On Friday, enterprise alliance Hyperledger announced that Hyperledger Aries is the latest initiative to transition to active from incubation. Given the push towards COVID-19 health credentials, the timing is opportune as Aries provides a set of tools to implement decentralized identity (DID).
“Convergence on common libraries for the exchange of credentials will help speed the development of urgently-needed solutions and systems, ranging from education to finance to the fight against the pandemic. Aries is key to that convergence,” said Brian Behlendorf, GM for Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation.
The production-ready Hyperledger Aries is a relatively new initiative that was motivated but another identity project, Hyperledger Indy. The two communities have the common goal of decentralized identity and verifiable credentials but focus on different technology areas.
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