Glossary

Admission PolicyDefinition

Admission Policy

AML

Anti Money Laundering.

Attestation

A claim in the form of an EIP-712.

Attribute

Attributes are data points which preserve the user’s anonymity by being part of a set, e.g. age > 21 or credit score between 800-850.

Base Rule

CFT

Countering the Financing of Terrorism.

Credential

On-chain representation of a Wallet meeting PolicyID requirements, at a given time (timestamp).

DeFi

Decentralised Finance.

Genesis Rule

The RuleRegistry creates two Base Rules during initialization.

  • UniverseRule, corresponding to the Universal Set, it contains everything and everyone.

  • EmptyRule, corresponding to the Null Set, it contains no one and nothing.

The UniverseRule and EmptyRule are complements.

KYB

Know Your Business.

KYC

Know Your Customer.

KYW

Know Your Wallet.

Operators

Logic linking baseRules together into Rules: union, intersection, complement.

PII

Personal Identifiable Information.

Policy Owner

Programme

Custom onboarding flow based on a user's risk profile, as defined by the Policy Owner.

Risk Matrix

Risk framework populated by the Policy Owner which defines the criteria to pass or fail validation under the Rule. The Policy Owner can define red flags to prevent access and/or assign risk scores to attributes to make the decision process as quantitative as possible.

Rule

SAR

Suspicious Activity Report.

TradFi

Traditional Finance (in contrast with blockchain-based finance).

User

Also designated as End-User. Individual or company using the Keyring product (see Terms and Conditions for more definitions).

Zero-knowledge proof

Proving facts without revealing the underlying information. Keyring leverages the GROTH16 proof protocol.

Merkle Proof

Merkle Proofs, on their own, require that user reveals data. They can prove “apple” is in the set of known fruit, but they can’t do it without saying “apple”. Our zero-knowledge proving scheme ingests a Merkle Proof, so we get something like “I’m working with one of the known fruits, and I can prove it, but I won’t tell you which one”. More on point, “My identity commitment exists in the set of known ones” but I won’t tell you which identity commitment I’m working with.

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