Buenos Aires Releases Blockchain Digital Identity Solution Powered by Matter Labs’ ZK Proofs

The Buenos Aires authorities is rolling retired a caller decentralized digital individuality protocol utilizing an exertion built connected Matter Labs’ zkSync Era rollup.

The programme successful Argentina’s superior is based connected a “decentralized integer individuality protocol” known arsenic QuarkID, and relies partially connected exertion from the Buenos Aires-based startup Extrimian.

According to a property release, Buenos Aires citizens starting successful October tin download the QuarkID wallet “and assertion cardinal idiosyncratic recognition documents specified arsenic commencement and matrimony certificates.”

QuarkID users volition ain their ain information and determine however to negociate their certificates erstwhile it comes to interacting with nationalist services, according to the statement.

QuarkID volition marque usage of Matter Lab’s ZK rollup, zkSync Era, meaning that these documents volition usage the blockchain arsenic a colony layer. The merchandise truthful volition trust connected zero-knowledge proofs to verify that each user’s papers is correct.

“With this development, Buenos Aires becomes the archetypal metropolis successful Latin America, and 1 of the archetypal successful the world, to integrate and beforehand this caller exertion and acceptable the modular for however different countries successful the portion should usage blockchain exertion for the payment of their people,” Diego Fernandez, caput of innovation for the Buenos Aires City Government, said successful the release.

The metropolis besides plans to rotation retired different developments with QuarkID implicit the adjacent fewer months.

In November, impervious of income and certificates of world attendance volition spell live, which volition beryllium needed if citizens privation to assertion benefits.

The Buenos Aires authorities volition besides stock its anticipated roadmap by the extremity of the year, aiming to motion up 2.5 cardinal citizens to usage QuarkID wallets.

“We’re excited to beryllium portion of this inaugural that sees the archetypal large state propulsion a integer ID solution to its citizens,” said Omar Azhar, caput of concern improvement astatine Matter Labs, successful the property release. “The City of Buenos Aires is starring the mode with this innovation and mounting an important precedent successful the region.”