Streetcred ID Rebrands to Trinsic, Raises Pre-Seed Funding from Institutional Investors
After closing its fifth fund at $110 million, Kickstart Seed Fund invests in Trinsic—a SaaS platform for decentralized identity. Salt Lake City, UT / June 10, 2020 / — Streetcred ID, a SaaS platform for decentralized identity, announced today that it rebranded to the name Trinsic and closed a pre-seed funding round with institutional investors. Kickstart Seed Fund (Kickstart), […]
Closing the Digital Trust Gap During COVID-19
Along with the rest of the decentralized identity community, Trinsic celebrated the recent launch of the Trust over IP (ToIP) Foundation. This cross-sector coalition, housed under the Linux Foundation, will help define “a complete architecture for internet-scale digital trust that combines both cryptographic trust at the machine layer and human trust at the business, legal, and social layers.” Although […]
API Update: Verification Policies
Verifications are a core part of SSI. The unique value proposition of SSI is that information can be verified instantly and cryptographically, without managing multiple integrations. Recently we published an update to our platform with a new approach to verifications. Above all, this update will make verifiable credentials more intuitive and easier to use. It will […]
Digital Inclusion & COVID-19: Leaving No One Behind
We’ve heard the phrase “the world is going digital” time and time again. And it’s true! We can access our bank account on our phone. We can meet with a doctor through a video call. And due to COVID-19, many of us find ourselves in a living room instead of a conference room for work meetings. […]
Trinsic Joins Trust over IP Foundation as Founding Member
Trinsic is thrilled to announce our membership in the Trust over IP Foundation as a Founding Contributor Member. Through our involvement there, we’ll continue to help define the set of business, legal, and technical policies which will underpin trust on the internet into the future. What Does Trust over IP Mean? Trust has many different […]
Getting Essential Workers Back to Work with SSI
A Collaboration Between Trinsic and the Government of British Columbia Note: This is a demonstration intended to show the participant an example scenario involving theoretical government web services, a theoretical medical lab, and a theoretical long-term care facility. This demo was done at the Internet Identity Workshop #30 to show interoperability between two codebases, and […]
What Is Self-Sovereign Identity?
Self-sovereign identity (SSI) is a movement that claims digital identity should be just as legitimate and nuanced as a person’s human identity, while being accessible to all, privacy-preserving, and not reliant on a single government or corporation. Many have given their thoughts about this movement. Some have called it the next trillion-dollar market, while […]
Will the Dog Eat Your COVID-19 Food?
The Trinsic team has been amazed to see the response we have received from our initial call to action to build verifiable credentials solutions that will help mitigate the spread of COVID-19. We’re actively involved in several communities including the COVID-19 Credentials Initiative (CCI) and the Decentralized Identity Foundation, which have bought together experts and organizations from across the […]
Streetcred Launches Full-stack Self-Sovereign Identity Platform
Streetcred ID is thrilled to announce our full-stack self-sovereign identity platform. It includes a new mobile wallet and a free developer portal to issue verifiable credentials in less than 5 minutes. This isn’t an alpha, beta, early access program, or pre-launch. This is a production system with scores of developers and several large enterprises using it regularly. […]
