“We are thrilled to partner with Everest to help secure a platform which is establishing an easy-to-explain and easy-to-use method of securely distributing resources to those in need,” said Chace Hatcher, CEO and founder of Diamond Fortress Technologies.

“This agreement gives us the ability to offer touchless fingerprint scanning capabilities so our partners only need to invest in mobile phones, dramatically reducing the cost to field and operate biometric identification systems,” said Bob Reid, CEO and co-founder of Everest. “We are excited to partner with Diamond Fortress Technologies to leverage their pioneering work, deep knowledge and unique patented technologies in our products. Together, we’re solving the world’s identity crisis.”

The Everest platform will leverage the Diamond Fortress’ ONYX® touchless fingerprinting technology to enable individual identity verification while only using a mobile phone’s camera. Other implementers of DFT’s ONYX® software development kit will have the option of enrolling users to Everest, creating their own EverWallet and EverID with integrated KYC (know-your-customer) compliance. Diamond Fortress and Everest will work together during their long-term agreement to continually improve their combined solution and bring it to additional platforms.