Neighborhood Watch for the Digital World: World KYC’s Vision at G20 TechSprint 2025
World KYC proudly announces its impactful participation in the G20 TechSprint 2025, a premier global competition spearheaded by the
Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) under the G20 Presidency. This initiative champions cutting-edge technological solutions to fortify global financial systems. As SARB
Governor Lesetja Kganyago emphasized, the TechSprint is vital for "finding technological solutions that are scalable while enhancing trust and integrity in these systems."
This builds on CEO Hervé Lacorne’s 30+ years of experience in global payments and trade finance, including the creation of SwiftTrade®, one of the first web-based trade platforms profiled by Microsoft, and his leadership in decentralised compliance infrastructure bridging traditional banking and blockchain.
World KYC’s journey with the G20 TechSprint began after its introduction to the BIS program during a focused discussion hosted by the BIS Innovation Hub (BISIH) in Singapore on November 5, 2024. The session, centered on "Novel approaches to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, and scams in cross-border payments," served as the foundation for our subsequent participation and alignment with the initiative’s objectives.
Real-World Deployment: The AXIS Program and SGRT
In a significant parallel development, World KYC's selection for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) National AXIS program was confirmed. This program includes the Sovereign Gold Reserve Token (SGRT), a sovereign-authorised monetary instrument minted on XDC and TON blockchains, collateralised 4:1 by government-owned ethical gold, integrating forest-carbon credits for sustainable yield. This demonstrates how compliance, fraud prevention, and financial inclusion can be embedded in a national-scale blockchain deployment.SGRT’s Trust Signal architecture combines private-chain compliance modules—sanction screening, negative media checks, and AML controls—with public-chain transparency and privacy-preserving decentralization. It is a live case study showing how regulatory-grade stablecoins can bridge institutional finance with inclusive digital ecosystems.
World KYC’s Three-Pronged Impact on G20 Challenges
1. Verifiable Digital Identity Solutions: Trust with Anonymity & AccountabilityWorld KYC's StealthID offers "anonymity with accountability and sovereignty" using decentralized zero-knowledge proof authentication (DZKPA). Identity remains decentralized and under community custody, solving AML and compliance for DeFi wallet holders while enabling secure age and identity verification without exposing sensitive data.
2. Consumer-Consented Credit Data Portability: Empowering SMEs
World KYC’s VLink enables decentralized credit-data portability, where individuals consent to share verified data from financial institutions or creditors. Beyond traditional credit, VLink introduces "reputation credit," empowering small businesses in emerging markets to secure financing and trade globally.
3. Fraud & Cyber Risk Mitigation: Fast Payments & Trade Integrity
World KYC's FraudTrack system, aligned with the Trust Signal framework used in SGRT, embeds sanction screening, negative media checks, and AML controls directly into smart contracts. This risk-based compliance prevents fraud and supports fast, secure cross-border payments—even in high-risk or underbanked regions.
Additionally, World KYC protects against QR-code phishing, malicious apps, and bot-driven fraud through authenticated URLs, businesses, and apps. Its integration with Telegram’s TON Stealth ID prevents malicious bot infiltration and underpins secure Web3 user authentication.
Privacy-Preserving Decentralization and Compliance
World KYC’s innovative solutions combine decentralized KYC, hybrid custody, and privacy-preserving compliance layers. The SGRT model showcases a hybrid chain design: private compliance enforcement tied seamlessly with public blockchain transparency. This framework proves how scalable, regulatory-grade infrastructure can serve both compliance and inclusion without compromising user privacy.Driving Impact in Africa and Globally
The G20 TechSprint prioritized Africa’s cross-border trade under the African Continental Free Trade Area. World KYC is already active via a DRC-backed money transfer platform and the AXIS program, enabling sovereign-held identity custody for trade and payments.A critical challenge in many African and emerging countries is the loss of correspondent banking relationships, driven by the de-risking policies of major Western banks. This has severely limited access to cross-border payment channels and slowed trade integration. World KYC directly addresses this gap: its compatibility with SWIFT and blockchain enables a secure bridge between legacy banking rails and decentralized infrastructure, reducing friction and restoring access for countries marginalized by de-risking.
Why It Matters for Policymakers, Businesses, and Individuals
By directly addressing the G20 TechSprint’s problem statements—and leveraging live deployments such as SGRT—World KYC demonstrates how decentralized identity and risk-based compliance can protect individuals, businesses, and institutions from identity fraud.Its solutions ensure that individuals can verify their identity without compromising privacy, businesses and legal entities can operate in fraud-free environments, and product identity can be authenticated to combat counterfeiting. This approach lays the foundation for what Hervé Lacorne describes as “an economy of trust—digital trust communities powered by World KYC, like a neighborhood watch for the global digital world.”
This model benefits everyone except the scammers, creating safer interactions for commerce, communication, and governance.
As BIS General Manager Agustín Carstens noted, the TechSprint is "a collaborative effort to redefine the future of finance." World KYC’s architecture proves that privacy, compliance, and authenticity can coexist in a scalable system that strengthens the global economy and protects against fraud.
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