The SSI Orbit Podcast – Self-Sovereign Identity, Decentralization and Digital Trust

Antti Kettunen is a digital identity and digital trust expert and advisor. He designs ecosystem solutions, actively participates in standards and industry groups (e.g. CEN, Trust over IP, Mobey), and helps customers deliver value in their digital identity projects. He also writes and speaks about digital identity and the ongoing paradigm shift in his blog Identifinity. Antti is also one of the co-...

Stepan Gershuni is working towards making it easier for DAOs to onboard talent through Professional ID credentials. There is an oversupply of talent looking to join DAOs and Stepan is trying to help them manage their excess talent pools and onboard people faster.  About Episode During this conversation, we discuss: Where are the opportunities to apply SSI principles and frameworks towards DAOs ? H...

- Governance Orchestrators - The orchestrating required to bring together decentralized identity ecosystems is today's biggest gap for Commercial SSI . By this I mean the Trust over IP Level 4 governance authorities that are required to make something commercially real. We have the approaches, the principles, the technologies and the standards down. There is also clear market demand for data owner...

- Thinking in a decentralized architecture - We have a tendency to apply existing solutions or frameworks towards new things. In the early days of the web, many companies implemented fax on the Internet, rather than rethinking if faxes were still the best solution for certain types of information exchange. Are we doing the same thing today with wallets? Wallets are a tool which we employ to store...

- Filling holes in the web3 stack - This was a very fun and interesting conversation with Lauren Feld, Head of Growth at 3Box Labs , a company building the Ceramic Network . The Ceramic Network in my opinion is one the most exciting projects in the web3 space. Ceramic is a decentralized, open source platform for creating, hosting, and sharing streams of data. This is interesting to consider in a d...

About Episode - Progress is often slowed down because of binary thinking. This type of behaviour sometimes happens within the self-sovereign identity world: “Such protocol is good, such protocol is bad”; “Such community is good, such community is bad.” During this conversation, we discuss: Digital Sovereignty - operating in the digital world (or metaverse), with an emphasis on Government’s role in...

About Episode - Every week there seems to be mention of a new Trust Framework . People are now trying to monetize them. But to understand trust frameworks, let’s first understand what constitutes trust. We must define concepts such as levels of assurances and what defines technical vs human trust? Once this is better understood, the conversation about where a particular organization fits into a di...

About Episode - What use cases should a National Digital Identity program prioritize in collaboration with the private sector? As use cases become verticals of their own, what are then some of the horizontal considerations that need to be applied to enable all of the use cases to function within their relative ecosystems? Hakan Yildiz can help us answer these questions being that he’s a Research A...

About Episode - This episode features a live recording of an Indicio community event . Digital Wallets are taking off! OS operators such as Apple are starting to support open standards for digital credentials ( here ). Technology disruptors (like the companies represented in this episode) are taking wallet solutions to market ( here ). This objective of this discussion is not to take a deep dive f...

About Episode - Yoma is a youth marketplace that is incubated by UNICEF in Africa.  It enables youth to  Learn (through Yoma learning partners), Earn (through employers in the ecosystem) and Thrive by completing Impact challenges (e.g., plastic clean-up, reforestation) that benefit our environment and communities.  All of this is enabled through a SSI-enabled digital CV and personalized learning e...

About Episode - During this podcast, we try to answer the question: ‘ Why Are Governments Choosing Hyperledger? ’. Timo Glastra is one of three founders of Animo Solutions . At just 23 years old he has built up an extensive expertise on the implementation of open standards in the field of self-sovereign identity. Timo is well positioned from an open standard and open technology standpoint to help...

About Episode - Why not take the best practices from a real world National Digital ID ecosystem that is live and thriving? In today’s episode, we dive into what’s happening within the Digital ID landscape within Europe. Sebastian Manhart is very well positioned between policy and technology in the European Union. In this episode of SSI Orbit, he shares his experiences and future projections. Durin...

About Episode - As we continue diving into use cases for self-sovereign identity, we spend some more time in the Web3 space. Sandra Ro has been working in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space since 2011. She also has an extensive background working in Traditional Finance (TradFi) in FX, Derivative trading and more. Since 2018, Sandra has held the position of CEO of the Global Blockchain Business...

Chetan Phull is a fellow colleague of mine from the Toronto blockchain scene. Chetan is a technology and data management lawyer at Deloitte Legal. His legal experience includes complex multidisciplinary mandates in privacy/cybersecurity, blockchain/cryptocurrency, technology audits, FinTech regulatory advocacy, and SaaS contracts. Chetan’s publications include Big Data Law in Canada , and numerous...

About Episode - Where might revenues disappear from banks in the short-term? What about in the long-term? What efficiencies can be gained from decentralized protocols. Why Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) may disinter-mediate some banking functions? To talk through the above, I welcome my good friend James Loperfido, Director of Business Development at Tangem AG. In this episode, We open wi...

About Episode - I sit down with Fraser Edwards, CEO of Verim, a company building a #SSI Digital Credentials Network on Cosmos to create commercial viability via tokenized incentives. Prior to Verim, Fraser has worked across technologies and industries internationally, specializing in decentralized identity, blockchain-based payments and FinTech. 2021.08.04 - Note that since the recording of this p...

About Episode In this conversation, I sit down with Stepan Gershuni for the second time on this pod, the first time being in Episode 9 when we talked about the Economics of Self-Sovereign Identity. If you haven’t listened to that one I suggest you do as it was a very interesting conversation that looked into how SSI can be applied to paper based and web2 models, and then dove a bit into web3. This...

About Episode In this conversation we discuss, Why the common saying ‘data is the new oil’ is false? Alternative forms of identity verification for the web The Social KYC product Use cases in the Gaming industry and why gaming is poised to become early adopters of SSI Identity In Web3 The KILT protocol (permissionless blockchain as a root of trust) The Value flow in a decentralized identity model...

Mathieu chats with Brian, Co-CEO of Fluree , an open-source platform for data ecosystems. The conversation covers data-centric architecture designs, and why organizations should look to move away from application-centric designs. If you don't consider doing so, macro trends around data privacy laws are driving us towards data centric models anyways. May as well get ahead of the curve and gain comp...

Learn how Bonifii is using Verifiable Credentials as a Digital Transformation mechanism for Credit Unions to Increase Engagement with their Members. John Ainsworth explains how they are revolutionizing how Credit Unions say “ hello ” to a member. About Episode During this conversation, we discuss: Learnings from Visa regarding forming organizations based on decentralized governance structures and...

This episode is an acronym special! NFTs, NFC and SSI! Great conversation with the Founder of Gimly Projects, Caspar Roelofs. About Episode We discuss Caspar’s PHD research background in biomedical science Using physical cards as a cryptographic store for private keys and verifiable credentials, and then transacting via NFC.  We discuss various use cases of verifiable credentials using NFC such as...

The Trust over IP Foundation’s mission is to: “ Define a complete architecture for Internet-scale digital trust that combines cryptographic trust at the machine layer with human trust at the business, legal, and social layers.” About Episode Part 1 - Introduction to the ToIP ( starts at 01:50 ) Digital Trust Primer The History of Credentials: the Paper credential era, the Credential Trust triangle...

About Episode During this conversation, we discuss How Riley got into SSI through Sovrin and how he continued his journey by founding Trinsic The focus on making trust ecosystem development easy - A trust ecosystem needs three things to be successful: (1) interoperable technology, (2) trustworthy governance, and (3) tools for adoption. Trinsic Ecosystems is designed to provide these three componen...

During this conversation, we discuss The history and business models of each evolution of the internet to-date: Web 1.0 - Web 2.0 - Web 3.0; How web3 might require a regulatory protocol layer; The different ways for SSI to gain adoption: (1) through adoption by web 2.0 companies, and (2) by building new models from scratch to displace Web 2.0 companies; How economic inefficiencies can be used to c...

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