Hashgraph's Agata Slater Discusses User Control in Digital Identity

Agata Slater of Hashgraph described decentralized identifiers as a user-controlled form of identification, comparing their function to a passport and framing them as part of a self-sovereign identity model.

In that model, people manage their digital credentials and set who can access them. One identity can help verify a person's credentials across multiple organizations while the person decides which details to share, as outlined in TokenPost's overview of decentralized identity.