World ID
Overview
Anonymous Actions
You can create anonymous actions to verify any arbitrary action a user might take in your app, where each action is independent of other actions. Some examples include:
- Claiming a one-time discount for a purchase (each purchase is independent of other purchases)
- Allowing user's to vote in a poll, but only vote per user (each vote is independent, votes from the same person cannot be linked)
- Sharing an invitation to join a platform, limited to five total invites
The basic flow is as follows:
Your app connects to the user's device through IDKit and requests verification.
User generates a ZKP on their device, using their World ID credentials.
Your app verifies that proof from the user's device with our API or smart contract.
To demonstrate the power of actions, take the voting example. Imagine you are building a website to host polls for a local organization, but you'd like votes to be anonymous. By using a new action for each vote, you can enforce that users only vote once in each ballot, while also ensuring that there is no way to correlate a user's cast ballots across votes.
