QuarkID: Bringing South America on-chain with SSI and account Abstraction | Devcon SEA

Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 AM

QuarkID is a Self-Sovereign Identity protocol bringing millions of South American citizens on-chain. Citizens in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monterrey, and Nuevo Leon, Mexico, are using government SSI deployed on ZKsync Era through the QuarkID protocol. Driver's licenses, birth certificates, and over 50 different credentials are secured by Ethereum technology in the world’s first case of governments using Ethereum’s permissionless blockchain to meet their identity needs. Speaker(s): Diego Fernandez Skill level: Beginner Track: Real World Ethereum Keywords: 2FA, Account Abstraction, Identity, Open Source Software, Political systems, Politics, Public good, Use Cases, Validiums, Zero-Knowledge, ZK-EVMs, ZKP Follow us: https://twitter.com/efdevcon, https://twitter.com/ethereum, https://warpcast.com/devcon Learn more about devcon: https://www.devcon.org/ Learn more about ethereum: https://ethereum.org/ Visit the https://archive.devcon.org/ to gain access to the entire library of Devcon talks with the ease of filtering, playlists, personalized suggestions, decentralized access on Swarm, IPFS and more. Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Devcon SEA was held in Bangkok, Thailand on Nov 12 - Nov 15, 2024. Devcon is organized and presented by the Ethereum Foundation. To find out more, please visit https://ethereum.foundation/