Holonym is a privacy-preserving identity protocol. It uses zero knowledge proofs to allow users to prove facts about themselves without revealing their whole identity, and it allows organizations to verify their users without storing their users' sensitive information.
Often, identity verification is required for legal or practical reasons such as KYC, fraud prevention, proof-of-age, and Sybil resistance. However, developing an application that preserves privacy has historically been difficult. This problem is biggest in web3, where most data is on a public ledger. Not only is obtaining privacy on a public ledger difficult, but the adverse affects of losing privacy are greater: "doxxing" a user's wallet address once reveals all of the address' past and future activity.
Holonym is a private credential system that make privacy-preserving identity possible and simple both on- and off-chain.
