Posts with keyword: sovrin+foundation

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Four Pillars of an SSI Network

Tue Jan 7 13:46:00 2020

Building an operating network takes more than protocols or even code. It requires aligning the efforts of people to get a hard thing done. We created the Sovrin Foundation to foster a thriving ecosystem for an identity metasystem.
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Sovrin Self-Sustainability

Tue Sep 5 15:19:00 2017

For Sovrin to become a global, public utility that helps everyone create and manage self-sovereign identities, it must be independent and self-sustaining. This post outlines four idependence milestones for Sovrin Foundation.
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Hyperledger Welcomes Project Indy

Mon May 1 16:34:00 2017

The Sovrin Foundation announced at the 24th Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) that its distributed ledger, custom-built for independent digital identity has been accepted into incubation under Hyperledger, the open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies hosted by The Linux Foundation.
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Announcing the Sovrin Foundation

Thu Sep 29 12:03:00 2016

In London today, we're announcing the formation of the Sovrin Foundation. Sovrin Foundation is a private-sector, international non-profit that was established to govern the Sovrin Identity Network (SIDN). SIDN is a public, permissioned distributed ledger purpose built for identities. The Internet was created without any way for people and organizations to be identified. On the Internet, only machines get identities in the form of IP numbers. This is understandable given what the creators of the Internet were trying to achieve. But the lack of a decentralized, heterarchical, and interoperable identity system has created an environment where the services most
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