Beyond finance, one of the most transformative applications of blockchain technology lies in revolutionizing personal identity. Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) models promise a future where individuals, not corporations, control their own personal data and share verifiable credentials. This shift to user-controlled digital wallets creates profound new legal opportunities but also navigates a complex intersection of data privacy law, cybersecurity, and liability. Our firm provides the specialized legal counsel required to build compliant and trustworthy decentralized identity solutions.
Our service covers the entire digital identity lifecycle. We partner with you from the initial design phase to embed legal compliance directly into your platform's architecture. Our primary focus is ensuring your SSI model is fully compliant with data protection regimes like the Georgian Law on Personal Data Protection and the EU's GDPR. We advise on data minimization and privacy-by-design principles, helping you create a system where user control is a legally-defensible core principle.
Next, we help structure the legal relationships between the three core parties in an SSI ecosystem: the Issuer (e.g., a university), the Holder (the user), and the Verifier (an employer). We draft the necessary policies and agreements governing the issuance and acceptance of verifiable credentials. In a world without a central administrator, traditional liability models break down. We provide legal analysis on the novel liability questions that arise in decentralized identity networks—who is liable for a credential breach or identity fraud? We help architect governance models and dispute resolution mechanisms for your ecosystem that provide clarity and accountability.