identity Foundation Steering Committee Panel Details: 📍 We are Developers Conference, Main Stage (Berlin) ⏰ July 19 at 12:20 PM Learn more about DIF's DWN Community Node: 🗺️ Overview: https://lnkd.in/enhvEiTD 🎬 Get started and build! https://lnkd.in/e_h4MrSc
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If you're looking for DIF's DWN Community Node announcement, please see the updated link. We're sorry for the confusion! https://lnkd.in/gtbCJsHg
DIF announces DWN Community Node
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📢 New DIF Blog: Free Managed Decentralized Web Nodes for Developers, from DIF 👀 Here's a preview: The Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) today announced the launch of DIF's DWN "Community" Node for developers, powered by Google Cloud technology. Decentralized Web Nodes (DWNs - also referred to as DWeb Nodes) are personal data stores that eliminate the need for individuals to trust apps to responsibly use and protect their data. Instead, data is owned and controlled by the individual — offering developers a brand new way to create apps that request individuals’ per 🔗 Read the post: https://lnkd.in/gtbCJsHg
Free Managed Decentralized Web Nodes for Developers, from DIF
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