TL;DR: In April, Hypersign had a busy month with multiple events, partnerships, and technical updates. Co-founder Vikram Bhushan made appearances at several events, and Hypersign partnered with Power DAO, Nordek, and C2E to enhance the decentralized identity experience, furthering digital identity, blockchain identity, and self-sovereign identity solutions. Hypersign also underwent technical improvements, with Fyre switching to a new framework and introducing two new Hypersign Improvement Proposals.
Events
- CryptoCosm Podcast (April 3rd): Vikram Bhushan shared Hypersign’s journey to becoming a plug-and-play decentralized identity solution built on Cosmos, exploring web3 identity, digital identity, and blockchain identity solutions.
- AcknoLedger Community (April 7th): Vikram discussed the role of decentralized identity in the existing world of web3, touching on self-sovereign identity concepts and their importance in shaping a more secure digital landscape. (Watch here)
- ARTEMeetup (April 12th): At this IRL event organized by Crypto Oasis in Dubai, Vikram presented Hypersign’s technology stack, including zero-knowledge proof applications for enhanced privacy and security.
- Hypersign Community Call (April 13th): Hypersign held a community call to discuss the role of various stakeholders in the ecosystem, including validators, stakers, delegators, and community members, and their contributions to the decentralized identity infrastructure.
- WEB3 Wednesday (April 19th): At the Block Club event, Vikram shared the founding story of Hypersign and its current state, elaborating on the development of web3 identity solutions and the potential for self-sovereign identity.
Partnerships
- Power DAO (April 21st): Hypersign partnered with Power DAO to integrate decentralized identity tech with Power Browser’s Web3 capabilities, ensuring a safer, more private, and user-controlled internet, while promoting blockchain identity solutions.
- Nordek (April 25th): Hypersign collaborated with Nordek to integrate its decentralized identity infrastructure into projects built on the Nordek platform, enhancing user identity verification and privacy features for fintech, gaming, and metaverse solutions.
- C2E (April 27th): Hypersign partnered with C2E to provide a decentralized platform that empowers users to control their personal data, using DIDs to associate multiple wallets with a single DID for easier management, and leveraging zero-knowledge proof technologies for added privacy.
Technical Updates
- Fyre Overhaul: Fyre is transitioning from Node.Js to Nest.Js, a more efficient and faster framework for server-side development, improving the performance of Hypersign’s digital identity solutions.
- Hypersign Improvement Proposal — 9: This proposal highlights the need for a consensus wide fixed-fee for SSI-based transactions, enabling the community to vote on a sensible fee based on the HID token’s market price and making self-sovereign identity more accessible.
- Hypersign Improvement Proposal — 10: The initial draft for this proposal details the did:hid W3C DID Method Specification, integrating web3 identity solutions into the broader ecosystem, and is on track to submit a Pull Request to the DID Spec Registries Github Repository.
About Hypersign
Hypersign is a Decentralized Network purpose-built for Self-Sovereign Identity use cases and related applications. Its objective is to facilitate SSI adoption in the real world and help people regain control of their personal data while establishing digital trust for enterprises.
