Driven by innovation
Atala PRISM is a self-sovereign identity (SSI) platform and service suite for verifiable data and digital identity. Built on Cardano, it offers core infrastructure for issuing DIDs (decentralized identifiers) and verifiable credentials, alongside tools and frameworks to help expand your ecosystem.
Why choose Atala PRISM?
Get next-generation trust infrastructure working for you
Atala PRISM seamlessly pairs with a range of Input Output products and services to combine identity, value, and governance solutions in a single platform.
Modularity and Flexibility
Atala PRISM’s suite of infrastructure products provides easy-to-use and easy-to-integrate verifiable data and identity components that power diverse and scalable solutions.
Interoperability
Build secure, private, and verifiable interactions between individuals, organizations, and devices using open standards and protocols such as W3C DID spec, W3C VC-JWT, HL Anoncreds, and DIDComm V2.
Security and Privacy
When developing with Atala PRISM, you benefit from security features, such as end-to-end encryption, and verifiable claims, ensuring software-defined trust in your ecosystem.
Developer driven
Tools and resources
Atala PRISM gives you all the necessary documentation, developer tools, and support to build world-class solutions.
SDKs and APIs
Easy to integrate with existing systems in a developer friendly programming language.
Comprehensive documentation
Simple & clear documentation, guides and resources at your fingertips.
Innovation funding
Cardano's Project Catalyst is a public forum for innovative collaboration and decentralized grant funding.
Who is Atala PRISM for?
See how we can help you grow
Atala PRISM can help innovators, businesses, and governments grow their offerings in a digital economy.
For innovators
Partner with us from start to finish on your development journey and you’ll unlock access to our expert team, best-in-class training, funding and incubation opportunities.
For business
Expand your customer base, increase your profits, and secure the future of your business through an improved overall experience.
For government
Implement secure, next-generation services to make your governance more effective, responsive, and agile.
See Atala PRISM in action
Explore our case studies
Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education
Input Output partnered with Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education to implement a national student and teacher ID and attainment recording system based on blockchain. Atala PRISM’s identity solution enables authorities to create tamper-proof education credentials for 3,500 schools, 5 million students, and 750,000 teachers.
Join the community
The Atala PRISM Pioneer Program
The Atala PRISM Pioneer Program trains professionals, including business analysts, UX designers, and software developers, to design and build decentralized identity solutions and ecosystems using Atala PRISM. Our Decentralized Ecosystems Curriculum offers three courses, which you can read more about in the section below:
Learn about Atala PRISM
A guide to our three program modules
AP101: Foundations of decentralized identity
The foundational principles and concepts of self-sovereign identity (SSI).
Non-technical explanation of SSI- A thorough examination of SSI concepts
- Moral and ethical questions for emerging tech
- A hands-on experience receiving a course completion verifiable credential
AP102: Building with Atala PRISM
Building applications with Atala PRISM.
- Introduction to the PRISM suite
- Real-world ecosystem walkthrough
- Creating DIDs, issuing and verifying credentials
- Fireside chats with SSI leaders
- Collaboration with designers
AP103: Human-centric Design for Decentralized identiy
A foundation in designing human-centric solutions for decentralized ecosystems.
- Introduction to a designer’s role in emerging technology and design for identity
- The importance of looking through the eyes of the user. Introduction of concepts such as calm technology, design for social innovation, and empathy
- Exploring the different obstacles such as interoperability, account recovery or tech understanding
- Discussion of different methods to reduce friction in HCI (human computer interaction), the importance of critical thinking and critique in the design process
- Collaboration with developers
Upon joining, you'll become part of a select group with access to courses that will teach you the core principles of decentralized ecosystems and Atala PRISM, including self-sovereign identity, decentralized identifiers (DIDs), verifiable credentials (VCs), governance frameworks, and more.
The course materials are highly interactive, with workshops, weekly videos, exercises, cross-course collaboration, and Q&A sessions, along with exclusive access to the course creators and office-hours with key experts.
Pioneers graduate
to Astros
Identifying high-value use cases and developing partner networks is critical to adoption and growth. Astros are graduates of the Pioneer program that will receive mentorship, collaboration, and support through office hours, dedicated communications channels, commercialization opportunities, and more.
Leading by example
Governance Framework
Governance frameworks are a vital piece to decentralized ecosystems. The Atala PRISM team created one for the Pioneer program to govern the issuance of credentials for our program. It is a real-world example to examine during the course as it is implemented and operational. We welcome anyone to explore the governance framework here and even use it as a template to create your own for your ecosystem.
Get to know the identity experts
Meet the team
Atala PRISM brings together the most experienced self-sovereign identity professionals in the industry. With over 25 years of collective experience, our team continues to collaborate with industry experts both within and outside of Input Output, empowering us to deliver solutions that combine leading blockchain security standards.
David Harding
General Manager
Bart Suichies
Technical Director
Anushka Soma-Patel
Product Manager - Customer Development
Lohan Spies
Product Manager - CORE DID
Mark Griffin
Product Manager - Product Foundry
Ilona Olejnik
Product Design Lead
Fayyaadh Adams
Community Manager
Esteban Garcia
Product Owner
Want to know more?
About us
Founded in 2015, Input Output is one of the world’s pre-eminent blockchain research and engineering companies, best known for the Cardano blockchain platform.
We are a fully decentralized, remote-working organization committed to the highest principles of academic rigour and evidence-based software development. The company builds high-assurance blockchain products for public and private sector clients. To find out more about current career opportunities, click the button below.
Atala PRISM is powered by Cardano, which is built by a decentralized community of scientists, engineers, and thought leaders united in a common purpose: to create a technology platform that will ignite the positive change the world needs. It is the first blockchain platform to be built through peer-reviewed research, to be secure enough to protect the data of billions, scalable enough to accommodate global systems, and robust enough to support foundational change.
Cardano is developed by Input Output, a blockchain technology company and industry leader in the fields of cryptography and distributed systems.
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