UAE Migrates National Digital Identity Platform to Avalanche Blockchain
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has chosen the Avalanche blockchain to secure its national digital identity platform, UAEPASS. The platform manages the issuance, sharing, and verification of documents for over 12.5 million citizens.
Avalanche is a smart contract-enabled layer 1 blockchain that will upgrade the UAEPASS digital vault, which centralizes and simplifies the management of ID and document data.
According to John Nahas, Chief Business Officer at Ava Labs, reliability was paramount in choosing Avalanche for this project. He stated, 'The UAE is building digital services people use every day, and Avalanche is designed for exactly that kind of environment.'