Sidetree

Working Group

aka: Sidetree

Scope of Work

The development and maintenance of the formal Sidetree specification, and a hub of coordination for Sidetree-based DID Method node operators. This group also generates libraries, tooling, and documentation to aid Sidetree-based DID Method node operators.

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Specs & Projects

The active work items that are underway

Sidetree Protocol

Specification, docs, and implementations for the chain/ledger-agnostic DID scaling protocol.

ION

An implementation of the Sidetree protocol atop the Bitcoin blockchain.

Element

An implementation of the Sidetree protocol using the Ethereum blockchain.

All Repositories (7)
element
DID Method implementation using the Sidetree protocol on top of Ethereum and IPFS
 ion
The Identity Overlay Network (ION) is a DID Method implementation using the Sidetree protocol atop Bitcoin
 ion-integration-test
An integration test script that helps verify that the sidetree microservices are working properly.
 ion-sdk
TypeScript SDK for ION
 ion-tools
Tools and utilities to make working with the ION network and using ION DIDs easy peasy lemon squeezy
 sidetree
Sidetree Specification and Reference Implementation
 sidetree-ipfs-datastores
Implementations of IPFS datastore used by sidetree-ipfs microservice

Chairs

The following DIF members lead the work in this group, contact them for more info on the projects, specs, and development happening within.