Europechain appoints Gimly to develop self-sovereignty identity app, My.D

Europechain, the GDPR-compliant blockchain platform, has appointed Gimly to develop its self-sovereign identity app, My.D.

Gimly is product research and development company which helps its clients leverage blockchain, IoT and other new technologies for their business needs. Founded by Caspar Roelofs, a product developer and solutions architect, the company pushes for meaningful innovation through synergies, and maximises collaboration to build on the strengths of clients, partners, and community.

Gimly’s first step was to conduct research in international standards surrounding self-sovereign identity and decentralised identifiers. Early research evaluated the benefits and costs of following W3C standards on SSI, verifiable credentials (VCs), and decentralized identifiers (DIDs). This is key to ensuring the My.D app is portable, interoperable and future proofed as the standards are still in their infancy.

Gimly has now moved into the development phase of the project working on EOSIO operating system as the best blockchain to suit the My.D app.

Rhett Outkerk Pool commended the work achieved to date: “Here at Europechain we aim to provide enterprises the possibility to launch private and private and permissioned blockchains and blockchain applications that are fully GDPR compliant by design.

“Europechain own inhouse applications currently available for use on Europechain will use My.D…