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# Identifiers (DIDs)

### Identifiers

In Ocean Enterprise, we use decentralized identifiers (DIDs) to identify your asset within the network. Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity. In contrast to typical, centralized identifiers, DIDs have been designed so that they may be decoupled from centralized registries, identity providers, and certificate authorities. Specifically, while other parties might be used to help enable the discovery of information related to a DID, the design enables the controller of a DID to prove control over it without requiring permission from any other party. DIDs are URIs that associate a DID subject with a DID document, allowing trustable interactions associated with that subject.

### Examples

DIDs in Ocean Enterprise follow [the generic DID scheme](https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/#the-generic-did-scheme), they look like this:

```
did:ope:0ebed8226ada17fde24b6bf2b95d27f8f05fcce09139ff5cec31f6d81a7cd2ea
```

The part after `did:ope:` is the ERC721 contract address(in checksum format) and the chainId (expressed to 10 decimal places). The following JavaScript example shows how to calculate the DID for the asset:

```javascript
const CryptoJS = require('crypto-js')

const dataNftAddress = '0xa331155197F70e5e1EA0CC2A1f9ddB1D49A9C1De'
const chainId = 1
const checksum = CryptoJS.SHA256(dataNftAddress + chainId.toString(10))
const did = 'did:op:' + checksum

console.log(did)

```