Emily Walker
Parfin’s Layer-2 solution on Ethereum, known as Rayls, was recently highlighted in JP Morgan’s Project EPIC, focusing on the network’s secure identity offerings tailored for privacy demands in the financial sector.
Innovative Privacy Solutions from Parfin’s Ethereum L2 Blockchain
JP Morgan’s Kinexys Digital Assets (KDA), a division dedicated to blockchain initiatives, presented Rayls within its Project EPIC report. This document delves into privacy and identity strategies for institutional environments, aiming to identify challenges and stimulate discussions and actions across the industry.
To achieve these goals, KDA launched a Proof of Concept (POC) focusing on four main areas: assessing privacy and identity needs for institutions, determining essential features for scalable identity solutions, evaluating current privacy technologies, and bridging traditional and web3 landscapes for future strategies.
The POC findings featured Parfin’s privacy system implemented on Ethereum L2. Rayls is designed to enable banks to carry out transactions with privacy and assurance by combining security, governance, and privacy features.
KDA emphasized Rayls’ privacy ledgers, which maintain “sensitive data securely, utilizing end-to-end encryption and Merkle root attestations for confidential communications.” The report explains that these ledgers interact via a decentralized structure known as the “commit chain,” allowing for encrypted messaging between different privacy ledgers.
With this setup, each organization can operate its individual privacy ledger securely, while connecting with others using an atomic transport protocol that ensures accurate asset transfers, maintaining independent and confidential records throughout.
Additionally, Rayls demonstrates regulatory compliance by integrating anti-money laundering (AML), know-your-client (KYC), and suitability frameworks through verification services, thereby ensuring institutional trust and compliance.
The Demand for Privacy and Identity Solutions
The report highlights that the market for tokenizing billionaire-level assets is set for monumental growth, projected to reach multi-trillion valuations. However, it stresses the importance of developing institutional-quality privacy solutions and adaptable identity mechanisms to foster industry advancement.
According to KDA, the lack of standardized practices and infrastructure for identity verification among market stakeholders leads to “significant inefficiencies” in asset transactions.
This absence of standardization often gives rise to duplicative workflows that fail to capture the operational advantages of tokenization:
Without foundational elements, the growth of the industry may remain limited, particularly when trying to attract traditional investors who expect high standards of data protection similar to those in conventional markets.
The report also addressed scalability concerns regarding the Ethereum L2 project, suggesting that a privacy pool approach utilizing ZKPs would enhance Rayl’s flexibility. It also highlighted the fundamental throughput of the commit chain as a “key factor” for system scaling.
Rayls aims to “connect Decentralized Finance (DeFi) with Traditional Finance (TradFi),” assisting banks and financial institutions worldwide in managing the complexities of digital assets.
In conclusion, Marcos Viriato, Co-founder and CEO of Parfin, believes that “Rayls signifies a transformative shift in how banks can conduct secure and efficient transactions,” expressing excitement about advancing solutions that will shape the future of banking.