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Perspectives on digital trust infrastructure from the team building it.
In technology, a product launch gets a press release. A product that works quietly for a year gets something more valuable: silence. No incident reports. No emergency patches. No “we’re aware of the issue” posts. Just a system doing what it was built to do, every day, at a scale that keeps growing. One year […]
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There is a thought experiment in philosophy called the Ship of Theseus. If you replace every plank of a wooden ship, one at a time, is it still the same ship? Healthcare IT has been running its own version of this experiment for three decades — replacing analogue components with digital ones, piece by piece, […]
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In 1961, diplomats from dozens of countries gathered at The Hague to solve a surprisingly persistent problem: how does a document issued by authorities in one country get accepted as authentic by authorities in another? The answer they produced — the Apostille Convention — is elegant in its simplicity. A standardized certificate, attached to the […]
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There is a document almost everyone carries that solves a problem we have collectively failed to solve digitally for over three decades. Your passport. Hand it to a border agent in Zurich, Tokyo, or São Paulo. The agent inspects it, checks the photograph, verifies the issuing authority’s security features, and hands it back. No phone […]
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HIN is transforming its communication infrastructure from a centralized mail gateway to a decentralized data mesh. The previous architecture — a central distribution hub routing encrypted emails — no longer meets the demands of modern healthcare data flows. The new architecture replaces this with Smart Data Nodes that communicate peer-to-peer with end-to-end encryption, eliminating the […]
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Stefan Geldreich from Health Ostschweiz (HOCH), one of eastern Switzerland’s largest hospital networks, shares his experience as a pilot customer for the new HIN Mail. The transition was so seamless that many staff members did not even notice it: “The switchover went so smoothly that many employees didn’t even notice it.” HOCH accompanied the development […]
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“As a seed investor in Vereign AG, I am very proud and honored to see the achievement of a major milestone with the national rollout of the Swiss National Health system’s assured messaging platform. I chose to invest in Vereign as their approach solves one of the most complex challenges we face: How to reliably […]
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Vereign is proud to announce the creation of the Alliance for Decentralized Key Management Applications – a collaborative effort with the Human Colossus Foundation (HCF) and argonAUTHs to advance the future of secure, decentralized digital infrastructure. The Alliance is built on KERI – the Key Event Receipt Infrastructure – and aims to deliver open, secure, […]
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HIN has published a detailed article describing the technical architecture behind the new HIN Mail. The new system replaces centralized mail servers with decentralized, IPFS-based storage — a fundamental shift in how secure healthcare communications are delivered across Switzerland. For HIN’s 30,000+ healthcare professionals, the transition is seamless — the tools they rely on daily […]
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What is the Web of Trust Map Key State Capital’s Web of Trust Map provides a visual representation of the decentralized identity landscape. The map and its open-source dataset track global decentralized identity projects, including protocols and connections. It also highlights relationships such as industry collaborations and funding arrangements. The map was developed by over […]
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