ZK Image recognition and the ERC-7812 Standard

Questions around identity ownership often collapse into thought puzzles:

• Do you own your face? There’s no doubt it’s yours, but in a few quick minutes, I could easily generate videos of it saying things you’d never say or doing things you’d never do.

• If a company issues your credential do you truly own it? If the government shuts down the company and renders your credential unusable, was it ever really under your control?

These puzzles aren't hypothetical. They highlight critical issues with current identity systems. Thankfully, we spent Q1 developing concrete solutions for them.

Q1 Breakthroughs & Launches

ZK Image Recognition: Your image, Your Control

Rarimo has pioneered a major technological breakthrough with client-side ZK image recognition.

Nobody has successfully experimented with using ZKPs for image recognition before. With Rarimo however, the neural networks that recognize images can now be run locally on a smart phone, and each images’ vectors can be hashed and verified through ZKPs.

So, what are we focusing our ZK image recognition experiments on? Well, your face. Some of the facial recognition case studies we’ve demoed include:

Unforgettable Wallet demo:

• What is it? Introduced by Lasha at ETH Denver, this app lets you use your face for account recovery. Entirely decentralized and client-side, the ZKML process completes in under a minute.

• Why did we build it? With account abstraction set to revolutionize wallets, we wanted to explore how we can solve some of the most annoying aspects of crypto for users, like seed phrases.

ZK Facial Ownership Registry:

• What is it? This registry lets you control if and when your face is used for deep fakes. Once you’ve added a hash of your facial vectors to the registry, Generative AI will treat them as off-limits.

• Why did we build it? Deepfakes are one of the most pervasive forces undermining trust online, and as the problem intensifies, the demand for solutions will grow.

We envision diverse use cases for this registry, including monetizable permissions. Our favourite business idea so far has been for OnlyFans. Content creators can grant premium subscribers permission to create their videos that feature them.

ERC-7812 Standard: Identity as a Public Good

In February, Rarimo’s developers—Oleks Kurbatov, Artem Chystiakov, and Yaroslav Panasenko—co-authored the ERC-7812 Standard alongside Vitalik Buterin and Michael Elliot (ZK Passport).

ERC-7812 proposes an attestation layer with a shared provable commitment state. This shared state is a game changer for digital identity as it prevents institutions from seizing control of identity systems.

As part of our overarching mission to enshrine digital identity as a public good, Rarimo implemented this standard with its ZK registries.

ZK Roll-Up Launch:

Rarimo launched the ZK registry as a roll-up for superior scalability and security.

Thanks to the ERC-7812 standard, the registry unlocks unique benefits for builders.

By aggregating abstract statements instead of supporting a single use-case or identity type, the registry becomes an increasingly complex ZK social graph.

This provides an infinitely flexible framework that enables developers to support multiple use cases and access a huge pool of verified users with a single integration.

Additional Q1 Highlights

ZK Liveness:

• Proved a uniquely seamless ZK-based proof-of-humanity.
• Integrated into web apps, the entire verification process takes less than 40 seconds.
• Will be used in bot-free “fairdrops.”

Agora Citizen Network:

• Awarded $30,000 from the French government.
• Using Rarimo’s technology for censorship-resistant citizen debates.

Swisstronik Integration:

• Incorporated Rarimo’s ZK passport technology for enhanced KYC compliance.

ZKPass and Openion Market:

• Used Rarimo’s registry and zkTLS to verify Twitter’s blue tick holders.

About Rarimo

New to Rarimo? It is a censorship-resistant ZK identity protocol. Allowing users to self-issue their own identities with nothing more than a smart phone. This means no trusted third parties, no centralized infrastructure, and no major privacy or censorship issues.

Our mission is clear: Empower individuals over institutions.

The end goal: A Paradigm Shift

Rarimo is bigger than a particular identity type, such as passports or biometrics, or a particular use case, such as proof-of-humanity. Instead, Rarimo represents an entire paradigm shift. It is doing for identity what Bitcoin did for transactions. It is returning power to the user.

When you generate an identity on Rarimo, you know that no institution can take it from you, you know that your personal data will remain private, and you know that you will remain free, empowered and in control.

Thank you for your support and belief in our vision, The Rarimo builders