In one week, the team moved a whole digital-identity ecosystem forward — from the cryptographic engine room to the apps in your pocket. Here's the plain-English tour of what got built, what's new, and why it matters.
Imagine an internet where you own your ID — not a username a company hands you, but a tamper-proof digital credential you carry in your own wallet. You prove who you are, share only the details you choose, and join trusted communities where membership is cryptographically provable instead of being a name on someone's server list. That's what these projects build, layer by layer.
A Verifiable Trust Community (VTC) is a members-only group where everyone carries a tamper-proof digital membership card they fully own. The big milestone this week: the team closed the join loop end-to-end — a community can invite a complete stranger, that person holds the invite privately, presents it to apply, and the community automatically issues a membership credential on approval.
OpenVTC is the free, open front door to this world: a "Know Your Developer" tool that lets people prove they're real and join trusted communities without any central authority vouching for them. The headline change this week makes one account able to belong to many communities at once — each with its own identity, so your activity isn't silently linked across them.
A single rework (~6,100 lines across 51 files) lets you belong to many VTCs simultaneously. Per community, you choose to mint a fresh identity or reuse one — and you're warned when reuse links you.
Every community in one place: status, "member since" date, an "action needed" badge, star-to-favourite, and a quick switcher. Join requests stay live in a Pending state and auto-expire after 7 days.
Membership rests on real people vouching for real people — a "personhood" badge plus peer-to-peer "I vouch for this person" credentials — not a company's permission.
A full design spec settled 17 decisions, including nested "sub-communities" up to 8 levels deep, enforced by the trust authority.
From the deepest cryptography to the app on your phone. Each card: what it is, what shipped this week, and the fun stat.
did:webvh IDs so they stay reliably look-up-able and honest.Holding, presenting & issuing credentials you control — the personal data wallet came to life.
Invite → hold → present → join, with rules you author visually instead of in code.
Multi-device control plus phone-based biometric approval for the riskiest actions.
Selective disclosure, unlinkable pseudonyms, removed vulnerable dependencies, audit prep.
You own your credentials and reveal only what's necessary — stronger privacy, far less data exposure.
Onboarding becomes a trustworthy, automated flow; access is cryptographically provable, with no stale lists.
The most dangerous actions now demand strong, phone-based approval — shrinking the blast radius of a stolen password.