LF Decentralized Trust - Projects

Identus

Written by Hyperledger Foundation | May 22, 2024 1:35:46 PM

Type: Applications Platform

Hyperledger Identus provides components to develop decentralized identity solutions that adhere to widely recognized self-sovereign identity (SSI) standards. It offers complete DID and verifiable credential functionality and simplifies the complexities of adopting a decentralized identity solution into existing and new workflows.

Key characteristics


Hyperledger Identus uses open standards and protocols such as W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID) spec, W3C JWT, Hyperledger AnonCreds, and DIDComm v2. Open standards are for fostering collaboration, innovation, portability, and interoperability, thus facilitating technologies to work together seamlessly. This promotes a user experience that can move data and applications across different platforms and devices with a similar experience