Tamga Network

Learning path

From digital identity to Tamga Network

Start knowing nothing. From "what is identity?" to joining the network, move through seven chapters of short pages and diagrams. Each page explains one idea; wherever you want the technical detail, step over to the developer docs and Tamga ARF.

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Seven chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Identity and trust

    What identity is, why it is hard today and how trust is built in the digital world.

    4 pages · 18 min

    1. 1.1What is identity?
    2. 1.2From paper to digital
    3. 1.3Three models of digital identity
    4. 1.4The trust triangle

  2. Chapter 2

    Building blocks

    Signatures, certificates, verifiable credentials and wallets, without drowning in detail.

    8 pages · 37 min

    1. 2.1Cryptography in plain words
    2. 2.2Digital signatures
    3. 2.3Certificates and the chain of trust
    4. 2.4Verifiable credentials
    5. 2.5Two formats: SD-JWT VC and mdoc
    6. 2.6Digital wallets
    7. 2.7Receiving and presenting
    8. 2.8Revocation and freshness

  3. Chapter 3

    Privacy by design

    Showing only what is needed, leaving no trail and keeping the person in control.

    5 pages · 27 min

    1. 3.1Data minimisation
    2. 3.2Selective disclosure
    3. 3.3Zero-knowledge proofs
    4. 3.4Unlinkability
    5. 3.5Consent and control

  4. Chapter 4

    Europe's model

    eIDAS 2.0, the EUDI Wallet and trust services: the common language our network speaks.

    5 pages · 25 min

    1. 4.1What is eIDAS 2.0?
    2. 4.2What is the EUDI Wallet?
    3. 4.3Trust services
    4. 4.4PID, EAA, QEAA
    5. 4.5The European timeline

  5. Chapter 5

    Trust infrastructure

    Trust lists, federation and where blockchain really fits in this picture.

    4 pages · 20 min

    1. 5.1Trust lists
    2. 5.2Federation
    3. 5.3What is blockchain?
    4. 5.4Why no blockchain yet?

  6. Chapter 6

    Tamga Network

    What the network is, who does what, its rules and its governance.

    8 pages · 38 min

    1. 6.1What is Tamga Network?
    2. 6.2Why the Turkic world?
    3. 6.3Who does what
    4. 6.4The layers of the network
    5. 6.5Rules and rulebooks
    6. 6.6Governance
    7. 6.7Open source
    8. 6.8The first wallet: Tamga Wallet

  7. Chapter 7

    Joining the network

    Joining as an institution, a verifier, a wallet provider or a state.

    5 pages · 27 min

    1. 7.1Issuing as an institution
    2. 7.2Becoming a verifier
    3. 7.3Building a wallet
    4. 7.4For states
    5. 7.5What next?