Tagged: did

November 7, 2022 @ 8:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is now making the claim that all ETH transactions fall under U.S. jurisdiction due to the network’s high concentration of nodes within the country. If this claim is found to be accurate, we will very soon see a… Read More

August 7, 2022 @ 7:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital arm and accelerator of Binance, led the seed funding round of Lifeform, which is described as “a disruptive decentralized visual digital identity (DID) solution provider.” The fund will aim to “empower the next billion Web3 users with decentralized digital citizenship.”… Read More

December 30, 2021 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontology Network, which claims to be a high performance, open-source blockchain specializing in digital identity and data, notes that VC firm a16z is entering the DAO field via strategic investments into various DAO initiatives, like the recent investments in social DAO project, FWB. Since last… Read More

November 23, 2021 @ 5:23 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Decentralized identity and data solutions provider Ontology is partnering with bloXmove, a business-to-business mobility blockchain platform. bloXmove aims to simplify travel across transportation by connecting mobility apps and reducing the need for users to switch between them. bloXmove will integrate Ontology’s decentralized digital identity protocol… Read More

October 26, 2020 @ 11:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain platform Ontology (ONT) is building on Polkadot (DOT) so that it can accelerate the adoption of decentralized identity solutions. The Ontology team noted that they will be developing applications on Polkadot, which is a sharded blockchain that can seamlessly connect several different chains together… Read More

September 27, 2020 @ 7:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Markus Jun, founder and CEO of ICON’s Accelerator Partner and Seoul Launchpad of ICXStation, HyperConnector (online accelerator for the ICON ecosystem), recently confirmed that ICONLOOP will be working cooperatively with Pohang, POSCO and POSTECH to develop a (decentralized ID) DID ecosystem with MyID. Jun noted… Read More

September 10, 2020 @ 9:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IRISnet, which aims to serve as an interchain service hub for next-generation distributed applications, confirms that China’s public blockchain network BSN recently launched the new BSN Global Portal. IRISnet will be one of the partners that will contribute to the project. The IRISnet team is… Read More

September 6, 2020 @ 1:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain-based decentralized identity authentication services (DID) could potentially replace public certificates that are used for financial services, which may include those for mobile banking. This particular use case was recently commercialized for the very first time by South Korea’s Shinhan Bank. As mentioned in a… Read More

September 5, 2020 @ 5:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Ontology (ONT), a “high-performance” blockchain network, have noted that they’ve successfully completed the development of an open-source decentralized identity (DID) smart contract, which was launched on the Ethereum (ETH) network. The Ontology team confirmed on September 4, 2020, that both its native… Read More

August 31, 2020 @ 9:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontology, a high-throughput or “high-performance” blockchain platform, has integrated its services with Fintech Plaid, which offers a data network that powers the financial technology tools used by millions of people. Following the integration, ONTO (Ontology’s native token) wallet users will be able to access Open… Read More

August 20, 2020 @ 9:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s ICONLOOP, a major blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT)-focused firm, revealed on August 19, 2020 that Jeju Island, the nation’s most popular local tourist destination, will be using its Decentralized Identity (‘DID’) blockchain tech to offer private, secure COVID-19 contact tracing to (approximately)… Read More

August 18, 2020 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IRISnet, which aims to serve as an interchain service hub for next-generation distributed applications, has teamed up with MYKEY, in order to bring MYKEY’s core technologies, including its Smart Wallet and digital identity, and also MYKEY’s ecosystem to IRISnet’s “internet of blockchains.” Through the partnership,… Read More

August 15, 2020 @ 11:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontology (ONT), a “high-performance” or high-throughput blockchain platform with a market ca of over $510 million according to CoinGecko (at the time of writing), recently announced the launch of “Ontology Mercury,” which is described as a “trusted,” Decentralized Identifier (DID) based peer to peer (P2P)… Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Six new partners have joined South Korea’s MyIDAlliance, a leading collaborative organization focused on establishing a blockchain-based digital ID ecosystem that places “MyID” at the center. Leading security firm “AhnLab”, payments provider “NHN KCP”, electronic trade and logistics firm “KTnet”, exchange lending Delio, AI and… Read More

June 5, 2020 @ 9:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ICONLOOP, ICON’s technical partner, has reportedly been chosen to receive funding from K-Growth’s $100 million Fintech Innovation Fund. Markus Jun, founder and CEO of ICON’s Accelerator Partner and Seoul Launchpad of ICXStation, HyperConnector (online accelerator for the ICON ecosystem), noted via Twitter that one of… Read More