In the second of a series of guest posts by DIF Ambassador Misha Deville, Misha explores how decentralized identity provides the missing trust infrastructure needed for AI systems to scale delegation, personalization, and content authenticity. Read the first post in the series, "The Missing Growth Lever." Everyone is talking about| Decentralized Identity Foundation
In the first of a series of guest posts by DIF Ambassador Misha Deville, Misha sets the stage for an underappreciated business problem one layer deeper than traditional User Experience analyses. The Trust Ceiling The paradox is that we want AI systems that understand us, but only on our own| Decentralized Identity Foundation
After years of steady and detailed work, DIF celebrates v1.0 release of did:webvh, with two implementations and even a dockerized installation option.| Decentralized Identity Foundation
August 2025 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 Updates; 5. Announcements; 6. Get involved! Join DIF 🚀 Decentralized Identity Foundation News DIF Partners with MIT's Project NANDA for Packed| Decentralized Identity Foundation
DIF Labs Beta Cohort 2 officially kicks off tomorrow, June 24th at 8 AM PST! This cohort brings together three projects that will advance privacy, legal frameworks, and governance in verifiable credentials. Meet Our Beta Cohort 2 Projects Legally-Binding Proof of Personhood for Verifiable Credentials via QES Led by Jon| Decentralized Identity Foundation
v1.1 specification integrates the novel Identity Aggregator mechanism| Decentralized Identity Foundation
The blog and newsletter of the Decentralized Identity Foundation at Linux Foundation| Decentralized Identity Foundation
After decades of cautiously watching from the sidelines, governments around the world have started investing in, rolling out, and regulating digital identity systems on aggressive timelines. These foundational changes to government infrastructure and the economy are happening largely outside public awareness, despite their generational consequences for privacy. Digital identity systems| Decentralized Identity Foundation
Many in the DIF community are asking about the upcoming Global Digital Collaboration conference in Geneva. As the date is quickly arriving, we wanted to give a sneak preview of what's ahead. Table of Contents: About the GDC Conference The Agenda Learn more and participate About the GDC| Decentralized Identity Foundation - Blog
DIF members showcased their vision at this year's European Identity and Cloud Conference (EIC 2025), bringing together experts who are defining the future of human-centric digital identity. As AI capabilities accelerate, DIF members are tackling both the architectural foundations and philosophical implications of self-sovereign identity, and EIC provided an excellent| Decentralized Identity Foundation - Blog
May 2025 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 Updates; 5. Announcements; 6. Community Events; 7. DIF Member Spotlights; 8. Get involved! Join DIF 🚀 Decentralized Identity Foundation News DIF| Decentralized Identity Foundation - Blog
The Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) has officially launched its Hospitality & Travel Working Group, evolving from the ongoing H&T Special Interest Group (SIG). This new working group will focus on developing standards, schemas, processes, and documentation to support the self-sovereign exchange of data between travelers, services, intermediaries in the hospitality| Decentralized Identity Foundation - Blog
April 2025 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 Updates; 5. Announcements; 6. Community Events; 7. DIF Member Spotlights; 8. Get involved! Join DIF 🚀 Decentralized Identity Foundation News Global| Decentralized Identity Foundation - Blog
By layering End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) on cloud storage services ourselves, we can ensure that our data is protected from unwanted access, even from the storage services themselves.| Decentralized Identity Foundation - Blog
March 2025 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 Updates; 5. Announcements; 6. Community Events; 7. DIF Member Spotlights; 8. Get involved! Join DIF 🚀 Decentralized Identity Foundation News Creator| Decentralized Identity Foundation - Blog
DIF is excited to welcome the Creator Assertions Working Group (CAWG) as a new working group of DIF. About CAWG CAWG builds upon the work of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) by defining additional assertions that allow content creators to express individual and organizational intent about their| Decentralized Identity Foundation - Blog
Guest Blog By Colton Wolkins The DIDComm User Group Meeting is open to anyone interested in using and implementing DIDComm. This is a great place for developers to learn, ask questions, and share experiences! DIDComm (Decentralized Identity Communication) is rapidly becoming a fundamental protocol for secure, private, and interoperable messaging| Decentralized Identity Foundation
Guest blog by Greg Bernstein, Dave Longley, Manu Sporny, and Kim Hamilton Duffy Following the IETF/IRTF Crypto Forum Research Group’s adoption of the BBS Blind Signatures and BBS per Verifier Linkability (“BBS Pseudonym”) specifications, this blog describes historical context and details of cryptographic pseudonyms, as well as the| Decentralized Identity Foundation
DIF recently hosted a special session of its Credential Schemas workshop focused on developing privacy-preserving solutions for age verification. Led by Otto Mora, Standards Architect at Privado ID, and Valerio Camiani, Software Engineer at Crossmint, the session explored the growing need for standardized age verification. The workshop addressed the increasing| Decentralized Identity Foundation
The DIF Hackathon 2024 brought together builders from around the world to tackle some of the biggest challenges in decentralized identity. Across multiple tracks—including education and workforce solutions, reusable identity, and privacy-preserving authentication—participants developed creative applications that redefine how digital identity is used and trusted in the real| Decentralized Identity Foundation
Announcing Dr. Carsten Stöcker as DIF Ambassador| Decentralized Identity Foundation
February 2025 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 Updates; 5. Announcements; 6. Community Events; 7. DIF Member Spotlights; 8. Get involved! Join DIF 🚀 Decentralized Identity Foundation News DIF's| Decentralized Identity Foundation
As AI reshapes our digital world, questions of privacy and digital identity become increasingly critical. DIF member Nuggets is tackling these challenges head-on with their Private Personal AI and Verified Identity for AI Agents. We interviewed CEO Alastair Johnson to learn how Nuggets is pioneering new approaches to protect individual| Decentralized Identity Foundation
January 2025 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 Community; 7. Get involved! Join DIF 🚀 Decentralized Identity Foundation News DIF Labs Launches Beta Cohort DIF's| Decentralized Identity Foundation - Blog
On 10th December 2024, Markus Sabadello, co-chair of the DIF Identifiers & Discovery WG, and Kyoungchul Park, chair of the DIF Korea SIG, delivered a guest lecture at Seoul's Gangnam MegaStudy academy, Korea's largest private educational institution. The one-hour session covered core decentralized identity technologies including DIDs (Decentralized Identifiers), VCs (Verifiable| Decentralized Identity Foundation
This content is also posted on Block's blog In support of its decentralized identity work, Block is contributing foundational components developed under the Web5 umbrella to the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF). For the past several years, Block has been developing a number of open source components to push decentralized identity| Decentralized Identity Foundation - Blog
This content was originally posted on Algorand's blog. The Algorand Foundation has joined the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF), strengthening its commitment to open standards in digital identity. This move follows the development of did:algo, a decentralized identifier (DID) built on Algorand. Algorand’s DID method exemplifies the Foundation's commitment| Decentralized Identity Foundation
How key industries are preparing for eIDAS with DIDComm The successful formal verification of DIDComm paves the way for tremendous DIDComm adoption. To help provide an understanding of this important technology, we’ve outlined some of the industries where DIDComm can play an important role. To learn more about DIDComm,| Decentralized Identity Foundation - Blog
DIF is excited to announce our impressive lineup of 2024 Hackathon sponsors and provide a preview of our challenges. This year’s hackathon promises to push the boundaries of decentralized identity innovation with challenges focused on education, reusable identity, frictionless travel, and more! Meet Our Sponsors We are honored to| Decentralized Identity Foundation - Blog
