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Best Decentralized Identity (2026)

The 10 most complete decentralized identity listings on Decentral Now, ranked by how much verified public information each publishes: description, services, pricing, and a live website. 26 are listed in this category. Order is not a quality rating, and no listing pays for its rank.

Updated 2026-09-18 · See all 26 in Decentralized Identity

  1. 1

    Human Passport

    Decentralized Identity

    Identity verification and Sybil-resistance protocol, formerly Gitcoin Passport, where users collect stamps that prove they are a unique person without revealing personal data.

    • 3 services listed, including sybil resistance, identity scoring, stamps
    • Serves the whole US
    Details passport.human.tech
  2. 2

    SpruceID

    Decentralized Identity

    Company building digital trust infrastructure for governments, covering identity credentials, verification and secure data exchange across existing systems.

    • 3 services listed, including digital credentials, verification systems, government integrations
    • Serves the whole US
    Details spruceid.com
  3. 3

    cheqd

    Decentralized Identity

    Network providing decentralized infrastructure for verifiable credentials, trust registries and payments for trusted data, including AI agent ecosystems.

    • 3 services listed, including credential payments, trust registries, did infrastructure
    • Serves the whole US
    Details cheqd.io
  4. 4

    Privado ID

    Decentralized Identity

    Privacy-focused identity tooling using zero-knowledge proofs so users can prove attributes without handing over underlying data; formerly Polygon ID.

    • 3 services listed, including zero-knowledge credentials, identity wallet, verifier tools
    • Serves the whole US
    Details privado.id
  5. 5

    Inrupt

    Decentralized Identity

    Company founded around the Solid specification, providing wallet and data infrastructure for consented customer data and agent-driven experiences.

    • 3 services listed, including solid servers, data wallets, enterprise support
    • Serves the whole US
    Details inrupt.com
  6. 6

    d.id

    Decentralized Identity

    Team building proof-of-humanity and decentralized identifier protocols, including the .bit naming and DID system for human-readable identities.

    • 3 services listed, including decentralized identifiers, human verification, naming
    • Serves the whole US
    Details did.id
  7. 7

    Indicio

    Decentralized Identity

    Verifiable credentials platform and network operator providing decentralized identity infrastructure for people, organizations and AI agents.

    • 3 services listed, including credential platform, network hosting, consulting
    • Serves the whole US
    Details indicio.tech
  8. 8

    Solid

    Decentralized Identity

    Web standards project started by Tim Berners-Lee in which people keep data in personal online datastores and grant applications access to it.

    • 3 services listed, including personal data pods, access control, specifications
    • Serves the whole US
    Details solidproject.org
  9. 9

    walt.id

    Decentralized Identity

    Open-source digital identity and wallet infrastructure used by developers, governments and businesses to issue, hold and verify credentials.

    • 3 services listed, including credential issuance, identity wallets, verification
    • Serves the whole US
    Details walt.id
  10. 10

    Hyperledger Identus

    Decentralized Identity

    Open-source self-sovereign identity stack under Hyperledger for issuing, holding and verifying decentralized identifiers and credentials.

    • 3 services listed, including did agents, credential exchange, wallet sdks
    • Serves the whole US
    Details identus.io

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Automatically, by how much verified public information each listing has: description, services, pricing, and a live website. Every listing was checked against its own site. Rank is not a quality score and cannot be bought.

How many decentralized identity are listed?

26 at last count. See the full category page for all of them.

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