Exploring how metaphors like “vaults,” “keys,” and “wallets” shape our sense of safety—and the risks that confidence creates.

Initiatives like W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) are moving us toward an identity layer

The internet has no built-in identity layer — it only knows devices and keys, not people. Everything we call “online identity” is an application-level patch, and that’s why the web’s trust and security problems are so persistent.‍

Analysis: The Theoretical Impact of a Universal Foolproof Authentication System on Data Breach Causality

Why, after decades of security innovation, does the volume and cost of digital fraud appear to accelerate?

Developer tools have been released in beta. Here is a quick look at some features and limitations specific to this release.

Why is it seemingly so easy to industrialise fraud and identity crime? The problem is incredibly complex and has its roots back as far as the 18th Century. Decisions taken over decades in good faith have layered one upon the other to create the mother of all unintended consequences.

Kim Cameron's work was foundational, but a lot has happened in the intervening 20 years. Now not only do we need to implement his rules, we have to solve the problems caused by doing nothing for twenty years.

In his paper, Kim Cameron called for an identity layer for the internet. Self has spent six years researching and developing a solution to that challenge. Here, we look at what that is.

We needed a new way for users to recover accounts, this is the story of how we created an entirely new way to recover an account designed around the needs and skills of ordinary people.

The increasing trend among governmental and corporate entities to conceptualise and manage human identity as a product is fundamentally flawed. The approach is not only morally problematic, but also technically unsound.

Digital identity is more than just a tool; it's a reflection of who we are. The pervasive and often opaque ways in which our identities are managed can feel invasive and, frankly, creepy.

For crypto to be able to transition into the 'real world' its speed and power at processing transactions will need to be met by equally powerful checks on senders and receivers of funds.

It’s only going to get more difficult for organisations to protect themselves, their customers and their data as the technology the hackers use gets better. In many cases organisations simply aren’t ready for today's challenges, let alone those which are coming

As federated, centralised identity systems have proliferated, identity and personal data have become one and the same placing consumers and organisations at risk.

A persons identity is incredibly precious, but because of the way in which technology and identity have evolved, todays systems don’t treat it with the care it deserves.

Really good UX ensures processes like checking liveness don't get in the way of the user as they try to do something. We explore how liveness at Self has evolved.

XRPL is the blockchain built for business. We've integrated Self auth into the XRP Ledger and decentralised exchange bringing onchain compliance to solve regulatory challenges like MiCA

Fraudsters exploit uncertainty and the lack of verifiable information in financial systems, procurement and payment processing to defraud both consumers and business, we look at why and how this is not just possible, but enabled by the digital age.

Since Telephone operators were replaced by dial phones, call fraud has been a problem, today it is a huge global industry. We explore how and why this problem remains so difficult to eradicate.