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Africa SSI Startups

• Daon Provides Biometric Authentication for African Blockchain Identity Platform

Diwala

FLexID

• FlexID gets Algorand funding to offer self-sovereign IDs to Africa’s unbanked TechCrunch

FlexID is giving users a blockchain wallet that stores their verificable credentials. Verification is done on-chain through Algorand, which bills itself as a solution to the blockchain trilemma of security, scalability and decentralization. FlexID will also be integrating with other Algorand decentralized apps (dApps).

• Local digital identity startup FlexID receives funding from Algorand Foundation TechZim

Zimbabwean founded blockchain start-up, FlexID Technologies (formerly FlexFinTx), has signed a Simple Agreement For Equity (SAFE) with the Algorand Foundation, to further develop and scale their Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) platform

Gravity Earth

• Q&A with Gravity’s lead engineer: François Guérin

As the Lead Developer, a big part of my role is to build Gravity’s decentralized identity protocol and blockchain architecture on Tezos.

• Gravity’s Decentralized Identity Protocol, Built on Tezos, To Power DIGID Project in Kenya

This month, Gravity joined some of the largest international NGOs in the world to launch the Dignified Identities in Cash Programming (DIGID) project in Kenya. The goal of this project is to help the Kenya Red Cross leverage Gravity’s decentralized identity protocol on Tezos to provide much-needed cash transfers to vulnerable Kenyan populations.