Today Hyperledger announced the new
Hyperledger Aries identity project. Hyperledger already has the Hyperledger Indy identity project which underpins the
Sovrin Network. Going forward the emphasis of Indy will be on the blockchain or backend side. But for decentralized identities very little is stored on a blockchain. Much of the functionality is around the client side: the communication between organizations and individuals and how individuals manage their identity wallets. This work will now live in Hyperledger Aries.
Hyperledger says Aries is not a blockchain and not an application. Instead, it’s providing the infrastructure to create applications.
There’s also a realization that there won’t be one identity network, there will be many, and they need to be interoperable. Aries addresses this as well. The Aries group which is sponsored by the Sovrin Network has reached out to Ethereum-based decentralized identity initiatives and W3C participants to contribute to Aries’ code.
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