identity.org.au

identity.org.au is not an Australian Government service. It is an open-source community service stewarded by the not-for-profit DETIO Foundation, currently in the process of applying for accreditation under the Digital ID Act 2024. How this service is different

The service

Verify on VirtEngine

How verification in your wallet becomes approval on the VirtEngine network: evidence in, score and tier out, and marketplace actions unlocked — with providers seeing your tier, never your documents.

The VirtEngine network is a decentralised cloud marketplace: tenants deploy workloads, providers lease capacity, and the chain settles between them. Because real money and real infrastructure are involved, actions on the network are gated by identity assurance — and the Identity Wallet is how you provide it. Verifying makes you an approved client: an account whose verification tier satisfies the requirements of the actions it takes.

Your wallet ON YOUR DEVICE Document capture Front and back, OCR checked Selfie + liveness Blink, head turn, smile Hardware biometrics Fingerprint or iris, attested Encrypted here first Nothing leaves in the clear Encrypted evidence VEID on the VirtEngine chain Scoring runs inside attested enclaves x/veid — scoring Composite checks → score 0–100 Tier from score Basic · Standard · Trusted x/veidregistry Governance-approved verifiers Consent records Every grant and revocation, timestamped and auditable Tier + score only — never documents VirtEngine marketplace WHAT PROVIDERS SEE Tier: Standard Score band met for the offering No name, no documents Approved client Eligible for the action Unlocked actions Deployments and leases gated by required tier If an action needs a higher tier, your wallet shows exactly what evidence would raise it — you choose whether to provide it Evidence stays encrypted · the chain records results · the marketplace reads tiers

The flow, end to end

  1. Create your wallet

    Set up the Identity Wallet — the mobile app for capture, the web wallet at my.identity.org.au for management. Every wallet starts Unverified.

    • No identity checks yet — just keys created on your device.

  2. Complete verification levels

    Work through the evidence steps your target level needs: document capture and liveness for Standard; hardware biometrics and device attestation for Trusted. Everything is encrypted on your device before it moves.

    • Each step is consented separately, and you review before anything is submitted.
    • You only climb as high as the actions you want actually require.

  3. The network scores and records

    Governance-approved verifiers process your encrypted evidence and the VEID module computes a composite score. Your tier — Basic, Standard, Trusted — is derived from that score and recorded on-chain.

    • The chain records results and encrypted references, never readable evidence.
    • Scoring logic is open source — the model is inspectable, not a black box.

  4. You are an approved client

    Marketplace actions carry tier requirements. When your tier meets an action's requirement, the network's eligibility check passes and the action proceeds — deployments, leases, marketplace participation.

    • Approval is mechanical: tier meets requirement, action allowed.

  5. Present your tier — never your documents

    Providers and services on the network see your tier and that your score met their threshold. They never see your name, documents or biometrics unless you explicitly consent to share a specific verified claim.

What providers see — and never see

What providers and the marketplace see about a verified client, and what they never see
Providers and the marketplace see They never see
Your verification tier (Basic, Standard, Trusted) Your identity documents or any images of them
That your score meets the threshold their offering requires Your exact score history or the signals behind it
Zero-knowledge proof results they requested (for example, score above threshold) Your biometric data — in any form, at any tier, ever
Verified claims you explicitly consent to share, one by one Anything from scopes you did not consent to

How tiers gate marketplace actions

Every offering type on the network carries a required tier, and the chain's eligibility check compares your recorded tier against it before the action executes. Low-risk activity needs little; sensitive roles need a lot — the proportionality principle applied mechanically.

Verification tiers and the marketplace activity each typically unlocks
Your tier Typically unlocks
Unverified Browsing services that accept the wallet · Activities that do not need identity checks
Basic Low-risk services and small transactions · Services that only need a real-person signal, not a strong identity
Standard Most participating services · Age and attribute proofs (for example, proving you are over 18) · Marketplace activity that requires a verified identity
Trusted Sensitive, high-trust roles — for example validator onboarding on the VirtEngine network · High-value transactions where the counterparty requires the strongest assurance

If an action needs a higher tier

Nothing fails silently. Your wallet shows which level the action requires and exactly what evidence would raise yours — and climbing is always your choice, made when something you want actually requires it. See verification levels for the evidence behind each tier.

Network status honesty

The VirtEngine network and the wallet are open-source infrastructure rolling out together. Tier requirements for specific offerings are set on-chain and may evolve through network governance — this page describes the mechanism, and the technical documentation tracks the current parameters.