#10 - Building Digital Trust Ecosystems with Riley Hughes

About Episode

During this conversation, we discuss

• How Riley got into SSI through Sovrin and how he continued his journey by founding Trinsic
  
• The focus on making trust ecosystem development easy - A trust ecosystem needs three things to be successful: (1) interoperable technology, (2) trustworthy governance, and (3) tools for adoption. Trinsic Ecosystems is designed to provide these three components in a fully-integrated, programmatic platform, built specifically for providers.
  
• If ‘Self-Sovereign Identity’ has an identity problem
  
• How to sell the value of SSI to enterprises and ecosystem solution providers
  
• The two ways to overcome the chicken and egg problem that exists when starting a verifiable credential market, to achieve network of network effects
  

About Guest

In this episode of SSI Orbit, I sit down with Riley Hughes.

Riley is a leader in the self-sovereign identity (SSI) community. As the second employee hired at the Sovrin Foundation, Riley established and contributed towards several teams, such as the Sovrin Governance Working Group and helped set up the Sovrin Steward Program. He started Trinsic to make implementing decentralized identity easy for developers and is now working with many organizations around the world to bring SSI-based solutions to market.

Follow Riley Hughes

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/rileyphughes
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rileyparkerhughes/
  

Follow Mathieu Glaude

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/mathieu_glaude
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieuglaude/

Read the full podcast transcription on the Northern Block blog here:https://northernblock.io/building-digital-trust-ecosystems/