What Is Affinidi?
Affinidi, founded by Temasek, is a global investment firm headquartered in Singapore. It specializes in creating and sharing digital identities, credentials and data for individuals & organizations.
Affinidi, founded by Temasek, is a global investment firm headquartered in Singapore. It specializes in creating and sharing digital identities, credentials and data for individuals & organizations.
GoodWorker is a digital job matching platform for blue-collar workers and employers in India Trustana is a curated B2B marketplace and trade platform connecting verifiable, international partners for seamless cross-border trade.
A self-sovereign identity (SSI) allows a person, organization or machine to generate and completely control a digital identity without the need for the permission of an intermediary or a central party. It also allows control over usage and sharing of one’s personal data.
Users exist independently
Users are in control of their identity
Users have access to their data
Transparency of the system and algorithms
Long-lived identities
Information and services must be portable
Identity should be distributed as large as possible
Users must agree to the use of their data
Disclosure of complaints or claims is minimized
Users exist independently
Users exist independently
Users are in control of their identity
Users have access to their data
Transparency of the system and algorithms
Long-lived identities
Information and services must be portable
Identity should be distributed as large as possible
Users must agree to the use of their data
Disclosure of complaints or claims is minimized
Users exist independently
Our partners from Affinidi came to us and asked to make a decentralized secure chat for them on Storj, for internal use. The creation of the chat became the reason for further research work, and our partners asked us to create a full-fledged decentralized network providing services for decentralized data storage, as well as computing and using nodes. Chat has thus become just a use case for this supposed network. We created a version of the chat in several programming languages, and then our customers decided to look at the existing decentralized solutions.
They were actually nodes – servers connected to a network – on which we uploaded our own code, which was quite simple, but allowed us to create some applications. We are currently testing these decentralized networks and building chat applications on them. What kind of testing are we talking about? For example, service discovery is the process of "entering" a new node into the network. That is, we have to find a network participant, tell him, “I want to become a new participant,” and this network participant using the algorithm code will notify the other participants about my presence in the network.
We have worked with Affinidi products like Trustana and Good Worker. Trustana marketplace is based on the Affinidi SDK, which we created even before Affinidi was founded as a part of our other project – Bloom Protocol. We have implemented a couple of interesting cases based on the Affinidi SDK. For example, now all the test data for COVID-19 that people take in Singapore is immediately entered into the blockchain using the Affinidi SDK.
We have also developed a dedicated Singapore Airlines dashboard that allows people to keep
track of their COVID test status. In this case, SSI principles are also used.
