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SSI: The Trillion
Dollar Business
Opportunity
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Drummond Reed, Chief
Trust Officer Evernym
Chris Spanton, Principal
Architect—Blockchain,
T-Mobile
Vaughan Emery, CEO of
Datafi Labs

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1. Empower global SSI communities
2. Open to everyone interested in SSI
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SSI: The Trillion
Dollar Business
Opportunity
This presentation is released under a Creative Commons license. (CC BY-SA 4.0). SSIMeetup.org
Drummond Reed, Chief
Trust Officer Evernym
Chris Spanton, Principal
Architect—Blockchain,
T-Mobile
Vaughan Emery, CEO of
Datafi Labs

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Digital Identity Is Needed
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Current state of Information Technology:
● User Id and passwords are too easily compromised
● The global datashere is growing faster each year
● The number of connected devices increasing
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IDC Global DataSphere Reports
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Digital Identity Is Needed - The Data Problem
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175 billion terabytes
of new data created annually
by 2025 1
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IDC Global DataSphere Reports
We Are Here
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Digital Identity Is Needed - The Data Problem
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2018 Enterprise
Datasphere by
Industry (Exabytes)
Annual Data
Growth Rate of The
Top Five Industries
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IDC Global DataSphere Reports
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Digital Identity Is Needed - The Device Problem
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150 billion endpoints
connected and accessing this
data by 2025
Things Contributing To
The Data Growth 1
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IDC Global DataSphere Reports
“That’s about ~20 connected
devices per person”
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Data and Identity Theft Increasing
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12,499 Data Breaches
reported in 2018 - this is 424%
increase over 2017 1
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4iQ Identity Breach Report 2019
World’s Biggest Data Breaches & Hacks: http://informationisbeautiful.net
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Data and Identity Theft Increasing
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14.9 Billion Identity Records
circulating on the dark web - this is
a 71% increase over 2017
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4iQ Identity Breach Report 2019
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Where Do We Go From Here
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The use of Digital Identities is viewed
by many as one of the primary methods
to counter the cybersecurity trends
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4iQ Identity Breach Report 2019
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SSI in 3 Easy Steps

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#1: Centralized Identity
OrgYou
Account
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#2: Federated Identity
OrgYou
Identity
ProviderAccount
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#3: Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)
PeerYou
Blockchain
Connection
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#3: Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)
Blockchain
Connection
Digital Wallet
w/ Private Keys
& Credentials
Digital Wallet
w/ Private Keys
& Credentials
Your Agent Peer Agent
Public Key Public KeyDIDDID
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Solves the decentralized PKI (public key infrastructure) problem
#3: Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)
Blockchain
Connection
Digital Wallet
w/ Private Keys
& Credentials
Digital Wallet
w/ Private Keys
& Credentials
Your Agent Peer Agent
Public Key Public KeyDIDDID
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In essence, SSI is…
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Verifiable Credentials

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W3C Verifiable Credentials Ecosystem
Holder/
Prover
Issuer Verifier
Issues
Credential
Presents
Proof
Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)
Public Blockchain or other DID Network
Signs
Credential
Verifies
Signature
Wallet
Requests
Credential
Requests
Proof
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The Trust Triangle
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Governance Frameworks
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The SSI Stack

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Where’s the code?

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The Hyperledger Greenhouse
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Questions?
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Drummond Reed, Chief
Trust Officer Evernym
Chris Spanton, Principal
Architect—Blockchain,
T-Mobile
Vaughan Emery, CEO of
Datafi Labs