Happy New Year from the Transmute Team!
It was a busy second half of 2019 for Transmute.
We’ll be leveraging our work with the Decentralized Identity Foundation and W3C to help DHS to build interoperable decentralized identity and verifiable credentials solutions. The core product features we are developing within this contract are extensible to other public and private partners, and we have honed our product approach to be even more targeted for our enterprise supply chain-focused pipeline.
Based on this, one area of immediate focus for 2020 will be on Encrypted Data Vaults and Identity Hubs / Personal Data Stores. We’ve already made significant progress on implementing encrypted data vault interfaces, and driving towards interoperability between hubs and edvs at the DIF, and we are excited to continue that work. You can learn more about these concepts here:
https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague/blob/master/draft-documents/encrypted-data-vaults.md
https://digitalbazaar.github.io/encrypted-data-vaults/
https://github.com/decentralized-identity/identity-hub/blob/master/explainer.md
Staying true to Transmute’s commitment to open standards, our team became progressively more involved in the relevant standards development organizations, resulting in securing several leadership positions specifically within the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) where our CEO Karyl now serves as one of the newest additions to the Steering Committee where she aims to support expanding the DIF’s footprint globally as DID and VC technologies are standardized, matured and deployed in real industry scenarios.
Our CTO Orie also became the chair of the Interoperability Project under the DIF. The mission of the InterOp Project is to demonstrate interoperability amongst the specifications and implementations within the Decentralized Identity community, including non DIF members. Contributors focus on code and documentation, with a particular focus on supporting complements and substitutes to the technologies they may be developing within their host company or other working groups.
You can learn more about the project and how to contribute here.
Additionally, our Head of Product Margo is also engaging with the global identity community as co-chair of the DIF Glossary Project. This group is committed to identifying language and a shared ecosystem model for market adoption of this technology.
Finally, the Transmute team ran a series of successful sessions at the most recent Internet Identity Workshop on topics ranging from DID UI/UX, Hardware Backed Security Systems for DIDs, and the Sidetree Protocol. The shared learning and product feedback received at IIW remains invaluable to our product planning and direction; if you haven’t attended, this is where the foundational conversations in digital identity are happening! We highly recommend.
