SSI advocates welcome EU digital wallet, IOTA sees opportunity
Self-sovereign identity (SSI) advocates are celebrating a win after the European Parliament approved legislation last week that will bring digital…
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Buenos Aires integrates, open sources self-sovereign identity protocol QuarkID
Diego Fernández, secretary of innovation and digital transformation for the city of Buenos Aires, announced in a LinkedIn post that…
Spanish group gets green light for non-blockchain self-sovereign ID research project
The Spanish private capital group GMV’s project to develop a self-sovereign identity (SSI) built on a blockchain alternative has been…
Decentralized digital identity providers launch Web3 authenticators and wallets
Immutable and Cardano have launched digital identity wallets running on blockchain, while Web3Auth and Safe have announced SafeAuth to simplify…
Concordium Foundation to collaborate with Hitachi on biometric electronic signatures
Swiss permissionless Layer 1 blockchain provider Concordium Foundation has announced a collaboration with Japanese IT company Hitachi on proof-of-technology for…
Bhutan stands up self-sovereign identity with a small team and smaller budget
Bhutan is amongst the poorest and least-developed countries in the world, ranked 134th out of 203 by the United Nations…
Deutsche Telekom works with Bielefeld University students on digital identity project
Deutsche Telekom and Bielefeld University are partnering for the self-sovereign access management (SESAM) university cooperation project in which experts from…
Swiss university, startups partner on self-sovereign identity
Zug-based startup Partisia Blockchain and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO Valais-Wallis) have announced they are…
Switzerland presents national digital ID, adoption expected in 2026
After a private initiative to establish a digital identity was shot down by voters in 2021, Switzerland is opting for…
New app directs digital ID traffic between decentralized energy sources and the grid
Energy Web, a non-profit that develops open-source tech for clean energy transition, has teamed up with EU energy firm Elia…
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