Verifiable Credential
VC
A verifiable credential is a signed statement from an issuer about a subject. It gives a verifier something more specific to inspect than a screenshot or an assertion passed along without its source.
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A Useful Token Must First Stand for Something of Real Value
AI services already use credits to meter storage, compute, and API calls. As Agents begin to act across systems, the important work is not giving those units a fashionable name. It is making the rights, authority, and usage they represent possible to verify and reconcile.
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Enhancing Security with Email Verification Across Our Services
We are pleased to announce a significant update aimed at bolstering security across all our online services. As part of our ongoing commitment to prov
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ArcBlock Testified in Support of WA Blockchain Bills
(Olympia, Washington) Jan 12. ArcBlock and members of the Cascadia Blockchain Council testified today in supporting of two WA Blockchain Bills:SB 5534
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Six major relationships of NFTs and their vast universe
Author: Robert Mao (Chief Architect and CEO of ArcBlock)NFT has gone through a long process to become a "new thing".Although NFT (Non-Fungible Token)
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ABT Universal Resolver for Self-Sovereign Identity
Author: Matt McKinney - ArcBlock VP of MarketingArcBlock continues to expand the accessibility and use cases for identity-driven applications and its
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Blockchain Technologists Launch Initiative to Build Passports for COVID-19 Immunes
Author: Rebbeca RenMedia: PingWestDate: 04/27/2020The unprecedented partnership between Apple and Google on Covid-19 contact tracing was one of the fi
Products
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ArcWallet
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Create and manage a digital identity (DID) and its associated credentials in one app.
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DID Connect
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The part of the DID protocol an application uses to ask someone to sign in or present a credential, including alongside third-party accounts.
Documentation
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Blockchain Guide
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ArcBlock Blockchain User Guide: Functions and Help Instructions.
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DID Connect Guide
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The open protocol and development kit for connecting users and dapps.
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DID Wallet Guide
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DID Wallet: Supports multiple chains, integrates identity and asset management.
Terms
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Agent
A useful system can distinguish the person, service, or agent taking an action; the party it represents; and the permission for that action. Treating all three as one shared secret makes a later decision harder to explain.
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Blockchain
A distributed ledger that links records cryptographically and uses shared validation and consensus rules to establish an accepted transaction history.
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DID
A DID is a digital identifier. It helps its holder and a verifier establish who controls an identity and who a claim relates to. It is not a wallet, and it does not replace application accounts, sign-in methods, or permission rules.
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did:abt
ArcBlock’s DID method, using the did:abt: namespace to identify accounts, assets and other objects. Resolution requires support for this method.
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Self-Sovereign Identity
The position that a person should hold their own identifiers and credentials and decide each time what to disclose. It is a stance about who is in control, not a protocol; decentralized identity is how it gets built.