UPort

Basics

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• Mainnet release:
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• "The application allows you to connect your Ethereum wallet, tie it with your name (real or not) and other relevant information to aggregate any credentials you earn over time under the respective account and ETH address."
• Is rumoured (5-12-2018) to be splitting in two: "UPort, a tool aimed at letting users log in to Ethereum applications, had three project managers, who couldn’t align on a single vision. Today there are just 15 applications using UPort, and the project is splitting in two." The article was dismissed by team members, saying it was written by "a disgruntled former employee in a click-bait article".

History

• From this Reddit comment (10-2019):

"uPort allows users to control and manage their digital identities and choose when to discretely share information with trusted entities. This thread goes over a lot of the history of uPort's technical evolution."

Tech

• Whitepaper can be found [insert here].
• Code can be viewed [insert here].
• Built on: Ethereum
• Programming language used:

Transaction Details

• Capacity (TPS):
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How it works

• “uPort is a decentralized digital identity platform focused on enabling self-sovereign identity, allowing users to be in complete control of their identity, personal information and digital assets. uPort aims to solve the digital identity crisis by providing secure and user-friendly identity services including registration, attestation, disclosure, profile and key management. The encrypted information that is in a user’s uPort allows them the ability to chose the parts of their identity that they disclose about themselves.”
• "uPort is setting the standards for privacy-preserving identity solutions and helped the Swiss city of Zug develop ZugID, which enables citizens to access e-government services in a trusted and self-reliant manner. Last year, the uPort team also launched a pilot program with the Brazil Ministry of Planning that verifies government IDs and signed documents on-chain. While some governments have been slow to accept blockchain technology, several have taken initiative to prototype and deliver blockchain-based solutions around land registries (Dubai), electronic voting (Estonia), energy statistics (Chile), and internal messaging tools (Israel)."

Other Details

• Uses Infura

Roadmap

• Can be found [Insert link here].

Audits

• Bug bounty program can be found [insert here]. None according to Blockchain Security DB (29-6-2020), which does show 1 audit (4-2016).

Usage

Projects that use or built on it

• Used by Decentralized Capital (10-2019)

Team, Funding, Partnerships, etc.

Team

• Full team can be found [here].

Funding

• A ‘Core Component’ of Consensys. Is part of Consensys Labs portfolio (7-2019)