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Some governments abide change, while others accomplish it a point to accumulate up with ‘shyfting’ times. The baby Caribbean island of Bermuda is one of those places, hosting the rollout of Perseid and Shyft Network‘s e-ID band-aid in Bermuda.
The identification technology is developed by Perseid and uses the Shyft Network agreement to operate, while the Government of Bermuda is accommodating to acquaint avant-garde technology.
The proposed e-ID band-aid aims to accommodate a added defended and able identity-based abstracts exchange, benefitting residents, visitors and companies accomplishing business in Bermuda. The arrangement will acquiesce Bermudian enterprise, citizens and government bodies to accomplish use of a array of blockchain-based services, including Shyft Network’s FATF solution, interoperability, abstracts portability and added acquiescence requirements.
During the aboriginal phase, the companies will be deploying the base-layer infrastructure, managed on the Shyft Network protocol.
What’s the purpose of cyberbanking identification?
Probably the best acclaimed cyberbanking identification affairs is the Estonian e-residency, launched aback in 2014. It provides a bound Estonian character for any aborigine in the world, complete with agenda signatures and ID cards.
Its purpose is to accommodate a way for foreigners to accessible an Estonian company, appropriately bringing added tax acquirement and basic to the country. But the arrangement is not absolutely blockchain-based, admitting accouterment some of the functions that one would apprehend to be performed by DLT – agenda signatures in particular.
Bermuda’s band-aid has a added reach, accoutrement absolute citizens and residents. Shyft and Perseid accept that the e-ID band-aid will facilitate transactional efficiencies for companies, convalescent chump abutment and abstracts security, while the government will account with greater accessible casework adaptability and bargain fraud.
David Burt, Premier of Bermuda said: “The Perseid character band-aid can be a abundant advertise of how this technology can be activated to break circuitous challenges adverse the banking casework industry”. That ability accommodate convalescent compliance, accouterment companies and regulators with an easier KYC/AML mechanism.
Shyft Network Chairman Joseph Weinberg said: “Governments and enterprises will account from an efficient, able-bodied and bargain solution”, with alone users additionally accepting admission to an attainable identification affairs that would “provide bigger accuracy and abode them in ascendancy of their identity-related data.”
Will we see a com.crypto? And will it amount $12M?
All cryptos were built-in equal, and able with the basic appropriate of human-readable addresses. That’s the aesthetics abaft Unstoppable Domains’ latest initiative: a .crypto blockchain top akin domain, acceptance cryptocurrencies of any accord algorithm and badge church to accept a distinct abode scheme.
Starting today, Unstoppable Domains will action an advantage to access a .crypto area on the Ethereum blockchain. Like the Ethereum Name Service, the arrangement aims to abridge payments with cryptocurrency by allotment anniversary accessible key to a specific and simple domain. The aggregation started out with .zil addresses for the Zilliqa blockchain, managing to advertise added than 100,000 .zil domains.
But now Unstoppable Domains is gluttonous to affiliate the crypto association in one stroke. When answer the move, the CEO of Unstoppable Domains Matthew Gould explained that “We accept that tribalism in the crypto association is slowing bottomward acceptance of the technology.”
Though it is alone accessible on the Ethereum belvedere for now, Gould’s eyes is all-encompassing. “.Crypto is a area name arrangement meant to be acclimated for any cryptocurrency acquittal and with any cryptocurrency wallet,” he continued.
Unstoppable Domains will run a advance until October 21st: for any purchased .zil area with 8 or added characters, the agnate .crypto area will be offered for free.
A decentralized another that makes sense
The primary use of blockchain domains is simplifying cryptocurrency payments, and Unstoppable Domains believes that accomplishing abroad with continued addresses could advance boilerplate acceptance for crypto.
But blockchain domains can additionally be a accurate backup for acceptable domains, captivation several advantages.
As they are stored on decentralized and abiding ledgers, blockchain domains cannot be censored by anyone in the world, giving an added apparatus in the action for chargeless speech. They aren’t absolute by ICANN or any added agency, and as such they accept no custodians. No third affair is able to appropriate a domain, and there are no subscriptions: already bought, the area charcoal always with the owner.
But annihilation is perfect, and blockchain domains do accept a host of disadvantages, primarily due to their novelty. Browsers cannot boldness blockchain domains after third-party extensions (e.g. MetaMask), and after they are not indexed by Google or any added boilerplate chase engine.
These two facts abandoned accomplish their appliance adequately niche, but the acreage is still beginning – and not immune from bugs. Unstoppable Domains’ accomplishment to arrange all the abstracted projects into one top akin area may become an important agency in popularizing the new decentralized alternative.
Next step: analysis brad.crypto and see if there are 49 billion XRP amphibian about in there…
