With our product launch date looming, there have been many late-night pizzas ordered at Zinc HQ as we continue to work tirelessly on developing our game changing hiring platform. A huge focus for the team has been on developing a decentralised login and today, we are excited to announce the launch of our brand new protocol for decentralised identity.

Based on models ERC-725, ERC-1056 and ERC-1078 , we believe this truly has the potential to take decentralised identity mainstream as do leading blockchain companies who have been testing it out.

Our innovations stem from three models, including ERC-725, developed by Zinc advisor, Fabian Vogelstellar. The new protocol combines ideas from leading identity provider uPorts ERC1056 standard and proposes a new identity protocol. Following Alex Van De Sande’s (Ethereum Foundation) new ERC1078 implementation, which calls for a standard approach to logins, our work based dApp is easy to use and will be free to try for the first 10,000 users.

Building from these standardised systems, we have created an individual identity contract and a framework for decentralised logins. We are striving to help realise the self sovereign identity vision and we hope to make this accessible to everyone. We will deploy individual contracts for every user and will use a signed message relay to save users any cost. Work proofs from Zinc will be updated in this contract if users choose to attach them to their identity and then any Web3 application can read/write to this contract and ask for proofs without the real data ever being shared.

We’re hoping the work proofs from Zinc can be useful across other applications like house rental or loans. They are built in such an open fashion that the individual owner can attach claims from any other Web3 issuer.

Our vision is to setup everyone up with blockchain identities so everyone can step into the world of Web3 and we would encourage anyone interested in identity on the blockchain to leverage our model and help support in making blockchain identities mainstream.