May 2025 | cheqd

AK Esports Partners with Creds to Bring Verifiable Driver ID to Global Racing Esports Competitions

London, UK, (May 28 10AM BST): Creds, a reputation platform built by cheqd.io that allows players to own and transfer their in game achievements, partners with AK Esports, a division of AK Informatica Tech, a prominent Esports organiser with focus on Sim Racing. The collaboration will enable AK Esports to generate verifiable digital Driver IDs for major sim racing titles, containing achievements of each player across their career.

“Driver ID will streamline onboarding and user identification processes for a range of tournaments and activations for both onsite and offline, mitigating the risk of incorrectly identifying users, and allowing legitimate drivers to prove their reputation and standing,”

Alessio Cicolari, CEO of AK Group.

Cheating, impersonation, and anonymous accounts remain challenges in Esports, particularly when organisers rely on fragmented or unreliable user data. Hosting exclusive competitions that require verified accolades becomes difficult without trusted data.

This collaboration introduces a breakthrough in how sim racing talent is recognised, rewarded, and advanced. By issuing verifiable credentials on Creds, players can now build trusted profiles based on in-game achievements and race histories. These credentials can be used to unlock exclusive competitions, gain sponsorships, and progress their careers all without relying on fragmented data or unverifiable claims.

Creds are lightweight digital credentials that players store in secure digital wallets and can present across games, platforms, or events to unlock access, prove their standing, or even act as digital passports for racing talent. These credentials link to performance stats, event history, and gaming platforms (like Steam or PlayStation), creating a comprehensive, verifiable profile of each racer without relying on scattered or unverifiable data. This portable reputation enables access to exclusive competitions, sponsorship opportunities, and career advancement.

This foundation unlocks new opportunities for monetisable loyalty, such as: premium events, rewards programs, and transparent payment systems rooted in trust and user empowerment. It also opens up new ways for fans to engage, see players progress in real time and celebrate career milestones from their own and favourite players alike.

“Partnering with AK Esports enables creds to be open to one for the largest sim racing gaming communities, showcasing a user owned and controlled history of verifiable Driver ID and career accolades, pioneering a much needed reusable onboarding and engagement experience,” said Fraser Edwards, co-founder and CEO of cheqd.io.

Raising the Bar for Trust and Talent Recognition in Esports

As the esports division of AK Informatica Tech, AK Esports has built a global reputation for producing some of the most prestigious and immersive racing tournaments in the world. Their flagship partnership with Dallara – the world’s leading race car technology provider, renowned for engineering excellence across Formula 1, IndyCar, Le Mans, and beyond, has created the joint venture Dallara – AK Esports, an US based company with a worldwide capabilities and focus on the tech development on the Sim Racing / Motorsport Industry . The recently launched fifth season of the Dallara Esports Championship marks a major turning point for the Sim Racing Esports Ecosystem Racers can now qualify both online and onsite at iconic venues including the Dallara Academy in Varano de’ Melegari, E-Motion Sim Center in Paris, and The Sim Garage in Speedway, Indianapolis.

The organisation has some of the best events, yet there’s still no unified way for them to identify the top five fastest drivers across all competitions based on average speed, for example. The ability to aggregate and analyse this data would unlock the potential to create exclusive, elite-level competitions, bringing together the best of the best from across every series.The partnership with creds.xyo will enable this to become reality.

For the first time, esports racers will be able to prove their identity, skill, and track record in a format that travels with them, across events, teams, platforms, and seasons. With the integration of Creds, AK Esports introduces a new standard for player identity and progression, providing trusted, tamper-proof credentials that support recognition, simplify onboarding, and enable consistent engagement across the global esports ecosystem.

About Creds powered by cheqd

Creds – a community trust and reputation platform that empowers users to prove their skills and contributions, and creators to build new tailor-made experiences to boost engagement and reward community members. Creds uses verifiable credentials which are portable, lightweight, and tamperproof. These credentials build verifiable reputation and trust amongst community members, and cross communities.

Underpinning Creds is cheqd’s trust and payment infrastructure, which enables secure, incentivised data sharing. Its privacy-preserving payment system encourages the release of valuable data from silos, unlocking powerful new combinations of verifiable information. This supports richer, more personalised digital experiences across esports, digital ID, and AI while giving users full control over their data.

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About AK Group & AK Esports

AK Informatica is the leading force in the PC gaming ecosystem in Italy. Founded in 2004, the company has steadily expanded its footprint in the gaming industry, combining technological innovation with a deep understanding of gaming culture. With a mission to stay at the forefront of emerging technologies and the most engaging game titles, AK Informatica has earned the trust of a wide community of gamers and professionals alike. Today, it represents Italian excellence in gaming and esports and continues to grow as part of the wider AK Group – a multidisciplinary organisation offering services across esports, IT, creative, legal, and event management.

Within the Group, AK Esports is the division dedicated to competitive gaming and tournament operations. Recognised as a global leader in sim racing, AK Esports has delivered some of the industry’s most prestigious racing championships and events. Its reputation is built on strategic collaborations with top-tier automotive and motorsport brands, including SRO Motorsports Group, Lamborghini, Porsche, Dallara and many other important car manufactures and series

In 2024, AK Esports partnered with Dallara, one of the world’s most renowned motorsport engineering companies, to establish Dallara – AK Esports — a new joint venture headquartered in Indianapolis. This collaboration merges AK Esports’ operational excellence with Dallara’s racing heritage, creating a powerful platform for international competition, advanced driver development, and immersive racing experiences that bridge the gap between virtual and real-world motorsport.

Official website
AK Esports:https://akesports.com/
Dallara-AK Esports:https://dallara-akesports.com/

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Verifiable Credentials & Trust Registries: The Right Combination for Digital Product Passports

Digital Product Passports (DPPs) are digital records that aggregate and store data about a product and its footprint along the supply chain. To put it simpler, DPPs comprise all the data about a product, from its origin, composition, environmental impact, to recycling eligibility. Anyone can check this information to ensure products are made responsibly. The other functions of DPPs include supporting compliance with evolving regulations, combating greenwashing, and empowering consumers and businesses to make informed decisions.

Sources matter. For DPPs to be truly effective, the information they hold must be trustworthy, tamper proof, and verifiable. This is where Verifiable Credentials (VCs) and Trust Registries (TRs) come into play. VCs provide digitally signed, secure claims about a product’s attributes. They ensure authenticity and prevent data manipulation. Meanwhile, TRs establish a framework for verifying the credibility of issuers, assuring that only authorised entities can issue trusted product data.

In this blog, we will explore why VCs and Trust Registries in a synergy creates the ideal foundation for Digital Product Passports. These technologies ensure data integrity, regulatory compliance, and consumer confidence in sustainability claims.

What Are Digital Product Passports?

Digital Product Passports work like digital IDs for products. They keep track of key product details along the supply chain such as where they come from, how they are made, and how they can be reused or recycled, from production to disposal.

Imagine buying a pair of sneakers, the DPP could tell you where the materials were made of (e.g., recycled plastic from ocean waste). It could include repair instructions to extend the sneaker’s life. It might show how much carbon was emitted during production. When it’s time to dispose of them, the DPP can point you to the nearest recycling centre.

The main benefits DPPs render are transparency, traceability, and sustainability proof. DPPs give consumers a clear view of product footprint and impact through documenting its journey from raw materials to disposal. The transparency deters bad actors from counterfeiting goods as it can be detected. Reputation can be verified easily. Besides, DPPs provide verifiable data to back up sustainability claims. No more vague “eco-friendly” labels without proof.

DPPs are of paramount importance to assure that products are made responsibly, used efficiently, and disposed of properly. In this way, they would help reduce waste and protect the environment.

Source: United Nations Transparency Protocol (UNTP)

EU's Digital Product Passport Regulation

Starting in 2024, the European Union is making Digital Product Passports mandatory for most products sold in the EU under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation. This initiative improves transparency by providing structured, machine-readable data on product origin, materials, environmental impact, and disposal guidelines.

DPPs will include unique product identifiers, compliance documentation, and details on substances of concern. The accurate, verifiable information supports open data principles. Product data is more accessible and in this way it encourages industry collaboration.

For businesses, compliance is crucial. Early adopters gain a competitive edge by staying ahead of regulations. On the flip side, those failing to meet requirements risk limited market access in the EU.

Nevertheless, the EU DPPs rely on centralised databases across multiple countries, which makes it hard to identify which ones are complicit in fraudulent practices. While products move through different jurisdictions, they are more likely to be susceptible to local manipulation. What happens might be products appear compliant on paper but fail regulatory scrutiny.

The Role of Verifiable Credentials in DPPs

For Digital Product Passports to be effective, the data they contain must be trusted, tamper-proof, and verifiable. Verifiable Credentials takes a lead role here.

VCs are digitally signed, cryptographic attestations that allow authorised entities, such as manufacturers, auditors, and regulators, to issue secure, immutable claims about a product. Product information can be altered or forged in traditional databases while VCs ensure that data remains authentic and verifiable throughout a product’s lifecycle. It is easy to check its validity and source without relying on a central authority.

Key Product Attributes as Verifiable Credentials

By using VCs, various product attributes can be securely recorded and shared within a DPP, including:

Manufacturing origin — Verify where and by whom a product was produced.
Material composition — Provide transparency on raw materials.
Carbon footprint — Record environmental impact data, such as emissions during production
Recycling eligibility — Indicate whether a product or its components can be reused or recycled

Benefits of Using Verifiable Credentials in DPPs

VCs offer multiple advantages for DPPs, making them a scalable and future-proof solution:

Interoperability — VCs are standards based and can be used across different ecosystems; ensure seamless data exchange between supply chain partners.
Decentralisation — Unlike traditional certification systems that rely on centralised databases, VCs allow for distributed trust, which reduces single points of failure.
User Control — VCs enable businesses and consumers to selectively share product data on a need-to-know basis, enhancing privacy while maintaining transparency.

By integrating Verifiable Credentials into DPPs, organisations can ensure secure, verifiable, and privacy preserving product data. This builds greater trust and regulatory compliance in global supply chains.

Why Trust Registries Matter for Digital Product Passports

While Verifiable Credentials provide secure and tamper-proof product data, there’s still a crucial question: Who is authorised to issue these credentials? Without a clear framework for verifying issuers, there’s a risk of fraudulent or unverified data being introduced into Digital Product Passports. This is where Trust Registries are paramount.

What Are Trust Registries?

A Trust Registry is a governance mechanism that defines who is accredited or authorised to issue credentials within a given ecosystem. It acts as a reference point for trust, ensuring that only recognised and authorised entities, such as manufacturers, regulators, auditors, or certification bodies, can participate in the credentialing process.

For example, in the context of DPPs, a Trust Registry could list:

Certified manufacturers authorised to issue product credentials.
Regulatory bodies that can verify compliance claims.
Third-party auditors who can certify sustainability data.

Without a Trust Registry, there’s no easy way to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent credentials, which could lead to greenwashing, false claims, and non compliant products entering the market.

Centralised vs. Decentralised Trust Registries

Trust Registries help verify which organisations can issue trusted information, like sustainability claims in Digital Product Passports (DPPs). There are two main types:

1. Centralised Trust Registries

A single authority maintains the registry and decides who can issue credentials. Usually this refers to a government agency or industry body.

Pros: Easier enforcement of regulations, clear governance structure.
Cons: If the central authority fails, the whole system could collapse; risk of censorship or excessive control

2. Decentralised Trust Registries

Instead of one organisation controlling everything, the registry runs on an infrastructure where multiple entities can create entries and accredit other entries.

Pros: More resilient against manipulation, supports self-sovereign identity (SSI) principles, and enhances trust through transparency.
Cons: More complex to manage and get into production, as rules must be agreed upon by many participants

For Digital Product Passports, a hybrid model might work best. Regulations can provide oversight while a decentralised system prevents monopolies and builds trust on a larger scale.

With Trust Registries, businesses and regulators can make sure that only verified and credible organisations contribute data to Digital Product Passports. This helps improve transparency, compliance, and trust in sustainability claims.

VCs & Trust Registries: The Ideal Combination for DPPs

Verifiable Credentials and Trust Registries create the perfect combination for Digital Product Passports by ensuring that product data is both authentic and trustworthy. VCs allow manufacturers, suppliers, and regulators to issue tamper-proof claims about a product’s origin, materials, and sustainability, while Trust Registries verify that only authorised and credible entities can issue these credentials. This approach eliminates misleading sustainability claims, boosts transparency throughout supply chains, and guarantees adherence to regulatory standards. Businesses and consumers can confidently trust the information within DPPs.

Example: Verifiable Sustainability Claims in Fashion

Imagine a global fashion brand implementing DPPs powered by VCs and Trust Registries:

Material Suppliers provide VCs to confirm that fabrics are sourced from certified organic farms.
Manufacturers issue VCs to document carbon emissions and ethical labor practices, ensuring alignment with sustainability benchmarks.
An independent certification body, such as an environmental NGO, acts as a verifier to confirm that all credentials meet both regulatory and industry standards.
A Trust Registry maintains a secure network among the stakeholders, allowing only authorised suppliers, manufacturers, and verifiers to issue or validate credentials.

When consumers scan a Digital Product Passport, they can instantly verify the authenticity of the brand’s sustainability claims and double check that the item of clothing is legitimate and not a fake.

How the cheqd Infrastructure Can Support DPPs

For Digital Product Passports to be widely adopted, they need an infrastructure that is scalable, interoperable, and privacy-preserving. cheqd provides a strong foundation by enabling trusted, decentralised identity and credentialing solutions tailored for DPPs.

a. Decentralised Verifiable Credentials for Secure Product Data

cheqd’s network enables organisations to issue Verifiable Credentials that provide tamper-proof product data. With cheqd, manufacturers, regulators, and auditors can issue digitally signed credentials that prove key product attributes, such as:

Origin and materials — Proof of sustainable sourcing.
Compliance and certifications — Meet regulations and environmental standards.
Carbon footprint data — Clear, trackable emissions reporting.
Recycling and end-of-life information — Supporting a circular economy.

These credentials are interoperable across different ecosystems, cutting down reliance on centralised databases and making sustainability claims more transparent and verifiable at scale.

b. Trust Registries for Governance & Compliance

cheqd pioneers a Trust Registry solution that helps organisations verify who can issue, verify, or revoke credentials within a DPP ecosystem. They allow relying parties to make informed decisions on whether to trust the entities who claim to be involved in issuing credentials.

Why cheqd’s Trust Registry stands out:

Tamper proof and transparent — Registry data is stored on-ledger, making it fully auditable and accountable.
Self sovereign control — Organisations can maintain their own trusted ecosystem without relying on third party intermediaries.

c. Payments & Incentives for Verifiable Data

cheqd is one of the only decentralised identity networks with built-in payments functionality, allowing organisations to monetise trusted data in a privacy-preserving way. This can benefit DPP adoption by:

Create commercial models that incentivise organisations to issue and verify credentials.
Lower compliance costs by automating verification; reduce the need for costly manual audits.
Reward verifiers and auditors for maintaining data integrity, in this way encouraging participation

d. Interoperability with Existing Standards

cheqd is built to work with global digital identity and credentialing standards, ensuring that organisations can integrate seamlessly with regulatory frameworks like:

The EU Digital Product Passport initiative
W3C Verifiable Credentials
Hyperledger Aries & AnonCreds
Self-Sovereign Identity principles

This interoperability ensures that organisations avoid vendor lock-in, making their DPP implementations future-proof and scalable.

Enabling the Future of Trust in Digital Product Passports

The United Nations Transparency Protocol (UNTP) has already put many of the principles discussed in this blog into practice to address transparency challenges in global supply chains. By implementing a simple protocol that can be supported by existing business systems, stakeholders will realise immediate benefits and will become visible contributors to the sustainability of global supply chains. cheqd is committed to supporting and contributing to these efforts, ensuring that Decentralised Identity, Verifiable Credentials, and Trust Registries play a key role within the UNTP framework.

AI Agents Framework: How to Plug Them with cheqd Trust Framework

AI agents are developing from simple chatbots into capable assistants that can carry out valuable tasks and automate decision making. As adoption accelerates, the need for a well defined framework to control how these agents operate is in demand.

Interestingly, the challenge isn’t just about capability, it’s about trust. How can we make sure AI agents are safe to use, compliant to legal requirements, and reflect user intent?

cheqd’s Trust Framework offers a solution to this issue. It is a modular infrastructure for embedding trust directly into AI systems. Using Trust Registries, Accreditations , and Verifiable Credentials, it protects organisations, individuals, and other agents from scams while monetising trust as a new revenue stream.

This blog explores how you can integrate cheqd’s Agentic Trust solutions into your AI agent framework to create safer, more accountable systems at scale.

The Identity Crisis: Know Your Agent (KYA)

Despite their growing role in digital workflows, AI agents today have one fundamental flaw: they don’t have a verifiable identity. Anyone can deploy an agent. No one can prove who made it, what it represents, or whether it’s authorised to act on someone’s behalf.

The implications are already playing out in the wild. Fake AI bots mimicking banks or the customers, impersonating support teams, or harvesting sensitive data are surfacing in phishing campaigns and scam networks. So far, these incidents are relatively low value. But the sophistication and scale are accelerating fast.

This explains why the concept of KYA (Know Your Agent) was invented. Similar to how we use Know Your Customer (KYC) or Know Your Business (KYB) mechanisms to prevent fraud and verify identity in financial services, KYA brings identity and accountability to the world of AI agents.

With cheqd’s trust infrastructure, every agent can be issued with verifiable credentials that answer key questions:

Who developed, trained, and deployed the agent?
Who does it represent, and is that relationship current?
Can it be trusted with sensitive information or tasks?

In short, KYA transforms agents from anonymous executors into auditable, accountable actors in your digital ecosystem.

Introducing cheqd’s Agentic Trust Solution

cheqd’s Agentic Trust solution brings a flexible, standards-based approach to building trust into the AI agent ecosystem. Built on tried and tested decentralised identity technologies — already in use across financial services sectors — it enables AI agents to operate with verifiable identity, clear permissions, and transparent provenance.

At its core, the solution is made up of three key components:

Agentic Trust Registries (Know Your Agent)
Verify who built, trained, and deployed an agent. Understand who it represents, and whether that relationship is valid. These registries provide a discoverable, cryptographically-verifiable source of truth about agents and their associated trust frameworks.
Agent Credentials (Agent Permissions)
Assign granular, role based credentials to agents, defining what actions they are authorised to take and in what context. These can include compliance certificates, scopes of authority, or operational permissions.

These capabilities are delivered via:

cheqd Studio: A no-code SaaS platform for creating your trust registries for AI Agents.
SDKs: Integration of SDKs like Credo for issuing credentials to your agents.
TRAIN: A trust engine for verifying and validating trust registries for your agents
Model Context Protocol (MCP): A tool to integrate decentralised identity seamlessly with existing AI/ML tooling, such as commonly used AI agents (Claude, Chat GPT, etc).

By offering both SaaS (cheqd Studio) and SDK-based options, cheqd enables organisations to choose the level of control or simplicity that best fits their needs. The solution is also built to integrate smoothly with popular AI/ML tooling, making it easy for agents to interface with decentralised identity frameworks without significant changes to existing stacks.

Trust Registries for Agent Verification

As the backbone of our Agentic Trust solution, cheqd’s Trust Registries (TR) provide the infrastructure to anchor trust at any level in an AI agent’s lifecycle. Our TR support multi-directional trust models:

Top-down: Start from a governance authority (e.g. a regulator or industry group) and discover all agents accredited under their framework.
Bottom-up: Begin with an individual agent and trace back to the organisations or frameworks that have accredited or endorsed them.

cheqd Trust Registries are designed to accommodate a wide range of actors:

Governance Authorities: Governments, industry bodies, or consortiums.
Accredited Organisations: Auditors, certifiers, and security firms.
Trusted Issuers: Companies and entities vouching for their own agents.
Agents: Providing any type of service.

This layered structure offers various features and benefits:

Impersonation proof: All identifiers (e.g. DIDs for Agents), Registries, Accreditations, and Credentials are cryptographically verifiable back to their authors.
Flexible Attestations: AI Agents can hold multiple attestations from different issuers and trust registries.
Suspension, Revocation & Auditability: Attestations (held by agent) and Accreditations (held by other companies in trust registry) can be temporarily or permanently revoked, all with an auditable history providing clear time periods and validity checks.
Flexible Hierarchies: Trust registries can be flat or hierarchical as desired. Monetisable: Trust registries can be payment-gated to generate revenue for Governance Authorities or any other organisation enabling trust.
Standards Compliant: Built using W3C & Trust over IP standards & specifications in alignment with the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure. DID-based architecture being passed through CEN & ISO for standardisation.

cheqd’s Trust Registries ensure you don’t just take an agent’s word for it. You verify who stands behind it. Whether you’re a regulator, enterprise, or developer, this infrastructure lays the foundation for trustworthy, scalable agent ecosystems.

Plugging Agentic Trust into Your AI Framework

Integrating cheqd’s Agentic Trust infrastructure into your AI agent framework doesn’t require a complete overhaul. It’s modular, thus you can adopt components progressively based on your needs and maturity stage.

Step 1: Setup your cheqd MCP server to create AI Agent DIDs and issue Verifiable Credentials to AI Agents. Follow the tutorial here.

Step 2: Assign Verifiable Identity – Start by giving your AI agents a Decentralized Identifier (DID). You can create these identifiers using cheqd’s DID method using the cheqd MCP server via its integration with Credo. Follow the tutorial here.

Step 3: Build your agentic Trust Registries – Design and build your trust registry for your AI agent. Use our cheqd Studio APIs to issue verifiable accreditations down the trust chain – starting from a Root of Trust (Governance Authority), to accredited organisations, all the way to the AI Agent. Follow the tutorial here.

Step 4: Import Agentic Credentials – Import a credential that includes reference to the trust registry into your AI Agent using the cheqd MCP server and the Credo integration. Follow the tutorial here.

Step 5: Integrate into Agentic Workflows – Integrate identity and credential checks straight into agent workflows by utilising the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and TRAIN framework. Use functionality such as the “whois” function to check the trust of the AI Agent. It will explain to you why it’s trusted in a clear response. Follow the tutorial here.

Step 6: Monetise Trust – If you’re a governance body, auditor, or trust issuer, you can monetise your position in the trust ecosystem. cheqd enables payment-gated registries and credentials issuance, giving you a new revenue stream based on the value of verified trust.

By following these steps, you gain a clear roadmap for transforming agents from black boxes into transparent, verifiable, and monetisable digital actors.

Building Trustworthy Agent Ecosystems

cheqd’s Agentic Trust framework offers a scalable, standards based approach to embedding trust directly into the identity and actions of AI agents.

Our approach is built on recognised global standards, including W3C Verifiable Credentials and is aligned with initiatives like the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI). cheqd is also an active member of leading digital identity and AI governance communities, including the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF), Trust over IP, INATBA Verifiable AI Working Group, Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, Sovereign AI Alliance, Decentralised AI Agent Alliance, and more.

Whether you’re building AI agents, governing their use, or integrating them into your operations, now is the time to lay a solid foundation. With cheqd, trust is something you can prove. Contact us at [email protected]

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Sovereign AI Alliance Forms to Develop Framework for Open Source, Decentralised AI

Four Industry Pioneers Unite to Create the Post-Web Intention Economy

Today marks the formation of the Sovereign AI Alliance (SAIA), a coalition established to develop the framework for open source, decentralized artificial intelligence powered by user-owned data. This initiative aims to shift the digital economy from attention extraction to intention fulfillment, while ensuring users maintain sovereignty over their data.

Four Founding Partners with a Unified Vision

The Alliance brings together four organizations with complementary expertise:

DataHive (datahive.network) is pioneering Personal AI – the operating system for your digital self. “The future of digital experience isn’t about platforms—it’s about people,” said Ray Gill, CEO & Founder. “Personal AI will serve as the operating system for your digital self, a sovereign agent that understands your intentions and works on your behalf while keeping you in control of your digital identity and data.”

Nuklai (nukl.ai) provides infrastructure for decentralized data collaboration. “True innovation requires collaboration beyond the silos we’ve built,” said Matthijs de Vries, Founder and CEO. “The Sovereign AI Alliance creates an open framework where data collaboration can power AI systems that serve human intentions rather than corporate interests.”

cheqd (cheqd.io) delivers decentralized identity infrastructure. “In the post-web intention economy, people need to prove they control their digital identity, data, preferences, and agents. cheqd delivers this with decentralised identity, trust registries and payments for data, agents, and credentials” said Fraser Edwards, CEO.

Datagram (datagram.network) is a global, AI-driven Hyper-Fabric Network redefining the new era of Internet connectivity and DePIN cross-network interoperability. “The current landscape forces users to translate their intentions across dozens of incompatible systems,” noted Jason Brink, CEO. “Through the Alliance, we’ll develop protocols that allow intention data to move efficiently while maintaining user sovereignty.”

The Intention Network Protocol

At the heart of SAIA’s framework is the Intention Network Protocol (INP), a proposed universal standard for AI agents to communicate while preserving user data ownership. The framework consists of three core components:

Intention Anchors: Secure interfaces between users and AI, capturing genuine intentions while maintaining data ownership
Intention Mesh: Decentralized infrastructure connecting AI systems while maintaining data sovereignty
Execution Nodes: Specialized AI agents that execute actions based on user intentions

“Our approach inverts the current model—humans express their intentions once, and open source AI systems collaborate to fulfill those intentions,” said Gill. “This is the foundation of the post-web world we’re building.”

Development Roadmap

The Alliance will focus on five critical components:

Decentralized Data Storage Protocols that preserve user privacy while enabling AI training
Open-Source AI Models for On-Chain Operation that operate efficiently within decentralized environments
Governance Frameworks for Community-Controlled AI that prevent centralization of power
Infrastructure for AI Agent-to-Agent Transactions enabling autonomous systems to collaborate
Standardized Data Formats with Embedded Verification ensuring interoperability and trust

These developments will progress through three phases: Foundation (technical specifications), Implementation (prototypes and testing), and Adoption (production implementations and ecosystem growth).

Core Principles

SAIA’s work is guided by four principles:

User Data Ownership: Ensuring individuals control their data through self-sovereign identity
Open Source Development: Building all components as open source projects
Decentralized Governance: Creating systems that resist centralization by design
Intention-Based Interaction: Focusing on fulfilling genuine human intentions rather than engagement

“By establishing this alliance, we’re ensuring that AI serves humanity’s genuine needs rather than extracting value from users,” said Gill. “Open source, decentralized systems with user-owned data represent the only viable path to AI that aligns with human values.”

“We’re taking a methodical approach to building something truly transformative,” added de Vries. “Each component addresses a fundamental limitation in today’s AI landscape, creating the foundation for AI that genuinely serves human intentions.”

The Alliance will begin accepting additional partners in Q3 2025, with a focus on organizations that can contribute expertise to specific components.

The SAIA website will be revealed in the next stages.

About the Sovereign AI Alliance

The Sovereign AI Alliance (SAIA) is developing the open source, decentralized framework for AI powered by user-owned data. Founded by Nuklai, cheqd, Datagram, and DataHive, SAIA aims to build infrastructure that enables AI to serve genuine human intentions while ensuring complete user data ownership and control.