Updated Coverage with more Biometric IDs
The list of countries with biometric IDs keeps getting larger: Jamaica: new biometric ID cardSuriname: new biometric passports have been approvedNational Identity Cards: Iraq, Lebanon, and Peru
Announcing Pre-MainNet
Today, we are launching Pre-MainNet. Improvements over the previous release include: open-sourced codeglobal coverage has increased with dozens of new countries, including the standardization of biometric identity cards in the European Union (Regulation 2019/1157) which is one our main use…
Extended Coverage with more Biometric IDs
More countries supporting biometric IDs supported on our blockchain: Biometric passports: RwandaBiometric identity cards: Albania, Ghana, Maldives, Monaco, San Marino, and Turkey
Secure and Regulatory Compliant Wallet
The European Parliament has just passed a bill to tackle money laundering with crypto-currencies. For our part, we would like to remind that our mobile app is the first and one the few that features an unhosted crypto-wallet compliant with…
Additional countries with biometric IDs
The new year brings more countries with biometric IDs: Ghana will start the issuance of biometric passportsSeychelles will issue biometric passports by the end of this year Additionally, the Austrian Financial Market Authority will only allow to use NFC and…
Further more countries with biometric IDs
More countries are issuing biometric IDs compatible with our blockchain: In the next months, Saudi Arabia will issue biometric passports: note that their national identity card was already compliant to use our blockchain.Armenia will start issuing biometric passports next yearNepal…
On FATF’s Updated Guidance
The much awaited Updated Guidance for a Risk-Based Approach for Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers has been released. Fortunately, none of its changes impacts our current implementation of a blockchain integrating real-world IDs on layer 1: to the…
JUBILEE: Debt Relief and Forgiveness
In our latest paper (code-named “JUBILEE”), we use secure computation to compute debt settlements without involving third parties, incentivising all the involved parties to truthfully reveal their private information about expected recovery valuations. Thanks to secure computation, we obtain better…
Open-sourcing Obliv-Java after Google v. Oracle
After the U.S. Supreme Court found that Google’s use of Java for Android is “fair use as a matter of law”, we can open-source Obliv-Java, a faithful re-implementation of OpenJDK for secure computation. Crypto-Duke, the Java mascot with his new…
Still More Countries with Biometric IDs
Still more countries issue biometric IDs compatible with our blockchain: Biometric identity cards got standardized all over Europe from 2 August, in line with regulations: for example, the Netherlands, Czech, and Croatia.Vietnam has been issuing biometric identity cards since February…