Decentralization

Organize your most important assets making them discoverable and verifiable using the groundbreaking decentralized network.

Graph databases and knowledge graphs, in particular, have seen an uptick in interest among CIOs, digital transformation managers and…

In its rawest form, a decentralized application is any app that runs on a connected network of compute resources, but our modern notion of decentralized applications (or DApps) is one where apps run on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network of computers, often now under the purview of a blockchain -- so how will these technologies work in practice, when attempting to exchange data for working applications?

Visions s’investit dans la création d’une infrastructure de données ouverte, éthique et décentralisée.

A new report on self-sovereign identity, design principles, and property rights in the developing world.

This post intends to give the reader a perspective on how Jolocom brings trusted data sharing to IoT (AGILE is a H2020 project). It should…

Technological decentralization cannot be put into practice successfully without the appropriate decentralized governance structures supporting it.

Providing IT managers with tools and technologies for controlling user access to critical information within an organization.

This document serves as an official registry for all known global parameters, properties, and values used by the Decentralized Identifier ecosystem.

Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity. A DID refers to any subject (e.g., a person, organization, thing, data model, abstract entity, etc.) as determined by the controller of the DID. In contrast to typical, federated identifiers, DIDs have been designed so that they may be decoupled from centralized registries, identity providers, and certificate authorities. Specifically, while other parties might be used to help enable the discovery of information related to a DID, the design enables the controller of a DID to prove control over it without requiring permission from any other party. DIDs are URIs that associate a DID subject with a DID document allowing trustable interactions associated with that subject.

Solid is an ambitious project to decentralize the web and bring control of personal data back to a person. It flys in the face of many…

Ethereum-based Decentralized Identity Specs, Literature, (d)Apps, and GitHub Repositories.

Meant to provide a high-level view of the Self Sovereign Decentralized Identity landscape.

By John Belizaire, CEO at Soluna

Blockchain has become very popular and suitable to the Internet of Things (IoT) field due to its nontamperability and decentralization properties. The number of IoT devices and leaders (who own IoT devices) is increased exponentially, and thus, data privacy and security are undoubtedly significant concerns. In this paper, we summarize some issues for the BeeKeeper system, a blockchain-based IoT system, proposed by Zhou et al., and then aim for presenting an improved solution for decentralized data aggregation (DDA) on IoT. Firstly, we formally state the security requirements of DDA. Secondly, we propose our basic DDA system by using secret sharing to improve its efficiency and smart contracts as the computing processors. Moreover, the proposed full-fledged system achieves data sharing (e.g., a leader to access data of others’ devices), which is realized by using local differential privacy and cryptographic primitives such as token-based encryption. Finally, to show the feasibility, we provide some implementations and experiments for the DDA systems.

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Learn how to create Dapps using Python

RSK is the first open source Smart Contract platform secured by the Bitcoin Network. RSK adds value and expand functionality to the Bitcoin ecosystem by providing smart contracts and greater scalability.

Discover what Dapps are and explore their most promising use cases with Itransition.

Ethereum has played an important role in driving wider adoption of blockchain technology, with their Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and smart contracts.