Civic (CVC), a decentralized architecture for identity protection, announced the launch of Civic Connect on Sunday, a new app-to-app integration that allows for blockchain-based user authentication. This system is designed to replace third-party authentication via platforms like Google and Facebook that are facing ongoing data security issues. Introducing CivicConnect: Making seamless app-to-app identity verification a reality https://t.co/S728N6SQjn […]
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Brave Publishers Can Now Have Their Identities Verified with Civic
Civic, a digital identity firm, has collaborated with Brave, the privacy-based browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, to provide identity verification services to Brave’s content creators. Verified content creators on Brave now have the option of verifying their identities using Civic’s identity verification service in order to get paid Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) via their Ethereum wallets.
Brave’s blockchain-based digital advertising platform is built on the strength of the Brave browser, which uses user attention as a metric for rewarding publishers with BAT ERC20 tokens. BATs are derived from user attention and can be used to “obtain a variety of advertising and attention-based services on the BAT platform.” Brave users can opt to anonymously reward publishers for content they find interesting by donating BATs through Brave’s integrated payment system.
Brave Browser Taps Blockchain Identity Startup Civic for Secure KYC
Cryptocurrency-funded web browser Brave has announced that it will collaborate with Civic, the blockchain identity platform, on a project that will bring the latter’s identity verification services to publishers on the Brave platform. Under this framework, Brave-verified publishers will be able to confirm their identity using Civic’s technology, and thus gain secure access to their … Continued
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Civic Demos Proof of Concept With Beer Vending Machines, Launches ID Codes
Blockchain identity verification platform Civic has emerged from Consensus 2018 with clear progress and updates for its identity attestation technology.
The project imagines a network of validators and service providers who work together to verify individual identities. A new platform user would submit relevant identity information to a validation smart contract, which the validator would then review for approval. If approved, the validator would store references to this information on the blockchain, attesting to its validity. Anytime the corresponding user needs to submit identity information to another service provider (a bank, government agency, etc.), that service provider could request the validator to cross-check the user’s information with the blockchain’s attestations to verify their identity.
What Is Civic Cryptocurrency?
Studies have shown that over 15.4 million individuals in the United States alone faced issues related to identity fraud and theft in 2016. Not only that, in the same year it was reported that 1.1 billion digital identities of internet users across the globe were stolen by hackers.
Civic is an all-new blockchain-based identity verification (IDV) platform that provides users with on-demand, secure and low-cost access to digital privacy services. Through its unique system, Civic is able to eliminate the need for recurring background and personal information verification checks that are undertaken every time a new institution requires such a protocol to be initiated.
Civic and Votem’s Partnership Accelerates Blockchain-Based KYC Process
Identity verification is paramount to global freedom and citizen access to public services. We see many examples of this today in terms of how barriers to documentation adversely impact issues like democratic voting processes, especially among homeless communities and refugee settlements.
Today’s developments in blockchain technology are now enabling solutions to these and many other verification issues. The use of distributed technology shows promise as a more robust, cost-effective mechanism for advancing identity trust and governance.