Any web developer knows the drill: In order to access an API, you need an API-Key. — This is true for e.g. Google Maps (or any other service) and has been copied by more decentralized services like The Graph Protocol. As the application developer, it is your responsibility to create an API Key which grants access to the service and allows assigning the queries to your account. …

I never thought I would feel this way, but today I considered switching from GMail to Outlook.com because the latter is the underdog. I’m a child of the 80’s an Micro$oft was the ruling force in software for most of my IT life. They’re still a formidable power house with…

Everyone is talking about self-sovereign identities (SSIs) and how they allow users to control their data and identity. We at Energy Web believe that this is only the first step in the journey to a decentralized application landscape. Indeed, being able to authenticate with a certificate has been possible for…

Decentralized Identities (DID) sometimes referred to as Self Sovereign Identities (SSI) are more efficient and provide more functionality than current digital forms of identification like Google or Apple logins. Specifically, DID puts the user back in charge of their data. The concept is hard to grasp and the advantages can…

It appears that the grace period for crypto is drawing to an end. The Financial Stability Board has noticed stable coins and it is only a matter of time before other regulators notice it too. What does this mean for crypto? …

As the global electricity sector continues its decentralization—with massive proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs) such as smart thermostats, behind-the-meter batteries, and electric vehicles—we saw a rapidly growing need to manage user and device identities on the Energy Web Chain and related applications as part of our EW-DOS technology stack…

In our previous post about sending Dai between chains we did not mention smart-contracts. We showed how to send Dai from an account on Kovan to the same account on Tobalaba. This does not work if your tokens sit in a multi-sig smart-contract or are held by a uPort identity. Registering address pairs …

One of the biggest challenges at the interface of crypto-world and real life applications is the neat solution of payment with “stable coins” to avoid volatility for end users. In our Share&Charge solution this would make charging of electric vehicles tremendously easier compared to the status quo with different settlement…

TLDR: If you need to prove that your time is correct or you’re providing all the data. We’ve all seen, in the blockchain community at least, the decision trees to help decide wether your project needs a blockchain or not. I would like to give it a try too. …