Quark ID: the self-sovereign digital identity protocol will be mass-launched in January 2023

Quark ID: the self-sovereign digital identity protocol will be mass-launched in January 2023

From the City of Buenos Aires, and together with the community of developers and experts from Latin America, Quark ID was promoted to transform and simplify the way in which the State and society relateempowering people and giving them back control over their data.

Quark ID enables new ways to use personal information and redefines access to services provided by all types of institutions, both public and private. It is decentralized, public, permissionless, open, extensible, and capable of interoperating with other similar protocols.

With this protocol, people will have their credentials on a single platform off-chain. Design peer to peer will guarantee the highest safety standards, so that no intermediary can trace the interactions between the interested parties. In this way, identity theft and falsification of credentials will be avoided.

In contact with Scope, Diego Fernandez held that the project is underway for a small and selected group of people who have the app on their phones and are issuing verifiable credentials in a test format.

We are going to be working in this modality for another month and a halfto start the process in January has three aspects: issue identities for citizens in some procedures, provide to society the instructions to build their verifiable credentials so that any organization can do it in a totally decentralized and provide to society instructions for the verification process”, announced the Secretary of Innovation.

And as soon as the official start date will be made in January 2023 and adds to a regional wave: Gibraltar is doing it in the first quarter of 2023 just like Monterrey. They will be in a process of onboardingincorporated users into this new ecosystem.

On the first estimates of the volume of digital identities to be created in the first year, The official expressed that the aspiration is to create among 300 and 500 thousand in 2023which will be subject to corrections that are needed, mainly through focusing on the difficulty that society has when it joins this process.

Source: Ambito

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