Open Source in Finance Forum New York 2022

Digital wallets are secure places where we can keep money, IDs, and credentials. More generally, they can be the convenient interface we feel comfortable to keep & manage all types of digital assets or any confidential or valuable data. How can such universal wallets be realized? How can these wallets from different vendors and/or industries be universally interoperable over the Internet/web in the same way the Internet/web itself is universally accessible? In this talk, Wenjing will lead a discussion on this vision of trust over the whole Internet/web, what tremendous benefits - financially and socially - it can bring, and most importantly, how we can achieve it through an Internet inspired architecture and open source. Prominent open source implementations & community specs, e.g. DIDcommv2, KERI, DWP/Web5 (TBDex), libp2p, Indy/Aries, OpenID/FIDO etc. will be presented as case studies to demonstrate path for interoperability based on this architecture. We can have the cake and eat it too.