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Persona represents the solution for identity management, aligned with the latest data protection regulations. Its scope is to empower the customer and grant him/her the control over their personal data as well as the means to secure access to their private details.
By using Persona, the individual spends less time updating their data and service providers can access the latest version of the customer data.







 


1. Onboarding

One KYC to rule them all. With Persona, anybody will be able to use the data validated on the Persona blockchain to sign up for new services. It’s a win-win for all the parties involved.
For the individual, because it can sign up faster, and the onboarding process is painless while still being in control of its private details.
For the other party, because it provides a smooth onboarding process, no or minimum costs to maintain up-to-date data on its clients.
With Persona, the individual will always be in control over what and with whom it shares its private details.


2. Fight fake news

Fake news affects our day to day life. It’s becoming harder and harder to find the truth about global events or how companies perform.
By having the articles signed by journalists enrolled in Persona, it will be easier for us as readers to access the true news and eventually have only these news accessible in search engines. And it will be easier for journalists to take credit for their materials and even have their materials scored better on internet search engines results.


3. Medical records

With Persona you could eventually have better health insurance by giving your insurance company access to your Fitbit wearable. Or you could participate in cutting-edge experimental treatment by providing private details while you're in control all the time.


4. “Safe dome”

Persona is about keeping you in control over your data, no matter if we are talking about personal skills, professional experiences, Social Security Number, e-mail address or phone number.

Since each interaction you have with a third party is based on a minimum level of trust, Persona aims to provide you the level of trust required by the entity you’re interacting with, but, unlike till now, keeps you in the driver’s seat when it comes to your private details.

Reserved for future updates.

Persona update, January 2019

As we are getting ready to launch our fully working testnet, this month was about fine tuning: tests, API calls, documentation.

API

On the entity side we’ve worked on: get services’s attributeTypes request, get services by status/provider, list services, add these into the automation coverage/documentation.

On the individual’s attributes API verifications on the testnet (create/update/validation ). Enable validation of attributes with types that have more than 1 value per user ( for example : phone_number, email, etc. ) — API support, tests, documentation.

We’ve added some missing tests for checks made before creating a validation request : there is no other request in pending approval or completed. Fix other scenarios around validation and identity use ( found by Codruta ) — being able to create requests after old ones were rejected/declined/canceled/ended, create a separate automation business report document ( containing all the business scenarios covered by automation, without any duplicates). There are 287 tests scenarios we’ve running against the current testnet version.

Added support for creating new validation & Identity requests after previous requests were rejected/canceled/declined or ended.

We started to look into the desktop wallet issue with the Ledger, a issues raised by the community(after the upgrade to the last firmware version)

Documentation

The documentation is now almost complete (97%) and now we are working on migrating it to GitHub, since it was written in Jira Confluence, our internal documentation framework.

Chat

Once someone is claiming its identity in Persona, it needs to contact the closest “notaries” to get verified and validated. We needed some form of communication between the two parties so they can establish the details of the face to face meeting. So we’ve developed a chat feature in order to make this communication possible. This messaging application scope is to be used inside Persona and also we have been developed it in such a way that will allow us to make it available outside of Persona. This is the first application developed on top of Persona.

New colleagues

We are continuously looking to add new members to our team. Right now we are searching for a developer to work with the exchanges and to develop third-party add-ons on top of Persona. In the same time, we are looking for someone to cover the communication side(community management, blog posts and social media).

Partnerships & Exchanges

There are very few cases where the business logic does not require to establish first the identity of a customer, so the need for identity is in high demand.We started to reach out to various projects and we’ve run demos for them and we are in different stages with these partners.

We’ve integrated Persona into BISQ.network a decentralized exchange and with the next Bisq update, Persona should be available.

We’ve continued to provide support to LAToken, the next exchange Persona is going to be listed. Actually we were supposed to be listed on LAToken on Tuesday, 22nd January, but due to some issues with the deposits, the listing had to be postponed and the according to the latest updates we’ve received from LAToken, Friday 25th January, they were waiting for QA sign-off. Once the listing on LAToken is done, we will resume our efforts to get Persona listed on CoinMarket.

We’ve also got in contact with another exchanges, but due to the Chinese New Year they are not in the office(at least they are not listing any project) until February 12nd, so until then, we have no update on the listing process.

Website

We’ve realized that the current website is not good enough. It might be good for “crypto connoisseurs” but it’s not ready for the masses, for those people that have nothing to do with blockchain technology, but they are one of the hundreds of millions of people with personal data exposed in the recent hacks. So, we are in the process of re-vamping our website, so we can explain why and what are the benefits to have your identity claimed and controlled with the help of Persona.

https://medium.com/personablockchain/persona-update-january-2019-9585e91d5e94

inb4 the FUD...   ;D :D

Ooooo, God!totally forgot about that :D.

For those of you who just turned on their TV, Persona is a trust protocol, with the scope of harnessing the blockchain technology to provide the tools for individuals to be in control over their data. In these days, no matter what we want to do, what services we want to acquire or use, we need to sign-up, create an account and so, providing details about who we are.
At the minimum, we are handing over some email address while at the maximum we even let a trail of documents in hard copy (booking a hotel room or an Airbnb, renting a car or opening a bank account or create an account with a web service like Quora.

The issue is that all these entities we are in a relationship with, from that moment we hand over our details, they become the custodians of our data. We don't know how safe they keep them if they are going to sell those details or not, or in case of a security breach guess who's features are all over the dark market? For example, just in the last six months of 2018, more than 1 billion individuals private details were hacked, exposed and sold over the dark market. So, the only victims of the current onboarding process are us. Our details are ending up over the internet, our passwords, our preferences, our home address.

This is the scope of Persona, to provide the tools so we can be in the position of controlling what and with whom we share them, to be able to prove that we are whom we claim to be without actually leaving a trail of copies of our ID's and passports, preferences,skills or previous work experience.

About Persona "internals":

Persona is a DPoS, a fork of Ark, running on its own blockchain. Persona is not an Ethereum token.. Fifty-one delegates are maintaining the network, and we've kept the Ark's voting mechanism. The rewards are 8 PRSN, 4 PRSN, 2 PRSN, halving every two years. Persona is listed on COSS, and according to LAToken, we should be live by the end of the weekend on their platform as well. The coin's ticker is PRSN.
We are days away from launching our fully functional testnet, providing the whole process of identity claiming. We focused on the personal details required in a banking grade onboarding process. You might know it under the term of KYC or CDD(Customer Due Diligence).

How we are doing it:

Registering and claiming identity

Individuals are creating an account(username, email address and password) on the enrollment website and once they confirmed their email address, they can start filling their details: date of birth, home address, SSN and such. For all these attributes, after there are filled, the individual will be able to upload on an isolated IPFS instance, its government-issued documents that prove that whatever details the individual supplied there are the real ones.

Verification and Validation

The verification and validation are done by the community, by the people that when created their account also checked the option to be a notary, a verifier in the community. To the newly created identity, the system will allocate 16 random verifiers or notaries. We do this to prevent the contagious scenario in which someone with 20 friends would push fake details into the system. This doesn't mean that your friends can't validate you, is just that only after those 16 verifications and validations you're trustworthy.
The verification and validation are done face to face after the individual that wants to be verified and validated gets into contact with the notaries and agree on the details of the meeting.
Once face to face, the individual decrypts his claimed details, and its IPFS saved documents and also provides the originals of the documents uploaded. The verifier will check all these three sources and proceed accordingly. If all match he/she will say that X is who claims to be or not. Whatever the individual shared with the verifier is revoked, and the individual can ask for a new verification and validation. If the verification and validation are negative, a red flag is raised. The red flag can be undone by three random picked by the system verifiers. If all three are saying that whatever details are there are true, then the individual can use its identity. If the result is negative, that single individual option is to fill the real information and upload the authentic documents and proceed to a new verification and validation.

Using your identity

It doesn't make sense to offer people a way to be in control over their identity if there is no entity accepting this as means of onboarding. We are working to bring companies that allow Persona as a means of identification. There is granularity in Persona, and this means that you can share your phone with your mobile carrier, and your home address and SSN with the bank (due to regulations, you might even have to give them access to the documents uploaded in the IPFS instance. This meaning that you're encrypting the documents with your key and the banks key the documents and they are the only one that has access to that link. Once you decide to end your relationship with the bank you deactivate the connection and issue a notification to the bank that you request to have all your details deleted according to the GDPR).
When an entity is accepting Persona as means of onboarding, there is a cost associated with this process. The price, in Persona tokens, will be split evenly to all the notaries that verified and validated that specific identity.
To maintain the onboarding even more straightforward, an entity can choose if they accept an identity verified and validated by community only or they can appoint their trust person to perform the verification and validation or both.
Take this scenario: to maintain the customer acquisition costs low to none, a bank can decide that it is comfortable to allow online account opening based only on community validations. Once the individual wants a credit card, the verification and the validation will be conducted by the trusted person the bank designated for that specific geography(town or whatever)

What makes us different

Well, identity is a classical use case for blockchain, and some other initiatives are trying to handle it. Not only because it's a traditional use-case, but because it makes sense and because we need the means to protect our details.

• Unlike most of the rest of identity blockchain projects(98%), Persona runs on its own blockchain, not on Ethereum blockchain as an ERC20 token. This means that we are not vulnerable to whatever happens to some other blockchain and that we are the master of our "faith."
• We are the only identity project that can interconnect with other blockchains, to push identity cross blockchains, by using Ark's Smart Bridge capabilities(that's the reason we are developing Persona on Ark)
• We are democratizing identity. In Persona there is no higher authority, everybody has the same level of trust, making sure there are as less as possible scenarios in which someone might be corrupted to push fake data.
• Each validation gives the individuals some trust points. These trust points are depreciating in time, so we move the data refreshment effort for the companies to the individuals. If they want to be in control over their data and not be the next hacking victims, individuals will have to be verified and validated permanently. We are looking at six months right now, but it depends on how the tests with the partners will go. You might ask yourself why this depreciation? Well, think about this: you just opened a bank account by identifying yourself with Persona. Two weeks later you move, or your ID/passport is stolen. Now you have a new address, a new ID or a new passport. You are the same person you were three weeks ago, but some of your attributes are not accurate anymore. You'll have to meet some new people and get verified and validated, and all the entities that you're in a relationship with potentially will have access to the latest version of your details.No other project does this.
• Persona is a trust protocol over blockchain, but to build on top of it, we need first to establish the identity. So Persona is not just a decentralized, better and safer KYC solution, but any interested developer can build its application on top of Persona. You could build a proper social network, making Cambridge Analytica just a bad memory, a safer Twitter like, where all the accounts are real people, you could develop an application to fight fake news or safely store medical records, use Persona as LDAP, or as a ledger for previous skills, voting applications or reviews. We just formatted the documentation in GitHub format, and we are going to publish it on the testnet branch in the following days
• Imagine you decide to rellocate to a new country. The entities you were in a relationship with back home, can provide identity as a service in the new country, making it easier for you to have access to renting an apartment, signing up with utilities providers, because you are the same person you were back home, nothing changed.

Where we are now?

As already stated, we are days away from launching our fully functional testnet, covering the identity claiming up to "consuming your identity." We are using Ark V1, so as soon as we publicly launch the testnet, we will focus on security, high availability (testing scenarios with tens of thousands of users claiming or consuming their identity). We are inviting all of you to take Persona to a "test drive" and get a glimpse of how the future of decentralized trust looks like.

What makes you guys better than any of the dozens of identity management solutions, KYC processes and the like? This is a very crowded part of the market, and very fragmented.

Where is list delegates?

Persona available on Coss :

https://coss.io/c/trade?s=PRSN_BTC
https://coss.io/c/trade?s=PRSN_ETH

& very soon LAToken

http://persona.world-domination.org/

https://persona-exp.geops.net/delegate-monitor

We are a trust protocol, not a KYC solution. It's true, among other things, you could use Persona for KYC, indeed. The current KYC process is broken,  and we all know it. People are performing KYC using a scissors cut photos overlaid on someone's ID.

What makes us stand out from the crowd when it comes about KYC?
1. The identity of the people is being verified and validated face to face, a process that worked pretty well back in 2001-2004 for Thawte with their Web of Trust.
2. Nobody is maintaining a copy of your documents. Everything is stored encrypted on the blockchain and on the private IPFS instance that runs on top of Persona. The individual decides with whom, what and for how long it shares any of its details. Nobody is checking you against DMV or any other register.
3. We provide the means for the companies that are accepting Persona as a means of identification to potentially have access to the latest version of your details, something that does not happen today with any of the identity solutions running on blockchain or not.

As stated before, Persona is a zero-knowledge trust protocol. After you established your identity, you could start using it on various other instances or applications developed on top of Persona. Have your identity pushed in Ethereum smart-contracts, passporting your identity cross border, sign your emails to prevent phishing attacks or enjoy a privacy-first social network.

And https://explorer.persona.im

Persona deposits are now working on LAtoken , trading starting soon !! :)
https://latoken.com

Yes, indeed the website is not finalized, where I can get full information about the project, for a full understanding of the functions!? Somewhere I saw information that the Persona launches their exchange?!

The current website is being revamped. For a helicopter view you can read my post above, where I explain about persona. For a more in-depth view, you can read our whitepaper (https://persona.im/persona-whitepaper.pdf) .
As regarding the exchange, we are looking to team up with exchanges and not only, to provide them a seemless onboarding. Developing our own exchange would move our focus from the protocol into an area that is not really an appetite for us. But, since we wil need to provide the means for the people to buy Persona from the identity wallet we are exploring various options.

Trading active too! https://[Suspicious link removed]/2MgxWGs

Not spreading FUD or anything, just doing my due diligence before installing. Can you elaborate on the InstallMonster in the windows wallet?

https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/7f5524511f60bca28f6fee90932f3cb59f299f093a1bd1271203816f5039e019/detection

Congratulations for the PRSN tokens listed on the LATOKEN exchange, but what about the Binance exchange? I see there is a description of "Binance Application in progress" on your site, how far is the development?

I appreciate the disclaimer about FUD. Thank you. The notification is default from Windows due to the number of installations. It has nothing to do with the application, but from Windows point of view is not trustful enough due to the low number of installations.

The application is finished. That badge is what Binance recommends to display on the website once the listing application was finished. In filling the listing form we've followed the instructions of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, listed here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/binance-listing-tips-changpeng-zhao/
This is the Persona listing page: https://info.binance.com/en/currencies/persona

where i can get some coins?

Latoken and Coss.Coss went through some update and the Persona is due to be enabled again.So Latoken 👍

Thank you for the detailed answer. How many applications are going to integrate your service? Can you give me some examples?

As I was saying, Persona is a trust protocol, but in order to build the trust, you need an identity (like we are using on BCT our nicknames, they are a projection of a real person. At least hopefully :D ). While we were working on Persona development we realized that with the minimum mandatory required attributes needed to build that trust we can address also a huge pain (both for customers and companies) which is KYC/CDD. So now, with the launching of Public Beta (https://enrollment-test.persona.im/) we are demonstrating the way Persona Trust works and also we are making available for companies to test their implementations and create their risk templates and test it.
Now, to come back to your question, we are working with some OTC desks (in different geographies so we can mold Persona to fit all regulations in place, especially since by 2020 the 5th AML directive will be in place), some exchanges, we're developing our own applications (for two reasons: to prove what Persona is about and to show developers worldwide that we can deliver the onboarding process for the applications they are developing, so there is no reason for them to think about GDPR, data protection, and such things), a project that is working on a solution for Universal Basic Income, and a crypto friendly bank. All these are discussions and/or in different stages of development. So they can come to fruition or not. Until you can use your identity registered in Persona to use some services of some OTC, you should see it as a "discovery" stage.
We've become so used to the "Register" or handing over copies of our ID's or passports that this is the only way we know of doing business with a third party. Persona represents a new way of doing business for consumers and companies, but there is a "learning curve".

Do you have plans to add new exchanges? Latoken is not enough. No liquidity. I dont want to buy an asset that then can not be sold. Otherwise, if other companies adopt your technology, it will be great.
And one more question you have a good contact with the developers of the ark?

Minable ? POW ?

Persona is a DPoS. Based on a fork of Ark.

The short answer is yes. The long answer is that we are in various stages with different other exchanges:Binance, Bittrex,HitBTC, Poloniex just to name a few.
As about good contact with Ark developers, I'm one of the Ark co-founders. Why do you ask?

As for liquidity, in my opinion, you shouldn't buy a token just because everybody is buying it. I think you should buy a token based on the scope of that token, the reason for that token exists.

We've taken down enrollment app to make some changes. In case you're "test driving" our beta version you might get some error. We'are implementing some of the bugs discovered by the community. Will let you know as soon as we're on again.

We are up and running again! Enjoy your testing and if anything is not working properly, please open an issue on our GitHub (https://github.com/PersonaIam/personatestnet/issues)

It is very important for me to understand what your level of code development you have and whether you are connected with people from the crypto world. The fact that you fork the ark is very good. If there is liquidity on the exchanges, then I’ll definitely buy some. You can delegate even with 1k tokens and less?

The main reason to build Persona on Ark, is Ark's capability to inter-connect with different blockchains, so we have Persona in the unique position to provide trust cross-blockchains. Providing identity into Eth smart-contracts for example. Here (http://persona.world-domination.org/) you can see the vote report on all delegates.

Persona in a nutshell by Chico Crypto (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oac66wfmdZE)

persona documentation is live
https://medium.com/personablockchain/persona-documentation-5f56c3736922

activity report
https://medium.com/personablockchain/persona-february-27th-update-50229fc2a140

trading in altilly  8)
https://www.altilly.com/market/PRSN_ETH
https://www.coingecko.com/en/exchanges/altilly

The blockchain-based data security platform grows increasingly fertile with various offers for identity owners who use it, what is the contribution of the persona for platform users or companies that use person services.

yes but the only problem is that the exchanges want exactly their solution. like other platforms. no one wants to use technology that is not fully under control. take example like binance projects with developers in order not to depend on third parties.

The first thing is that Persona does not access centralized, government databases. The verification and validation process is done by the community or the entities accepting persona as a means of identification.
The second thing is that Persona solves the data refreshment. If you created an account 1 year ago with any of the exchanges and you relocated, they have obsolete data about you. With the depreciation of your attributes, the entities you're having a relationship with, potentially have access to the latest version of your details.
The third thing that's different with Persona is that using Ark's capability to interconnect with various other blockchains, Persona is in the unique position to provide identity cross-blockchains.
The fourth thing about Persona is that is not only about identity. Persona is a zero knowledge trust protocol, so once the identity is established, any type of attributes can be added to that identity. Something you own or are, addressing any use case from fighting fake new to storing medical records or negotiating a better insurance deal because you are an active individual.
The fifth thing is that by addressing all these use cases, Persona makes possible to get rid of the old username and password, or the need of register ever again with all the services you are enrolling with.

So Stefan is now claiming he 'lost' all the  $1.7 mill + ICO funds(apart from ARK) , his ledger got 'hacked'
also saying that out of the goodness of his heart he paid $70k+ of his own funds towards development  after the funds were stolen  ;D

https://medium.com/personablockchain/why-hodler-enterprises-is-now-managing-persona-f13efd2617ae

Persona is now under a new management!

https://medium.com/personablockchain/persona-under-new-management-534a0c03800b

Under this new management will the roadmap differ or Persona is still going to continue on its existing one? Also, could you shed any light into the possible runway the project now has under the new management? 

Seems that Hodler Enterprises have a lot of businesses to manage with.
I have encountered several threads that Hodler is currently managing.
Altilly, Qredit, Voyager Park to name a few.
Altilly and Qredit are still surviving but Voyager Park, I don't know if they can really construct their physical existence.
And now Persona, would it change the course of the project now that it is under Hodler?

We have acquired a few start up projects.
This article will explain you why: https://medium.com/@SuperC_ol/creating-a-mini-ecosystem-as-the-ultimate-testing-ground-of-a-possible-future-2a8197b6acaa

Hodler Energy in May 2018 (formerly known as Miniera)
Altilly Exchange in January 2019
Antares Energy in July 2019 (formerly known as SolarDAO)
Persona in August 2019


For the part describing our physical existence. We have acquired a franchise called McBläck.
A company that has been operating for 11 years (physically).

https://hodler.enterprises/sync/2019/10/mcblack.jpeg

Source: https://www.allehanda.se/logga-in/mcblack-i-solleftea-far-en-ny-agare