In short: Protocol Labs, the innovation network behind Filecoin, uses Zyphe to verify the identity of people who provide storage space to the Filecoin network. Verification was manual before Zyphe. Protocol Labs started with an early version of Zyphe in April 2023 and moved to the production platform in early 2025, verifying thousands of people a month at peak. It chose Zyphe over centralized identity verification providers because identity data is not held by one central platform.
Last reviewed 2026-10-01. Published with Protocol Labs's permission.
- Customer
- Protocol Labs, the network behind Filecoin
- Region
- Global
- Use case
- Identity verification for Filecoin storage providers
- Peak volume
- Thousands of verifications a month
- Customer since
- April 2023
- Production platform
- Early 2025
What was Protocol Labs doing before?
People who offer storage space to the Filecoin network had to be identified, and Protocol Labs was doing it manually. That does not scale with a global community, and the people being verified are, by the nature of the network, unusually sensitive to who ends up holding their identity documents.
Protocol Labs evaluated other leading identity verification providers, all of which keep identity data in a central platform.
What did they deploy?
- Zyphe identity verification built into the onboarding flow for storage providers.
- Identity data kept out of a central database, which is the reason Protocol Labs chose Zyphe over the alternatives.
- An early version from April 2023, moved to the production platform in early 2025 after the first phase worked.
What changed?
- Manual identity checks replaced by an automated flow.
- Thousands of storage providers verified a month at peak, worldwide.
- In Protocol Labs' own words, users across the globe are onboarded faster and with greater confidence in the security of their data.
What this story does not claim: This story does not publish exact volumes (Protocol Labs asked us not to), onboarding times, or a before-and-after cost comparison.
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April 2023
First version of Zyphe in use
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Early 2025
Moved to the production platform
“We selected Zyphe as our KYC provider because of its uncompromising commitment to privacy and its user-first approach to digital identity. … Thanks to Zyphe, we’ve been able to onboard users across the globe faster and with greater confidence in the security and sovereignty of their data.”
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