# Thoughts, product updates and ideas related to identity, user management, and self sovereign data

[At the core of W3C standards are the features they unlock, not only for the users themselves but for the developers integrating them into their applications.](https://blog.ceramic.network/attestations-vs-credentials-making-claims-interoperable/)

[A useful way to think about the DID standard \[https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/\]  
is as a mechanism to bootstrap trust in an identifier. Implementers can define  
DID Methods that define how to resolve a DID Document from a DID URL. The most  
widely used DID method today](https://blog.ceramic.network/accounts-evolution-of-3id/)

[How sovereignty, data models and networks combine to create the internet’s user table and the sovereign web.](https://blog.ceramic.network/user-centric-data-on-web3/)

[We're replacing the popular IDX runtime with a more powerful set of tools for building applications on Ceramic including DID DataStore, DataModels, and Self.ID.](https://blog.ceramic.network/the-next-architecture-for-building-web3-data-applications/)

[Michael talks about the evolution of digital identity from servers to key pairs to DIDs and IDX. A presentation at ETHDever 2021.](https://blog.ceramic.network/the-evolution-of-digital-identity-from-key-pairs-to-dids-and-idx/)

[Learn how to manage user data for your Web3 application with IDX. This talk is a workshop from ETHDenver 2021.](https://blog.ceramic.network/learn-how-to-manage-user-data-in-a-web3-app-with-idx/)

[3Box Labs is sunsetting its current line of 3Box products. Learn how to migrate your integration to Ceramic and IDX.](https://blog.ceramic.network/migrating-from-3box-to-ceramic-and-idx/)

[Learn how to build a simple note taking application where users own their data with IDX and React.](https://blog.ceramic.network/how-to-build-a-simple-notes-app-with-idx/)

[Learn to encrypt, store, and recover user-managed secrets with IDX.](https://blog.ceramic.network/how-to-store-encrypted-secrets-using-idx/)

[Watch a workshop on how to build with the IDX decentralized identity protocol.](https://blog.ceramic.network/building-with-decentralized-identity-on-idx-and-ceramic/)

[Learn how to build applications with IDX for user identity and SkyDB for data storage.](https://blog.ceramic.network/how-to-build-idx-apps-with-skydb-storage-backend/)

[IDX is a brand new SDK for building with decentralized identity and user-centric data from the 3Box Labs team.](https://blog.ceramic.network/idx-a-devkit-for-open-identity/)

[Identity has been a long-standing challenge not just in decentralized technology  
but in online applications generally. Part of the challenge comes from a lack of  
clarity about what is meant by ‘identity’ and the many forms it can take in  
digital products, services and networks. This is a frequent](https://blog.ceramic.network/demistifying-digital-identity/)