# selfxyz/self

Prove your self

Repository: https://github.com/selfxyz/self
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/self
Homepage: https://self.xyz
Language: Circom
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-08-25T16:59:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 73/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 81
- inputs: {"age_days": 1138, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1259, forks 226 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:09.889449+00:00)

## What it is
Self is an open-source monorepo for a privacy-preserving identity verification platform that lets users generate zero-knowledge proofs from government-issued IDs (e-passports, ICAO biometric ID cards, Aadhaar) via NFC chip scanning. It uses zk-SNARKs so verifiers can confirm attributes like age, nationality, or personhood without ever seeing the underlying document data.

## Use cases
- verify users are real humans without collecting their ID documents
- add age verification that reveals only that a user is over 18
- protect crypto airdrops and quadratic funding from bot and sybil attacks
- screen users against sanctions lists before onboarding
- use government IDs as a wallet recovery mechanism
- add proof-of-humanity checks to social media profiles
- pair AI agents to verified human owners
- reduce KYC costs with pre-KYC eligibility screening

## When to choose
- you need identity or age verification without storing sensitive personal data
- you want sybil resistance for airdrops, voting, or quadratic funding
- you need compliance checks (sanctions, nationality) with minimal data exposure
- you want to verify humanity for apps or AI agents at scale
- your users have NFC-capable phones and biometric passports or Aadhaar cards

## When to avoid
- you need full KYC with document images and legal audit trails a regulated provider must hold
- your users lack NFC-capable devices or supported identity documents
- you need verification against non-ICAO documents not yet covered
- you want a simple username/password or OAuth-style authentication flow rather than cryptographic identity proofs

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: cryptography, security, auth, sdk, mobile-framework, blockchain
- domain: security, privacy, blockchain, artificial-intelligence, web-development
- platform: cross-platform, self-hosted, cloud
- tags: zk-snarks, zero-knowledge-proofs, identity-verification, digital-identity, nfc, e-passport, aadhaar, proof-of-human, sybil-resistance, kyc, circom, age-verification, sanctions-screening, wallet-recovery, ai-agents, mobile, web-server

## Member repositories
- selfxyz/self (main) score 73

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:09.889449+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:05:32.128884+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/selfxyz/self (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:09.889449+00:00, sha d935c13a1b50)
  - homepage: https://self.xyz (fetched 2026-08-29T12:17:05.247763+00:00, sha 94d9ed34445a)
  - site_page: https://docs.self.xyz/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:17:05.250931+00:00, sha 064347b174ba)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.