decentralized-id.github.io/staging.md

Staging Area, while I clear my thoughts.

Structured Data Standards ^

• Blockcerts, developed byLearning Machine, is an open standard for issuing and verifying blockchain-based official records; The project offers open-source libraries, tools, and mobile apps. MIT has issued digital certificates based on this standard.
  • CXC (Carribean) Pilots E-Certificates on the Blockchain
  • A Decentralized Approach to Blockcerts Credential Revocation
• Schema — a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet. Schema.org vocabulary can be used with many different encodings, including RDFa, Microdata and JSON-LD. These vocabularies cover entities, relationships between entities and actions, and can easily be extended through a well-documented extension model. Over 10 million sites use Schema.org to markup their web pages and email messages. Many applications from Google, Microsoft, Pinterest, Yandex and others already use these vocabularies to power rich, extensible experiences."
  • ÆTERNITY [G]: using Schema's standards: "offers an identity architecture where every account has a unique ID number, and unique names can be registered and linked to arbitrary data such as addresses on the blockchain. Schema's are used for representing data about persons and organizations."

Blockchain ID

this folder should become depreciated, as all projects in the DID ecosystem should have a different home, and non SSI-DID initiatives removed

• Danube Tech — digital identity and personal data, including personal agents, semantic graphs, and blockchain (xdi) (navigator)
  • Founded by Markus Sabadello (Peacekeeper) [T] [G] [B]
• Identity at Coinbase: Welcoming the Distributed Systems team [ϟ]
• Shocard — "Blockchain-Based Mobile Identity Platform" [ϟ]
• Authenteq [T] [G]
  • enables users to create their own sovereign digital IDs which are stored encrypted on BigChainDB
• JLinc — registers cryptographic public keys on the Stellar blockchain.

  "The founders have been at the center of a community of developers working on “user-centric digital identity for almost two decades."

• Civic launches: identity.com[G][B][wp][ϟ]
  • Dapp Framework Melo One to use Civic
  • Brave Civic Partnership
• I/O Digital Foundation [wp]
  • "offers a Proof-of-Stake blockchain called Decentralised Input Output Name Server (DIONS). It will enable applications such as identity and alias registration, storage of legal documents, key exchange, and encrypted messaging."
• Gemalto and R3 pilot blockchain for SSID

Personal Data Wallets & Marketplaces

• Mydata [T] [D] [D]
  • goal: to empower individuals with their personal data, thus helping them and their communities develop knowledge, make informed decisions, and interact more consciously and efficiently with each other as well as with organisations."
  • Consent[ϟ] — "platform for trusted personal data applications and services, using Ethereum smart contracts to implement decentralized identifiers, verified credentials, consent receipts, a web of trust, and exchange of assets and value."
• Pillar Project [wp]
  • planning to offer a "Personal Data Locker" consisting of a wallet, browser, and token exchange. Personal assets will be put on a blockchain, and "Pillar" tokens will be issued."
• Datum [wp]
  • "network allows anyone to store structured data on a smart contract blockchain. Data can optionally be bought and sold on a marketplace using the DAT token. Datum leverages BigchainDB and IPFS as data storage backends. All data is encrypted and protected using AES256-GCM.
• ONTology [G]— "a "Distributed Trust Network" which combines a cross-chain identity system, peer-to-peer data transmission, data authorization mechanisms, distributed data storage, attestation, and various industry-specific modules. It also includes an Ontology Crypto Package (OCP) and an Ontology Marketplace (OM)."
• Pro-civis — "e-government as a service" platform called "eID+". It enables citizens to get an official, electronic Citizen-ID on a mobile app.
  • The platform includes the Vetri wallet and marketplace. 'Earn extra income and rewards by joining the data economy.'"
• We can do better than selling our data-Doc Searls(IIW)

Blockstack ^

• Blockstack • [G]ithub • [F]orum • [B]log • [T]witter • [W]hitepaper • [bitcoinwiki]
• a network of computers that collectively maintain a global registry of domain names, public keys, and cryptographic hashes. With this registry, Blockstack serves as a decentralized domain name system (DNS) and a decentralized public key infrastructure (PKI).
• Extending Existing Blockchains with Virtualchain
• Onename — "a product built on Blockstack that allows people to register identities"
• Blockstack DID Spec[ϟ]
• App Mining
• /dantrevino/awesome-blockstack [ϟ]

Democracy Earth ^

• Democracy Earth Foundation [G][B][T][C] - Crypto Governance
  • Sovereign[G], a blockchain direct democracy tool using "vote" tokens to grant democratic participation rights to every human. A proof-of-individuality (POI) process based on peer-to-peer validation establishes that a self-sovereign identity is uniquely tied to a single person. Cooperation is happening with other decentralized identity initiatives such as Blockstack and uPort.
• The Social Smart Contract[ϟ] An Initial Rights Offering from Democracy Earth Foundation.
• December App-Mining Results
• Yellow Jackets on the Sovereign Platform
• Meet the Dad Who Registered His Daughter’s Birth on the Blockchain [ϟ]
• Token: Sale • Economics • testnet

we worked with councils, senates, non profits, student centers, political parties, corporations.. but implementing real digital governance at scale really took off with crypto networks. our partnership with @blockstack is our biggest milestone of 2018. -Santi

Bitcoin ^

• Bitnation taps Blockchain tech to aid Refugees[^]
• BTCR DID Method — The Bitcoin Reference DID method (did:btcr) supports DIDs on the public Bitcoin blockchain. The Bitcoin Reference method has minimal design goals: a DID trust anchor based on the Bitcoin blockchain, updates publicly visible and auditable via Bitcoin transactions, and optionally, additional DID Document information referenced in the transaction OP_RETURN data field. No other Personal Identifiable Information (PII) would be placed on the immutable blockchain.

Blockpass ^

• Blockpass [T] [wp]
  • Edinburgh Identity Lab [ϟ]

Handshake ^

• Handshake [wp] [D] - Handshake is a UTXO-based blockchain protocol which manages the registration, renewal and transfer of DNS top-level domains (TLDs). Our naming protocol differs from its predecessors in that it has no concept of namespacing or subdomains at the consensus layer. Its purpose is not to replace DNS, but to replace the root zone file and the root servers.

Additional Thought around Identity ^

• Decentralized Identity Trilemma

  There seems to exist a trilemma in decentralized identity analogous to @Zooko's triangle. None of the existing solutions are at the same time: 1) privacy-preserving, 2) Sybil-resistant 3) self-sovereign -[T]

  • Maciek Laskus | BLOCKWALKS (video)
  • "I designed an algorithm that mapped out people working on identity using Twitter data:" Identity list
• Proof of Thought (PoT)
• Queer Privacy

  Stories about using the Internet as a tool to find out more about yourself, and as a tool to express and empower; about the dangers of Internet censorship and about the practical realities of maintaining multiple distinct digital identities.

• @SarahJamieLewis Twitter thread on Identity

  Any technology which relies on the existence of, or attempts to create a, global, unique identity is oppressive by design. Stop" innovating" oppressive structures.