Blockchain Exchange Network (BEN): A Novel Blockchain-based Solution for Identity Verification & Security

Security, especially self-service machines such as ATMs and pay-at-the-pump gas terminals have become prime targets for fraudsters. Most of these facilities go unattended and are easily compromised. The age-old methods of PINs have, in many ways, facilitated fraudulent activities and new two factor authentication has proven to be cumbersome as well as insure in its own way. To counter this, smartphones have been a fresh breath of relief for carrying out transactions in a safer way, but they are also vulnerable for largely the same reason, a secret number never stays secret. Tales of identity theft and phone-based fraudulence are aplenty. Losing a phone to thieves can bring about the most undesirable, damaging losses. This has brought about the need for creating a more secure and sophisticated identification and authentication tool. It is at this juncture where BEN (Blockchain Exchange Network) steps in with an innovative blockchain-based streaming identity verification solution. The company’s robust AI technology wields high-level security by generating a contiguous identity blockchain based on the users’ on-going behavioral patterns that remain authentic and consistent. BEN achieves this via sensor data from users’ smartphones. “We do something very different from what was done previously, by clearly affecting and creating native, pervasive security,” states Michael Lucas, the CEO of BEN.

Sensors within smartphones have become more powerful, smaller, and cost-effective, and are an integral part of the entire mobile experience. The most well-known sensors that are packed into mobile platforms are the accelerometers that measure the movement and orientation of users, the gyroscopes that measure angular rotation, and location services using GPS and magnetometers to know the map position of users. There exists a myriad of other sensors too that provide information about the distance a user holds his/her phone during a call as well as the characteristics of their voice. The BEN architecture gathers the sensor data and processes it over an extended period to identify unique usage patterns of each user, which then becomes the identity blockchain of that user, which is the basis of an on-going user pattern over time rather than a simple event such as a PIN code or two-factor authentication. Once the identity of a person is learned, every time they perform a transaction on say, another blockchain, their identity blockchain can easily provide authentication and authorization and can make every transaction auditable.