Using your wallet with a service

When a participating service needs to know something about you — that you are a real, verified person, that you are over 18, or that your identity meets a certain level — it asks your wallet, and your wallet asks you.

• The service tells your wallet what it is asking for and why — for example, “verification level Standard, to open an account”.
• Your wallet shows you the request in plain language: exactly which data or answer will be shared, with whom, and for what purpose.
• You approve or decline. Nothing is shared until you approve.
• If you approve, the wallet shares only the agreed answer — never the underlying documents.
• The consent is recorded, and you can see it (and revoke it) in your consent history at any time.

Services receive the minimum needed for their stated purpose: your verification level, and the specific answer you approved. For age checks, the network can produce a zero-knowledge proof — a cryptographic yes/no that proves the claim without revealing your birth date or your document.

Declining a request costs you nothing within the wallet — there is no penalty, no score change, and no record shared with the service beyond the fact that the request was not fulfilled. A service may choose not to serve you without verification, the same way a venue can decline entry without ID.

Consent can be scoped to a single service and given an expiry date — for example, 30 days. When it expires, the service loses access automatically, without you having to remember to revoke it.