Published in cheqd·PinnedWelcome to a new era for decentralised identityCo-authored by Alex Tweeddale, Ross Power, and Ankur Banerjee We DID it! 🎉🥳 cheqd has recently launched its mainnet for a token-incentivised SSI network built on the Cosmos blockchain framework. …Self Sovereign Identity7 min readSelf Sovereign Identity7 min read
Published in cheqd·PinnedEntropy in Decentralised Governance: Part oneFirst blog post in a series of 3. Read part 2 and part 3. Introduction The principle concept of decentralised governance is that no single person, entity or organisation can control the direction of change in a public Network. …Governance5 min readGovernance5 min read
Published in cheqd·Dec 22, 2022cheqd Product Reflections 2022A retrospective on a year building a Decentralized Identity network on Cosmos. Co-authored by Ankur Banerjee, Ross Power and Alex Tweeddale. TL;DR 2022 has been a huge year for the cheqd Product & Engineering team. We’ve made three major software upgrade releases to the cheqd network and several minor upgrades, including: …Decentralized Identity15 min readDecentralized Identity15 min read
Published in cheqd·Nov 23, 2022Verifiable Credentials to streamline the events and ticketing industryThe ticketing industry has been in the press this week for failing to provide loyal and “Verified Fans” the early access to tickets they deserve. New types of data files known as Verifiable Credentials are here to help, enabling punters to easily present verified identity information to secure the process…Self Sovereign Identity6 min readSelf Sovereign Identity6 min read
Published in cheqd·Oct 5, 2022AnonCreds Indy-Pendence: Part TwoPart 2: Bringing cheqd AnonCreds to life with Animo Solutions in Aries Framework JavaScript Co-authored by Alex Tweeddale (Product Manager at cheqd), Ross Power (Product Manager at cheqd), Timo Glastra (CTO, co-founder at Animo), Berend Sliedrecht (Software Engineer at Animo). Read part 1 here. Introduction In our previous blog we explained how we’re using cheqd’s on-ledger resources module to decouple AnonCreds from Hyperledger Indy and…Ssi4 min readSsi4 min read
Published in cheqd·Sep 21, 2022AnonCreds Indy-Pendence: Part OnePart 1: Decoupling the reliance on Hyperledger Indy and creating more extensible AnonCreds Objects with cheqd. — Co-authored by Alex Tweeddale (Product Manager & Governance Lead), Ross Power (Product Manager), and Ankur Banerjee (CTO/Co-founder). Read part 2 here. Introduction 🚀 We are very excited to announce that the on-ledger resources feature released on cheqd mainnet allows for developers to support AnonCreds natively on the cheqd network.Ssi8 min readSsi8 min read
Published in cheqd·Updated Dec 7, 2022Our Approach to DID-Linked ResourcesUsing the capabilities of the DID Core specification for standards-compliant resource lookup — This blog post has been co-written by Alex Tweeddale, Ankur Banerjee and Ross Power. This blog post was since edited on 07/12/2022 to update the approach to the current resource implementation Introduction Since the beginning of Q2 2022, cheqd has been assembling the building blocks for anchoring “resources” to the cheqd…Ssi18 min readSsi18 min read
Published in cheqd·Apr 26, 2022Understanding the SSI stack through 5 trends and challengesCo-authored by Alex Tweeddale (Governance & Compliance Lead), Ross Power (Product Manager), and Ankur Banerjee (CTO/co-founder) In the early months of 2022, the team at cheqd conducted two surveys diving into self-sovereign identity (SSI) and digital identity in Web 3.0. …Blockchain16 min readBlockchain16 min read
Published in cheqd·Mar 21, 2022The Data Governance Act paves the way for cheqdThis article is a continuation of the Article Data Governance Act meets ToIP Framework. It will explain why many of the provisions of the Data Governance Act, proposed updates to electronic identification and trust services (eIDAS), alongside recent Requests for Proposals made by the European Commission, suggest that a payment…Self Sovereign Identity7 min readSelf Sovereign Identity7 min read
Published in cheqd·Oct 26, 2021IIW 33 Key TakeawaysInternet Identity Workshop (IIW) is a wonderful melting-pot of eclectic, innovative minds coming together to hash out challenges and discuss developments in the digital identity ecosystem. At cheqd, we showed our faces for the second time at an IIW, at the 33rd instalment, and tried to dive right into the…6 min read6 min read
