We’re coming off the heels of a successful beta cohort, and the feedback has been clear: the model works, and there’s real demand for focused, high-leverage work at the intersection of identity, trust, and emerging tech.

With many DIF Labs members at IIW, we’re using this time to gather ideas, get feedback, and brainstorm tracks for our next cohort.

🔍 Focus Areas Under Exploration

We’re considering the following tracks for the next cohort:

🧑‍💻 Personhood Credential Track

• Build scalable, privacy-preserving identity verification systems
• Tackle the hard problems of decentralized personhood
• Strategic Tie-In: Human-Centric Identity & Privacy
• Opportunity: First Person Project — led by Drummond, connecting ToIP, Customer Commons, and others

🧾 Content Authenticity / Assertions

• Develop tooling and frameworks to verify digital content
• Help fight misinformation and reinforce trust
• Opportunity: Collaboration with C2PA

🔐 Cryptography

• Push forward applied cryptographic tools for identity
• Engage cryptography researchers and practitioners
• Focus: ZKPs, Cursive, and foundational primitives

🤖 Verifiable AI

• Define mechanisms for verifying AI-generated outputs
• Ensure transparency and build trust in AI systems
• Opportunity: Partner with AI orgs to define verifiability standards

🏭 Industry-Aligned Tracks

• Align with go-to-market needs and industry use cases
• Focus: Operationalizing Privacy Tech, Industrial IoT
• Example: H&T project

We’re open to new collaborators, ideas, and partnerships. If you’re at IIW and want to help shape the future of decentralized infrastructure, we’d love to talk.