More good news!
SelfKey seems hard at work, this is amazing!

The SelfKey Identity System involves three parties:

    - Identity Owner, who wants to apply for a product or service and may be an individual or a juristic person.
    - Certifier, who verifies identity claims, such as a notary, a utility company, an accountant or company registries.
    - Relying party, a business that offers its products and services through the SelfKey marketplace.

As shown in the graphic above, the Identity Owner for example wishes to open a bank account in a bank listed in the SelfKey marketplace. The bank requires him to provide a certified copy of his passport, proof of address and bank reference letter from his current bank.

Through the Identity Owner’s digital identity wallet, the Identity Owner can access the documents stored in his personal device and share hashed parts of them with a Certifier, such as a notary, in order to certify them. To do that, the Identity Owner needs to pay KEY tokens to the Certifier.

The Certifier will send the certified documents back to the Identity Owner who in turn will share them with the Relying Party (the bank) to open the bank account.

The Relying Party will require a payment of KEY by the Identity Owner to conduct the KYC process and get his bank account opened. In turn, the Relying Party will pay KEY to the Certifier each time a certification made by him is used to onboard a client.

Placing KEY in a locked contract will also be required to access to the network (to prevent spam via an anti-Sybil mechanism).


Selfkey’s token economy is consistent and designed to be feasible in the long term:

A user will pay tokens for the attestation of his identity. In the same way that you go to the notary with your physical document to certify it.

The user will pay tokens to onboard in a product or service. In the same way that you currently pay a registered agent to incorporate a company.

The relying parties will allocate a portion of the tokens received to reward certifiers, who have verified the identity of the customer that has been successfully onboarded.

As we have seen, each member of the ecosystem has a valuable role to play utilizing KEY, enabling a transactional economy between the parties. The user can truly control and manage his digital identity and can apply for products and services easily and immediately, avoiding tedious application processes. Certifiers monetize their attestations and relying parties charge tokens for a product or service, get new customers and reduce KYC onboarding costs.

KEY is a mean of value exchange inside the SelfKey marketplace. KEY will be an efficient payment method to buy more than 300 products and services that will be available at launch.

With KEY you will be able to apply for citizenship and residency by investment, incorporate a company, open a bank account, purchase gold and other precious metals, apply for insurance and sign up for bitcoin exchanges, e-wallets and money transfer services, in a safe, secure, self-sovereign manner.

Brand new AMA with the Founder Edmund.

At 6:30 he is showing the SelfKey Identity Wallet -
looking very nice I think!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bpauTK_Fz0&feature=youtu.be&t=375

I will forward this to the right person, thank you so much!

This current KEY Token on ED is NOT the official SelfKey Token!
It will likely disappear from ED in the near future.

Yes, sir!

Civic's current product is focused in authentication (phone number and email), which is not an international KYC standard.

SelfKey is the first identity wallet in the market which allows you to access to your identity documents stored in your device, notarize them and apply for and buy residency and citizenship by investment, company incorporation, bank accounts, digital wallets, etc. (check out all services that will be available at launch at http://alpha.selfkey.org/marketplace).

KEY is the first Token with which you can buy these products and services.

The SelfKey platform also provides eNotary, eSign, customized KYC templates, sanction screening, company registry lookup, company laws and kyc laws lookup. I want to remark that this technology is live, tested and implemented in start ups, renowned banks and even used for token sales whitelisting processes. Every process follows the principle of absolute minimization of data exposure by only storing ID data on the users device whereas the blockchain is only used for transmission of hashed Data bits (like your Age for example)
There is no centralized database.

Also, the KEY token economy is substantially different from that of other identity management projects.
A user will pay KEY for the attestation of his identity. In the same way that you go to the notary with your physical document to certify it.

The user will pay tokens to onboard in a product or service. In the same way that you currently pay a registered agent for the incorporation of your company.
The relying parties will allocate a portion of the tokens received to reward certifiers, who have verified the identity of the customer that has been successfully onboarded.
This allows for a transactional economy feasible in the long-term, where all parties involved are incentivized to use the KEY token.

If you are still unsure why or how SelfKey is so different from Civic, check out this article:
https://blog.selfkey.org/what-makes-selfkey-different-from-its-competitors-ad58e74f4984

And for those who want to dig deeper:

The Whitepaper


Have a wonderful day everyone!

At SelfKey side, noone checks for Authenticity. SelfKey merely provides the underlying technology and framework, but will NEVER check or store your Data.
Instead, fractioned bits of your ID (which is stored on the users device only) will be hashed and then through the blockchain sent to a certifier that participates in the network.

Kindly refer to this Article and its graphics that illustrate this process quite nicely:
https://blog.selfkey.org/the-key-economy-d7fbc9efc270

I hope that helps!

If you are interested, this article contains a lot of Screenshots from the current state of the SelfKey Wallet.
What do you think?

https://blog.selfkey.org/the-selfkey-pre-public-sale-4053d3d7f9eb

Please refer to this Blogpost on how the transmission and verification of ID Data works in the SelfKey Ecosystem:

https://blog.selfkey.org/selfkey-empowering-individuals-to-own-control-and-manage-their-digital-identity-d88afc74d303

SelfKey Video Review by Crush Crypto


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEj8NsuhUb0&feature=share


They seem pretty bullish about SelfKey!

Not quite right, sir!
The documents are NOT kept online nor on the Blockchain, as SelfKey considers this not secure enough.
The documents are only kept on your personal device. The blockchain is used to transmit only parts (like your age) of these documents. And only after they have been hashed,
so they are useless to any possible perpetrator!

This is a very important point, as storing documents online or on the blockchain is NOT a secure solution!

SelfKey has a partnership with NTL Immigration, the biggest Citizenship by Investment provider.
Check this article
http://www.ntlimmigration.com/ntl-trust-selfkey-partner-process-cip-applications-blockchain/


This is exactly why the ID data is stored on the users device ONLY. Not stored with SelfKey and also not stored in the blockchain - only a "hash" will be used for transmission.
Check The Whitepaper for more info on that - this is the best possible method of going through KYC with minimum ID exposure.
The SelfKey wallet won’t collect documentation. This will be easily to see as you won’t require to upload any document.


International!
However, Citizens of the US, New Zealand and China are unfortunately not eligible to participate in the Token Sale.

SelfKey provides the underlying technology to Gatcoin, the fact that you havent noticed anything is a good sign 
SelfKey didn’t collect your data at that point though. Once you are properly set up with SelfKey though, future Token Sales will be much easier to participate for you.




SelfKey is cooperating with Verifiers that are integral part of the SelfKey Ecosystem, making sure that verification is 100% legitimate. I suggest checking out the whitepaper, which gives a bit more insight into that:
https://selfkey.org/whitepaper/



Thank you for your kind words.
And in fact, Token Generation Events are already using SelfKey:

Airswap
Gatcoin
Aditus
Polymath
AiX
Polymath
Zilla
Kommerce
Malabar AI
Gatecoin





Currently Civic is a mere email and phone number verifier -
SelfKey is an ID product used to do KYC in several token sales and fintech startups such as airswap, aditus, gatcoin etc.
Selfkey will deliver an iD wallet on January before our main round, Civic has not delivered any iD product, 6 months right after their token sale.
Also, SelfKey has a clear vision of how to manage ID data with minimum risk and exposure - the data is stored on users device never in a server nor in the Blockchain.
The Blockchain is used for transmission of single "ID-bits" like your age for example, but only after this data has been hashed and is therefore useless to any potential penetrator.
SelfKey has many partnerships which some of them are disclosed and other under nda’s to provide services in the selfkey marketplace -
the Technology is tried and true, it has been tested for 3 years now and is already being used in various Token Generation Events (see above)

Please review these articles for further details:

https://blog.selfkey.org/what-makes-selfkey-different-from-its-competitors-ad58e74f4984
https://blog.selfkey.org/the-growing-selfkey-ecosystem-ada849781ca5




Thank you!
The first version of the desktop wallet will be released directly next Month coinciding with the Crowdsale. This Article right here showcases some more screenshots of the wallet:
https://blog.selfkey.org/the-selfkey-pre-public-sale-4053d3d7f9eb



https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2017/12/125735-selfkey-digital-identity-firm-tops-5-million-private-pre-sales-public-pre-sale-ico-kicks-off-december-15th/
Over 5 Mio USD in private Sales, but it shot up to 8.3 Mio in a few days now.
And no, not only institutional investors.





Click "Try Demo" Halfway through the Website. Or use this direct Link:

Marketplace Demo
https://alpha.selfkey.org/marketplace/



Exactly, Thanks

Do your research and your due dilligence. Dig around on http://selfkey.org/ and on independent sources. You will find that the project is very well established and transparent.

https://blog.selfkey.org/the-selfkey-team-part-3-3-advisors-993b6110b37a

Did you know SelfKey has an Ethereum Core Member on their Advisor Team?

That is the pain the project aims to alleviate. Plus some bad-ass marketplace products

Yeah, dont miss out man! If you participate in the Pre-Sale, you save 30%.

Plus you can pay with Bitcoin, gotta its high trend right now

Sorry to hear that mate. Government clampdown is a real problem for all the crypto space. But projects like SelfKey are ultimately there to alleviate the problem!