Rarimo’s ZK Roll-up is live 🎉
At its core is the ZK identity registry. Powered by EIP-7812, this identity registry is the first in the world not to be owned by a government or corporation. Instead, it is a public good
It’s brought client-side ZK to everything from passports to facial biometrics. It’s unlocked previously impossible real world use cases like anonymous voting. And, it’s permissionless, privacy-preserving, and censorship resistant
Here’s how it works:
Statement Aggregation
Instead of supporting a single use-case or identity type, the registry aggregates abstract statements, and even allows users to anonymously verify actions and behaviours as well as their identities.
Over time, this creates an increasingly complex ZK social graph, unlocking novel types of privately verifiable digital identity.
The outcome? An infinitely flexible one-stop shop that allows developers to support multiple use cases, experiment with new types of ZK reputation, and access a huge pool of verified users with a single integration.
Currently, there are four ZK sub-registries developers can make use of: passports, blue ticks, facial biometrics, and social graphs. Already, they have powered a host of groundbreaking digital apps. Most famously, the ZK passport registry unlocked surveillance free voting in Russia and Georgia.
Permissionlessness
Regardless of the use-case, the registry is always permissionless. There are no third-party attestors or proprietary hardware. Instead, users self-issue their identities using nothing but a mobile phone.
This makes the identity registry the first in the world that is not owned by a company or government. It is a public good that any user can trustlessly plug into.
Privacy-preservation
The registry uses ZK to ensure total privacy for users.
It also boasts a privacy-as-network-effect approach whereby the more apps and users in the network, the more diluted it becomes, and the harder it grows to make logical deductions about how the registry is being used.
L2 Launch
Launching as a ZK Roll-up marks a critical leap towards making Rarimo globally scalable, and delivering private social apps to as many people as possible. The registries have inherited Ethereum’s security and are significantly more efficient to operate.
Rollup info for devs:
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Block explorer: https://scan.rarimo.com/
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Сhain id: 7368 ("ID" in decimal ASCII)
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Native currency: ETH