Please describe your proposed solution.
RootsID was funded in Catalyst Fund 8, to engage SSI working groups, specifications, and leadership in order to cross-pollenate SSI standards and Cardano's incredible community. We will continue to improve on these relationships in the following ways:
- In order to maintain a regular Cardano/Prism/Catalyst voice at the leading SSI working groups, we will continue attending over 10 SSI working group meetings in the Trust over IP (ToIP), Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) and Hyperledger (HL) communities. Some of the groups call us the 'Cardano people' as we continue to make them aware of Cardano, Atala Prism, and Catalyst.
- By continuing to participate in these ToIP/DIF/HL spec and working group meetings we have the opportunity to stand on the shoulders of giants in the industry, but also make these SSI leaders aware of Catalyst/Atala Prism progress. We are able to contribute to these evolving spec/tools, so that our Catalyst/Atala Prism voices can be heard!
- We will continue to produce a weekly blog/vlog from these working groups and detail how Cardano/Prism/Catalyst can benefit from these specs/tools. We will also detail and produce identity software (like RootsWallet) with features that enable interoperability with the wider identity ecosystem.
Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.
Decentralized digital identity should be free to interact with any ecosystem that supports the specifications that keep it self-sovereign and controlled by only the identity owner(s). Therefore, Self-Sovereign identity requires strong specifications in order to allow decentralized digital identities to interoperate across blockchains and identity ecosystems.
By engaging and shaping SSI specs and leadership, we will help Cardano be at the forefront of SSI cross-chain interoperability. This will allow many non-Cardano identity users to engage with Cardano identity users. We are confident that more users and services will flock to the superior qualities of Cardano.
At the same time, we'll be bringing the best technology that the SSI community has to offer back into the Cardano ecosystem. We'll do this by educating people through our vlog and by implementing open source SSI software that anyone can use freely.
RootsID believes this combination of community and software will accelerate Cardano's participation in cross-chain identity.
What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?
Our efforts have been encouraged by so many in the Catalyst, Atala Prism, and open source communities that we are confident that our successes and challenges will be worked through together.
- The main risk/opportunity is the rapidly evolving identity ecosystem. Atala Prism is rapidly growing and we are closely working with them. It is a symbiotic relationship that requires attention and effort from both sides. We are building an amazing ecosystem together that is young with many unknowns for Cardano, Atala Prism, and RootsWallet to navigate.
- Another risk is that Lance is the only RootsID team member working on this proposal. If he is unable to perform the work, RootsID would need to hire some one else to do it.