Announcing the Winners of Our 2021 R&D Grants Last month we announced new community grants totaling 40 ETH toward the exploration, research and development across three important topics. We received an incredible number of submissions from our community and pored over
How Bloom is Bridging the Gap Between DeFi and Decentralized Identity Bloom's CTO Isaac Patka recently gave a talk at ETHDenver 2021 in which he discussed the co-evolution of the DeFi and Decentralized Identity spaces; and how Bloom is bridging the gap between them.
How SSI Can Make Any Platform a 'Super App' Companies spend a combined $19 billion annually acquiring and analyzing consumer data. This data allows companies to make more informed decisions, increasing customer engagement, unlocking additional revenues. However, the long-held belief was that
Using Identity Management to Expand DeFi Lending Capabilities Issues with DeFi LendingDecentralized finance (DeFi) lending applications have taken the cryptocurrency space by storm. They represent over 49% of the total locked value of all DeFi applications. Despite their record growth and
Announcing New Bloom Community Grants for 2021 Bloom is happy to announce that we'll be offering funds for research and development grants to the crypto community to collaborate on some exciting new initiatives to benefit the crypto ecosystem. With these
Evolution of Decentralized Identity - Collaboration & Global Impact Decentralized identity has matured as foundations, working groups, and consortiums emerged to align standards across companies. However it has diverged significantly from the early days when it was closely aligned with the Ethereum
Roadmap to Unsecured DeFi Lending and Credit Scoring We believe the decentralized identity layer is finally mature enough to enable the next phase of development in DeFi. In an upcoming series of posts we will dive into the components that need
How To Protect Administration Panels and Dashboards with Bloom Possibly the best method of securing an administration panel today is to use a decentralized identity platform for authentication. Let's see how it's done.
How To: Verified Dating Profiles using Bloom People have experienced issues verifying the identity of potential dating matches for years. It is impossible to know if the person you're messaging is the love of your life or a scammer. With Verifiable Credentials like email, phone number and ID documents, BloomID can help solve all of that.
This Week in Data Breaches: The Great Twitter Hack The crypto scam turned out to be part of a massive coordinated hack affecting dozens of major Twitter accounts with millions of followers, the largest security breach in the company’s history.