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Chris Hart is the CEO of Civic, a blockchain-based identity management solution.
He discusses the company's work in decentralized finance, identity verification, and zero knowledge proof technology for financial and non-financial applications.
1Interview
2021First on the show
Sep 2021Latest appearance
19 minOn camera
18:37
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Key points
- Civic's identity solution enables portable, reusable digital identities across applications using blockchain verification and 3D face mapping technology.
- Zero knowledge proofs allow users to prove facts about their identity, such as age, without revealing underlying personal data like name or address.
- Companies increasingly prefer not storing customer personal information to avoid security risks and compliance burdens under regulations like GDPR and CCPA.
- DeFi's regulatory evolution mirrors historical stock exchange development, requiring identity solutions to balance innovation with oversight and prevent bad actors.
- Civic's portable identity model follows self-sovereign principles, enabling users to control and carry their verified identity across various use cases and platforms.
In their own words
“Identity is kind of like a universal lego that you should be able to take from chain to chain.”
“If your use case doesn't absolutely call for you to store personal information of your customers, you should not do that.”
