Since the announcement of our Testnet, a number of countries have announced that they are or will issue new identity documents that could be used on our blockchain: National Identity Cards: Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Malta, Norway and Romania. Even…
Our mobile apps for Android and iOS have been updated with a new functionality that matches your digital photograph contained within your National Identity Card or Electronic Passport with a photograph taken with your smartphone: to prevent privacy issues, your…
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has published a 12-month review of the revised FATF standards on Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers. Noteworthy statements from this review are as follows: 35 out of 54 reporting jurisdictions advised that…
Network effects are paramount in cryptocurrencies and blockchains, just like in telephone and social networks: the higher the number of users, the more valuable the networks are. Blockchain networks follow Metcalfe’s law and their variants (Reed, Sarnoff, Beckstrom, Odlyzko, Gompertz,…
On March 3, the World Health Organization (WHO) advised the use of contactless technology for payments instead of cash as paper money could be spreading the COVID-19 virus: people should wash their hands after handling cash because COVID-19 could be…
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) held its FATF Week and Plenary on 19-21 February, officially adopting a new Guidance on Digital ID. One of the common misconceptions in the interpretation of the new FATF Rule 16 (i.e., the Crypto…
In June 2019, Apple announced at their Developers Conference that iOS 13 would support NFC Tag Reading for ePassports and contactless identity cards: in practice, this feature is only available for iPhone 7 or up, using iOS 13.1 or up.…
Spanish Identity Card compliant with the ICAO 9303 standard There's an ongoing trend to unify National Identity Cards on the ICAO 9303 standard for Machine Readable Travel Documents, the same standard used by ePassports (also known as biometric passports): you…
We have listened to your feedback and the mobile app has been updated: Multiple account support: an individual can hold multiple electronic passports and national identity cards. Transaction list: check what transactions have been made from each account. From the…
What is IBAN? The IBAN is a numbering scheme that was created to identify bank accounts across national borders: it was conceived to unify bank account identification and standardize their format (i.e., country, bank, branch, routing code, and account…