Animoca, Humanity Protocol Launches Palm Recognition

Humanity Institute has launched the Humanity Protocol, a biometric palm recognition technology with Animoca Brands and Polygon Labs.

The Humanity Institute has introduced Humanity Protocol, a biometric palm recognition technology that prioritizes protecting users’ privacy and is designed to verify Web3 identities.

According to a press statement, the Humanity Protocol was deployed on the Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK) testnet on February 20.

Animoca Brands and Polygon Labs developed the protocol in partnership. The Humanity Protocol is an initiative that Balázs Némethi and Chung Yin co-founded with the intention of providing a less intrusive alternative to biometric verification methods such as iris scans.

Proof-of-personhood solutions, on the other hand, is frequently intrusive and burdensome for users as stated by Yat Siu, the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands.

The Humanity Protocol conversely will enable better equity and inclusion for users. Humanity Protocol is building a user-centric ecosystem that can onboard millions of people to a verifiable digital identity solution that is truly decentralized and respects the principles of true digital ownership.

This is accomplished by leveraging cutting-edge technology that utilizes non-invasive biometrics, which is at the core of the proof-of-humanity consensus mechanism.”

Within three months of its introduction, Humanity Protocol had surpassed 40,000 registered users on February 13, at the time of this writing. ZK-proofs and the proof-of-humanity (PoH) consensus process for identity validation are used by the Polygon CDK, which is layer 2 of the protocol.

These are used to make the network more secure. The term “ZK-proof” refers to a type of cryptographic technique that allows one user to demonstrate particular information to another without disclosing it.

According to Nikita Uriupin, the founder of Exverse, developments in technologies that can protect users’ privacy such as ZK-proofs could potentially encourage the widespread adoption of Web3 technologies.

Based on the information provided by IT Governance, there were a total of 2,814 data breaches that were recorded in 2023. During the year, these breaches compromised over 8.2 billion documents.

The Humanity Protocol, in contrast to the Web2 data management solutions gives people full ownership of their data. Sandeep Nailwal, a co-founder of Polygon believes that the protocol will make it possible to implement a wide variety of new potential applications.

In addition to being the first blockchain ecosystem in the world to be entirely resistant to Sybil attacks, the Humanity Protocol is also the first to integrate verified credentials into a decentralized validator node network natively.

This creates the groundwork for a wide range of blockchain and real-world applications to be built on top of it.