One signup, one identity check, one background check — and the producer has a portable, signed identity passport. They never re-do KYC for another carrier again.
Bind will capture your selfie, scan your government ID, and confirm liveness. None of the raw data is stored — only the verification outcome and an opaque reference ID.
Bind runs a criminal background check against the name and date of birth captured in the previous step. The sanctions and PEP screen is stubbed in this prototype. On pass, three signed events are anchored on Base Sepolia and a soulbound token is minted to the producer's wallet.
KYA verified. Soulbound token minted. Three events anchored on Base Sepolia. Any registered Bind verifier can now read this passport — you don't need to approve each one.
Carriers don't log into a Bind dashboard. They hit one endpoint with an API key and get back a synchronous, signed bundle: status, methodology, opaque verification references, full event history. They skip their own duplicate identity and background work. That's the value exchange.
Northwind's contracting system reads the bundle, sees the producer is verified under prototype-v1.0, and decides whether they accept that methodology.
If yes, Northwind skips their own identity and background steps. The producer is appointed in minutes instead of weeks.
Northwind never logs in. They never see a UI. They never wait on the chain. The whole integration is one HTTP call.
A wallet is provisioned. Identity is verified. Background is cleared. Three signed events, one soulbound token, hashes anchored on Base Sepolia. Total elapsed time: under two minutes.
We anchor signed events on a public chain — not a private database — for one reason: this record needs to outlive any single party, including us.
Every carrier that reads a passport independently validates the chain. Every validation reinforces the network. Trust does not compound through marketing; it compounds through use.
If Bind disappeared tomorrow, the events would still be there. The hashes would still match. The producer's wallet would still hold the soulbound token. The verification history would still stand. The chain does not need us.
That is why this is infrastructure and not a service. The record lives — beyond Bind, beyond this contract, beyond any party currently on the network.
Below, the actual events from this session. Hashes only — never PII, never document images, never biometrics. The off-chain record is a cache; the chain is canonical.