Finobo

A sample of projects.

Finobo has advised on and built systems across digital identity and blockchain.

Digital identity

Standards-based identity verification platform

Helped design and build a platform that lets organisations issue, hold and verify credentials without depending on a single central authority. The work took a standards-first approach using W3C Verifiable Credentials and the ISO mobile driving licence standards rather than proprietary formats.

  • W3C Verifiable Credentials
  • ISO/IEC 18013-5 and 18013-7 (mDL)
  • OpenID4VC / OpenID4VP
  • UK DIATF, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, GDPR

Delivered for age verification, financial services KYC and mobile driving licence checks across fintech, insurance, government and education.

Web3 Foundation

Wallet-to-wallet messaging for Polkadot

Extended a decentralised messaging protocol so wallet addresses on Polkadot and its parachains could message each other over native rails. Support was first added for the Edgeware parachain.

  • Protocol design
  • Decentralised messaging
  • Polkadot

Algorand Foundation

Wallet-to-wallet messaging for Algorand

Extended a decentralised messaging protocol to support Algorand, giving wallet addresses on the network a way to communicate directly with each other.

  • Protocol design
  • Decentralised messaging
  • Algorand

Consensys

Decentralised messaging storage

Designed storage and retrieval for decentralised messages using IPFS, paired with an IMAP-compatible protocol so messages could be received through standard email clients.

  • IPFS
  • IMAP-compatible protocol
  • Decentralised messaging