Holonym Foundation Emerges with $5.5 Million Seed Funding to Provide Global Digital Personhood with Human Keys - ""
Summary
This new framing shifts ownership of digital assets from the holder of a random seed, to the human that can uniquely prove their biometrics. Human Keys make the ownership layers of the internet built on top more consumer-friendly, decentralized, and secure.Human Keys encompass three protocols built by the Holonym Foundation, all having security and robust data privacy systems as core principles: Mishti Network, a breakthrough threshold entropy network that computes an Oblivious Pseudorandom Function (OPRF) on biometric data. Over 125,000 pseudonymous Zeronym users around the world have already unlocked these rights, proving their unique personhood, residency, and other attributes to curate a rich digital reputation that they alone own and control. Silk provides advanced security tools to protect users from hackers, scams, and malware on the decentralized web.By granting every human in the world a secure key that only they can hold and control, the Holonym Foundation moves towards global digital inclusion, precisely at a time when advancements in artificial intelligence are poised to leave so many behind.Holonym Foundation is focused on applied cryptography innovation that delivers solutions for real-world problems.The Holonym Foundations mission is the proliferation of Human Keys to make security and privacy more usable in zero trust environments. Business can utilize Zeronym for privacy-preserving KYC/AML with programmable privacy for on-going monitoring.Users can stay connected with Holonym Foundation and its Products: