Humanity Protocol Migrates to Walrus as First Human ID Partner for Sui Ecosystem

Humanity Protocol, the decentralized and privacy-first identity network that verifies each user’s identity and data while maintaining privacy, today announced that it will migrate to Walrus from IPFS, bringing millions of user credentials on chain and into the Sui ecosystem. As the first ID and credentialing partner in Sui’s stack, Walrus and Humanity aim to grow from 10 million credentials to over 100 million unique user credentials by the end of 2025, with Walrus storing over 300GB of data by year’s end.

Humanity Protocol, backed by Pantera Capital and Jump Crypto, is built to serve as an open identity graph that proves an individual’s memberships, reputation, and achievements across Web2, Web3, and the physical world. The platform gives users full control of their data and offers businesses a plug-and-play solution to deliver trusted, personalized, future-proof identity services. It is also designed to address the growing use of AI and provide verifiable proof of identity without compromising privacy to prevent fraud, deep fakes, and other methods of falsifying identity. Leveraging a composable identity infrastructure, Humanity Protocol verifies the uniqueness of its users via palm scans, storing credentials immutably on the blockchain.

“As AI continues to accelerate, we have to be aware of not only its capabilities to enhance our lives, but also its capabilities to do harm through fraud, network attacks, and other vectors as well,” said Rebecca Simmonds, managing executive of Walrus Foundation. “Humanity Protocol understands the potential threat AI fraud tools present and offers a targeted solution that both prevents attacks and maintains user privacy. We are so excited to work alongside them, offering the data layer that not only enables the growth of AI data markets, but provides AI security too.”

With its guaranteed data availability, Walrus enables a host of enhancements and feature expansions for Humanity Protocol, including:

• support for real-time, high-throughput credential issuance at scale;
• enabling programmable access control for selective disclosure and revocation of credentials;
• support for cross-chain identity verification across the Sui ecosystem and other networks; and
• providing developers access to a trusted data layer to build new applications, like Sybil-resistant DeFi, AI model access control, and more.

“Walrus gives us the scale and performance needed to support the world’s largest companies as they integrate trust infrastructure into their platforms,” said Terence Kwok, founder of Humanity Protocol. “As more mainstream applications seek to bring verifiable, user-controlled identity services to a global audience, this partnership ensures we’re ready to meet that demand securely and efficiently without compromising on scale.”

In the future, Humanity Protocol will expand into the Sui ecosystem, leveraging the chain for cross-chain identity proofs, and tapping Seal for scalable encrypted storage for user-defined data access.