Yesterday, the
Sovrin Foundation announced a new self-sovereign identity (SSI) initiative, the Sovrin Alliance. The new group aims to provide SSI education and collaboration. It has already signed up backers from tech and financial firms such as IBM ,
CULedger, Desert Financial Credit Union and Irish Life.
Looking at it another way, the Sovrin Network is the implementation of the technology, the Foundation is the governance, and the Alliance is the community. The underlying technology is the Hyperledger Indy project.
In 2017, the non-profit foundation launched the distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform Sovrin Network, which stores public identities for organizations on the blockchain. On release, there was limited ability to write to the blockchain. Just last week, Sovrin announced that the
public ledger had been opened to any organization to contribute their data and it is ready for use in credentialing.
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