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…
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…
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…
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 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…
One of the biggest enemies of innovation is the instauration of a false dichotomy. Blockchains, and the field of distributed computing is general, has been suffering from this hidden malady for decades: as a general rule of thumb, a distributed…
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published a Draft Guidance for a Risk-based Approach to Virtual Assets and VASPs on 19 March 2021. Some highlights are as follows: As we previously warned, many smart contracts will require identity as many…
Another round of countries increase the security of their identity documents, making them compatible with our blockchain: Kyrgyzstan launched their new e-Passport in May 2021Togo is tendering their biometric civil identity card. As Togo is part of Economic Community of…
In order to remotely onboard online, it’s necessary to read the chip of biometric identity documents and check the validity and authenticity of their certificates. Most online services only verify identity documents using image captures, but this is obviously easy…