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.
- Sidetree Development & Operating Group documentation
- WG Charter Agenda/GitHub Mailing list Slack channel (members only) WG GitHub Repos
Specs & Projects
The active work items that are underway in the DIF Sidetree Working Group
- Sidetree Protocol
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Specification, docs, and implementations for the chain/ledger-agnostic DID scaling protocol.
- ION
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An implementation of the Sidetree protocol atop the Bitcoin blockchain.
- Element
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An implementation of the Sidetree protocol using the Ethereum blockchain.
All Repositories (7)
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.

Daniel Buchner
