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Khalid joins Gimly as co-founder and COO. As a former IDTech founder Khalid has extensive experience and a strong network in the self-sovereign identity space as well as the aviation and travel industry.

Tap to ID leverages SSI and NFC for identity and smart access control by the tap of a mobile phone or NFC smart card. It revolutionises smart access control to digital services or physical environments. This work has been partly funded by NGI eSSIF-lab and was presented at the essif-lab final event.

We’re excited to welcome Charlie to the team. Charlie brings a rich technical background in full-stack development and an expertise in React Native development.

SSI Wallets are one of the essential components that make self sovereign identity possible. An increasing number of SSI Wallet apps are being released, each with slightly differing feature sets. This post is intended as an evergreen overview and comparison of SSI Wallet apps. If we discover a new one, we'll add it here. If you've developed an SSI Wallet app, feel free to make a pull request to this repository to get added to this list.

The following describes two people — Bob and Alice — meeting in person and exchanging information so they can bootstrap a cryptographically verifiable communication channel with one another. They can then use this channel to share identity data with one another in a self-sovereign way. As such, it is also a use case of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) technology.

NFTs have great potential for provable scarcity and ownership, yet the lack of a verifiable identity layer limits the fulfilment of this potential. This article presents a case of NFT fraud and copyright infringement, and describes how self-sovereign identity (SSI) can be the solution to verify the origin and legitimacy of an NFT and its linked object.