Your credentials live on your device and you control them. You're not a profile inside someone else's database.
Today, who you are usually means rows in someones database. Self-sovereign identity flips this: your identity is a set of credentials you hold on your phone, and you choose when and to whom they're shown.
Every app keeps its own file on you. You don't really own it, you can't move it, and it sits in a database that can be breached, sold, or used to track you.
Credentials — like "verified employee" or "member of this network" — are issued to your phone's wallet and stored there. You present them, not a database. Revocation is controlled by verifiable math, not by a company deleting your file.
You can carry the same verified identity across services without each one building a profile of you. No central registry tracks where you've been or what you've done.
Three pieces work together to put you in control.
A unique 'digital you' generated and controlled on your device. It's yours — no company hands it to you and none can take it away.
Digitally signed proofs — "this person works here", "this person is cleared" — issued to your wallet and stored on your phone, not in a central file.
You decide what to present, to whom, and when. Combined with Zero-Knowledge Proofs, you can reveal even less — just the answer, never the credential.
See how identity flows through the whole system, or ask us about issuing credentials for your organization.