Social Network Uses Civic’s Technology to Verify User Identities

San Francisco, California, June 25, 2018 — Cryptocurrency based social platform Hilo.io today announced a strategic partnership with Civic Technologies Inc., the company revolutionizing digital identity with its Blockchain-based technology. The partnership brings trusted, secure identity services to Hilo.io and enables Hilo.io to securely verify the user identities, while combating fake accounts.

“As we release Hilo to a global audience, we want to have systems in place to verify the real identities of our users. We’re excited to announce our partnership with Civic. Civic provides a way to authenticate all our community members with ease,” said Hilo CEO Monica Puchner.

“We are pleased to welcome Hilo.io to Civic’s Partner Network. This collaboration marks another milestone for Civic’s ecosystem and for on-demand, secure, and low-cost access to identity verification services,” said Civic CEO, Vinny Lingham.

Civic will help enable secure sign-On and Reusable Know Your Customer (KYC) across the Hilo.io’s platform dedicated to social discussion around cryptocurrencies. This will help Hilo.io authenticate and verify real users, preventing bad actors for creating fake accounts. Fake accounts are often used to spread spam and disinformation on conventional social platforms. This partnership will enable more trust and transparency within the Hilo community and around cryptocurrency discussions. Civic’s decentralized identity solutions will help to verify the real identities of Hilo.io users and ensure that Hilo’s crowdsourced sentiment data is coming from authentic users.

For more information about Hilo.io, visit https://www.hilo.io/.

For more information about Civic or to become a Civic business partner, visit https://www.civic.com.

About Hilo.io

Hilo.io is a social platform for crypto traders. The current fragmented landscape makes it hard for people to get into crypto. Our platform acts as a dashboard allowing for users to interact with friends, manage your portfolio, discover new coins, and catch up on all things crypto. Our token will be utilized to incentivize users, transact, and encourage wide token adoption to the average person. Hilo.io is your connection to crypto.

About Civic

Civic is a visionary blockchain identity-verification technology that allows consumers to authorize the use of their identities in real time. They are spearheading the development of an ecosystem that is designed to facilitate on-demand, secure, and low-cost access to identity-verification services via the blockchain. Civic recently introduced a Civic token that participants in the ecosystem will use to provide and receive identity-verification-related services. The company sold $33 million of its tokens during its token sale event in June 2017. For more information, visit https://www.civic.com.

Hilo.io Media Contact

hello@hilo.io

Civic Media Contact

jordan@civic.com