Hassan Maishera
TON Society, a community of hubs contributing to the future of TON's ecosystem, announced on Monday, April 8th, that it has entered into a strategic partnership with HumanCode, an artificial intelligence (AI) company.
While announcing this partnership at the Hong Kong Web3 Festival, Ton Society said the partnership will see the two companies launch a $5 million incentive program. According to the press release shared with Cryptowisser, the TON Society said the program will empower Toncoin users with state-of-the-art palm scanning technology options for reliable digital identity verification and privacy protection.
The society is also offering a one million Toncoin (approximately US$5 million) incentive program to boost the Proof of Personhood adoption. They seek to enable digital identity for 500 million Telegram users in five years.
The integration of HumanCode’s technology into the TON ecosystem will make it easier for Toncoin users to verify their human identity on the blockchain. The infrastructure will help TON users combat bots, enhance user control and experience autonomy over their online identity.
Furthermore, it offers a fast, easy, highly accurate palm scanning technology available on any smartphone, trained for any browser, camera, and skin tone. Within a few seconds, the technology can prove that a user is human by scanning their palm while fully maintaining the individual’s physical anonymity.
While commenting on this partnership, Dr Zhang, HumanCode’s founder, said,
“I spent many years working with the leading technology companies in the world, creating bots for search engines and social platforms. Now, we have reached a stage where bots present a significant risk to the Web. Solutions are in great demand for proof-of-human. Whilst other proof-of-human solutions exist, HumanCode’s palm system offers greater user privacy protection and does not require specific hardware. With over 900 million monthly active users, we strongly believe Telegram is the tool to deliver web3 mass adoption and we are excited for HumanCode to support the TON community.”
Ekin Tuna, Director of Growth at TON Foundation, also commented that,
“Supporting Proof of Personhood protocols like Humancode is a step towards a practical reputation system that has real-life use cases for everyone entering our ecosystem. A scalable, private, and decentralized identity will help to onboard the first one billion users to the Web3 ecosystem in Telegram. We look forward to going further and seeing what exciting use cases it will unlock for the community and TON developers alike.”
TON Society members will enjoy HumanCode incentives once they complete the palm scan and prove they are humans.
The Open Network (TON) is a global, decentralized blockchain community focused on putting crypto in every pocket. By building the Web3 ecosystem in Telegram Messenger, TON's vision is to empower 500 million users to own their digital identity, data, and assets by 2028.
Meanwhile, the Humancode is a proof-of-human solution powered by your palm. By building a privacy-preserving decentralized identity infrastructure with non-intrusive technology, HumanCode's vision is to advance the development of a human-centric digital identity ecosystem for 1 billion users in the age of AI.
