human.tech provides keys, wallets, and identity to power unstoppable capital flow to real humans – not bots, middlemen, or bad actors. Immutable digital human rights are here.

TL;DR

• Holonym Foundation has acquired Gitcoin Passport and launched human.tech, a suite of tools for keys, wallets, and identity to unlock freer flows of capital.

• The human.tech suite is powered by the Human Network, an AVS on Eigenlayer with $1.4B+ in committed security.

• Human Passport (formerly Gitcoin Passport) has produced over 34.5M credentials for 2.1M+ users and helped distributed over $225M of capital in grants and airdrops to verified humans, placing it as one of the leading Personhood Protocols.

The Mission for a Brighter Future Continues

Holonym Foundation was founded with a very specific mission: the foundation of digital natural rights to ownership, privacy, personhood, and security–enforced not by institutions, but by cryptography. Our work is not yet done, but we've made significant progress, and with it, a large impact.

We started with the hardest challenge: Making zero-knowledge identity accessible for everyday users and scalable to the entire world. To get there, we solved core challenges such as efficient client-side proving and performance, un-linkable credentials, verifiable nullifiers for ZK apps; we also improved usability and UX through Human Keys, deepfake-resistant Proof of Personhood, and quantum resistance.

Now, Holonym Foundation is ready to take the biggest step yet toward realizing our mission–today, we are launching human.tech, underpinned by the strategic acquisition of Gitcoin Passport.

human.tech aids users to own and control their entire digital life–from creating protected human-centric keys to generating identity proofs–setting the foundation to upgrade Gitcoin Passport's credentials with default privacy and bringing digital human rights to millions of users.

The emergence of human.tech is a major step forward for human rights online. The suite of tools embed resilient cryptography into financial coordination networks to create a new way for people to organize, perform commerce, and manifest the future.

“Digital identity that preserves privacy and allows individuals to control their data is the future of online interactions. Integrating Gitcoin Passport and launching human.tech is a major leap forward in empowering digital human rights.” - Shady El Damaty, Ph.D., CEO and Co-Founder

Human Passport: Flexible Proof of Humanity Powering 35.4M Credentials

Gitcoin Passport will relaunch as Human Passport and will deeply integrate human.tech to become a privacy-first, Sybil-resistant identity solution built for on-chain reputation and credential verification. Human Key technology will power the Human Passport, driving the  issuance of up to 34.5 million zero-knowledge-friendly credentials via the Human Network—almost 3.5 times more than the next leading identity protocol, Worldcoin.

Flexible Proof-of-Personhood: No Hardware, No Problem

We will remain committed to offering flexible ways to verify humanity, ensuring a low barrier to entry for everyone. We plan to serve privacy-preserving identity proofs from web accounts, government IDs, ePassports, biometrics, on-chain reputation, and more. We’re excited about bringing richer information on-chain with privacy for users to unlock new use cases that weren’t conceivable before.

The Human Passport (formerly Gitcoin Passport) is one of the top identity verification methods for distributing capital to real people, not bots, middlemen, or bad actors. Human Passport has helped unlock over $225 million in grants and airdrops across 140 campaigns. We will continue supporting safe and fair token distributions, proving airdrops as a core use case of capital distribution at scale. We’re especially excited about what we can do outside of web3 to improve aid distribution and remittances for people all around the world.

“Gitcoin Passport has always been about empowering individuals with tools to show off their human-ness in a privacy-preserving way.  With human.tech taking the helm, Passport is evolving into something even greater: an identity layer that champions human dignity, privacy, and verifiable trust on the internet. This transition strengthens our shared mission to build open, decentralized systems that serve people first.” – Kevin Owocki, CEO and Co-Founder of Gitcoin

Human Tech for Human Prosperity

human.tech is humanistic technology built to empower individuals, ensuring they can interact online while maintaining agency over their data, assets, and identity– never becoming reduced to data points for monetization or surveillance. human.tech does this by granting Human Keys for perfect onboarding, providing a secure interface to interact with digital systems and enabling flexible private identity proofs.

The Human Network

The bedrock of human.tech is the Human Network (formerly Mishti Network), an Actively Validated Service (AVS) for secure derivation of Human Keys, programmable key management, and private identity proofs secured by Ethereum restaking via Eigenlayer and Symbiotic. The Human Network’s novel VOPRF function enables private issuance of nullifiers for personal identifiers to prevent double-spending and traceability. This ensures privacy with decentralization for Human Passport to power on-chain reputation and protect ecosystems against bots and Sybil attacks.

Infinite Prosperity Secured by The Infinite Machine

human.tech is the application of cryptography to solving digital human rights. The technology can be used everywhere on the internet, on web2 platforms, with blockchains, or secure enterprise or government systems. The Human Network utilizes  Proof of Stake (PoS) security backed by billions of dollars in ETH to enforce digital human rights beyond web3.

Now the rest of the web can enjoy the benefits of security that PoS provides without ever needing to interact with a crypto protocol. The end-to-end encrypted identity layer can be used for verifying civic status, censorship-resistant coordination, and even programmable privacy for private banking that hooks seamlessly into traditional institutions.

The Human Network provides a foundation for global flows of capital and data, where identity is not just a means of verification but a building block for transnational democratization. A refugee can prove their identity across borders, a journalist can communicate securely with international counterparts, and an activist can organize globally–all while maintaining privacy and verifiability. And this is just the start of what's possible.

Building an Inclusive Identity Layer

Holonym Foundation is dedicated to advancing digital rights through inclusivity and usability. Users can now prove their humanity through their chosen identity, whether through web accounts, off-chain credentials, or on-chain activity – soon to be secured with zero-knowledge through the Human Network. For builders, this means creating trusted communities using customizable verification powered by Human Passport.

A Bright Future is Here

The launch of Human Passport is a defining move toward our mission of embedding and safeguarding digital rights to privacy, security, and personhood into the technology we use everyday.

human.tech enforces these basic rights through applied cryptography and resilient decentralized infrastructure, shifting away from legacy systems, where few institutions control the digital rights of many.

Developers, organizations, and innovators are encouraged to explore and leverage human.tech’s capabilities. We welcome collaboration to expand the reach and impact of its tools. Follow us on Bluesky to keep up with updates or join the telegram community to get involved.

About Holonym Foundation

Holonym Foundation’s mission is the foundation of natural digital rights for privacy, security, and data ownership. As the parent organization of human.tech, Holonym Foundation fosters innovation through strategic partnerships, research, and advocacy, ensuring that technological advancements align with fundamental human values.

About human.tech

human.tech is a suite of key, wallet, and identity protocols to direct capital flow for humans - not bots, middlemen, or bad actors. human.tech is rolling out the world’s best capital allocation infrastructure to billions of humans with biometric keys, self-custodial wallets, and private identity.