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Verification levels

Your verification level describes how thoroughly your identity has been checked. Services ask for the level they need — and get nothing beyond it.

There are four levels. Each is earned by completing stronger checks, and each unlocks more. A service checking your identity learns your level and the answer it asked for — never the evidence behind it.

Unverified

You have a wallet, but no identity checks have been completed yet.

Evidence required

  • None — this is where every wallet starts.

What it unlocks

  • Browsing services that accept the wallet
  • Activities that do not need identity checks

Basic

Early checks have passed. This level can support a limited claim when a specific service asks for it and you choose to present it.

Evidence required

  • Basic identity details you enter yourself
  • A verification session that passes the network's early checks

What it unlocks

  • A specific offer's disclosed proof request, when the current service supports it
  • Other services that do not require VEID remain available

Standard

Most services ask for this

A verification scope has been completed. Original identity document images and full OCR output stay on your device; only separately approved derived data may be submitted.

Evidence required

  • Local document capture and OCR; the source images stay on your device
  • User-reviewed, minimum derived fields only if separately approved for submission
  • Any separately requested biometric scope follows its own consent notice

What it unlocks

  • Age and attribute proofs (for example, proving you are over 18)
  • An individual marketplace offer's disclosed proof request, where supported
  • Listings that do not require VEID remain available

Trusted

Strongest assurance

The strongest level: everything in Standard, plus hardware-backed biometric checks, device integrity attestation, and a sustained verification history.

Evidence required

  • Everything required for Standard
  • Fingerprint or iris capture through your phone's secure hardware
  • Device integrity attestation (Google Play Integrity or Apple App Attest)
  • A history of successful verification over time

What it unlocks

  • Protocol roles or services with separately disclosed, supported proof requirements
  • A specific offer's disclosed higher-assurance proof request; not a universal marketplace gate

How levels change

  • Levels go up when you complete stronger checks — for example adding hardware biometrics to move toward Trusted.
  • Levels can go stale if evidence ages — an expired document means the related claims need re-verification.
  • Levels go down if you revoke the consent a level depended on — revoking biometric consent withdraws biometric verification.

The network recalculates your level from the evidence it has verified. There is no manual override and no way to buy a level — for anyone.

However strong the evidence you provide, the scoring itself always runs inside trusted processing units — hardware-sealed vaults no one can open — while original document images remain on your device and never enter the network. Only minimum, approved derived data may be processed for a verification result.

For services

If you run a service and want to check verification levels, see for services — verifiers receive a level and a result, never documents.