Every submission to the Global Digital Trust Awards 2026 is added to the public FIDES Ecosystem Explorer, helping showcase real-world digital trust implementations. 📝 Submit your use case by Aug. 20. fides.community/awards/globa...

Agne Caunt, Frederik Jacobsen, Max Coleman, and Kaliya Young reflect on DICE 2026, discussing the shift from technical specifications toward deployment, business models, business wallets, interoperability, and the future of digital identity. 🎥 youtu.be/B4eSOOTddaY

DICE 2026 Hot Takes: Adoption, Business Wallets, and the Future of Digital Identity

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The Global Digital Trust Awards 2026 recognize real-world digital trust implementations. 📝 Submit your use case: Jul 1–Aug 20 🗳️ Community voting: Aug 24–Sep 2 🏆 Awards: Sep 3 at GDC Submit your use case: fides.community/awards/globa...

Join DIF members and partner organizations at GDC 2026. Sessions will cover topics including organizational identity, EU Business Wallets, data minimization, AI, decentralized trust, and interoperability. 📍 Geneva • Sept. 1–3 globaldigitalcollaboration.org

Will you be at GDC 2026? DIF is proud to co-organize GDC, bringing together government, standards, and digital identity leaders. Join sessions from DIF members and partner organizations. 📍 Geneva • Sept. 1–3

Global Digital Collaboration Conference

Join the Global Digital Collaboration Conference (GDC26) on September 1-3, 2026 at Palexpo Geneva, Switzerland. Uniting the world for the future of digital public infrastructure.

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The did:webvh ecosystem now includes six implementations across multiple programming languages, with interoperability validated through the official did:webvh test suite. Read the full blog about it here: http://blog.identity.foundation/significant-donations-from-did-webvh-community/

Join @AgneCaunt, Frederik Jacobsen, Max Coleman, and Kaliya Young as they share their reflections on DICE 2026 and the conversations shaping digital identity in EU. 🗓️ July 28, 2026 🕧 12:30 PM UTC Check the DIF Calendar https://bit.ly/dif-group-cal, or become a DIF member to attend live!

This month's edition includes DIDComm updates, KYA-OS 1.0, upcoming events, and an AMA with Operations Manager Grace-zel Luis on working behind the scenes at DIF. Read it here: blog.identity.foundation/ama-with-gz-and-newsletter-63/

DIF will participate in #IETF126 in Vienna from 18–24 July! We’ll be participating in the usual spiffy, spicy, and whimsey working groups, but also highlighting our DIDComm research with a breakfast on the 22nd. Will you be at IETF? Reach out to @gracedao.bsky.social or @bumblefudge.com

DIDComm in the spotlight! A survey led by @LeadpointS and promoted by DIF provides a snapshot of real-world DIDComm adoption, with production deployments spanning digital identity, government services, financial services, AI agents, and more. blog.identity.foundation/who-uses-didcomm

🔥 New Hot Takes: @gracedao.bsky.social and Kyle Den Hartog debrief from the Neo-Cypherpunk Summit—why privacy is more than using DIDs, lessons from Signal's identity model, and the tension between decentralization and centralized infrastructure. @web3privacy.info  🎥

Neo-Cypherpunk Summit Hot Takes: Privacy, Decentralization, and Digital Sovereignty

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New opinion piece by Christian Saucier, co-chair of the DIF DID Methods Working Group: First-Class Identity for Digital Actors argues that DID Core already supports non-human subjects—the challenge is applying existing identity architecture to AI agents.

First-Class Identity for Digital Actors

A position paper on identity infrastructure for AI agents and other software-recognizable subjects Written by Christian Saucier, co-chair of the DID Methods Working Group Abstract AI agents and other software-defined actors are being deployed into production at a pace the identity layer beneath them cannot absorb. The

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🔥 New Hot Takes: @GraceRachmany & @by_caballero debrief from ITU Study Group 17 — Huawei's DID pilot at a major sporting event, national-scale rollouts in Korea, and why ITU wants DIDs at "legal feature parity" with 509. 👇  🎥 Watch the full session:

ITU Study Group 17 Hot Takes: DIDs, Agentic AI, and the Billion-User Scale Problem

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Leonard Rosenthol moderates "Technical Standards for AI and Multimedia Authenticity" at the AI for Good Global Summit @ITU in Geneva on 9 July. Damian Glover will also be at the summit representing DIF's work on trust and assurance. 👉 aiforgood.itu.int

Join Grace Rachmany and Kyle Den Hartog for a DIF Hot Takes session on July 6 at 8 AM UTC, where they'll share key observations on privacy-preserving AI, cryptographic infrastructure, and digital resistance networks. 🎥 @web3privacy.eurosky.social  Become a DIF member to attend live!

Join Grace Rachmany and Kyle Den Hartog for a DIF Hot Takes session on July 6 at 9 AM UTC, where they'll share key observations on privacy-preserving AI, cryptographic infrastructure, and digital resistance networks. 🎥 @web3privacy.eurosky.social  Become a DIF member to attend live!

Following an announcement that the Universal Resolver service may be discontinued, a number of DIF members formed in a Task Force that is taking over server management in the short term while developing longer-term solutions. More in the June Newsletter: blog.identity.foundation/dif-newsletter-62/

AI security, privacy-preserving technologies, digital identity, and post-quantum cryptography are shaping the next generation of trust infrastructure. 🎥 ITU SG17 Hot Takes with Grace and Juan 📍 Geneva, Switzerland 🗓 June 29, 10 AM PT / 5 PM UTC 📅

DID Recommended Methods, HATPro, Universal Resolver sustainability, and Agentic AI standards work feature prominently in this month's DIF updates. Upcoming Hot Takes from ITU SG 17, Identity Week, and the Neocypherpunk gathering. Read the full newsletter: blog.identity.foundation/dif-newsletter-62

DIF and ToIP announce the first DID methods to complete the DIF Recommended DID Methods process: did:webvh and did:webplus.  Read more: https://blog.identity.foundation/two-recommended-did-methods/

DIF Executive Director Grace (Rebecca) Rachmany joins Kaliya Young, Omer Shafiq, and Gillan Ward at #dice2026 to discuss agent identity, delegated authority, trust relationships, agent memory, and sovereignty. 📅 June 22 🕓 16:20 📍 Trifolium, Copenhagen https://lnkd.in/gf73uu_T

DIF Recommended DID Methods announced: did:webvh and did:webplus have passed the criteria to become recommended methods. Read more: blog.identity.foundation/two-recommended-did-methods/ #DID #DecentralizedIdentity #DigitalIdentity #OpenStandards #IdentityStandards

Help shape the next phase of HATPro development. We're looking for feedback from hospitality, travel, leisure, accessibility, and identity experts to help guide future priorities and development. Read more: https://bit.ly/4vcab6R #OpenSource #TravelTech #DecentralizedIdentity

DIF Announces Public Release of HATPro Schema for Hospitality, Travel, and Leisure

DIF’s Hospitality and Travel Working Group has been taking on a herculean task: creating a protocol for travelers to manage their travel preferences in a privacy-preserving way, through their digital identity apps. It’s an ambitious project, including travel preferences as diverse as food allergies all the way

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Most travel profiles barely scratch the surface. HATPro models everything from accessibility needs to more than 1,000 food and beverage ingredients. DIF's Hospitality & Travel Profile is now open for public comment and available for early PoCs and pilots bit.ly/4vQgWv4

Protocols become standards because they're used. If your organization uses DIDComm, help DIF and Leadpoint build the evidence needed to strengthen future standards efforts. Take the 5-minute survey:

DIDComm v2 Adoption Survey

This survey aims to understand the adoption and usage of DIDComm v2 across organizations globally. The results will be shared with participants (optional). Estimated time: 3–5 minutes

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Let's get DIDComm recognized as a formal internet standard. Real-world implementations are the evidence standards bodies need. If your organization uses DIDComm, help DIF and Leadpoint document adoption. Take the 5-minute survey:

DIDComm v2 Adoption Survey

This survey aims to understand the adoption and usage of DIDComm v2 across organizations globally. The results will be shared with participants (optional). Estimated time: 3–5 minutes

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How widely is DIDComm being used? Certainly more than we know. Help DIF and Leadpoint map real-world DIDComm adoption by completing this short survey. Take the 5-minute survey:

DIDComm v2 Adoption Survey

This survey aims to understand the adoption and usage of DIDComm v2 across organizations globally. The results will be shared with participants (optional). Estimated time: 3–5 minutes

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DIDComm을 사용하고 계신가요? DIF와 Leadpoint는 DIDComm의 실제 구현 사례에 대한 데이터를 수집하여 도입 현황을 더 잘 이해하고 향후 표준화 작업을 지원하고 있습니다. 5분 설문조사에 참여해 주세요:

DIDComm v2 Adoption Survey

This survey aims to understand the adoption and usage of DIDComm v2 across organizations globally. The results will be shared with participants (optional). Estimated time: 3–5 minutes

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Using DIDComm? DIF and Leadpoint are gathering data on real-world DIDComm implementations to better understand adoption and support future standards efforts. Take the 5-minute survey:

DIDComm v2 Adoption Survey

This survey aims to understand the adoption and usage of DIDComm v2 across organizations globally. The results will be shared with participants (optional). Estimated time: 3–5 minutes

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We’ve taken a clear position on AI participation in standards development. DIF now prohibits direct AI contributions to working groups, mailing lists, and repositories. Open standards require accountable humans. Read the full announcement about it: blog.identity.foundation/dif-is-for-humans/