We are thrilled to announce our launch onto the Mainnet today. As many of you will know, this is a significant milestone for Zinc and a huge step towards achieving our vision for interoperable, decentralised identities.

Using the main network is key for Zinc and any decentralised identity or reputation system for two key reasons:

~ Identity proofs and reputation built in a test environment cannot be migrated thanks to the blockchains immutable nature. You shouldn’t be able to take a reputation from a test network to the real main network. Since these networks have different governance and incentive systems. Entities act in different ways when they are using test ETH.

~ Secondly for portability, to allows users to trustlessly take their identity & reputation across from Zinc to another platform. This is only just becoming a possibility inter-network (across mainnet dApps) so it’s a long way off being possible across different networks.