This article will help you understand Aave’s smart contracts and how to use them in your DeFi applications. What is DeFi? DeFi stands for Decentralized Finance, a term used to define financial technology that leverages decentralized ledgers to provide financial services without the centralized control of Banks or other financial institutes. DeFi offers…

If you have been following the news, you might have heard of something called an NFT. An NFT stands for a Non-Fungible Token and it has been a buzz recently with many businesses using NFTs to drive up customer engagement and raise capital. Dynamic NFTs are made to take NFTs…

In recent years we have seen a number of distributed ledger technologies emerge, each of these ledgers come with their own advantages and might fit certain use cases better than others, as such a need arises of being able to transact between the different ledgers. Let’s look at this with…

Introduction Before we dive into how Federated systems like OIDC and SAML along with Verifiable Credentials (VC) can help improve customer onboarding to your application, let us first understand what are the current methods being used for onboarding. Simple signup Traditionally, onboarding new customers into an application involved a sign up process, this…

Introduction — This article will help introduce the reader to concepts of JSON-LD, BBS+ signatures and how they can help in building interoperable Verifiable Credentials. JSON-LD JSON-LD stands for JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data. JSON-LD helps add context to JSON data. Let us take an example to helps us understand, say that…

A ledgerless approach to self-sovereign identity — Introduction Before beginning with KERI we need to first understand what self-sovereign identity(SSI) is and how it is implemented currently. Here is a great article explaining SSI. KERI offers a ledgerless approach for developing a self-sovereign identity solution, this includes proving ownership of the private key and key rotation without relying…

Introduction This blog aims to introduce the reader to the concept of natively implementing self-sovereign identity on Corda networks. The implementation of this work is open-source and freely available on the R3 marketplace for anyone to use or build upon. Self-sovereign identity (SSI) is a model for managing digital identities…