Compete with confidence in digital identity

Competitive positioning

In a crowded identity market—SSI wallets, Web3 projects, cloud IAM, national ID vendors—Zakapi’s edge is simple:

we turn compliance, sovereignty, and UX into one coherent, proof-driven stack.

1. Built for governments and enterprises

Most players pick a side:

• Web3 / crypto ID: great for DAOs and on-chain communities, weak on regulation and sovereignty.
• Enterprise IAM: great for SSO and workforce, weak on citizen-scale IDs and privacy-by-design.

Zakapi is designed from day one for national ID programs, regulators, and hard-mode enterprises:

• PoneglyphDB-style queries over committed population, KYC, and registry datasets.
• Language and tooling aligned with tenders, audits, SLAs, and on-prem sovereignty as much as with developers and startups.

2. Breadth of credential types under one roof

Zakapi treats all identity artifacts as verifiable, proof-ready credentials:

• Citizen ID, passports, diplomas, licenses
• SIM ownership, mobile ID
• KYC, AML, risk, employee & vendor credentials

Where many competitors cover one or two (e.g., workforce ID only, or Web3 pseudonyms only), Zakapi gives a single platform to express them all as committed tables + proof circuits, reducing your need for stitched-together point solutions.

3. Deep, configurable ZK stack

Lots of platforms name-drop ZK. Zakapi actually runs on it:

• Circom, Halo2, Noir, Plonky2 / STARK frameworks for different performance and trust profiles.
• SQL-aware PLONKish circuits for range checks, joins, aggregations, cross-credential logic.
• zkFuzz and circuit-level testing integrated into CI so circuits are not just functional, but hardened.

That means we don’t stop at “age ≥ 18”—we can encode full regulatory rules (KYC, AML, residency, cross-product eligibility) as verifiable predicates over your committed datasets.

4. Open-source core, ledger-agnostic, no lock-inZakapi is:

• Open-source at the core – verifier libraries, key components, and reference circuits are inspectable and forkable.
• Standards-based – VCs, DIDs, OIDC4VC, SD-JWT, DIDComm.
• Ledger-agnostic – anchor to your ledger of choice (or none); proofs don’t depend on a single blockchain.

Governments and enterprises can self-host, extend, and even fork if required. This is the opposite of classic black-box national ID vendors or proprietary cloud stacks.

5. Transparent and auditable by designWhere others provide dashboards, Zakapi provides math:

• Tamper-evident, hash-chained proof logs.
• Optional anchoring via Merkle trees or blockchains.
• Fully auditable verifier code paths.

Regulators and risk teams can verify how decisions are made—down to which attributes were never disclosed—rather than taking the vendor’s word for it.

6. AI-assisted operations, not AI-driven identity

Most identity competitors either ignore AI or use it only for biometrics. Zakapi uses AI where it’s safe and useful:

• Circuit suggestion and optimization (constraint reduction, test corpus generation).
• Anomaly detection in metrics and proof logs (unusual flows, suspected abuse).
• Policy simulation and impact analysis.

Crucially, AI never replaces cryptographic trust: proofs, commitments, and circuits are the source of truth; AI just makes them faster and safer to operate.

7. Compliance as a core feature, not slideware

Zakapi maps directly to GDPR, KVKK, CCPA, eIDAS 2.0, NIST 800-63 and sectoral rules:

• Data minimization by default: share proofs, not records.
• Strong MFA and IAL/AAL alignment via wallets and credentials.
• Built-in selective disclosure to technically enforce “do not use attribute X” policies.

Conventional KYC SaaS vendors still require you to store high-risk data. Zakapi shrinks the PII footprint and gives you cryptographic evidence of that fact.

8. Partnering with existing systems, not replacing them

Zakapi doesn’t ask you to rip out BankID, Aadhaar, SingPass, credit bureaus, or legacy IAM:

• We integrate with them as trusted issuers and data sources.
• Their outputs become reusable, zero-knowledge credentials instead of siloed checks.

That makes Zakapi a force multiplier for your existing stack, not a competitor to it.

9. Depth across sectors, not shallow coverage everywhere

Because we target governments, banks, telcos, and regulated platforms, we ship:

• Concrete circuits and flows for e-voting, KYC reuse, welfare eligibility, SIM registration, mobile login, and more.
• Architecture narratives and reference implementations that map to each sector’s real constraints.

You’re not buying a generic toolkit; you’re buying a library of battle-tested patterns plus the primitives underneath.

10. Performance and UX at population scale

Zakapi’s stack is built in Rust and highly optimized ZK libraries:

• High throughput proof generation and verification for millions of users.
• Wallet UX inspired by Aries Bifold / OpenWallet projects: clear consent prompts, activity logs, human-readable proofs.
• No forced blockchain UX, no gas fees, no token juggling.

The result: citizen-grade and consumer-grade experiences that actually get used.

11. No token or crypto baggage (unless you want it)

Many ZK projects are tied to tokens or mandatory on-chain flows. Zakapi:

• Runs fully off-chain if desired.
• Integrates with blockchains only when it adds value (anchoring, public audit trails).
• Avoids regulatory and UX friction around coins and gas, which is critical for governments and large enterprises.

12. Cross-domain expertise in one stackZakapi merges:

• SSI & verifiable credentials
• Zero-knowledge cryptography
• Identity & access management
• AI-assisted ops and workflows

So you don’t have to choose between security vs privacy vs compliance vs UX—you get all four, coherently.