Argentina’s capital city, Buenos Aires, is leaning into a new blockchain system that promises citizens faster and more reliable access to their most important government documents.
The new service, QuarkID, created in partnership with blockchain digital identity company Extrimian, is set to be released in October.
QuarkID will act as a private digital wallet, giving users access to digitally verifiable versions of documents like certificates for birth, marriage, and divorce. Starting in November, citizens will be able to access proof of income and academic attendance certificates as well. The move is being touted as a “first” in Latin America.
For the initial rollout, Buenos Aires citizens will need to complete biometric know-your-customer procedures for identity verification to create a QuarkID wallet. The service then utilizes Matter Labs’ zkSync Era Layer-2 protocol as a settlement layer to ensure each document a person claims in their wallet belongs to them through signed transactions on the blockchain without including personal information. At no point is a document stored in a centralized database or on-chain, which makes data less susceptible to hacks.
The QuarkID platform is based on open-source technology, following international standards, with the aim of allowing other governments to verify future Buenos Aires city documents easily. Additionally, the open-source-based platform can be leveraged by the private sector to build applications that can also benefit from its features.
The complete roadmap for QuarkID, set to be released by year-end, aims to extend the service to over 2.5 million users.
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