Decentralized identity startup Civic Technologies announced a partnership with BitGo to build a crypto wallet that maintains anonymity while offering a back-up solution.
The eponymously named Civic Wallet was designed alongside Civic Identity, Identity.com, and Civic Pay to operate with BitGo's multisig solution.
Civic will store minimal user data, in the form of KYC information, for account recovery and compliance purposes only.
BitGo primarily deals in enterprise clients, providing a secure hot wallet for institutions that perform a high volume of transactions.
"Civic found a way to leverage the multisig commodity to work at the consumer level," said Ben Chan, CTO of BitGo.
It "Will launch with a handful of currencies familiar to the digital community" and allow users "To store, send and receive cryptocurrency," said a Civic representative.
The firm believes its scaled down wallet will be attractive to those less familiar with cryptocurrencies.
Though a solution from Identity.com, which Civic purchased in 2018, a "Decentralized identification verification system allows users to opt in to sharing their underlying data with people they choose," said Chan.
Civic plans to release the wallet in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Civic held a $33 million token sale in 2017 to build out a decentralized attestations platform.
Civic, BitGo Announce a Consumer Mobile Wallet
Publié le Jul 24, 2019
by Coindesk | Publié le Coinage
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