Simplifying IT
for a complex world.
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- AWS
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- Microsoft
- Salesforce
Dating, creator and adult platforms
Your users prove they’re 18. They never hand you their ID.
Ask for ID and you risk losing the signup.
Accept a tick box and you have proved nothing.
There is a better way.
The user proves they are over 18 on their own phone. You get a yes. No name. No document. Nothing stored, so nothing to steal. Need a real name to pay a creator? That too.
Verified. Not identified.
Three jobs, one identity
A checkbox proves nothing, and demanding a passport loses the user.
A self-declared birthday is the failure mode
The box asking a user to confirm they are over 18 is the control that regulators and card brands are now naming directly. Visa and Mastercard adult merchant rules expect a documented check, and a tick box is not one.
Is the person behind the account that person?
Creator and talent onboarding turns on binding a real identity to a paid account and to the name on the payout. A selfie at signup does not establish that, and impersonation is the loss that follows it.
They can prove 18 without telling you who they are
For an age check your platform receives a yes or a no, not a name and not a document. On discreet and LGBTQ+ products that is not a nicety: the request for ID is itself the reason people abandon signup.
What you never receive cannot be stolen
Verification that leaves raw identity documents on your servers has moved the problem rather than solved it. ShareRing exchanges hashes and decentralised identifiers, so there is no central honeypot to lose, today or in a breach five years from now.
Five ways in, depending on the job.
These are not tiers of one product. They are five shapes of the same check. Which one fits depends on whether you are gating a buyer, onboarding a creator, or matching daters.
What each one is for
- ShareRing Link: pay-per-check age, ID and liveness, online or in person. A first creator payout check, an overseas age check, processor underwriting, or door ID at an 18+ venue.
- ShareRing Me: a reusable consumer credential. The user is not asked for their passport again when they join a second platform or re-verify a year later.
- The seamless SDK: the check stays inside your own app or site, for products that will not send a user out to a separate wallet to finish signing up.
- Me Module: verify once, enter many rooms or brands. Live rooms, live commerce, white-label networks and multi-venue entry.
- DigitalMe AI Agent: an agent in the loop rather than a form, where reviewing the onboarding is itself the work.
We sit beside the national rail, not in front of it.
Japan has JPKI, Korea has its designated identity providers, Singapore has Singpass. Those are the domestic rails, and ShareRing does not claim to replace any of them. What ShareRing covers is the part they were never built for.
Where ShareRing fits
- Overseas and foreign users: a national rail assumes a national. A platform taking users from outside that country still has to check them, and usually has nothing to check them with.
- Privacy by architecture: a discreet product should not have to bind a national identity number into its own database to establish that someone is an adult.
- Reuse across the group: one verification that travels to the next app, the next brand or the next room, rather than a fresh document upload at each one.
- In person as well as online: the same credential works at a venue door, which in most markets is still a manual look at a card.
The pressure is already in the market.
None of the following is a mandate ShareRing sits inside, and none of it names us. It is the direction the rules have already moved in the markets these platforms sell to.
What has changed
- Japan: dating operators must confirm a user is not under 18, and the 風営法 amendment in force since June 2025 tightened under-18 entry to nightlife venues. Platforms hosting live-action adult work need verified performer identity and a contract pack, not a signup selfie.
- Singapore: app stores have had to age-assure before dating and sexual-content downloads since 1 April 2026.
- Taiwan: the Interior Ministry’s 2026 online-dating draft asks for identity as well as age, and says a self-typed date of birth is not enough. Offline matching contract rules took effect on 1 September 2026.
- Malaysia and Indonesia: Malaysia’s Child Protection Code has required licensed social platforms to verify age against official documents since 1 June 2026, and Indonesia’s PP 17/2025 rules out a self-declared birthday for covered services.
- The card brands, everywhere: Visa and Mastercard adult merchant rules expect a documented age check, which makes this a payments problem as much as a compliance one.
Build it yourself
Bind the payout to a real person, once.
Two different people. Two different checks.
A viewer proves they are 18 and stays a stranger.
A creator is getting paid, so you need to know exactly who they are.
Same product, proportionate to the job. The creator verifies once, and the credential they keep means the next platform does not start from a blank upload.
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age_verificationOver 18, before an account can earn. -
identity_documentGovernment ID, read and validated. 180+ countries. -
liveness_checkA motion check that binds the live person to the document, so the account holder and the person on camera are the same. -
personal_infoLegal name, to match against the payout account. -
if_elseIdentity, liveness and payout name all agree. -
delivery_httpA signed result to your platform. The documents stay with the creator. -
end_okA verified creator, reusable at the next platform. You hold the result, not the documents.
The document read and the liveness check are the billable steps. They run once per person, not once per platform.
Further reading
Further reading on age assurance
Longer pieces from The Privacy Stack on the regulation, the cost and the mechanics behind this page.
16 Mar 2026
Age Estimation is Everywhere. It’s Not Working.
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22 Oct 2025Precision Without Intrusion – How ShareRing Redefines Age Verification
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15 Apr 2025Bits of Blocks on ShareRing. Australia trials Blockchain-based Age Verification ahead of Social Media ban
Bits of Blocks on ShareRing.
Prove they are 18. Collect nothing else.
Tell us which of the three jobs you are solving. We will show you the check that fits.
