Ontology recently partnered with German digital identity and cloud wallet provider, Spherity on advancing development on digital identity solutions for products and enterprises.
Spherity’s Cloud-Edge wallet will integrate with Ontology’s (ONT) blockchain. Ontology will use Spheriy’s Decentralized Digital Identity solutions through the partnership.
"オントロジーがSpherityと提携し、デジタルIDソリューションを推進" 日本語記事を更新☝ オントロジーは、ドイツの分散型デジタルIDを専門するSpherityとの業務提携を発表しました。 詳細はこちらよりご覧ください☟✨https://t.co/HuJRYP37Te — Ontology (オントロジー日本公式) (@OntologyJP) May 17, 2020
The two firms will work together on creating proof-of-concept pilots demonstrating applications for digital identity within the context of supply chain, mobility, and pharmaceuticals.
The collaboration will also focus on research and marketing initiatives.
Spherity CEO, Dr. Carsten Stöcker says that most of the investment, research, and development into blockchain-based identity solutions is not directed at identifying individual citizens:
“[B]lockchains and distributed ledgers are mostly used to encode a myriad of other forms of information that goes into tracking goods and value as it moves across the planet..The technologies that we call identity systems don’t just identify individual citizens and correlate their legal, financial lives with their digital lives – they also identify machines, autonomous algorithms, corporate entities, product information, licenses, and many other things that need a strong identity and signing rights to enter into this system of auditable, yet private transaction information.”
Stöcker added:
“There are millions of use-cases that have nothing to do with KYC or human identity of any kind, and even in the KYC space there are many ways to build in pseudonymity, revocable anonymity, disposable identities, and other capabilities beyond merely asking crypto users to show their papers and peg their digital lives to their status as subjects in a nation-state,”
Ontology co-founder, Andy Ji, stated that the firms “are looking for partners to build a proof of concept showing end-to-end traceability of manufactured goods from birth in an Asian factory to sale in the European market.”
Andy further adds:
“Most likely, this would take the form of a Chinese manufacturer already using other Ontology services to make their transactions more auditable, and a German import sector with very high regulatory compliance needs or facing reputational risks.”
The partnership will also allow both firms to access new markets, with Ontology having an established foothold in Asia while Spherity having a European presence, particularly within Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.
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