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What Is Decentralized Identity? The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide

TL;DR What is decentralized identity? A model that lets a person hold their own verified credentials in a digital wallet and prove specific facts to a service, without that service calling a central identity provider. How does decentralized identity work? Three roles, not a technology stack: an issuer signs a credential, a holder keeps it in a wallet, a verifier checks the signature. Everything else is an implementation detail. Does decentralized identity need a blockchain? No. Some methods use a ledger to publish issuer keys, but did:web and did:key use none, and the two largest programs in the world, the EU Digital Identity Wallet and US mobile driver's licenses, are not built on one. What are decentralized identity solutions used for? Ordinary identity work. According to G2 Data, identity verification at signup plus passwordless login afterward came as the top use case among more than a third of all reviewers. User-controlled data sharing came third. What's the hardest part? Setup. Setup complexity was the most-named complaint that is about the model rather than about any one product. What's the real constraint on adoption? Acceptance. Roughly 41% of Americans live in a state that issues a mobile driver's license, and about 7% of eligible cardholders had activated one by the end of 2025.

by Mahima Chavan

Centralized Vs. Decentralized Identity Management Compared

Managing user identities in an organization is a nightmare for IT teams.

by Soundarya Jayaraman

Reducing Risks of Storing Sensitive Customer Data With Decentralized Identity

Is sensitive customer data an asset or a liability? When we think about the most successful companies in recent years that have leveraged customer data to build competitive advantages—such as the FAANG companies (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google)—we think of customer data as an asset.

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by Merry Marwig, CIPP/US

Decentralized Identity Solutions Glossary Terms

Self-Sovereign Identity

What is self-sovereign identity, and why is it important as a software feature? Our G2 guide can help you understand self-sovereign identity, how industry professionals use it, and its benefits.

by Brandon Summers-Miller

Digital Certificates

A digital certificate is a form of a digital password that authorizes a device, server, or user. Learn more about its types, features, and use cases.

by Sagar Joshi

Decentralized Identity

What is decentralized identity and why is it important as a software feature? Our G2 guide can help you understand decentralized identity, how it’s used by industry professionals, and the benefits of decentralized identity.

by Michael Pigott

Decentralized Identity Solutions Discussions

Best Decentralized Identity platforms for financial services implementing passwordless authentication and fraud prevention

Financial services teams shopping for Decentralized Identity tools are usually solving two problems at once: getting customers past login without a password, and catching fraud the moment authentication gets easier for attackers too. Here's what reviewers on the Decentralized Identity category on G2 say about three platforms built for that tradeoff.

1Kosmos Verify (4.1★, 38 reviews): reviewers in compliance-heavy environments describe pairing biometric authentication and liveness detection with document verification for a fully passwordless login, and one review cites a 70%+ drop in onboarding fraud after deployment. The tradeoff reviewers flag consistently is a complex initial setup that takes real planning before rollout.
AU10TIX (4.4★, 39 reviews): banking and payments reviewers describe it as the fraud and AML layer under their onboarding flow, catching forged IDs and synthetic identities in seconds and shrinking manual review queues. It's built for identity verification and fraud screening at onboarding rather than day-to-day passwordless login, so it pairs with an authentication layer rather than replacing one.
Microsoft Entra Verified ID (4.1★, 22 reviews): reviewers already on Azure AD point to free, built-in verifiable credential issuance and straightforward identity checks for blocking unauthorized access. It's a general-purpose IAM tool rather than one built for financial-services fraud workflows specifically, and one reviewer notes it doesn't support legacy app authentication.

For financial services buyers here: are you weighting this more toward stopping fraud at onboarding, making ongoing login passwordless, or do you need one platform that genuinely does both?

Decentralized Identity reviews on G2 for 1Kosmos Verify confirm the setup-complexity tradeoff. The post names, nearly every reviewer pulled independently, describe a real upfront planning cost before the passwordless experience actually feels smooth for end users. The fraud-reduction figure the post cites isn't just the one reviewer quoted, either; a second, separate review independently describes a comparable drop in onboarding fraud after deployment, which is more corroboration than a single enthusiastic account, though still not enough reviews to call it a guaranteed outcome for every implementation. AU10TIX is really answering a different half of the problem than 1Kosmos, screening for forged IDs and synthetic identities at the moment of onboarding rather than making day-to-day login passwordless, which is why it's described as pairing with an authentication layer rather than replacing one. Microsoft Entra Verified ID being a general-purpose identity tool built on top of Azure AD, rather than one designed around financial services fraud specifically, matches the post's own framing, and a team already living in that ecosystem might value the built-in credential issuance more than a purpose-built fraud layer, depending on which of the two problems, onboarding fraud or everyday passwordless login, is actually the bigger pain point.

Answered: Shashank Shastry on September 19, 2026

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