The Principles of Everest
All individuals can be included without a device
The individual will own and control their information
All information will be shared selectively and be resilient against attack
How Everest Removes Barriers
Everest is the world’s only device-free globally accessible, digital transaction protocol with built-in identity. Through the use of digital identities, electronic wallets, document management, and biometrics, users will be able to digitally verify their identity for public services and claim their social and economic rights.
Device-free identity verification
Seamless value transfer
Total financial inclusion
Individual empowerment
Institutional efficiency
Economic growth
Digital Identity on the blockchain is a gateway to all other use cases…
– Asian Development Bank
The inability to prove identity is the single most significant barrier to economic inclusion. Banks, governments, NGOs, hospitals, businesses & users require ID verification, a wallet, and transaction system to exchange value.
Everest team
Bob Reid
Co-founder & CEO
Brad Witteman
Co-founder & Chief Product Officer
Bob Reid
Co-founder & CEO
Brad Witteman
Co-founder & Chief Product Officer
Advisory board
Atsushi Taira
Chief Growth Officer of Mistletoe
Toomas Henrick
Former President of Estonia
Greg Horowitt
Advisor to UCSD and Stanford University
Jamal Khokhar
Former Chief of Staff, Inter-American Development Bank
Aya Miyaguchi
Executive Director Ethereum Foundation
Jordan Greenhall
CEO at Neurohacker Collective
Wilson Choi
Founder FundV & Beam Capital
Our Partners
Our Partners
News
Everest is gaining traction around the world. Catch up with the story so far:
How Biometric Wallets and eMoney Ensure Nations Can Respond to Pandemics
28/04/2020
Everest chosen for Inclusive Fintech 50 2019 MetLife Foundation Visa Inc, global nonprofit Accion and World Bank Group member
17/06/2020
“Inclusive Fintech 50 demonstrates that there are fintechs able to reach underserved populations with appropriate financial products,” said Sarah Willis, Director of Financial Health & Inclusion at MetLife Foundation.”
"Everest to supply KYC platform in Samoa for cross-border transactions."
28/03/2019
"Ultimately, we will see decentralized blockchain systems such as Everest take hold because of the way they uniquely address the 2 biggest components of Identity: Authentication and Authorization. "
16/03/2020
"Identity startup Everest is addressing the challenges of the identity for development (ID4D) market with a new platform based on blockchain and biometrics."
03/01/2019
"Everest’s technology can thus be used as a means to verify identity, prevent human trafficking, store medical records and keep refugees in contact with other family members."
03/12/2018
(Everest) "hopes to take people from the 9th-century economy to a 21st-century economy in one step,”
26/10/2018
"Everest strives to include the 'Bottom of the Pyramid'—the 'unbanked' and the 'unverified'—within its solution...
18/10/2018
"The partnership will utilize 1000 Alternatives’ incubators in each country to train entrepreneurs to build distributed applications (“DApps”) on top of the Everest platform
10/10/2018
"Everest and Diamond Fortress Technologies, Inc., Announce Exclusive Partnership to Enroll Millions of Users onto the Everest Platform"
26/09/2018
"Everest, ID2020 and the Government of Indonesia (TNP2K Secretariat) Announce Innovative Identity and Blockchain Pilot "
14/09/2018
Everest, Cambodian Health Ministry, & WAH Foundation partner to develop Blockchain driven Maternal Health Care & Admin in Cambodia
05/09/2018
Blockchain-based value transfer and identity platform adds billions of people to the global economy
14/08/2018
In February 2018 Ms. Miyaguchi was appointed executive director of the Ethereum Foundation and discusses Ethereum and Everest (EverID).
29/04/2018
Blockchain is being used in a wide range of uses including tracking, accounting, and identification (ID).
17/03/2018
The ultimate goal is a system in which a user owns and totally controls some kind of digital wallet.
12/04/2018
Brochure for the UN Women humanitarian simulation Everest (EverID) participated in.
29/01/2018
Our Blog
Learn more about the Everest project and team from interviews and our team’s blog:
Everest Proposal for The Great Reddit Scaling Bake Off
28/07/2020
Everest prepared the following proposal — we thought those of you not on Reddit (really? you’re missing out…) might also find it interesting….
Digital Identity with Attestations and Value Transfer Capabilities
06/07/2020
Digital Identity is a topic that is often discussed/debated, but also vastly misunderstood. In one camp are Digital Certificates which are, at best, an…
Everest — Indonesia Case Study
12/05/2020
Everest’s device-free biometric identity platform used … to reduce leakage, biometrically verify users and yield efficiencies in the LPG gas subsidy program.
Update from the Founders — Q4 2019
06/02/2020
It has been an eventful Q4 for the team in terms of development, and we are happy to share some exciting news with you, our supporters, advisors and friends…
Austrac registers Everest’s platform…..
16/10/2019
As part of our continued work with the Asian Development Bank to build the Central Bank of Samoa’s regulatory compliance platform, Everest is pleased to announce our registration with DIA and Austrac…
Update from the Founders — Q3 2019
09/10/2019
It has been an eventful Q3 for the team and we are happy to share some exciting news with you, our supporters, advisors and friends…
Update from the Founders — Q2 2019
17/07/2019
It has been an exciting Q2 for the team, and we are happy to share some exciting news with you, our supporters, advisors and friends…
Everest selected for Inclusive Fintech 50
21/06/2019
Visa, the MetLife Foundation, Accion, and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group, founded the Inclusive Fintech 50…
Update from the Founders — Q1 2019
14/03/2019
t’s been quite an exciting 2019 already, and it’s only March 🙂
We are happy to share some exciting news with you, our supporters, advisors and friends….
The Future of Cybersecurity
04/12/2018
Does our personal data belong on the internet? Probably not, but we continue to upload it anyway. Take a moment to think about all of the data that exists on your computer…
Redefining the Land Title Using Blockchain
10/12/2018
If you live in a wealthy country, then property rights may be something that you never had to worry about or even consider…
Biometry and why we use it
26/11/2018
When I was growing up I went to school with a pair of twins, not just twins, but identical twins. We had a saying for remembering who was who — “Carl with the mole, Stephen without the mole”…
Atomic Swaps
13/11/2018
We have previously discussed the ability to exchange cryptocurrencies via a trusted decentralized third party know as a DEX, but in this post, we aim to explain how cryptocurrencies can be exchanged …
Encouraging individuals to perform socially-useful work through a CRDT-based economy
08/11/2018
Everest plans to allow regular people to #earncrypto for doing socially-useful work…
Forks, and why we use them
06/11/2018
The word “fork”, used as a noun, has always been used to describe an object/instrument that has two or more prongs protruding from the end, used for holding or lifting. ..
Identity: the ‘OS layer’ of an economy
29/10/2018
All transactions are based on trust. It is the simple bedrock of any economic system. We have to trust that the value we transfer to others will be delivered and that we receive our expected value in exchange…
Exchanges: Centralized vs Decentralized
27/10/2018
In a previous post, we dissected the different ways of storing crypto assets and highlighted the difference in wallets and exchange accounts. However, we did not go into detail about the two types of exchanges — centralized and decentralized…
Which type of wallet should I use?
19/10/2018
When first introduced to distributed technologies and cryptocurrencies, many people are curious about safe storage practices. Should I use a wallet or just leave my assets on an exchange?…
Ghosts in the machine: the billion people locked out of the global economy
13/10/2018
Who are you? How would you answer that question if your passport, driving license, social security number, or the deeds to your house had been stripped away?…