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Top 5 trends in Decentralised Self-Sovereign Identity and Privacy-preserving Technology in Web 3.0 (2022)

Co-authored by Alex Tweeddale (Governance & Compliance Lead), Ross Power (Product Manager), and Ankur Banerjee (CTO/co-founder) In the early months of 2022, the cheqd team conducted two surveys diving into self-sovereign identity (SSI) and digital identity in Web 3.0. …

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Top 5 trends in Decentralized Self-Sovereign Identity and Privacy-preserving Technology in Web 3.0

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cheqd’s product vision for 2022

Co-authored by Fraser Edwards (CEO/co-founder), Ross Power, and Alex Tweeddale We’re incredibly excited to begin the year after the successful launch of the cheqd network and CHEQ token at the end of 2021 and can’t wait to share with you what’s coming next. …

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cheqd’s testnet is public — and we’ve open sourced our code

cheqd has open-sourced its code for a token-incentivised SSI network built on the Cosmos blockchain framework. We’re expanding beyond private beta to a public testnet, with plans for publishing further details about tokenomics and governance in future releases. We’re excited at cheqd to announce that we’re open-sourcing the early version…

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cheqd’s testnet is public — and we’ve open sourced our code

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cheqd is launching a self-sovereign identity network on Cosmos this year

Announcing our 2021 product roadmap for an incentivised decentralised identity network with token-based payment rails — Co-authored by Fraser Edwards and Ankur Banerjee We started cheqd this year to make digital identity secure, private, commercially sustainable, accessible, and inclusive. We are a small and lean but growing startup of people with deep expertise in identity and decentralised systems.

Self Sovereign Identity

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The business models of identity

How cheqd is approaching its tokenomics for secure and trusted data ecosystems — Co-authored by Fraser Edwards and Ankur Banerjee Identity is a construct of its subject (person, company, virtual thing) and surroundings (birth, country borders, online games). Identity, therefore, varies in how it manifests (passports, self-declared data or an outfit, real or virtual) but also how it is commercialised (or not).

Self Sovereign Identity

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·May 4, 2022

A New Hope in the Data Wars: Our first-ever “non-fungible” DID on the cheqd network

Co-written by Ankur Banerjee (CTO/co-founder), Ross Power (Product Manager), and Alex Tweeddale (Governance Lead) 💫 About a month ago, in a Cosmos far, far away… …we spoke about the top 10 highlights of Q1 at cheqd, where we touched upon the work we have been doing on adding and improving the identity functionality for app developers and users of our network. …

Self Sovereign Identity

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A New Hope in the Data Wars: Our first-ever “non-fungible” DID on the cheqd network

Self Sovereign Identity

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·Apr 6, 2022

Q1 round-up from cheqd: We’ve upgraded our network’s identity features, bridged to Ethereum, plus much more… 🚀

Co-authored by Fraser Edwards (CEO/co-founder), Ankur Banerjee (CTO/co-founder), Alex Tweeddale (Governance & Compliance Lead), and Ross Power (Product Manager) cheqd is moving fast as we build out the decentralised network for trusted data on Cosmos. Three months into 2022, and we’ve been blowing past our quarterly milestones: making headway in…

Self Sovereign Identity

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Q1 round-up from cheqd: We’ve upgraded our network’s identity features, bridged to Ethereum and…

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The new version of cheqd testnet is out — we’re gearing up for the mainnet launch 🎉🥳

cheqd has launched v2 of its testnet for a token-incentivised SSI network built on the Cosmos blockchain framework. This new testnet follows on from our open-source announcement and incorporates tokenomics for mainnet as well as the cheqd Governance Framework. Over the past week, we have been testing out a new…

Blockchain

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The new version of cheqd testnet is out — we’re gearing up for the mainnet launch 🎉🥳

Blockchain

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Oct 21, 2018

I’m back on anti-depressants, and life is slightly less scary now

As of Friday, for the first time in three years, I am back on antidepressants. Given that World Mental Health Day was observed not too long ago, and that I’m quite heavily involved in Accenture’s mental health enablement initiatives in proactive “better” mental health as well as support systems for…

Mental Health

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I’m back on anti-depressants, and life is slightly less scary now

Mental Health

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Aug 25, 2014

Amazon’s Fire Phone is incredibly smart

Photo: Ariel Zambelich/WIRED Amazon’s Fire Phone is incredibly smart …and what it means for the future of smartphones The announcement of the Amazon Fire Phone is one of the most interesting technology news I’ve come across in recent times. While the jury is out on whether it will be a commercial success or not (UPDATE: recent…

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