Identity and Authentication

Focus: Participant identification and access control. Establishing and verifying the identities of participants, nodes, or services.

Objective: Ensure that entities interacting within the crosschain environment are who they claim to be, and prevent unauthorized or malicious actors from participating in the system. Enable decentralized identity and authentication across chains.

Description: This layer provides the tools and protocols to establish digital identities, manage credentials, and authenticate participants. Provides decentralized identity standards, tools, and protocols that allow reliable identification and authentication of participants across multiple interconnected blockchains. Ensure a secure, trustworthy, and compliant crosschain ecosystem, where participants' identities are verifiable and interactions are authenticated.

Layer owner: Decentralized identity foundations, developers.

Some key aspects:

• Decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials

• Shared identity hubs across chains

• Interoperable identity lifecycle management

• Cross-chain identity ownership and portability

• Authentication using zero-knowledge proofs

• Mapping centralized identities to decentralized ones

• Interoperability with traditional authentication systems

• Aligning with regulatory identity requirements