Tykn

People matter. That is why we are fighting to provide access to human rights by building digital identity tools for NGOs and governments. With our passion for innovation, identity and distributed ledger technologies comes a strong drive for change that is deeply embedded into the history of our company. Read on to learn a little bit more about the history of Tykn!

In 2012, Toufic "Tey" Al Rjula discovered that he is, in fact, an "invisible man". On his Dutch driver's licence, you will not find that he was born in a city such as "London", "Berlin", or "Amsterdam". Instead, he is declared as being “Unknown”. This is because Tey was born in Kuwait, during the gulf war, when the birth registries were destroyed en masse. As such, he does not have a birth certificate, and even if copies were to exist, neither he, nor the issuing authority could possibly verify it.