General Motors Financial has partnered with blockchain startup Spring Labs on solutions for identity verification.
With many decentralized-identity efforts facing adoption challenges, Glyph's first step – accredited-investor checks – is intentionally niche.
Blockchain startup Civic has hired Apple veteran Phillip Shoemaker as executive director of Identity.com.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is seeking to fund anti-counterfeiting solutions from blockchain startups with grants of up to $800,000.
The crypto unicorn is currently exploring decentralized-identity solutions, an effort that's playing out against a broader push to give users more control over their data.
An Abu Dhabi financial center and KPMG say they have successfully completed a trial of a blockchain-based know-your-customer application.
South Korea's National Election Commission says it is building a blockchain-based voting platform to be trialed in December.
Swiss Federal Railways has trialed a blockchain-based credentials management system for construction workers.
Cryptocurrency exchanges will likely have to reckon with VPN access as part of any regulatory or law enforcement actions for market manipulation.
Malaysia's education ministry has formed a new consortium of universities to issue and verify degrees on the NEM blockchain.
Microsoft is moving to turn blockchain-based decentralized identity from a lofty aspiration into a business line, with two products in the works.
Two UN entities are working with a tech startup to provide Sierra Leone a blockchain-based credit and identity platform for banking services.
Privacy-focused internet browser Brave will use Civic's identity verification services to ensure that publishers are paid for their content.
Bitcoin apostate Mike Hearn and his R3 colleague Richard Gendal Brown view the enterprise blockchain game as, if not quite zero-sum, something close.
Digital security firm Gemalto is teaming up blockchain startup R3 to pilot a new platform aimed to bring digital identities closer to the mainstream.