CheckD Early Access at Espresso Hackathon

Dataswyft welcomes the Espresso project team to the HATLAB Studio!

As partners of the EPSRC-funded ESPRESSO(Efficient Search over Personal Repositories – Secure and Sovereign) project, Dataswyft is very pleased to participate in the Espresso Workshop on June 13-14 in London, where we will provide early access to the CheckD Data Wallet.

As part of our participation, Dataswyft will also offer a full sandbox environment for building on data accounts in HAT Microservers during the event’s Hackathon on June 14. Hackathon participants will be given quick tutorials on using data accounts and how to transform the data in data accounts into badges that can be used, validated and transferred to another app using the CheckD Data Wallet.

Participants can populate data accounts through APIs from social media and open banking. The data can, in turn, be assigned to a badge that could be used for validation or transfer. For example, a badge could contain verified information on age or income. Individuals can present the badge to any merchant to validate the badge information or to transfer the information to another data wallet. Badge issuers can monetize the badges they create by charging merchants for activation, validation and transfers. Of course, all transactions are fully within the control of individuals in a similar way to making payments.

The Dataswyft sandbox environment isn’t just for tools and tutorials for building on Dataswyft data accounts. Instead it comes with a structure and framework for creating value with distributed, self-sovereign data that would benefit individuals, badge issuers, data holders and merchants.

Dataswyft CEO, Professor Irene Ng, will deliver a keynote on the power of distributed data ecosystems at the workshop.

We look forward to an exciting event!

Find out more about the Espresso workshop and hackathon here.