Proving Your Age Costs You Your ID 🪪

Age checks are arriving everywhere, with US states writing app store verification into law and platforms rolling out checks on their own, and the practical result is adults uploading identity documents to services that never wanted to hold them.

$WLD took the hardest version of that problem seriously, with more than 18 million people verified by an orb and hundreds of millions of proofs used since launch, which tells you the demand is not hypothetical.

On $SOL the same pattern shows up anywhere an app has to gate access, because a program has to be handed a whole input before it can act on it, so the document reaches the app before the answer does.

Every check leaves a copy somewhere, and a copy of a passport is a liability from the day it is stored until the day it leaks.

Arcium changes what the check receives, splitting what you present into fragments across a cluster of nodes where no single node holds a readable copy, while the cluster still returns the yes or no the platform needs.

That answer settles on Solana as an ordinary public transaction, so a platform can show it ran the check without keeping the document behind it.

Confidential computation has been live on Mainnet Alpha since February 2, with fifteen teams building on it.

Regulators asked for proof of age and the industry heard collect everyone's ID, and the layer that returns an answer instead of a file is the version that does not end in a breach.

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