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About d.id
d.id is a decentralized identity protocol based in Singapore, formerly .bit, which repositioned in 2023 from domains to universal identifiers: a readable name can bind addresses across chains, social accounts and attestations, acting as one identity across applications. It runs on Nervos ledger with the did:bit method, lets communities issue sub-identifiers with suffixes, and adds governance and reputation modules.
It addresses fragmented on-chain identity, where one user has different addresses on different chains and cannot carry credit or relationships across them. Making identifiers a resolvable, verifiable record layer should let applications share one identity dataset. Adoption is the difficulty: an identity protocol is only as useful as the applications that read it, and users have weak incentives to migrate identifiers. Public figures cite about 280,000 names registered and over 140 wallet and app integrations, with no verifiable major release during 2026.
d.id was founded in 2021 with the team led by former Tencent colleagues Tim Yeoh, Specer Shaw, Jeff Jin, Kyle Wright and others, distributed in the US, China and Singapore, and launched on the mainnet on July 22, 2021.
d.id completed a $13M Series A funding round in August 2022, with investors including CMB International, HashKey Capital, QingSong Fund, GSR Ventures, GGV Capital, SNZ and others.
d.id was rebranded from .bit to d.id on September 8, 2023, and launched a new website and product matrix including Soulfrag.xyz, Voty.xyz, d.id Profile and others.
d.id completed the RGB++ and DOBs compatibility upgrade on July 4, 2024, becoming a Bitcoin layer 1 DID asset.
In the past six months (2026-03-13 to 2026-09-13), d.id formed a strategic partnership with InitVerse to strengthen cross-chain identity authentication and Web3 accessibility. According to the official announcement, the collaboration will focus on four directions: optimizing decentralized identity infrastructure, lowering entry barriers for mainstream users into Web3, enhancing security and proof-of-humanity mechanisms, and supporting scalable cross-chain dApp ecosystems. This reflects d.id’s deepening expansion in the cross-chain DID space.
Tim Yeoh — Founder; leads a core team of former Tencent colleagues, launched the .bit protocol in 2021, raised a $13M Series A in 2022, and rebranded to d.id in September 2023.
Spencer Shaw — Co-founder; oversees engineering and product.
Jeff Jin and Kyle Wright — Co-founders.