Bhutan migrates its nationwide ID system to Ethereum

The South Asian nation of Bhutan is migrating its self-sovereign ID system to Ethereum from Polygon, permitting its practically 800,000 residents to confirm their identities and entry authorities companies.

The combination with Ethereum has been accomplished, whereas the migration of all resident credentials is predicted to complete by the primary quarter of 2026, in keeping with Ethereum Basis President Aya Miyaguchi, who joined Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin on the launch ceremony with Bhutan’s prime minister, Tshering Tobgay, and crown prince, Jigme Namgyel Wangchuk.

“It’s deeply inspiring to see a nation decide to empowering its residents with self-sovereign id,” Miyaguchi posted to X on Monday, including that the Ethereum integration was a world-first. 

“This milestone marks not solely a nationwide achievement however a world step towards a extra open and safe digital future for the long run.”

Integrating a blockchain-based resolution right into a authorities’s nationwide ID system has lengthy been touted as a promising crypto use case, attributable to its immutability, transparency and privateness options, significantly when zero-knowledge proofs are applied.