World Open Sources ProveKit: Mobile Devices Prove Age With Zero-Knowledge Proofs Without Sharing IDs

The market is wrong about how fragile identity verification remains in a world where dark web markets sell over 1.53 billion driver's license scans every week. World has just open-sourced ProveKit, a zero-knowledge proof toolkit that lets your phone prove your age to any verifier without ever transmitting a single passport photo or iris scan. This local proof generation happens entirely on-device, eliminating the centralized storage vectors that have turned identity data into a high-value criminal commodity. Based on my battle-tested experience watching protocols cycle through KYC cycles, ProveKit represents the kind of precise technical arbitrage where on-chain verification meets mobile hardware constraints to create something that actually scales privacy.