Moca Foundation Unveils Moca Chain for Decentralized, Privacy-First Digital Identity

You ever stop to think how much of your life is locked behind the passwords you barely remember—and worse, controlled by platforms you didn’t really choose? Today, the Moca Foundation is tackling that head-on with Moca Chain, a Layer 1 blockchain built from scratch to hand your digital identity—and all the bits that come with it—right back to you.

Own Your Data, on Your Terms

Instead of relying on Facebook, Google or any other single sign-on that becomes a juicy target for hackers (and a data-harvesting goldmine for corporations), you’ll carry your own self-sovereign ID. Want to share your health records with a new doctor? Cool. Want to prove you graduated from a certain college to a recruiter? Easy. And when you share, it’s literally “zero-knowledge”—you prove you’re you without leaking your home address, your credit limit or your entire browser history.

Here is how it works:

• Decentralized storage keeps your credentials scattered and encrypted, not sitting in one risky database.
  
• A cross-chain identity oracle lets any app—on Moca Chain or another blockchain—verify your proofs, no matter where they live.
  
• zkTLS (zero-knowledge TLS proofs) let you authenticate without actually revealing the underlying data.
  
• Everything’s on-chain —staking, gas, storage and verification fees are handled in MOCA Coin, the network’s native token.

Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, said: “Billions of users today go online using single sign-on (SSO), which contains the keys to a user’s data, services, and digital lives. While convenient, SSO represents a centralized point of failure that compromises security while also allowing operators to aggressively extract value from users’ digital selves. Moca Chain seeks to solve this problem by giving users decentralized true ownership of their data, ensuring the sovereignty of users’ digital identity without a single point of failure.”

Because Moca Chain is EVM-compatible and modular, it slots into existing ecosystems without reinventing the wheel. Developers can pick and choose which pieces to use—whether they need secure storage, oracle services or permissioning logic—then stitch them together however they like.

Siu continued: “In conjunction with Moca Network’s AIR Kit, Moca Chain is creating a digital ecosystem where users can finally own their data, reputations, and contributions. This aligns strongly with the mission of Animoca Brands to advance digital property rights and empower individuals to control and benefit from their online activities and their personal data, enabling more equitable sharing of the value that users generate through their online presence and activity.”

A Launch Powered by Real Users

Mark your calendars: testnet drops in Q3 2025, with mainnet following in Q4. And this isn’t vaporware. Moca Network’s AIR Kit (their Account, Identity & Reputation SDK) already powers identity in platforms reaching over 700 million people worldwide. Think SK Planet’s OK Cashbag (28 million KYC-verified users) and the One Football app (200 million+ fans). Soon, those users can flip the switch to true self-sovereignty, ditching usernames and passwords for MOCA-backed credentials.

Here are its real-world use cases:

• Healthcare: One click to pull up your verified, unified electronic health record—across hospitals, labs and specialists.
  
• Recruitment: Share your diploma and training history straight from your wallet—no more PDF uploads or fax machines.
  
• Finance: Complete KYC/AML checks in seconds, with privacy preserved by zero-knowledge proofs.
  
• Advertising: Opt into unified, consent-based onboarding across apps, and get rewarded whenever brands use your data.

But it goes deeper. Moca Chain’s composable identity layer transforms loyalty points, social badges or membership passes into portable, blockchain-native assets. Jump between dApps, and those badges follow—no extra sign-ups, no more fragmented profiles.

Kenneth Shek, project lead of Moca Network , said: “Moca Chain and AIR Kit are a one-of-a-kind infrastructure for verified identity data to empower consumer apps and their users. By adopting Moca Chain and MOCA Coin, we believe we can disrupt current models of data ownership and break down the dominance of walled garden ecosystems, returning value to the users who generate it and making ecosystem growth more scalable.”

Governance by the People, for the People

All of this is stewarded by the MOCA Foundation, a community-owned nonprofit governed through Moca DAO. Holders of MOCA Coin don’t just pay fees—they vote on upgrades, propose new features and even participate in cross-DAO delegation models. It’s decentralized governance in action, with every stakeholder—from individual users to enterprise partners—having a seat at the table.

As it stands, most of us are trapped in “walled garden” ecosystems: our data locked up and monetized by giants we neither own nor control. Moca Chain flips that paradigm. You decide which apps can see your data—and for how long. You set the permissions, you earn the rewards. When your data powers someone else’s service, you get paid in MOCA Coin, unlock special features or earn loyalty perks.

What’s Next

With its testnet just months away, Moca Chain is already onboarding protocol developers and forging industry partnerships. If everything clicks, we could soon see the world’s largest chain-agnostic identity network—one where you, not a faceless corporation, hold the keys to your digital life. So if you’re tired of endless passwords, sketchy data collection and opaque privacy policies, keep an eye on Moca Chain. Self-sovereign identity isn’t just a buzzword here—it’s the future taking shape.