Orders on rainy days always come with surprises, just like this moment when I’m standing under the convenience store’s eaves with my soaked phone — my girlfriend just sent a screenshot, and PROVE’s identity verification surprisingly passed, without asking for an ID photo at all, just using on-chain data authorization. I, with my pants still dripping, suddenly laughed out loud, recalling how I complained to her three days ago that “KYC in the crypto world is more troublesome than opening a bank account.” Now I’m amazed by this operation.

Initially, I noticed PROVE because I wanted to participate in an overseas project’s event but got stuck at the identity verification step. The other party required a pile of materials like translated documents and address proof. I struggled for two days while running errands and still didn’t pass, almost ready to uninstall the app out of frustration. Later, I saw someone on the forum say that PROVE can use “on-chain identity” to replace traditional KYC. With a try-it-and-see mindset, I clicked in and found it really was different: it doesn’t collect physical documents but generates a credible identity certificate by analyzing your wallet’s transaction history, asset status, and other on-chain data, like giving a “credit score” in the crypto world, protecting privacy while proving “you are you.”

Last week I helped my roommate solve an authentication problem, and he was worried in front of the screen: “I’m afraid my ID information will leak, but I want to participate in that airdrop event, what should I do?” I opened PROVE and taught him how to operate: “Look, here it only requires authorization to view your on-chain data, and it’s ‘minimum permission’ — only the necessary information is shared, nothing more is leaked, which is much safer than those that require facial recognition or holding an ID.” Later, I found out that this is backed by “zero-knowledge proof” technology, which simply means it can prove “I meet the criteria” without telling you “who I am.” This technological approach balances user privacy and compliance needs very well.

Now every time I wait for my order outside the merchant, I open PROVE to check my identity score. My girlfriend also learns to use it to verify various small activities. For ordinary people like us who fear information leakage yet want to engage more in the encrypted world, the most valuable thing about PROVE is that sense of “security” — it doesn’t require you to hand over all your privacy as a “ticket,” but instead uses technology to build a bridge for ordinary people, allowing compliance and freedom to coexist without being a choice between the two. This sense of stability is more reassuring than any airdrop reward.$PROVE