Concordium Shatters Digital Barriers with Privacy-First ID for Seamless Web2-Web3 Age Verification

Forget clunky logins and oversharing personal data—Concordium's new privacy-preserving identity system just rewrote the rules for age verification across both traditional and decentralized ecosystems.

Zero-Knowledge Proofs Meet Real-World Compliance

The platform leverages cutting-edge zero-knowledge cryptography to confirm user ages without exposing birthdates or other sensitive information. It's the digital equivalent of flashing an ID without letting anyone scan or copy it—just pure, cryptographic trust.

One Identity to Rule Them All (Without the Creepy Data Hoarding)

Users get a single, reusable digital identity that works everywhere—from legacy Web2 platforms to permissionless Web3 dapps. No more creating endless accounts. No more handing over your driver’s license to random apps. Just verify once, proceed everywhere.

Regulators Nod; Privacy Advocates Breathe Easier

This isn’t some fringe anonymity play. Concordium built this with compliance in mind, threading the needle between GDPR, upcoming MiCA rules, and good old common sense. Even the most skeptical data protection hawks are leaning in with interest.

Why This Changes the Game for On-Chain Adoption

Age-gated content and services—think gambling dapps, adult content, alcohol delivery—now have a clean, non-invasive way to check boxes without turning users away. Lower friction. Higher trust. Fewer regulatory hand grenades down the road.

And for the finance crowd still obsessed with anonymous rug pulls and unregulated casinos? Let’s just say it’s harder to blame ‘lack of KYC’ when your degenerate trades go south now.

Web3 just grew up—without selling its soul.

Concordium, the PayFi-enabled blockchain, has unveiled Concordium ID, a new identity verification app built to solve a long-standing problem on the web: how to verify a user’s age without collecting and scattering their personal data.

The mobile-first application, available now for iOS and Android, uses zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to let users prove they meet an age threshold (for example, 18+ or 21+) without handing over identifying information. Concordium says the design creates a single, encrypted ID that can be used across websites, dApps and services to gate age-restricted content while preserving user privacy.

Concordium CEO Boris Bohrer-Bilowitzki said: “The truth is that the web has never had a viable age verification system, resulting in piecemeal solutions that are ineffective at best and a privacy risk at worst. With Coin98 and Safle as just the first step, we’re opening the gate to a pipeline of integrations that will put privacy-preserving verification in reach of hundreds of millions of users worldwide.”

Privacy-first Age Checks, at Scale

Concordium ID aims to replace fragile, self-declared age checks and the risky approach of storing personal data on multiple platforms. Using ZKPs, users can create a Concordium account in the app and then present a cryptographic proof of age to third-party services, without exposing the underlying date of birth or identity documents.

Concordium describes the system as decentralized, secure and scalable, suitable for metering access to age-based content, services, or community features across the open internet. The company also highlights the broader utility of Concordium ID beyond simple age gating. Businesses operating in Web2 and Web3 can use the solution to meet compliance requirements without retaining customers’ raw identity data or investing in expensive, bespoke verification systems.

For Web3 projects, Concordium stresses that the ID is wallet-agnostic and offers an SDK for easy integration into dApps and protocols, enabling identity-backed PayFi features and other flows that require verified identities. At launch, Concordium ID ships with integrations into the popular wallets Coin98 and Safle, enabling a combined FLOW of “verify and pay” for online purchases and services.

Thanh Le, Coin98 CEO, said: “By integrating Concordium ID, we can offer privacy-preserving age checks across dApps, games, and payments to over 10 million Coin98 users from 170+ countries. It’s wallet-agnostic and developer-friendly, unlocking new categories of compliant, age-appropriate services.”

Timely Arrival Amid Rising Regulation

Concordium framed the release as particularly timely given growing regulatory attention on protecting minors from adult content, an issue attracting policy efforts in the UK, Europe and elsewhere. Governments and major tech providers have publicly struggled to implement systems that simultaneously protect minors and respect privacy; Concordium pitches its ZKP-based ID as a middle ground that preserves both safety and anonymity.

Concordium is a scalable LAYER 1 blockchain that embeds an identity layer at the protocol level and leverages zero-knowledge proof technology for verified yet private interactions. Founded in 2018, the chain supports programmable tokens, PayFi features such as timed releases and compliance controls, and ID-based geofencing for cross-border transactions. Concordium positions itself as an enterprise-ready platform for stablecoins and real-world adoption that must meet regulatory frameworks.