All transactions are based on trust. It is the simple bedrock of any economic system. We have to trust that the value we transfer to others will be delivered and that we receive our expected value in exchange.

But what is this trust built on? For almost every type of transaction you can imagine, the foundation or the platform that supports it is our identity. A bank opens an account for you because it can verify that you are a unique individual and it has the means to prove this every time you interact with their system. …

What happens when you enable bi-directional communication between Chainlink — the industry-leading decentralized oracle network, and Everest — a next-generation blockchain that enables identity creation and verification, account creation for users or businesses, and transaction tracking and validation? A proverbial Cambrian explosion of new use cases for smart contract applications!

We’re excited to begin the process of realizing such use cases via an upcoming Everest and Chainlink integration. The initial focus will be two-fold:

1. Everest will use Chainlink Price Feeds as a way to price all user token balances in USD on its decentralized exchange (DEX), making for easy payment…

Everest has been operating as a regulated custodian under the transitory provisions of the Virtual Financial Assets (VFA) License from the Maltese Financial Services Authority (MFSA) since October of 2018. The latest in principle approval is the final step in receiving a VFA license. The services Everest provides to experienced and non-experienced users are the following:

1. Reception of deposits and issuance of instructions;
2. Execution of orders on behalf of other persons;
3. Custodian and Nominee Services

Everest’s unique CRDT token, a VFA, empowers businesses and users to program fiat currencies for specific purposes, times, places. Such a universally programmable and regulated…

Chapter 4 — Transparency with Privacy…Empowering Users to “Be the Bank”

Users can share KYC & humanness data privately with VASPs and with each other

Technological advances are allowing consumers to be more in control of their financial services than ever before. Users increasingly want to “be the bank”, and with mobile wallets, neo-banks, and distributed systems, their keys to their wallets deliver on this desire. Like when VHS allowed movies to leave the cinema and come home with the consumer, the associated copyright regulations also came along with the content — consumers could not rebroadcast the video without permission…

Chapter 3 — The full Everest solution Platform

Platform: Full Vertical Stack

The Everest platform consists of the following six modules:

1. Gateway Node: enables partners to quickly and seamlessly integrate Everest with their own legacy platforms via lightweight, secure and inexpensive APIs.
2. Identity Creation/Verification: Quick and inexpensive biometric ID creation & verification with integrated KYC/AML. Any smartphone with an auto-focus camera can create or verify a user’s identity. A user does not need any device at all if relying on an agent’s smartphone, and support for different biometrics markers is possible.
3. Universal Account: An account in the cloud (distributed storage) that stores documents, identity…

Chapter 2 — Problems & DeFi

Introduction:

The meteoric rise of DeFi pushed over USD $14 billion into stablecoins in 2020, and over $24 billion into swapping in September 2020 alone. And with wallet addresses cresting over 100 million users, with over 1 million on DeFi alone (citation link), the demand is parabolic. Similarly, the first generation of fintech saw companies like Coinbase, Revolut, Monzo, N26, Plaid, Chime, Transferwise, and others offer new digital financial services to grab market share from the slower, traditional financial institutions (FIs) — and garner multi-billion-dollar valuations in the process. The simple digitization of the banking…

Chapter 1 — Principles & Architecture

Introduction

Estonia led the way for digitizing a society…..the government did it by digitizing users’ identities for the banks, and then layering on financial services, followed by governance, health, schooling, etc. India followed suit a decade or so later with Aadhaar + India Stack, digitizing all identities and financial transactions. And although both significantly increased their economic output, they relied on central databases and control mechanisms. Imagine if we could take that blueprint to the blockchain, and give users control! Everest did that.

Without the fundamental elements of all human interaction (value exchange) crypto and…

Engagement with Everest, GLEIF and ADB allows companies to easily transact data and financial instruments with proper verification processes that utilize a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

San Diego & Malta, 08 December, 2020－Everest, the fintech leader in identifying individuals through their transactions for global compliance, announces the completion of a Proof of Concept (POC) with The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), an organization created to drive adoption of a common identification system for corporations, trusts, and other entities. Everest and GLEIF’s combined effort demonstrates how providing digital, verifiable identities, along with a proper legal identifier tool, can empower businesses…