This is a solid blog post on the identity crisis #SSI industry itself faces, from @rileyphughes. 👌🏾 (Discussion on that thread is very valuable too, for different perspectives.)

It's a challenge we've been mulling over @cheqd_io as well. Some of my own thoughts below (unordered)

https://twitter.com/rileyphughes/status/1595064056993681408

1️⃣ "IDtech" is overly-broad. It covers what we know as "self-sovereign identity", "SSI", or "Web5"...but it *also* covers traditional selfie-scan-check (e.g., Onfido, Jumio), single sign-on (e.g., Auth0, Okta, Microsoft AD).

Great session on “Identity & the Metaverse” @idnextplatform with Sarah Levassor and Mark Evenblij, chaired by @pulugundla.

A fundamental issue is…whom did you *actually* meet in a metaverse world? Deepfaking in real-time is getting easy, but it’s even easier in VR. Avatars are easily copied, and they aren’t even necessarily humanoid. So we have to resort to usernames/handles…and those are easily scammed with lookalikes.

Privacy-preserving (and digital identity) tech needs to become a lot more like sex education or drug education campaigns. This thought came to me during #RWOT11 @WebOfTrustInfo

A lot of digital identity and privacy is fear-based, on how Bad Things Can Happen With Your Data. 1/ Many people *don’t* care about zero-knowledge proofs or private and secure identity because…it’s complex and boring (for many audiences). So, preaching that people should Really Care About Tracking doesn’t fly because a lot of people *like* ads.

Genuinely loved this event with @AnimoSolutions on Aries Framework JavaScript with AnonCreds anchored on @cheqd_io.

I still remember the moment I first saw demo.animo.id and immediately shared it around our team because it’s the simplest, hands-on SSI demo I’ve seen 🤌🏾

https://twitter.com/AnimoSolutions/status/1571859020465557514

You can try out this demo yourself on cheqd-demo.animo.id. This is the culmination of a LOT of work to extend the types of credentials @cheqd_io supports beyond just JWT Verifiable Credentials (which we built on @veramolabs) to *also* have ledger-agnostic AnonCreds.

This is a *really* good thread rounding up #Web3 identity and privacy tech companies. Wanted to throw in a few more on the list that IMO deserve a mention...

@AnonyomeLabs, which is working on a wide-ranging super-toolkit that covers phone, email, passwords, credentials

https://twitter.com/AnastasiaU/status/1518568881467629568

@Avast, one of the world's largest cybersecurity companies that now owns @evernym and @SecureKey (and is likely to be a powerhouse in wide-ranging existing user base)

https://twitter.com/Avast/status/1564601332228673538

There’s multiple things to slice-and-dice here…

By default, a lot of CeFi (and as seen with @dYdX, some DeFi protocols) default to “traditional KYC” because, let’s be honest, the developer experience to integrate a check from Onfido etc is far easier and well understood.

https://twitter.com/fraser_again/status/1565637949722660864

However, the *user* experience of traditional “selfie-scan-check” KYC is universally bad.

Nobody wakes up and is excited about “Ahhhhh, today’s the day I’ll go through another KYC process 🌞”

🚨 We built a network-wide validator status monitoring tool for @Cosmos SDK chains that can monitor for validators that have missed too many blocks, and are likely to get jailed.

Check out the code on @cheqd_io's GitHub 👉 github.com/cheqd/validato…

Here's how we went about it... 1. To provide some context here: proof-of-stake blockchains like @cosmos use a self-reinforcing mechanism to ensure nodes maintain good uptime.

You can see this on our block explorer: explorer.cheqd.io/validators

I looked into *why* the supply of Covid-19 rapid tests has been so badly disrupted in the UK.

TL;DR: All of the distribution is being handled by a single company which will be closed for 7-8+ days around Christmas and New Years' Eve and therefore shortages will persist.

🧵👇🏾 Distributions only resumed on 29th Dec and will be closed again 1-3 Jan (1-4 Jan in some UK countries).

Overall, there's only approx. 1.25mn Covid LFD test packs that will even be processed at the distributor. (There are ~27.8mn households in the UK.)

psnc.org.uk/our-news/pharm…

Out of London for the first time in a year or so, on a short trip to France.

I was able to scan my Covid-19 vaccine record from the NHS App into the French “TousAntiCovid” app.

Much like the UK, there are two modes: one for domestic use, and one for travel. In general, the QR codes in vaccine passports generated in Europe contain name, DOB, date of jab, kind of vaccine etc. This is an EU-wide standard also used within the NHS app. github.com/nhsx/covid-pas…