Dear Sovrin Community,

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the July edition of the Sovrin Newsletter.
Days are longer and warmer, excitement of Euros is about to be replaced with excitement of the Olympics and Sovrin is growing stronger and maturing at an amazing speed. We are almost five years old! Can you believe it?! They say Blockchain years are like donkey years, and as with any teenager we had to go through some pains of growing up. As you will see from the newsletter, we are in a really good spot now. We had the pleasure of welcoming three new board members - Line Kofoed and Darrell O’Donnel. Meanwhile, Daniel Hardman took the role of the Chair of the Technical Governing Board, and I was humbled to be chosen as the new Chair of the Trustees. 

In notable events, we will be glad to hear you and see you at the August Community Call, and the Committees and Working Groups are producing some incredible content. Speaking of which - the Board would be glad to hear your thoughts on where should Sovrin focus our efforts - are there Working Groups we should be facilitating? Events we should be hosting? Maybe you would like to see more educational content? Recently a few people mentioned some kind of Experience and Knowledge sharing platform - do you think Sovrin is the right community to host it? The board’s main objective for the next several months is increasing transparency and making sure every voice is heard. So: head over to our Slack and share your thoughts there, join our August call and email chair@sovrin.org if you would like to get involved - there is plenty to do!

See you soon!
 

Marta Piekarska-Geater,

Chair
Sovrin Foundation

Sovrin Board gearing up for celebrating 5 years Sovrin

Stephen Curran shares new release Hyperledger Aries 

• Support for W3C Standard Verifiable Credentials based on JSON-LD using LD-Signatures and BBS+ Signatures, contributed by Animo Solutions - #1061
• Present Proof V2 including support for DIF Presentation Exchange - #1125
• Pluggable DID Resolver (with a did:web resolver) with fallback to an external DID universal resolver, contributed by Indicio - #1070
• Alpha support for the Indy/Aries Shared Components (indy-vdr, indy-credx and aries-askar), which enable running ACA-Py without using Indy-SDK, while still supporting the use of Indy as a ledger, and Indy AnonCreds verifiable credentials #1267
• Updates and extensions to ledger transaction endorsement via the Sign Attachment Protocol, contributed by AyanWorks - #1134, #1200
• Upgrades to Demos to add support for Credential Exchange 2.0 and W3C Verifiable Credentials #1235

Join the Board of Trustee Community call
August 4th, 4PM UTC

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