Expanding Civic Pass Verification Reusability With Solana Attestation Service (SAS)

Protecting your dApp from bots, Sybils, cheaters and other bad actors is a never-ending challenge for any builder, and Solana builders are no different.

Digital identity can help solve these issues by keeping bad actors out of your platform. 

However, as it stands, the identity ecosystem is fragmented because there are no common standards that address on-chain identity proofs.

Fortunately, a new consortium led by Solana Foundation, that we are proudly part of, is tackling this issue on your behalf. It’s coming together to create a holy grail of interoperability for reusable persistent verifications, including proofs of personhood and KYC/KYW checks. Not only will SAS help make it easier to keep bad actors out, it will also be easier to implement compliance.

What is SAS?

Today, we are excited to announce that we’re part of Solana Attestation Service (SAS), a standards layer that gives your dApp the advantage when it comes to dealing with bad actors. SAS will also improve user experience by lowering the burden on users to get verified every time they use your service. Importantly, you’ll also have choice and flexibility in sourcing verifications.

SAS standardizes verifiable credentials for Solana ecosystem wallets, all while preserving user privacy. Verifiable credentials are digital attestations issued by a trusted authority that can be securely shared and cryptographically verified to prove identity or other claims. With verifiable credentials, you’ll be able to ensure someone has had their ID verified, verify membership, or just find out if a wallet belongs to a human instead of a bot.

This is just the starting point. Credential types are dependent on the verifiers in the SAS network, and with reusable and vendor-agnostic verification, builders can easily implement additional credential checks, including compliance requirements, anti-Sybil measures, sanctions screening, trading entity verification, and even accredited investor validation. 

The goal of this implementation is to provide a neutral attestation registry that allows protocols and companies to build applications with a solid foundation for verifiable credentials. All integrators will be better served with a common interoperable base-layer for reusable on-chain identity. Users can create a credential for their wallet that can be re-used over and over for a more seamless web3 experience. Developers will benefit from a trusted verifiable credential registry that serves the entire community, accessible via clear schemas.

SAS for Civic Pass holders

How can Civic Pass holders participate in SAS? Great news on this front -- Civic Pass holders will be able to access the benefits of working with SAS all without any action on their part. In fact, the building for this framework has taken place entirely behind the scene, so Civic Passes will already be compatible with SAS. Reach out to our team to ensure we issue SAS attestations along with your Civic Passes. 

A case study for SAS and gaming

To illustrate the value of a permissioned approach to attestations, we turn to the team at Honeyland, a play and own mobile game built on Solana. After only a year on app stores globally, the game has more than 20,000 daily active players. Within the game, you can mint, buy, sell and trade NFTs through a marketplace using their own cryptocurrency. 

The game’s ecosystem relies on Certified Beekeepers, who are all verified with Civic Pass, a verified credential, to be unique players. With SAS, players can now leverage their active verification proof in other Solana applications that require a 1-person-1-wallet proof.

Get started with SAS

Ready to block bots, cheaters and bad actors from your game? Get started with Solana Attestation Service or email bd@civic.com.