An open-source identity protocol, Self, built on Celo, will provide critical support for India’s Aadhaar system to prove human identities and combat the proliferation of AI non-human identities and bots.
As a Chainalysis report suggests, India ranks a top global leader in grassroots crypto adoption, across centralised and decentralised services, with the major Indian market helping to boost the total crypto transaction volume in the APAC to $2.36 trillion.
The protocol processes 2.21 billion Aadhaar authentications monthly, marking hSelf’s largest market expansion since launch. Rolling out advanced identity verification and proof-of-humanity solutions to 1.4 billion enrolled adults, the Aaadhaar platform has a way to securely verify real humans whilst Web2 and Web3, as well as traditional web services, are flooded with AI-generated non-human personas.
Users in India can onboard to Self by securely scanning their Aadhaar on their device, generating a cryptographic proof that platforms can use to assure attributes such as name, age and nationality, and providing a decentralised service to protect any personal information.
Aadhaar holders can prove their unique human characteristics across Self’s partners including Aave and Google Cloud, which embeds Self to power AI capabilities within the Web3 portal.
Self also supports biometric European Union IDs as identification.
