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The Hashgraph Group has launched a decentralized identity platform, “IDTrust”, designed to give users full control over their personal data through secure, portable digital credentials. The company, which operates within the Hedera ecosystem, announced that it is also open-sourcing its core digital identity SDKs under the Linux Foundation’s Project Hiero, in an effort to scale privacy-first identity solutions across sectors and borders.
IDTrust enables individuals, enterprises, and governments to issue and verify credentials without relying on centralized systems. Based on self-sovereign identity principles, the platform supports decentralized identifiers (DIDs), verifiable credentials (VCs), and secure digital ID wallets. This model eliminates the need for intermediaries and siloed data, while enabling peer-to-peer exchange of trusted identity claims.
The platform operates on the Hedera network and uses Agentic AI to increase automation and contextual decision-making. Users can move credentials between platforms, verify identity claims, and access services such as e-government portals, financial onboarding, and educational certificate verification.
“We believe this is a critical moment to launch a truly self-sovereign, privacy-first digital identity solution”
Stefan Deiss, Co-Founder and CEO of The Hashgraph Group, commented, “With the prevailing concerns about digital identity fraud and misuse of user data, we believe this is a critical moment to launch a truly self-sovereign, privacy-first digital identity solution for the global market. By launching our Hedera-powered and Agentic AI-enabled IDTrust platform on Swiss National Day, we align with Switzerland’s leadership in digital trust, data protection, and innovation, while supporting the furtherance of national and international initiatives to advance secure digital ID technology, infrastructure, and compliance.”
IDTrust is designed to interoperate with frameworks such as eIDAS 2.0 in the European Union, the UK Digital Identity Trust Framework, and the upcoming Swiss e-ID system. The platform supports issuance of verifiable credentials across use cases: KYC processes, healthcare record sharing, employee verification, product traceability for EU Digital Product Passports, academic and professional certifications, and targeted consumer engagement.
Kamal Youssefi, President of The Hashgraph Association, said, “The launch of this self-sovereign identity product developed by THG is a pivotal milestone towards empowering the Hedera community, further accelerating its global ecosystem growth and driving the utilization of the Hedera network, while contributing to open-sourcing under the project Hiero for furtherance of national and international efforts to advance secure digital ID technology and infrastructure.”
To support adoption and reduce barriers to entry, THG will open-source the core identity software components under the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT) initiative, Project Hiero. These include SDKs for decentralized identifiers, credential issuing and verifying, and a digital wallet client. The tools abstract technical complexity and adhere to global interoperability standards such as OpenID4VCI and OpenID4VP.
Micha Roon, Head of Engineering at THG, commented, “This launch is not only a pivotal technological milestone for THG but confirmation of our ambition to build a decentralised identity infrastructure that is open, secure, and widely available for everyone around the world to use. By providing the IDTrust platform with our open-source SDKs, we are empowering both individuals and institutions to establish verifiable digital credentials without compromising privacy and security.”
The timing of the launch coincides with the Swiss Federal Council’s move to begin public consultations on an ordinance for e-ID regulation. As the Swiss government prepares to implement a national digital identity infrastructure, IDTrust positions itself as a modular solution that meets public sector integration requirements while offering private sector utility.
IDTrust has already been deployed in enterprise and government settings. One of the Big Four consultancy firms is using the platform for employee credentialing, and a major African bank has tested it for digital identity management. Ministries of Education across Africa have adopted IDTrust for verifying education credentials. In the consumer sector, the Symera WeSuite AdTech solution uses IDTrust to power privacy-first engagement and reward systems, while Tulupay Identity bridges Web2 and Web3 applications for public sector identity management.
The Hashgraph Group emphasized the role of Hedera’s distributed ledger technology in ensuring high performance and integrity. The IDTrust platform uses Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) for auditability and IPFS for decentralized storage, ensuring tamper-proof records and cross-platform compatibility.
The launch of IDTrust, alongside the open-source SDK release, signals THG’s broader strategy to catalyze adoption of decentralized identity across jurisdictions and industries. Built with scalability, compliance, and real-world usability in mind, the platform intends to serve as a foundation for global digital trust infrastructure.
