Insights and News from the Forefront of Self-Sovereign Identity
Announcing Our Strategic Partnership with Digital Governance Institute
We are excited to announce that Northern Block has entered into a strategic partnership with Digital Governance Institute (DGI) to offer joint governance consulting services and product solutions to...
Why Northern Block is Joining the Global Acceptance Network
At Northern Block, we are thrilled to announce our participation as a founding member in the newly established Global Acceptance Network (GAN). This initiative is a crucial step towards solving one...
Should Your Digital Trust Ecosystem Care About Technical Interoperability?
Technical interoperability refers to the ability of different systems, devices, applications, or components to connect, communicate, and exchange data seamlessly and effectively. This involves...
A Summary of Internet Identity Workshop #38
(Cover image courtesy of the Decentralized Identity Foundation) Below are my personal highlights from the Internet Identity Workshop #38, which took...
How Trust Registries Prevent Fraud, Scams, and Abuse
Background In this ICANN79 presentation, Northern Block's CEO, Mathieu Glaude, delves into the critical role of trust registries in combating online...
Utilising Digital Credentials to Promote Responsible Business Conduct
Background At Northern Block, our journey toward enhancing Canadian critical mineral supply chain transparency and traceability collaboration began...
Why Trust Registries Will Accelerate the Adoption of Digital Credentials
Trust registries can quickly become a powerful tool for the discovery of services, including digital credential exchange services. There's a common...
Interoperability Update: Addition of OpenID4VC to Northern Block Products
Northern Block Product Update: Supporting Mote Credential Exchange Protocols and Credential Formats We’re excited to announce that Northern Block...
Bridging Digital Credentials and DNS to Enable Digital Trust
On October 25th 2023, I had a great time presenting at the In Cyber Forum in Montréal. I spoke about solving Security, Privacy, Authenticity and...
The Digital Universal Credential Adaptor
Note 1: Inspiration for this blog post was taken from a conversation I had with Tim Bouma about the role of digital wallets Note 2: I made some...
Unifying mDLs & Verifiable Credentials for Canadians
Northern Block and Canadian Bank Note enthusiastic about delivering a more convenient and intuitive solution for Canadian citizens, by unifying mDLs...
Leveraging DNS in Digital Trust: Credential Exchanges and Trust Registries
At Northern Block, our primary goal is to facilitate the orchestration of trust tasks as seamlessly as possible. We aim to make it easier for our...
Offering Outputs, Not Restrictions
The purpose of this blog post is to argue that, instead of expanding controls and imposing unnecessary restrictions on interactions outside their...
Prioritizing Governance Assertions Over Identity Assertions
Are there cases where focusing on governance instead of identity helps achieve our same digital trust goals, while enhancing privacy preservation?...
Seeding a Digital Trust Ecosystem (with Nancy Norris & Kyle Robinson)
 >>  Listen to this Episode On Spotify >> Listen to this Episode On Apple Podcasts About Podcast Episode Energy and Mines...
Chapter 3 – Digital Trust (from Attaining Sovereignty by Unlocking Digital Trust)
We live in an Internet environment where we lack trust due to the lack of true identities.We lightly define trust in the Preface to these...
Chapter 2 – Digital Identity (from Attaining Sovereignty by Unlocking Digital Trust)
In March 2021, the prime ministers of Estonia, Finland, Denmark and Germany called on the European Union (EU) to speed up "digital sovereignty" and...
Chapter 1 – Digital Sovereignty (from Attaining Sovereignty by Unlocking Digital Trust)
In the world of self-sovereign identity (SSI), there are various opinions about using the word sovereignty for describing the ambitions that we are...
