1 What is Aries Interop Profile (AIP)? Aries agents are all united through the standards and protocols they aim to adhere to, and the underlying technologies: Cryptography DIDs DID Utility Ledgers Verifiable Credentials As Digital Trust ecosystems evolve, they will naturally require many technologies to coexist and cooperate. Stakeholders and users will not care about incompatibilities —…

The main value of a platform such as Uber or AirBnB is that it reduces transactions costs for participants that use their network. Before smartphones with connectivity and good map functionality, it wouldn’t have been economically viable to stand on a street corner and hope that a driver you don’t…

Notes to readers: The thinking for this post came as we prepare for the public launch of our AiP 1.0 mobile wallet app — and as we prepare to demonstrate AiP 2.0 compliance. This post assumes that the holder is already in full control of their interactions and relationships. It…

People are happier when their work has meaning and when they can associate with peers who share similar beliefs and values. …

The orchestration required to bring together Decentralized Identity ecosystems is today’s biggest gap for Commercial SSI. — This blog post was based off of a podcast conversation with Charles Walton. By this I mean the Trust over IP, Level 4 Governance Authorities that are required to make something commercially real. We have the approaches, the principles, the technologies and the standards down. There is also clear market…

We have a tendency to apply existing solutions or frameworks towards new things. In the early days of the web, many companies implemented fax on the Internet, rather than rethinking if faxes were still the best solution for certain types of information exchange. Are we doing the same thing today…

I’ve now used versions of this post in various presentations, including a UN/CEFACT Forum Webinar, the Blockchain Technology Symposium 2021 (BTS’ 21) and others. I feel like it’s a good primer on Self-Sovereign Identity, that takes us away from the technology, allowing us to focus more on the why. I’d…

The portable and reusable properties of Verifiable Credentials make them a great vehicle for trust providers to unlock new recurring revenue opportunities. Generating recurring revenue on the same IP has become key to some of the world’s most valuable companies. In a simpler age, we’d buy Microsoft Office on a…

For many, the idea that you may use data you don’t own is a novel concept. Businesses have been traditionally built around the ‘data is the new oil’ motto. …