According to a new announcement from Microsoft, the decentralized digital identity tool called “ION” will migrate to the main Bitcoin blockchain and conduct public testing.

Decentralized identity tools enable greater ownership of digital identity credentials by creating unique identifiers that can be verifiable with cryptography without the need for a third party.

Users can secure their own information and verify the identities of others using public key infrastructure, reducing dependence on major technology companies such as Facebook and Google.

Microsoft developed ION with the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF), an industry consortium that aims to create technical standards for decentralized identity systems.

Microsoft first announced that it would run ION on the Bitcoin network last year.

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ION itself is a decentralized network that is designed to operate independently of Microsoft, but it does not have its own validation nodes or consensus mechanisms, instead relying entirely on the Bitcoin blockchain to verify remittances.

inform CoinDesk For the first time, it announced the release of the beta version of ION, and according to the same statement, Microsoft included the company “Bitcoin Startup Casa” in addition to “BitPay”, “Gemini” and other companies as a second batch of collaborators who will run the contract and provide feedback on the process during the period Experimental.

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