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 “Accounts”…
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…
Requirements: the NFC feature of your smartphone must be enabled. Depending on your device, follow the next steps: “Settings” > “Connections”> “NFC and payment”; or “Settings” > “Connected devices” > “Connection preferences” > “NFC”. Install our app from Google's Play…
The first transaction ever to an Electronic Passport is a symbolic donation of 777 coins to Pope Francis: Unlike all other public blockchains, ours already contains billions of users: 3.5 Billions with Digital National Identity Cards and 1 Billion with…
Today, we are launching our TESTNET and getting closer to launching the MAINNET network. Our current TESTNET features the following novel technologies: Highly scalable blockchain Private and Verifiable Smart Contracts: secure smart contracts on which you can develop Cryptographically Secure…
The high volatility of cryptocurrencies precludes their use as a medium of exchange or unit of account: The root cause of this volatility is their lack of monetary policy for price stabilisation. Although some cryptocurrencies seek price stability (i.e., stablecoins),…
We are happy to announce that the United States Patent and Trademark Office will issue the Patent No. 10423806 to “Secure Computation on Spreadsheets”. The history of this patent goes back very far: One of the first software patents was…
In practice, using cryptocurrencies without identity means that the costs of identification are externalized to third-parties and, worse yet, repeated and incurred multiple times: KYC/AML to access online exchanges and/or for ICO participation (the cost of a check ranges from…