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🚨 2 hours to go: MOSIP Hot Takes w/ Juan

Join @bumblefudge.com for a rapid breakdown of insights from MOSIP Connect — what mattered, what’s next, and why it impacts the identity ecosystem

🗓 Feb 17, 9 AM UTC
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📰 February at DIF: momentum across the ecosystem
🤝 Welcomes Kyndryl + new Ops Manager
📜 2 CAWG specs approved
🤖 Delegated Authority Task Force launched
🌍 Expanding global engagement & governance
Read the full newsletter: http://blog.identity.foundation/dif-newsletter-58/

DIDs aren’t just for geeks: find out how individuals can manage sensitive medical information using decentralized identity in our latest blog:

🔗 http://blog.identity.foundation/regulated-messaging-community/

By Alex Coogan and Victor Dods

Case study from Pharma: Passing confidential information in a fully secure and auditable system. Read our latest blog from @ledgerdomain.com  by Alex Coogan and Victor Dods at http://blog.identity.foundation/regulated-messaging-community/

📰 DIF welcomes Kyndryl as an Associate Member!
🤖 Advancing trust for Agentic AI
🔐 Enterprise-ready identity & governance standards
🌐 Secure, interoperable decentralized ecosystems

Read announcement: https://blog.identity.foundation/dif-welcomes-kyndryl/

📰 Jan 2026 DIF Newsletter is live!
🌏 ED Grace is in APAC Q1 2026 and wants to meet new members
🎙️ New "Hot Takes in Identity" series on Feb
🤖 Trusted AI Agents launching Delegatable Authorization Task Force
🎨 CAWG specs approved + more!
Full update: https://blog.identity.foundation/dif-newsletter-57/

📣 DIF Newsletter #56 is here!

A year of sharper focus on deployable identity infrastructure, without losing sight of privacy, user control, and interoperability — plus a look ahead with DIF's new Executive Director.

👉 https://blog.identity.foundation/dif-newsletter-56/

🎉 We're thrilled to welcome Grace Rachmany as DIF's new Executive Director! With deep expertise in decentralized governance, DAOs, and Web3, Grace will help us navigate the complex challenges facing digital identity today.

Read more: https://blog.identity.foundation/welcome-grace-rachmany/

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REMINDER: Co-Chair of DIF's Trusted AI Agents WG Nicola Gallo will be in the hotseat exactly 24 hours from now, on Gluu's Identirati podcast, hosted by Mike Schwartz. He'll talk🌍distributed systems 😭shared liabilities and💡distributed transactions

Building AI Trust at Scale, Post 4 is live! 🚀
Authorising Autonomous Agents at Scale — why OAuth breaks, why agents need identity, and how DIF’s Trusted AI Agents WG is addressing it.

Read Part 4 → https://blog.identity.foundation/building-ai-trust-at-scale-4/

🤝 Excited to partner with TRUSTECH in Paris, 2-4 Dec 2025! Join 200+ exhibitors and 7,650+ visitors from 100+ countries to shape payments, ID, and smart tech. Highlights: conference, Innovation Awards, and more. 3 days of business and networking ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/6d9jxfam

📰 DIF Newsletter #55 is live! 

New Steering Committee elected ✅
AI agents + decentralized ID progress 🤖
Working group updates 🛠️
Community events! 🎉

Full November recap: https://blog.identity.foundation/dif-newsletter-55/

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Co-Chair of DIF's Trusted AI Agents WG Nicola Gallo will be in the hotseat two weeks from right now, on Gluu's Identirati podcast, hosted by Mike Schwartz. Expect hot takes on 🌍distributed systems, 😭shared liabilities, and💡distributed transactions

Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy much easier. This month we’re going to do just that.

From the EFF DeepLinks blog: Opt Out October, practical tips on kicking digital habits dangerous to your data sovereignty and digital agency. 

🍽️ Just like food needs labels, digital content needs ingredient lists.

New from DIF: how Content Credentials & creator assertions can restore transparency, protect rights, & build trust.

👉 https://blog.identity.foundation/scaling-ai-differently-why-your-content-needs-an-ingredient-list/

🔥 New from DIF!
✨ Labs Beta Cohort 2 wrapped w/ breakthrough demos
🤖 Trusted Agents WG launched (AI identity & trust)
📜 Credential Schema Spec 1.0 released
🌍 DIF at the UNGA Identity Panel

Catch all the updates 👉 https://blog.identity.foundation/dif-newsletter-54/

🔔 Reminder: DIF Trusted AI Agents WG kicks off TOMORROW
Join us for the inaugural meeting of our new working group.

📅 September 30, 8am PT
👉 More details: https://identity.foundation/working-groups/trusted-agents.html
💳 DIF membership required:  https://identity.foundation/join

🔔 Reminder: DIF Trusted AI Agents WG kicks off next Tuesday!
Join us for the inaugural meeting of our new working group.

📅 September 30, 8am PT
👉 More details: https://identity.foundation/working-groups/trusted-agents.html
💳 DIF membership required:  https://identity.foundation/join

DIF Labs Show & Tell · Luma 📣 Open to the public! Join DIF Labs Beta Cohort 2 Show & Tell event to see the future of privacy tech! 👉 Read about the projects:…

⏰ TOMORROW, Sept 23: DIF Labs Beta Cohort 2 Show & Tell!
Last chance to see three groundbreaking privacy-preserving identity projects showcase their work.
👉 Register:

🚀 DIF Trusted AI Agents Working Group starts Sept 30!
Building an interoperable stack for trustworthy, secure AI agents

📅 First meeting: Sept 30, 8am PT
👉 More details: https://identity.foundation/working-groups/trusted-agents.html
🔐 DIF membership required: https://identity.foundation/join

DIF Labs Show & Tell · Luma 📣 Open to the public! Join DIF Labs Beta Cohort 2 Show & Tell event to see the future of privacy tech! 👉 Read about the projects:…

🚀 DIF Labs Beta Cohort 2 Show & Tell is coming Sept 23!
Three cutting-edge privacy-preserving identity projects are ready to showcase their work. Open to the public!

👉 Register now:

DIF Newsletter #53:
🚀New Trusted AI Agents Working Group launched
🕺DIF Labs Beta Cohort 2 showcase Sept 23rd
💼 Leadership roles open

Plus: "Scaling AI DIFferently" blog series on AI + decentralized identity

https://blog.identity.foundation/dif-newsletter-53/

🤖 AI's biggest bottleneck isn't computational power—it's trust infrastructure. DIF Ambassador Misha Deville's latest post explores how decentralized identity solves the challenges limiting AI adoption at scale 👇

https://blog.identity.foundation/translating-promise-into-value/

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DIF Technical Steering Committee Chair Andor Kesselman joined Mike Schwartz on his Identerati Office Hours to discuss Governing the Agentic Web. Check it out!

DIF Ambassador Misha Deville tackles AI's "trust ceiling", and why $100B+ in AI investment hits adoption barriers. The fix? Verifiable identity infrastructure enabling:

🎯 Context
✅ Consent
🛡️ Credibility
Read more: https://blog.identity.foundation/thinking-ai-differently-the-missing-growth-lever/

DID Traits v1 is now a DIF Ratified Specification! Thank you and congratulations to lead editor / author Jan Christoph Ebersbach, author Otto Mora, and the DIF Identifiers & Discovery Working Group / community for their support!

Read the spec here:
https://identity.foundation/did-traits/v1.0.0/

🛫 At HITEC 2025, industry leaders explored how SSI can revolutionize hospitality with secure, hyper-personalized experiences while protecting traveler privacy.

Recap: https://htwg.identity.foundation/hitec-2025-recap-leveraging-ssi-for-secure-hyper-personalized-and-seamless-travel-experiences/

🚀 DIF Labs Beta Cohort 2 kicks off tomorrow (June 24th, 8 AM PST)!
Three projects tackling key challenges :

- Legally-binding proof of personhood via QES
- Privacy-preserving revocation mechanisms
- Anonymous multi-signature VCs

Read more: https://blog.identity.foundation/dif-labs-beta-cohort-2/

DIF's Creator Assertions Working Group is committed to making C2PA / CAWG work for creators of all sizes. Read about their recently-released 1.1 versions of CAWG specifications:

👉 https://blog.identity.foundation/progress-report-from-the-creator-assertions-wg/

🌍✈️ At #HITEC2025, our experts unveiled how Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) can revolutionize travel with secure, seamless, and hyper-personalized experiences.

👉 https://htwg.identity.foundation/hitec-2025-recap-leveraging-ssi-for-secure-hyper-personalized-and-seamless-travel-experiences/