London, UK — cheqd, a decentralized payment and trust infrastructure provider, has entered into a strategic partnership with Anonyome Labs, a pioneer in consumer privacy, cyber safety, and digital identity. By integrating cheqd’s decentralized identity and on-chain payment capabilities with Anonyome Labs’ Verifiable Credentials offering, the partnership establishes a trusted, scalable foundation for issuing, verifying, and monetizing digital credentials. The combined solution is built to streamline onboarding, reduce fraud, and enhance privacy across sectors including education, finance, healthcare, insurance, and more.
Next-Generation Identity Infrastructure
The partnership brings together cheqd’s decentralized identity stack with Anonyome Labs’ Verifiable Credentials offerings to streamline identity verification, combat fraud, and protect personal information. The integrated solution enables individuals and organizations to receive credentials through personal or enterprise wallets and share them securely and privately with any relying party. By placing control in the hands of users, the partnership enables privacy-first interactions while helping organizations reduce operational friction and meet compliance requirements, ultimately improving customer experiences and reducing fraud.
“cheqd’s on-chain payment rails further enhance the value of Anonyome Labs’ Verifiable Credential offerings by unlocking new revenue models for credential issuers. For the first time, organizations can generate direct value for their role in the digital identity ecosystem by charging for credentials they issue.” said JD Mumford, Anonyome Labs CEO.
“The future of digital identity must be commercially sustainable to thrive. By introducing monetisation models for credential issuers, we’re proving that privacy and profit can go hand-in-hand. This partnership is a major step towards that future. Moreover, developers no longer have to choose between privacy and functionality. ” said Fraser Edwards, Co-founder and CEO of cheqd.
Developer-First Approach to Digital Identity Integration
The joint solution also supports seamless integration for developers and enterprises. Anonyome Labs’ SDKs, APIs, and white-label apps make it easy to build and deploy digital identity features – from mobile wallets to credential services. With cheqd’s infrastructure embedded, organizations can rapidly deliver user-centric identity experiences that are secure, scalable, and monetizable from day one.
About Anonyome Labs
Anonyome Labs, believes that people should have the freedom to choose what data they share, with whom, and when. Their purpose is to restore control over personal data, both online and offline. Anonyome Labs creates consumer privacy apps and identity protection solutions that empower end-users to safeguard and manage their personal information. MySudo, their all-in-one privacy app, empowers users to protect their personal information by creating separate Sudo digital identities for calls, texts, emails, browsing, and payments—ensuring complete privacy of their personal data.
Anonyome Labs’ suite of robust, market-ready software products have been deployed by leading brands, across diverse industries worldwide. Additionally, by offering developer-ready SDKs and APIs, they enable the seamless integration of decentralized identity capabilities for wallets, issuers, and verifiers. This supports the global shift towards decentralized and user-centric digital identity management, empowering organizations to adopt secure, scalable, and future-proof solutions.
About cheqd
cheqd is the trust and payment infrastructure to enable the creation of personalised AI, eID, digital credential businesses, and trust ecosystems. It provides privacy-preserving payments for data to incentivise its release from data silos, enabling previously impossible data combinations and unlocking new user experiences and personalised AI.
It provides bespoke network offerings and supports multiple credential formats to underpin identity frameworks such as eIDAS 2.0 in Europe, and beyond. Its industry-leading Trust Registries allow ecosystems to gate and govern themselves, creating permissioned, permeable, or permissionless trusted data ecosystems and trusted verified AI agents.
