UnitedHealth Group Reports Massive Data Breach Impacting One-Third of Americans Here we go again..... Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, the largest health insurer in the U.S., just revealed to a congressional committee that a significant data breach had occurred. The intrusion
Introducing SSI SDK We are very excited to announce the SSI SDK [https://github.com/hellobloom/ssi-sdk]! This is a monorepo that contains all of Bloom's SSI related libraries. The SSI SDK provides everything
How Molecule Protocol uses Bloom for Decentralized Exchange Compliance & True Self-Sovereign Identity The Molecule Protocol demonstrates a powerful 2021 rendition of the utility and benefits offered in multi-signature technology in the cryptocurrency space. In multi-signature cryptocurrency wallets, the hashed signatures of multiple addresses are required
How TrafiGuard uses Bloom to Provide SME Financing on the Blockchain Many global small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have limited access to financing which creates an uneven playing field for those who cannot acquire traditional data. Those outside the US struggle to finance their
Announcing the Winners of Our 2021 R&D Grants Last month we announced [https://bloom.co/blog/2021-community-grants/] new community grants totaling 40 ETH toward the exploration, research and development across three important topics. We received an incredible number of submissions from
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
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 Lending Decentralized 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
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.
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
