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Polygon ID

Security & Risk management

KYC

Network infrastructure

Proof of humanity & personhood

Regulatory compliance

Verifiable credentials

Ethereum

Polygon

Global

About

Polygon ID, with the help of zero-knowledge proofs, lets users prove their identity without the need of exposing their private information. Polygon ID enables organizations on one side to issue verifiable credentials about users, and organizations on the other side to verify those claims.

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3NUM

3NUM Shield is an anonymous web3 mobile number that protects a user’s identity and provides private, secure messaging.

Anonybit

Anonybit is a decentralized, authentication protocol based on biometric and blockchain technology.

Bifrost

Bifrost developed a cross-chain Staking Liquidity Pool (SLP) that allows users to stake tokens and secure the network.

Bitfury

Bitfury is a security and infrastructure provider for the Bitcoin blockchain. An example of a Bitfury application includes: the National Agency for Public Registry (NAPR) - operating under the Ministry of Justice in Georgia - issuing 300,000 land titles on the blockchain for the sale of land titles, registration of new titles, mortgages, rentals, and notary services.

Bitnomial

Bitnomial is one of two CFTC-regulated futures and options exchanges for Bitcoin.

BlockCerts Wallet

BlockCerts Wallet allows students to access verifiable, tamper-proof version of their diploma that they can share with employers, schools, family, and friends. BlockCerts Wallet partnered with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a pilot program of issuing diplomas to a cohort of 111 graduates.

Blockchain Lock

Blockchain Lock is building the bridge to unlock doors in physical buildings using digital infrastructure. In a simplified use case, a holder of organization A’s credential can unlock partner organization B’s office door, as long as the access is granted, without invading A’s privacy.

BLOOCK

BLOOCK is a technology company that provides software-as-a-service solutions to secure information exchanges and systems.

Bluzelle

Bluezelle is a blockchain infrastructure provider focused on secure and efficient storage and retrieval of data. An example of a Bluzelle application includes: three banks in Asia - OCBC Bank, HSBC Singapore, and the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) - collaborated with the Info-communications Media Development Authority (IDMA) - a Singaporean regulator of media and information communications - to streamline and improve the banking KYC process by creating a shared ledger for verifying customer identities.

Brave Browser

Brave is a free and open-source web browser. It also offers an option to businesses to use private advertising - through Brave Ads - and has had a number of major companies use their services. This includes Chipotle, Verizon, eToro, among others.

BrightID

BrightID is a social identity network that allows users to prove that they’re only using one account.

Chainlink

Chainlink helps individuals and companies deploy blockchain-based solutions across industries. It has partnerships with T-Mobile, Aave, Synthetix, among others.

Champ

Champ helps create, manage, and transfer digital vehicle titles for insurance carriers, lenders, state governments, vehicle retailers, and OEMs.

Civic

Civic gives users and enterprises access to identity and access management (”IAM”) tools for DeFi, DAOs, or anything else on-chain.

CLV Wallet

Clover is a one-stop infrastructure platform for cross-chain and decentralized applications. CLV Wallet is a cross-chain all-in-one wallet that supports in-app messaging, asset management, seamless transfer of cryptocurrencies, and now enables users to store their verifiable credentials. CLV Wallet allows users to prove their access rights in a privacy-preserving way through ZK proofs.

Content Credentials

OpenSea - the largest NFT marketplace - partnered with Adobe to create “Content Credentials,” a tool that allows artists to attach attribution rights directly to a piece of work on Adobe Photoshop and have that information displayed when selling their NFTs on OpenSea.

Disco

Disco is a digital identity “data backpack” where users can stash their private data in a way that they retain ownership and control of that data.

DraftKings

DraftKings, an American sports betting company, has launched three main initiatives using the blockchain. 1. “DraftKings Marketplace” is a digital collectibles marketplace where users can buy, sell, and access exclusive NFTs from sports, entertainment, and culture using their existing DraftKings account. Many iconic athletes — including Tom Brady, Wayne Gretzky, Naomi Osaka, Simone Biles and Derek Jeter — have already launched their own NFT collections on this Marketplace. 2. “DraftKings Reignmakers” offers gamified athlete cards (as NFTs) licensed by the NFLPA, PGA TOUR, and UFC, which can be used in various fantasy contests based on athletes' real-life performances. As of August 9th, 2023, this NFT collection has reached $4.5M daily trading volume. 3. DraftKings also partnered with Zero Hash, a B2B digital assets infrastructure provider, to stake digital assets and become a Polygon network validator.

Empowa

Empowa, a Mercy Corps Ventures (”MCV”) portfolio company, is a property development and NFT digital collectibles platform that aims to enable “affordable home loans for the financially excluded.” Empowa and MCV partnered to launch an affordable housing pilot project that uses retail NFT sales to create liquidity for the provision of affordable housing units.

Ethereum Name Service (ENS)

ENS is the most widely integrated blockchain naming standard. It hosts 2.7+ million names and has 570 integrations.

Evernym

Evernym allows individuals to manage their identities all over the web.

Farcaster

Farcaster is a blockchain network for applications that focus on social interactions and digital identity.

Follow My Vote

Follow My Vote is an online voting platform and ballot box.

Gatekeeper

GateKeeper is a no-code credential issuance and verification platform that enables access control management via a dashboard. GateKeeper aggregates multiple identity data points - such as Verifiable Credentials, NFTs, on-chain data and more - to simplify and customize the requirements for gating content.

Gatenox

Gatenox is a compliance and verification hub - streamlining the corporate KYC process - for organizations.

GET Protocol

GET is a digital ticketing infrastructure provider. Since 2016, GET has processed 3+ million in tickets.

Helium

Helium is a community-owned wireless network, powered by over 1 million individual hotspots in 200+ countries. The ecosystem built on top of the Helium network leverages these hotspots for a number of purposes from Helium's Long Range Wireless capabilities to monitor for forest fires to using Helium 5G hotspots to provide internet coverage in rural Montana communities.

HYPR

HYPR is a passwrodless authentication service that uses the FIDO Universal Authentication Framework.

IDfy

IDfy builds technology solutions to help companies accurately identify individuals.

Immunefi

Immunefi is a DeFi bug bounty platform, protecting over $60 billion in user funds across protocols like Synthetix, Chainlink, MakerDAO, among others.

Integral

Integral helps companies and protocols manage their crypto treasuries and use crypto rails for day-to-day operations such as paying bills.

JuiceBox

JuiceBox allows DAOs to fund, operate, and scale their ideas & communities transparently on Ethereum. One notable DAO that used JuiceBox was ConstitutionDAO.

Jurat

Jurat is a consumer protected version of Bitcoin that can be retrieved - due to hacks or lost private keys - as well as used to enforce court orders. The Northern District of Illinois (NDIL) Court used Jurat to block accounts sanctioned by OFAC, including North Korean and Russian ransomware hackers.

Kaleido

Kaleido helps enterprises deploy blockchain-based solutions across industries. They have partnerhsips with a number of companies including Citi Bank, Kroger, Shell, T-Mobile, United Nations, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Wide Fund for Nature, among others.

LegitDoc

LegitDoc is a platform for issuing tamper-proof digital documents. It has two current projects related to education and verifiable diplomas. First, the Maharashtra State Board of Skill Development (MSBSD) partnered with LegitDoc to issue and verify roughly 100,000 digital diplomas for students. Second, the United Network of Professionals (UNP) - an Indian e-learning platform - started to issue blockchain-native certificates to its students.

Lido

Lido is a protocol that enables users to stake tokens as part of validation activity of the blockchain, mint transferable utility tokens, and use those utility tokens in other on-chain activities.

Ligero

Ligero is a platform for decentralized collaboration that uses secure multiparty computation (”MPC”) and zero-knowledge proofs (”ZKPs”).

MakerDAO

MakerDAO is a decentralized global reserve bank that created the Maker protocol that underpins its stablecoin (called “DAI”), as well as provides other functionalities (like governance).

Masa

Masa created a “soulbound” token tied to a user’s digital identity that cannot be transferred among users. By partnering with lenders, Masa creates an on-chain credit bureau.

Mastercard Crypto Credential

Mastercard introduced the Mastercard Crypto Credential to set standard protocols for secure interactions on blockchain networks. To enhance verification for digital collectibles and payments, Mastercard is partnering with Solana, Aptos, Avalanche, and Polygon to focus on improving verification in areas like NFTs, ticketing, and various payment solutions.

Nightfall

Nightfall is an Optimistic Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Roll-Up that helps enable private transactions on the public Ethereum blockchain. EY collaborated with Polygon on developing the Nightfall protocol.

Nodle

Nodle allows smartphones to become edge nodes. Nodle has recently joined the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) - a movement of technologists and large companies like Adobe, Microsoft, The New York Times Co., Truepic, Qualcomm, Witness, CBC, BBC, and others that aims to address digital misinformation and content authenticity - to incorporate the CAI photo verification standards for NFTs.

Noox

Noox allows users to mint their Web3 achievements as NFTs, essentially creating online “badges.”

OpenCerts

OpenCerts - part of Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative - enables issuance and validation of academic certificates. OpenCerts has a number of partnerships with large institutions, some academic, like the National University of Singapore and Singapore Management University.

Orway

Orway created passwordless authentication - based on biometrics - that can be used to secure applications like wallets that hold cryptocurrency.

Proof of Attendance Protocol (POAP)

POAP is a way to commemorate events and memories through “digital mementos.” A number of organizations and companies are already using POAPs: adidas, Vogue, ebay, Spotify, Budweiser, WNBA, Miller Lite, Github, US Open, T-Mobile, Citi, and Goldman Sachs.

Sedax

Sedax is an encrypted e-KYC solution that allows users to perform KYC verification at private entities (like hotels) without exposing their ID credential. Sedax eliminates the need for physical submission of government-issued identification to limit exposure to and reduce leakage of personal data.

SpruceID

SruceID aims to give users control over their data and digital identity through SSX - self sovereign anything - that allows users to install sign-in with Ethereum, enable DAO login, among other features.

Synaps

Synaps is a crypto-native identity verification provider and decentralized identity protocol issuer.

Telefonica Tech

Telefonica Tech - Spanish telecom’s digital transformation arm - announced it will provide companies with a quick and easy way to integrate blockchain technology in their businesses.

Tokensoft

Tokensoft provides compliance tools to blockchain foundations and DeFi projects to help them automate compliance with applicable regulations, especially with banking and securities laws, when companies choose to raise capital by selling tokens.

VOATZ

Voatz is a mobile voting platform that runs on blockchain.

WalliD

WalliD provides an onboarding and data verification solution by aggregating verifiable data sources and infrastructures. The aggregator brings together OAuth providers, Blockchains, Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs), DIDs, and Zero-Knowledge protocols. This allows WalliD to offer a toolkit with different suites of products that cater to the needs of WebApp, dApp developers, and users.

WholeCare

WholeCare simplifies and streamlines patient care by bringing personalized care plan information. It keeps patient information on a blockchain network to provide HIPAA-compliant record keeping.

WiW

WiW is a privacy-preserving identity protocol that focuses on building web3 reputation & providing identity solutions by incorporating both off-chain and on-chain data.

Worldcoin

Worldcoin recently launched a new cryptocurrency tied to its digital identity platform, offering proof of humanity and online authentication. Users can register via the World App for the distribution of the "WLD" token and must verify their identity with iris biometrics through Worldcoin's “Orb devices,” available in 35 cities across 20 countries, that generate a “Worldcoin ID.”

Xage

Xage is world’s first blockchain-enabled cybersecurity platform for IoT companies. It has partnerships with companies like Microsoft, Dell and the U.S. Air Force.

Zilliqa

Zilliqa is a blockchain service provider. Mindshare (a global media and marketing services company) partnered with Zilliqa to address issues in programmatic advertising - reducing intermediaries and increasing transparency to avoid ad fraud - to make it more cost-effective. The pilot with PepsiCo showed a 28% efficiency gains.