The verifiable identity layer for Africa.
Civic Anchor gives every African institution one place to verify who — and what — it is dealing with: a universal identity substrate, the marketplace that runs on top of it, and the standards beneath. No raw biometric data is ever stored.
How Civic Anchor is built
Raw biometrics never stored
Verification runs on a privacy-preserving template bound to the holder’s device. No raw biometric data lives on our infrastructure — anywhere, in any jurisdiction.
Credentials the holder carries
Identity, residency, and reputation are portable verifiable credentials the subject controls — presentable, revocable, and recognised across institutions and borders.
Built jurisdiction by jurisdiction
Each country operates under its own data-protection framework and regulator. The substrate is continental; the compliance is local — by construction, not by exception.
The platform
Four reinforcing layers.
Each layer earns its own revenue, and each makes the one above it harder to dislodge. Built bottom-up — identity first, standards last.
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Identity substrate
A universal anchor for verified subjects — people, businesses, assets, and skills — each cryptographically bound to a controllable DID. The graph compounds with every credential issued and cannot be re-created elsewhere.
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Verification marketplace
Every institution that touches a verified subject — a bank at onboarding, a telco at SIM registration, an employer at hire, a border post at entry — verifies against the anchor per request, with the subject’s consent.
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Trust-priced data
On top of the verification log sit the products institutions actually buy: credit and trade-reputation signals, AML and sanctions screening, and workforce verification — priced to the trust they carry.
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Standard-setting
The Foundation publishes the reference specifications for cross-border digital identity — the documents AfCFTA, the AU, and the regional blocs cite. The standard becomes the moat.
Footprint
Continental by design, local by obligation.
We open one jurisdiction at a time — each with its own legal entity, regulator relationship, and data-protection commitments — sequenced from Southern Africa outward along the AfCFTA priority corridors.
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Southern Africa
East & West Africa
AfCFTA priority corridor: Nigeria · Kenya · Ghana · Egypt · Ethiopia · Morocco · Tanzania · Senegal · Rwanda · Zimbabwe · Botswana · Namibia.
For institutions
Verify once. Recognise everywhere.
Onboard a verified subject in seconds against a credential they already carry — with their consent, billed per verification, and recorded in a tamper-evident audit log. No document re-collection, no shared biometric database.
Institution portalBanks & PSPs
FICA/KYC onboarding, AML and sanctions screening, and re-verification — without re-collecting documents.
Telcos
SIM-registration identity at scale, reusable across the subscriber relationship.
Employers & platforms
Verified workforce identity, qualifications, and clearance — portable between jobs.
Government & customs
Residency, clearance, and trader identity for entitlement, enrolment, and cross-border trade.
Build on the identity layer for Africa.
Whether you’re a bank, a telco, a government body, or a regional regulator — start the conversation about verifying against Civic Anchor in your market.