# Digital Identity without Scanning your Eyeballs

Source: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/holonym-digital-identity-without-scanning-your-eyeballs
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Submitted by misha on 2025-05-25 UTC, 1 upvote, 0 comments

## Summary

Shady El Damaty, co-founder and CEO of Holonym Foundation, discusses how people can control their own digital identities online in a podcast interview. Holonym Foundation is building human.tech, a suite of identity solutions that protect user privacy using zero-knowledge proofs. The host contrasts this with Worldcoin, a project led by Sam Altman that scans people's eyeballs into an orb, and says they personally don't trust it. The backdrop is a concern that bots dominate online spaces and that crypto projects are easily Sybil attacked.

## Article

They say on the internet no one knows you’re a dog but this has created a digital space that is dominated by more bots than humans and crypto space that is easily sybil attacked. Worldcoin, a project led by Sam Altman, is purporting to tackle this issue as AI (ironic?) proliferates content by scanning our eyeballs into an orb that they totally aren’t taking your data from! Personally I don’t trust them.

So I spoke to Shady El Damaty, co-founder and CEO of Holonym Foundation which is building human.tech, a suite of different identity solutions that protect user privacy using zero-knowledge proofs. We spoke about how it all works and the implications of people having control of their identities online.

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