The nonprofit World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Tuesday announced that its collaborative work on Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) is now a W3C Recommendation, which is at version 1.0. Part of what ...

On October 4, 2021, Facebook, along with WhatsApp and Instagram, disappeared from the internet. Their DNS names stopped resolving, and their infrastructure IPs were offline. They were completely ...

Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin-focused TBD business unit, a subsidiary of Block Inc., announced Friday that it is building a new decentralized web: Web5. Web5 is based on the assumption that Web3, the idea of ...

Decentralized Identifier (DID) is a new type and a globally unique persistent identifier that does not require centralized registration authorities often generated ...

Open Campus announced that Open Campus ID, its decentralized identifier (DID), will launch on 23 January to “connect potentially millions of learners from Open Campus’ network of partners to Web3 ...

Ontology (ONT), a “high-performance” or high-throughput blockchain platform with a market ca of over $510 million according to CoinGecko (at the time of writing), recently announced the launch of ...

Microsoft (MSFT) Decentralized Identity head Daniel Buchner announced he is leaving the company to join Square (SQ) to lead the payment company’s efforts in the emerging space where blockchain ...

MicroStrategy has already built an application called Orange For Outlook on “MicroStrategy Orange,” which integrates digital signatures into emails to verify the identity of the sender. MicroStrategy, ...

Existing decentralized digital identity standards are vulnerable to compromise and do not have privacy at their core: This is the central argument posed by a new paper presented by Harry Halpin, a ...