The Hiero community has added the Hiero Heka Identity Platform (Heko) to Hiero, an LF Decentralized Trust project. The contribution, by DSR Corporation (DSR), has been open sourced and is now available as a subproject within the Hiero GitHub organization: https://github.com/hiero-ledger/heka-identity-platform.
This enterprise-ready SSI toolkit establishes a shared foundation for decentralized identity and represents an important step toward broader adoption of decentralized trust infrastructure. By bringing the toolkit into the Hiero ecosystem, the community can align and collaborate on a common approach.
Heka accelerates adoption while reducing fragmentation across tools and architectures. By consolidating proven capabilities into a common ecosystem layer, Heka creates a clearer path for interoperability and enables participants to build without needing to develop core identity components from scratch.
For builders and partners, this shift consolidates specifications already implemented across the ecosystem into the same neutral home as the open-source distributed ledger technology used to build the Hedera network. The result is clearer stewardship, a single canonical reference point, and a shared governance model for application- and coordination-layer standards.
Hiero Heka Identity Platform (Heka) is the first comprehensive set of open-source, end-client identity applications designed to work natively with Hedera-based environments and the broader Hiero ledger ecosystem. It enables enterprises to deploy decentralized identity solutions faster, with lower risk and greater interoperability.
The platform combines mobile wallet applications, web interfaces, backend services, and standards-based Verifiable Credential protocols into a modular, enterprise-grade platform that supports issuance, verification, and management of digital credentials.
Heka is designed with a clear focus on the emerging AI and agentic economy. As AI systems move from assistants to autonomous actors, they require trusted digital identities to transact, make decisions, and interact across platforms. Heka provides the foundation for this shift, enabling AI agents to issue, receive, verify, and act upon verifiable credentials securely and at scale.
The platform is modular by design, allowing organizations to assemble the components they need while maintaining architectural flexibility. At the same time, Heka enables teams to deploy a fully functional mobile Identity Wallet with credential issuance and verification capabilities, along with a web UI and backend layer that abstracts SSI complexity. This application layer simplifies daily operations for end users who are not familiar with decentralized identity mechanics, making advanced trust infrastructure usable in real-world business environments.
Core capabilities include:
Enterprise Features:
Digital trust is no longer optional. Regulatory pressure (eIDAS 2.0, digital wallets, KYC modernization), cross-border operations, ecosystem partnerships, and AI-driven automation are reshaping how organizations manage identity, compliance, and data exchange.
A new pattern is emerging: AI agents increasingly require verifiable, machine-readable credentials to interact securely on behalf of users, organizations, or systems. Enabling trusted, programmable identity for these agents is one of Heka’s strategic goals.
However, many enterprises face three persistent barriers:
With Heka, Hiero addresses these challenges directly.
Heka provides enterprise-ready identity applications, not just SDKs. Organizations can:
For executive teams, this translates into:
Hedera is an active enterprise-grade public network (blockchain/L1) governed by a global council and built on the Hashgraph consensus algorithm, offering high throughput, predictable fees, and strong governance. Hiero is the open source codebase on which this network operates and which has been placed under the stewardship of an independent foundation.
The connection between them is direct and fundamental: Hedera transferred its entire codebase to Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT). This code became the project now known as Hiero.
LFDT will host an online Meetup on May 21 at 9:00 a.m. MT. The session will explore the Hiero Heka Identity Platform in detail, including its architecture, integration approaches, and real-world use cases, offering organizations a clear path from decentralized identity concepts to practical implementation.
We invite developers and digital identity enthusiasts to join us in developing future releases of Heka. The community welcomes code contributions, documentation improvements, feature suggestions, new issue reports, CI improvements, and testing.
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