Moca Network and the Moca Foundation say the Moca Chain mainnet is live. The chain is built for digital identity: an organization issues a credential, such as proof that a customer passed a KYC check or holds a membership, and the customer carries it between apps, sharing only the details a business needs. Moca Network, a flagship Animoca Brands project, is now turning its main effort to AIR, the product layer businesses would use to put the chain to work for identity, money and loyalty.
The pitch starts from a chore nearly everyone knows. Every new platform repeats the same identity check, and each business ends up storing its own copy of sensitive documents. Under Moca’s model, a trusted issuer such as a financial platform, retailer, ticketing service or game confirms a fact once and issues the credential. When another app asks whether the customer passed KYC, it gets a confirmation instead of the documents behind it. If the customer’s status changes, the issuer can update or withdraw the credential, and every app relying on it sees the change. Yat Siu, Animoca’s executive chairman, said people “should not have to hand over their personal information again and again.”
What AIR offers businesses #
AIR is the part a company’s product team would actually touch. The release describes a single integration that lets a business recognize and onboard customers, pay them and reward them. It runs in both directions. A company can turn the checks it already performs into credentials customers take to partner apps, or it can accept credentials issued elsewhere and welcome people who’ve already been verified, holding little of their data itself. AIR Money adds payouts, which the release calls compliant and global, and AIR Loyalty supplies a points engine for brands and merchants. Named partners include SK Planet, Biletinial, Oyunfor, Open Campus, OneFootball, RewardMe, Lamborghini, REAP, Inveo Kripto, Plume and Nansen, with more promised in the coming months.