Mobile SSI Agents Exploration

[wip-abramson]

What?

We need to understand the space of open source mobile SSI aries agents. What libraries are available and what state are they in? Can we use any of them to create our own agent today? I know a number of projects in development:

• https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin which uses the dot-net framework.
• https://github.com/ayanworks/ARNIMA - a React Native project
• https://github.com/AbsaOSS/rn-indy-sdk - a different React Native project

I am slightly biased towards the react native solutions, however I know that the Xamarin is the most developed. It would be great to have an analysis of the different solutions and an understand of the steps we would need to take to create our own mobile agent using these tools.

How long?

This could take a long time. Lets say ~3 months initially.

Is your research related to a problem?

Currently the only mobile agents available are boring functional apps developed by a few organisations. We want to open up innovation in this space so that developers can start experimenting designing personal digital wallets. OM is well placed to be a big contributor in this area. PPML + personal digital wallets = :)

[wip-abramson]

This is a great discussion about what might be possible in the future - https://www.continuumloop.com/get-digital-wallet-report