Introducing Digital Me: The First Privacy-Preserving, Identity-Anchored AI Agent
We are living through the most significant shift in computing since the smartphone: the transition from static apps to autonomous AI agents. The demand is undeniable. Millions of users are already attempting to delegate their digital lives to AI – booking flights, managing finances, and automating workflows.
But as an industry, we have a fundamental problem. Current AI agents are powerful, but they are deeply unsafe. They operate without verifiable identity, without cryptographic security boundaries, and without user sovereignty. We have seen the consequences with cautionary tales like “OpenClaw,” where the lack of separation between data and control planes led to catastrophic privacy failures and security breaches.
At ShareRing, we asked a different question: What if a personal AI agent were built from the ground up on verifiable identity and a high level of privacy?
Today, I am proud to introduce Digital Me – a privacy-preserving, identity-anchored AI agent powered by ShareRing’s self-sovereign identity infrastructure. This isn’t just a chatbot; it is a true digital twin that acts on your behalf, negotiates for you, and protects your data with the same rigor we apply to your digital identity.
The Problem: AI Without Identity
The “Identity Gap” is the Achilles’ heel of modern AI. When you ask a standard AI agent to book a hotel or sign a document, it either fails or demands you hand over your raw data to a centralized server. It cannot prove who it represents without exposing everything.
Digital Me resolves this paradox. Built on ShareLedger and the ShareRing Vault SDK, it ensures that every operation is anchored to your verifiable identity (DID). It can present a credential proving you are “over 18” or “a verified account holder” without ever revealing your birth date or passport number.
Under the Hood: An Architecture of Trust
Digital Me is not a wrapper around ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. It is a sophisticated, multi-layered architecture designed for “Zero Trust” security:
- Phase 1: The MeModule (Available Q1 2026): This is where it starts. The MeModule runs inside the ShareRing Me app, processing over 80% of interactions entirely on-device. Using an embedding-based router, it classifies your intent in under 30 milliseconds without your data ever leaving your phone.
- Hardware-Level Security: Unlike other agents, we enforce a strict separation between the AI’s “brain” and your sensitive data. The ShareRing Vault SDK requires cryptographic, PIN-gated confirmation for any money movement or credential sharing. Even if the AI were compromised, it literally cannot sign a transaction without your explicit approval.
- Phase 2: MeChain & Decentralized Compute: To bring cloud-level intelligence without cloud-level surveillance, we are building MeChain – a Cosmos SDK blockchain dedicated to privacy-preserving AI. It utilizes Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and Zero-Knowledge proofs to ensure that when compute must leave your device, it remains encrypted and verifiable.
The Economy: SHR and MeToken
To power this ecosystem, we are introducing a dual-token economic model that aligns incentives across the network:
- SHR (ShareToken): Remains the heart of the ecosystem, securing the Identity and Trust Layer. It is used for credential issuance, verification, governance, and skill marketplace rewards.
- MeToken: A new token powering the Compute and AI Layer. It is used to pay for privacy-preserving inference on MeChain and reward compute providers.
Crucially, these tokens work in synergy. Every secure AI operation on MeChain requires a verified identity on ShareLedger, driving the utility back to SHR.
The Road Ahead
This whitepaper is the culmination of 18 months of research and development. Our roadmap is aggressive but achievable:
- Q1 2026: Launch of the Digital Me MeModule (MVP).
- Q3-Q4 2026: Launch of MeChain and the decentralized compute marketplace.
- 2027: Adaptive Intelligence with on-device RAG (learning your preferences locally).
- Late 2027: The fully Autonomous Digital Twin, capable of agent-to-agent commerce.
We are building the infrastructure for a world where your AI is truly yours – owned by you, verified by your identity, and bounded by your permissions.
We will be providing a demo of our MVP in the next few weeks, so pay attention to our socials for when it drops. We will also produce multiple in-depth yellow papers during the development of this groundbreaking technology.
I invite you to dive deep into the technical details, the architecture, and the future of self-sovereign AI in our full technical whitepaper below.
