Highlights of #IIW31

Nader Helmy

Last month’s Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) was held entirely online for the second time in its history. This bi-annual unconference, typically hosted in Mountain View, CA at the Computer History Museum, connects a wide variety of people from across the globe focused on solving the hard problems around digital identity. As an unconference, the attendees set the agenda each day. The format is focused on open collaboration which creates a real and rare opportunity to organically discuss not only the latest technology developments, but also the surrounding social, political and legal implications.

Adding support for revocation of Verifiable Credentials

Nader Helmy

The MATTR team is excited to announce a critical new addition to our product capabilities. We’re continuing to build out an extensive suite of features to support the exchange of Verifiable Credentials (VCs), leveraging the best efforts of the open-source community along with a number of distinct product innovations. These innovations include our recent work related to using BBS+ signatures for privacy-preserving selective disclosure and our earlier work on the OIDC Credential Provider spec. We’ve also been busy sharing new tools for checking the syntax of a JSON-LD credential during development.

New to JSON-LD? Introducing JSON-LD Lint

Emily Fry and Tobias Looker

JSON-LD, based on the ubiquitous JSON technology, is rapidly gaining adoption on the web. JSON-LD is an innovation relevant to both business minds and developers alike. For those unfamiliar with this technology, this short video is a great introduction. At MATTR we use JSON-LD in a variety of ways. For example, the platform generates credentials using this technology so that they can be inherently understood and referenced.