Overview
selfdriven ID is a curated online portal that collects self-sovereign identity (SSI) resources — frameworks, specifications, research papers, protocols, and partner organisations — in one place for people exploring digital identity on Cardano. It is maintained by the selfdriven Foundation as the identity-facing surface of a broader group working on community-run learning, health, and cooperative projects. Visitors use it as a starting map rather than a product to sign up for1.
The site groups links by purpose so a newcomer can move from high-level concepts to technical specifications without hunting across the web. It sits alongside sibling properties for the foundation itself, a community hub, a services arm, and an SSI interface app, but selfdriven ID is the one focused squarely on identity reading and reference material.
Key Features
- Curated identity reading list. Direct links to SSI primers, two published books on decentralised identity, Trust Over IP protocol drafts, and a Cardano Foundation research paper on digital trust infrastructure2.
- KERI-focused explainers. In-house pages describe how Key Event Receipt Infrastructure relates to traditional blockchain-anchored identity, to AI agents, to Cardano's transaction model, and to the privacy-oriented Midnight network1.
- Pointers to working identity tools. External links to the Veridian wallet from Cardano Foundation, to Hyperledger Identus, to the MOSIP national-ID stack, and to FIDO2 sign-in standards.
- Organisational affiliations listed openly. Membership in the KERI Foundation and references to Trust Over IP and the Decentralized Identity Foundation signal where the maintainers align in the wider identity community.
- Original research on agency. A paper introduces two primitives — selfoid (the human-rooted root of intent) and octoid (contextual, scoped identities derived from it) — framing identity as something a person generates per context rather than owns as a single label3.
What to Expect
A first-time visitor lands on a plain directory page, organised under headings such as Frameworks, Learn, Research, Tech, Protocols, and Organisations. Each heading is a short bulleted list of outbound links. The design is intentionally minimal — no app, no wallet connection, no sign-up.
Readers who want depth can follow the internal pages on SSI and KERI, which explain the concepts in plain language and sketch how they fit with Cardano wallets, AI agents, and privacy-focused systems. A research section hosts original papers from the foundation, including the selfoid-to-octoid model.
Readers exploring other parts of the Cardano identity space can use selfdriven ID as a jumping-off point toward identity wallets like Veridian, toward the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation for organisational identity, and toward broader standards bodies. Anyone looking for a product surface — creating a credential, issuing a soulbound token, or running a community workflow — should follow the outbound links to sibling selfdriven properties or to the tools it references, rather than expecting those flows on selfdriven ID itself. The value here is reading and orientation, not transaction.
