Ankur Banerjee 🆔
@ankurb
CTO/cofounder @cheqd_io & @creds_xyz: building secure & private digital 🆔 with payment rails. Ex @FinTechLabLDN, @inside_r3, @Accenture, @StackTravel (he/him)
LinkedIn badly needs verified job histories
LinkedIn needs verifiable #TrustedData job history...a green/blue tick equivalent to confirm whether an individual has *actually* worked at a company.
The crazy thing is, @LinkedIn is owned by @Microsoft, which already *owns* the email address service in many companies 🤯
twitter.com/fraser_again/status/1641395219286376449
I got contacted by one of recruiters today, saying they wanted a reference from me about an engineer who says they worked @cheqd_io "between May-Dec 2021".
That would have made him the 3rd employee on the team, after me and @fraser_again. One would hope I'd have noticed that. 🙃
What NOT to do when deleting your LastPass account...
🚨 PSA: If you're migrating away from @LastPass due to their security breach, don't do this, i.e., delete items from your vault and keep your account around. theverge.com/2022/12/28/23529547/lastpass-vault-breach-disclosure-encryption-cybersecurity-rebuttal?commentID=fdda8faa-b276-4244-9dcd-292fcded4456
This does NOT guarantee that it will be deleted! 😟 (And what you SHOULD do instead 🧵)
Thoughts on "Has SSI’s Identity Problem been Solved?"
This is a solid blog post on the identity crisis #SSI industry itself faces, from @rileyphughes. 👌🏾 (Discussion on that thread is very valuable too, for different perspectives.)
It's a challenge we've been mulling over @cheqd_io as well. Some of my own thoughts below (unordered)
twitter.com/rileyphughes/status/1595064056993681408?s=20&t=J_wAhAwnJDtpYOfUgucMlA
1️⃣ "IDtech" is overly-broad. It covers what we know as "self-sovereign identity", "SSI", or "Web5"...but it *also* covers traditional selfie-scan-check (e.g., Onfido, Jumio), single sign-on (e.g., Auth0, Okta, Microsoft AD).
Looking at privacy tech through the lens of sex/drugs education
Privacy-preserving (and digital identity) tech needs to become a lot more like sex education or drug education campaigns. This thought came to me during #RWOT11 @WebOfTrustInfo
A lot of digital identity and privacy is fear-based, on how Bad Things Can Happen With Your Data.
Network-wide validator status monitoring for Cosmos SDK
🚨 We built a network-wide validator status monitoring tool for @Cosmos SDK chains that can monitor for validators that have missed too many blocks, and are likely to get jailed.
Check out the code on @cheqd_io's GitHub 👉 github.com/cheqd/validator-status
Here's how we went about it...
Why TBD's vision of "Web5" matters
Many hot-takes in the past 24h of #Consensus2022 have been along the lines of "haha what is #web5 anyway is this a Fibonacci sequence 🫠"
You can hate the game behind buzzword bingo, but THIS is why you should pay attention to @blocks' announcement 🧵👇🏽
twitter.com/TBD54566975
"#Web3" is only really decentralised when it comes to financial assets, and even then it can often be limited. Yes, you can theoretically access your crypto/NFT wallet in "any" supported app.
But once you start considering anything more complex than "token", this is hard 😔
Moonshot idea for the next IIW 35
🚨 Moonshot idea to get DONE by the NEXT @idworkshop... 🚨
Self-sovereign ID credentials should be used as tickets for the #IIW event in November this year 🚀
That's 6 months' time. We spend so much time competing with each other, that we sometimes forget to play nice 🤝
Summary of cheqd's identity wallet demo at #IIW
😎 Try out the @cheqd_io demo yourself, get a Verifiable Credential for #IIW 34, and read more about the background for how we built this... twitter.com/ankurb/status/1519414834080763909
💡 Our starting principle for this #IIW demo: we wanted to build a non-custodial wallet, which works in a browser.
⚠️ A lot of identity wallets are "custodial" (on browser, mobile, desktop), i.e., they rely on having a 3rd party hold / operate actual credential interactions.
Quite often, this is due to technical requirements on software libraries that can *only* work on specific OSes.
🧵 Thread
It's been a HUGE quarter for the @cheqd team: We’ve upgraded our network’s identity features, bridged to Ethereum, plus much more… 🚀
blog.cheqd.io/q1-round-up-from-cheqd-weve-upgraded-our-network-s-identity-features-bridged-to-ethereum-and-4012aacfc5b6
🤓 We published a meta-analysis of the size of the self-sovereign identity industry which got picked up by @business and @thefintechtimes cheqd.io/press/cheqd-meta-analysis-finds-the-self-sovereign-identity-market-is-worth-over-550-billion