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title: "Decentralized Identity Foundation (@decentralized-identity)"
description: "Industry foundation for decentralized identity."
account: "decentralized-identity"
---

# Decentralized Identity Foundation

Industry foundation for decentralized identity.

## APIs

4 public APIs with a stored document.
Each links to its markdown overview; the same address with
`/llms.txt` in place of `.md` lists its operations.
Changes across these APIs: https://skmtc.dev/decentralized-identity/feed.md

- [Universal Registrar](https://skmtc.dev/decentralized-identity/apis/universal-registrar.md): Identity: create, update and deactivate DIDs and DID URL resources across supported methods
- [The DID DHT Service](https://skmtc.dev/decentralized-identity/apis/the-did-dht-service.md): DHT: store and fetch BEP44 DNS records, plus a health check endpoint
- [DID DHT Gateway API](https://skmtc.dev/decentralized-identity/apis/did-dht-gateway-api.md): Decentralized identifiers: resolve, publish and index DIDs on a DHT
- [Sidetree REST API](https://skmtc.dev/decentralized-identity/apis/sidetree-rest-api.md): Decentralized identifiers: resolve DIDs, write operations, store content and read anchor transactions