2025 Identus Annual Review

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+title: 2024 Annual Review Identus
+parent: 2024
+grand_parent: Project Updates
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+
+## Project Health
+
+Hyperledger Identus [LFX Insights Dashboard](https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/foundation/lf-decentralized-trust/reports/contributors?project=identus&bestPractice=false&dateFilters=Last%20Year&dateRange=2024-01-01%20to%202024-12-31&compare=PP&granularity=month&hideBots=true&repository=all)
+The project is relatively new to the Hyperledger Ecosystem and is mainly supported by the IOG maintainers.
+At the same time, over the past year, we have seen several new contributors and evidence of usage of the Identus Platform by another companies: 
+- https://socious.io/, Socious production use case.
+- https://ahau.io/, Ahau PoC.
+- https://blocktrust.dev/, - identity wallet.
+
+We currently utilize two Discord servers: the Hyperledger Discord and the Identus Discord. 
+The Identus Discord has seen significantly more engagement. 
+Since January 2024, our membership has grown from 258 to 476 members. 
+On average, there are 348 activities across various channels monthly, with about 39 users online daily.
+
+## Maintainer Diversity
+
+There are currently 30 maintainers from IOG and other companies. 
+
+The MAINTAINERS.md file is up to date and can be found [here](https://github.com/hyperledger/identus/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md)
+The `identus-maintainers` [team](https://github.com/hyperledger/governance/blob/main/access-control.yaml#L625-L655) includes around 30 members from IOG and other companies.
+
+The number of active maintainers has decreased due to the restructure of the Atala Team at IOG. 
+However, the diversity of maintainers has increased over the past six months, with more companies contributing to the project.
+
+## Project Adoption
+
+A number of companies are using the Identus project for prototyping and production use cases.
+
+The following companies are using the project:
+- https://socious.io/, Socious production use case.
+- https://ahau.io/, Ahau PoC.
+- https://blocktrust.dev/, - identity wallet.
+
+Developers are actively participating in the weekly meetings and considering using the Identus platform for their use cases.
+
+## Goals
+
+### Performance Against Prior Goals
+
+The current project roadmap is public and can be found here: [Identus Roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/hyperledger/projects/48)  
+
+During the last six months, the project has achieved the following goals:
+- Connectionless Issuance and Verification of VC via DIDCommV2
+- DID Prism AnonCreds method to resolve the resources from the DID Prism URL (for the schema and credential definition)
+- Crypto Agility of the DID Prism Method (added Ed25519 cryptography suite)
+- Transitioning the project from the IOHK to the Hyperledger organization
+- OID4VCI specification implementation in the Cloud Agent and SDKs (for JWT VC only)
+- Major refactoring: a. improved error handling in the Cloud Agent, the Mediator, and SDKs, b. added Problem Report protocol to other protocols, c. Background jobs are replaced with the message queue (in-memory or Kafka)
+- SD-JWT-VC implementation in the Cloud Agent and SDKs
+- Status List revocation implementation in JWT VC
+- Improved documentation with the Quick Start Guide and Tutorials
+
+The roadmap is actively discussed with the community members in the GitHub [Discussions](https://github.com/hyperledger/identus/discussions)
+
+### Next Year's Goals
+
+The project has the following strategic goals for the next year:
+- Reduce maintenance cost and complexity of the Identus platform
+- Increase the Identus platform adoption by the developers and companies
+- Improve the platform interoperability with other SSI platforms
+- Improve the platform documentation and tutorials
+
+The following features are planned for the next year among others:
+- Cardano Identus VDR
+- Bring Issuance capabilities to the SDKs
+- Continue with UAS Wrapper implementation
+- Pollux Plugin abstraction SDK
+- OIDC specifications for the SSI: OID4VCI, OID4VP, SIOP2.0
+- Authentication using the PRISM DID method
+
+### Help Required
+
+LF Decentralized Trust can help with the following:
+- Promote the Identus project within the Hyperledger community
+- Help with the workshops and hackathons
+- Help to collaborate with the Hyperledger Aries project as the Identus platform leveraging the Aries specs and protorols
+
+
+## Project Lifecycle Status Recommendation
+
+The Identus is a fairly new graduated project in the Hyperledger Ecosystem and should remain so.