Let's be honest; nobody wakes up excited to read forty pages of technical documentation. (If you do, I'm sure psychological help is available!)

We write documentation because we have to. Comprehensive, accurate, but distinctly bland.

And when you're in the middle of building an integration, you don't want to read a technical novel from cover to cover. You want the answer to the question in front of you, so you can get back to writing code.

Naturally, the modern developer workflow has evolved. The answer is usually:

"I'll just ask my AI agent."

Imagine you are travelling to a city with very strict entry rules.

It is not enough to say, “Hello, I’m here to help.” The guard at the gate needs to know who you are, whether you belong to a recognised group, and whether you are actually allowed to do what you say you are there to do.

This is exactly the problem we face in financial settlement networks. Before participants move funds, they need a reliable way to prove their identity and their authority.

Here is how we solve that using decentralised identity—explained without the jargon.