TON Society announced a proof-of-personhood program targeting Telegram users, who can voluntarily scan their palms in exchange for benefits. The organization allocated 1 million TON for this initiative, distributed among 500 million participants in the next 5 years after completing their palm verification using Humancode’s artificial intelligence (AI) biometric tech.
TON Society Reveals Biometric Proof-of-Personhood Palm Scanning Program
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TON Society Announces Digital Identification Verification Initiative
Digital identity and proof of personhood initiatives are becoming more popular in the crypto ecosystem. TON Society recently announced a biometric proof of personhood program targeting its members, who will be able to verify their identities and receive a reward.
The biometric engine of the program will be provided by Humancode, an artificial intelligence company that provides palm scanning services. Unlike Worldcoin, which needs specific hardware to achieve its objective, Humancode uses current mobile phone camera tech and artificial intelligence (AI) to scan the vein pattern present in each hand, which is a unique trait.
In a press release, the organization remarked on the importance of this kind of service, stating this technology was “crucial for operations like airdrops or transaction analysis, where verifying a person’s identity is necessary for privacy.”
TON Society has allocated 1 million TON tokens to distribute to users verifying their identities using this method, aiming for the participation of 500 million users in the next five years. In addition to this reward, users will be issued a Soulbound token as proof of their unique identities.
Utilizing a local palm scanner is one of the features that might make the registration process more successful and less intrusive than other similar projects. Targeting Worldcoin, an iris-scanning digital identity project, Humancode founder Tim Zhang declared:
Palm recognition technology is inherently more acceptable. For most people, scanning your palm with a smartphone camera just feels less intrusive than eye-scanning.
Humancode reinforces that its operations are inherently safer, given that the features scanned are locally verified and encrypted before being transferred to Humancode’s servers. Also, Humancode alleged that these features are non-reversible, meaning that reconstructing the user’s palm patterns using the encrypted data is impossible.
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