uPort - Decentralized Identity Control, Transactions and Reputation

uPort is a new Human Empowering use case for the blockchain (by ConsenSys)

ConsenSys is developing uPort, a decentralized control and validation of an Identity System hosted in the Ethereum blockchain, empowering any citizen, organization or device in the world with no dependency of state or centralized server to hold your reputation in cyberspace

ConsenSys is a venture building decentralized applications and end-user tools including the ethereum blockchain ecosystem.

This new blockchain application opens a new wide world of transactional data management to buy, sell, lend borrow, loan payments, project collaboration and reliability, selective sharing and scalability in an "open­source, self-­sovereign blockchain­-based identity" system"

Uport is creating new services and integration with Microsoft and Blockstack servers using Ethereum support and infrastructure, placed on the Azure cloud, for identity and authentication purposes.

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The benefits of this system are addressed to 1.5 billion people with no identification in third world countries, allowing them to participate in the new e-world and e-economy, open a bank account, get credit, rent a car or buy a house.

Uport is a decentralized self-sovereign identity to manage digital reputation and selectively control your data and sign transactions

Self-sovereign identity with uPort

Uport self-sovereign identity will empower people over personal identity/data , reputation and assets. providing users with a secure and convenient way to own and control elements critical to who they are

Because uPort makes identity portable, and will be the primary way people interface with digital and decentralized services.

uPort is powerful enough to cover the most demanding enterprise use cases, yet easy enough for the everyday user.

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Uport over Ethereum blockchain and IPFS

Uport is an easy-to-use mobile app, built to access and curate self-sovereign identity, reputational attributes and attestations, as well as key management system, relaying on the Ethereum blockchain integrating smart contracts and open-source libraries.

Uport even intend to deliver Identity to SingularDTV Ecosystem, the new decentralized blockchain for entertainment industry.

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Integration of identity in the Ethereum blockchain, with decentralized account recovery and security based in attestation sharing made by people not by certified documents.

We hope it becames more successful where OpenID and OAuth has failed

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uPort - Own your decentralized identity to manage your reputation and control your data

UPORT: a platform for Self-Sovereign Identity White paper

Uport, An Ethereum Based Identity Project Wins the Blockchain Competition Summit Demo Day 2016 in Shanghai

SingularDTV is a blockchain entertainment studio and rights management platform building a decentralized entertainment industry on the Ethereum blockchain.

Blockstack - The New Decentralized Internet