A new pilot between Blerify and Uruguay's digital government agency explores how Avalanche infrastructure can enable trusted digital identity across borders.
Governments around the world are building digital identity. Now they need a trusted way to recognize those credentials beyond the country that issued them.
In a pilot with Uruguay's digital government agency, AGESIC, Blerify is exploring how Avalanche technology can help governments securely verify digital credentials while maintaining full control over their own identity systems and citizen data. The pilot synchronized trust updates in about two seconds and supported verification in real-world environments like airports, hospitals, and border crossings.
The timing couldn't be more relevant. Europe is rolling out the EU Digital Identity Wallet, more than 25 U.S. states have introduced mobile driver's licenses, and governments across Latin America are adopting common standards for digital identity.
Issuing a digital ID is only the first step. It also needs to be trusted when it's presented to a bank, a university, a border official, or another government. Today, there is no simple way for governments to independently confirm who issued a credential or whether it's still valid.
The work between AGESIC, Blerify, and Avalanche offers one blueprint for how that could change.
The Missing Layer: Avalanche Blockchain Technology
Imagine arriving in another country with a government-issued digital ID on your phone. The credential is genuine, but the university enrolling you, the bank opening your account, or the border official checking your identity has no simple way to verify it.
That's the challenge AGESIC, Blerify, and Avalanche set out to solve. Today, cross-border verification depends on fragmented bilateral agreements or centralized registries. Neither approach scales well as more governments adopt digital identity.
A Different Model for Trust
Rather than relying on a central authority, the AGESIC and Blerify pilot used Avalanche as a shared verification network. Governments could independently verify who issued a credential and whether it had been revoked while retaining full control over their own identity systems.
Importantly, no names, personal details, or citizen data were stored on Avalanche. That information remained within each government's own systems. Avalanche stored only the technical information needed to establish trust, including approved issuers, public keys, and credential status.
To validate the architecture, AGESIC and Blerify tested the full lifecycle of digital trust, from adding trusted issuers and updating public keys to revoking credentials and validating authentication as trust conditions changed. Trust updates synchronized across participating governments in approximately two seconds while each government retained full control of its own registry.
The architecture also supported offline verification by allowing trusted registries to be synchronized and cached, making it well suited for airports, hospitals, border crossings, and other environments where reliable verification is critical.
Beyond a Single Pilot
The Uruguay case study is one milestone in a broader effort to modernize digital identity across Latin America.
Blerify is working with governments to build standards-based digital identity systems while expanding verification capabilities for regulated organizations that need to securely validate government-issued credentials. Avalanche provides the infrastructure that allows independent governments to verify those credentials without relying on a central authority. Each initiative follows its own regulatory process and timeline, but together they point toward a more interoperable future for digital identity across public and private services.
Looking Ahead
As governments continue adopting common standards, the focus will increasingly shift from issuing digital credentials to ensuring they can be trusted wherever they're presented.
The work between AGESIC, Blerify, and Avalanche offers one blueprint for that future. It demonstrates how governments can build interoperable digital identity while preserving sovereignty, allowing trust to move across borders even when identity systems remain independent.
