<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-06-22T07:57:45Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/A0F81395-AEE3-47C3-89DD-96B49A4E0BE0" ns1:id="A0F81395-AEE3-47C3-89DD-96B49A4E0BE0"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/BE558451-FDB0-4BA4-9CD2-F0A9D97F0001" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/3D0C1C2C-D4FF-4E27-97A4-A1199DA5AA53" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/3D0C1C2C-D4FF-4E27-97A4-A1199DA5AA53" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/2D29F69B-D1C7-42BE-9EE7-B7CF71AB627C" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2024-04-29T23:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/202CD31B-D562-4223-971F-20AA9051E793" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2023-04-30T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">10057532</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>A user-centric device-agnostic self-sovereign identity wallet for fraud prevention</ns2:title><ns2:status>Closed</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Collaborative R&amp;D</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>EarthID is a UK-based cybersecurity, fintech and Web3.0 focussed SME, led by a female co-founder/CEO and both co-founders of Indian ethnicity. The core project team comprises of Priya Guliani (Oxford/MIT-certified IT/blockchain/leadership professional) and Shiv Aggarwal (certified enterprise-architect, blockchain/SSI expert). EarthID's vision is to drive social, financial, and digital inclusion through the power of Self-Sovereign-Identity, aligned with 7/17 UN's Sustainable-Development-Goals.

The academic-team, led by Professor Rajarajan, brings 20-years research and commercialisation expertise in data-privacy, cybersecurity, decentralised-identity, and blockchain.

In 2020, the global cost of identity-fraud was &amp;pound;38.38B (Javelin-Strategy-Research,2021). In 2021, there were 226K cases of identity-fraud reported, an increase of 22%, which accounted for 63% of all fraud cases (National-Fraud-Database,2022). To prevent identity-thefts/frauds, financial institutions spend approximately &amp;pound;42.8M on customer-due-diligence processes. Major financial institutions spend up-to &amp;pound;446.25M protecting customer-data (Thomson-Reuters,2022). A cost-effective, fraud-proof solution is needed to reduce identity-thefts and associated financial, reputational, and emotional impact.

From equality-diversity-inclusion standpoint, existing solutions rely on high-end smartphones, creating accessibility-barrier for people from lower socio-economic background.

EarthID is developing Space-Wallet, a first-in-class cost-efficient, device-agnostic, fraud-proof, portable, reusable, user-centric, World-Wide-Web-Consortium compliant, cloud-based, decentralised-ID wallet that enables management of digital ID/credentials. Space-Wallet will enable organisations to issue, request and verify users' credentials in a fraud-proof and cost-efficient manner, while offering users data-ownership and privacy. Space-Wallet will be integrated with EarthID's multi award-winning platform, benefiting from its industry-leading capabilities.

Space-Wallet will help organisations save up to 40% in expenses and 80% of their time through the prevention of identity-frauds (up to 90%), elimination of human-intervention, reuse of verified-data and paperless-processing. It will also remove the digital-divide by offering a device-agnostic solution. Space-Wallet will eliminate paper-based identity management processes, thereby reducing industry's carbon-footprint significantly.

EarthID's Space-Wallet will help organisations prevent identity-frauds, drive compliance, optimise costs and foster sustainability, while empowering users with data ownership, privacy, and consent.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>