Polygon recently announced the launch of the first polygon ID integration. This invention allows users to select the data they prefer to submit as opposed to the former way of submitting every personal data to use the web.
Polygon ID places users in charge of their digital identity. Users can show their identities while exempting personal data.
How Does Polygon ID Work?
Polygon ID is built using zero-knowledge proof. This invention uses the Iden3 protocol and Circom ZK toolkit to build the ZK technology that can work on a mobile device.
Polygon ID permits users to prove their identity through a generated ZKSNARK Proof. It works by interacting with dApps, contracts, and web3 services privately to give identity proof without disclosing confidential information. If a user needs to prove she’s above a specific age without revealing her date of birth, she can do that with a claim relating to her date of birth.
Nobody opposes the importance of anonymity in terms of voting in real life but voting on blockchains has linked voting patterns to public identities. Users have been unable to exercise their online voting rights without directly connecting their activity to their wallets.
Polygon DAOs and Polygon ID
Polygon ID permits only those with valid attestations to take part in voting. It is absolutely private after verification. It provides users with the possibility of building a verifiable and private reputation. Users are rewarded when they add value to a DAO. Those rewards are called claims on Polygon’s ecosystem.
Polygon ID provides users with anonymity and confidentiality. It provides private proof of identity and private reputation building. One intriguing fact about polygon ID is that it is the first of its kind. None like it has ever been invented before. It is potentially the future of digital identity.
