Spruce - Your Keys Your Data - Decentralized Identity and Storage

An Identity Wallet Bill of Rights - Starting With the Mobile Driver License

Spruce’s continued mission is to let users control their data across the web, whether it’s web2, web3, or beyond. This also applies to credentials issued by existing entities, such as the Mobile Driver License (mDL) issued by motor vehicle authorities across the world.

Developer Update

Spruce Developer Update #23

At Spruce, we’re letting users control their identity and data across the web. Every month, we release a developer update detailing our progress on our open source libraries and beyond.

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Introducing TreeLDR: A Canopy Across Your Data Schema Dreams

TreeLDR is an open-source developer tool with a DSL that makes managing data schemas as easy as defining data structures in your favorite (sane) statically-typed language.

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Spruce and TBD Demonstrate Decentralized Identity Interoperability

We have heard a lot about Decentralized Identity in the last few years. For both Spruce and TBD, Decentralized Identity and user control are at the center of both our missions, and we are excited to announce that we achieved another milestone towards interoperability.

Developer Update

Spruce Developer Update #22

At Spruce, we’re letting users control their identity and data across the web. Here’s the latest from our development efforts.

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Decentralized Identity and Web3

Decentralized identity is the continual catalyst that will unlock a new host of use-cases on top of those existing paradigms.

Developer Update

Spruce Developer Update #21

At Spruce, we’re letting users control their identity and data across the web. Here’s some of the latest from our development efforts.

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Upgradeable Decentralized Identity - DID Method Traits

DID method traits are testable properties about DID methods that can help implementers tame complexity and choose the right DID method(s) for their use case.

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Spruce At Graph Hack 2022

Earlier this month, The Graph hosted Graph Hack at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Graph Hack was a three-day hackathon, bringing together developers to kickstart the latest dapps and ideas featuring a mix of on and off-chain data via a variety of impactful use-cases.

Developer Update

Spruce Developer Update #20

At Spruce, we’re letting users control their identity and data across the web. Here’s the latest from our development efforts: Sign-In with EthereumWe have released our streamlined SIWE Core packages across all supported programming languages to have unified handling of message creation, parsing, and verification. Additionally, we released

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Why Sign-In with Ethereum is a Game-Changer Part 2

Sign-In with Ethereum opens a path where large corporations can no longer strip a user's ability to access services or spy on their actions. It opens the door for a massive amount of impact in web2 apps and services.

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Sign-In with Ethereum - API Harmonization and TypeScript v2.0 Beta Release

In our continued updates on Sign-In with Ethereum support, we're pleased to announce that we've harmonized the behavior of our SIWE Core APIs across different languages, added a number of optimizations, and have released a new beta of our TypeScript library with the included changes.

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Presentation: Extending Sign-In with Ethereum - CASA Gathering 2022

During the initial part of the CASA unconference, we had a chance to present on extending Sign-In with Ethereum, and what the future of authentication looks like. Wayne's talk and an overview of the topics covered can be found here.

Developer Update

Spruce Developer Update #19

At Spruce, we’re letting users control their identity and data across the web. Here’s the latest from our development efforts across Sign-In with Ethereum, Kepler, and SpruceID.

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Sign-In with Ethereum Digest - April

Sign-In with Ethereum offers a new self-custodial option for users who wish to assume more control and responsibility over their own digital identity.

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Sign-In with Ethereum to Your Auth0-Powered Application

In our pursuit of best serving web2 and web3 organizations, we've partnered with Auth0 to offer a Sign-In with Ethereum option in their marketplace.

Spruce at ETHAmsterdam 2022

As part of the Devconnect week of in-person events being hosted in Amsterdam, we're happy to announce that we're sponsoring ETHAmsterdam to support builders during the event who are working on pushing the Ethereum ecosystem forward. We have $4,000 in prizes across a number of bounties around Sign-In with

Announcement

Spruce Raises $34M to Unbundle the Login for a User-Controlled Web

We're excited to announce that we have raised $34 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Spruce enables users to control their data across the web as the world becomes increasingly dependent on cryptography, networks, and digital economies.

Developer Update

Spruce Developer Update #18

At Spruce, we’re letting users control their identity and data across the web. Here’s the latest from our development efforts.

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Sign-In with Ethereum Digest - March

Sign-In with Ethereum offers a new self-custodial authentication option for users who wish to assume more control and responsibility over their own digital identity.

Sign-In with Ethereum - Decentralizing an Identity Provider Server

While digging deeper on Sign-In with Ethereum adoption vectors for Web2, we found that many traditional services wanted to integrate Sign-In with Ethereum. Most already supported OpenID Connect (OIDC) and were open to adding a new Identity Provider (IdP) that supported the workflow. While we encourage everyone to consider and

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Sign-In with Ethereum to Next.js Applications

In our continued updates on additional support for different languages and frameworks for Sign-In with Ethereum, we're pleased to announce our guide on how to implement Sign-In with Ethereum to authenticate users in your Next.js app by using NextAuth.

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ENS User Activity Research - Discovering Sign-In with Ethereum Adoption Opportunities

ENS has been, and is continually is one of the largest supporters of Sign-in with Ethereum. ENS provides a way for users to take their username and profile with them, anywhere across the web, and Sign-In with Ethereum (SIWE) helps enable that interaction.

Sign-In with Ethereum - Go Library Release

In our continued updates on additional language support for Sign-In with Ethereum, we're happy to announce the alpha release of our Go library in order to enable any Go project to leverage SIWE: GitHub - spruceid/siwe-go: A Go implementation of EIP-4361 Sign In With Ethereum verificationA Go implementation of

Spruce Completes Formal Security Audit by Trail of Bits

Spruce lets users control their data across the web. To accomplish our mission, we commit to maintaining the highest standards of open-source transparency, software quality, and trust with the community. In October 2021, the Tezos Foundation generously sponsored the initial formal security audit of the entire software supply chain of