Decentralized Identity Foundation

🤝 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/

Don't miss our HITEC session to learn how SSI is creating secure, hyper-personalized travel experiences that will transform the industry!
https://www.hitec.org/
✈️ #HITEC2025 #TravelTech #SSI

🚀 The future of travel and hospitality is here! Join us at HITEC 2025 next week as our experts reveal how SSI is creating secure, hyper-personalized travel experiences that will transform the industry! 

https://www.hitec.org/
✈️ #HITEC2025 #TravelTech #SSI

Igalia Chats Technology Podcast · Updated fortnightly · Igalia’s Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the Web, open standards, open source, healthy software ecosystems, the latest in browser features, and more.

Two long-time DIF contributors (Dmitri Z🧠, former SDS WG Chair and did:webvh editor, and Bumblefudge🦝) went on the Igalia Podcast to give an intro to and update on Verifiable Credentials on the occasion of v2.0 of the specification.

Tomorrow's meeting of DIF Hospitality & Travel SIG will feature Shane O'Flaherty of @Microsoft on Microsoft’s View of Cybersecurity - it starts with identity!

📆 June 5 at 10:00ET / 15:00GMT / 16:00CET
🔗 Joining info: https://identity.foundation/special-interest-groups/hospitality-travel.html

No Phone Home - No Phone Home Statement We, the undersigned, believe that identity systems must be built without the technological ability for authorities to track when or where identity is used. Such tracking can occur when either the identity verifier or user’s application interacts with or “phones home” to the identity issuer or another third party. Identity systems that phone home […]

DIF joined 100 experts including ACLU and Bruce Schneier to raise the alarm: digital identity systems being built today must not contain tracking capabilities that could enable surveillance for generations.
Blog: https://blog.identity.foundation/no-phone-home/
Statement:

Global Digital Collaboration: your questions answered. Read DIF's latest blog about this unique event, see a preview of the agenda, and learn how to get involved.

https://blog.identity.foundation/gdc/

🧑🏻‍🏫 DIF Staff Drop-In Office Hours (APAC) coming up in 40 minutes. Bring your questions, feedback, jokes. All are welcome.

Take note:
🕰️ Today, 5PM PDT / 8AM CST
🔗 See link in DIF Calendar:

📢 DIF made waves at #EIC2025! Our experts tackled topics of AI agent identity, personhood, and the values embedded in digital standards. See how we're building the architecture for human-AI trust in a world of synthetic identities. Read more: https://blog.identity.foundation/dif-at-eic-2025/

🆕 DIF's May Newsletter has arrived! https://blog.identity.foundation/dif-newsletter-51/

🚀 DIF Labs Beta Cohort 2 RFP is here! Topics include Personhood Credentials, Content Authenticity, Applied Cryptography, Verifiable AI & Industry. Includes mentorship & ecosystem support. Submit proposals by May 20

Read more: https://labs.identity.foundation/posts/042825_request_for_proposals/