Polity Passport

Polity Passport

Polity Passport is the world’s first anonymous passport: an open-source participation and delegation framework for humans and AI agents. The project was inspired by a simple observation: people do not lose their need for agency simply because they lose their ability to act directly.

A refugee detained at a border still needs legal representation. A journalist under threat still needs support. A senior executive travelling internationally still needs travel, housing, legal, and relocation services coordinated on their behalf.

These situations appear very different, but they share the same challenge: the person cannot personally perform every task required to achieve their objective. Polity Passport preserves and extends agency through a simple model: Citizen + Passport + Agent + Locker

Every citizen receives a Citizen Passport that establishes participation and continuity. Citizens can delegate authority to trusted Participant Agents that act on their behalf. Evidence, credentials, records, permissions, and proofs are stored in a secure self-custodied locker. Agents can recruit additional specialist agents, coordinate services, and execute tasks while remaining accountable through reputation and auditable authority chains. The system recognizes two forms of participation:

Citizen Passports Citizen Passports are for humans.

They are anonymous, reputation-bearing, and irrevocable. A passport may expire and require renewal, but a citizen’s right to participation cannot be revoked. Participant Passports Participant Passports are for agents. They are authority-based, delegated, reputation-bearing, and revocable. Agents earn standing through participation and reputation, and their authority can be suspended or revoked when necessary. Humans possess rights. Agents receive authority. Both build reputation through participation. Our first implementation focuses on Human Mobility Services. At one end of the spectrum are refugees, stateless citizens, activists, journalists, and human-rights defenders. At the other end are executive travellers, corporate mobility teams, international relocations, and founder operators. The same delegation, reputation, credentialing, and evidence infrastructure supports both.

Technically, Polity Passport combines: World ID for proof of humanity AgentKit for human-backed agents and delegated authority Walrus for secure self-custodied evidence storage ProveKit for privacy-preserving zero-knowledge proofs ENS for discoverability and addressability Traditional passports use identity to determine where a person can go. Polity Passport takes a different approach. It does not need to know who you are unless identity must be disclosed. It only needs to know: Are you human? Can you be trusted? Who is authorized to act on your behalf? The Polity Passport does not establish identity. It establishes trusted participation. By combining proof of humanity, delegated agency, trusted participation, reputation, and anonymous continuity, Polity Passport creates a foundation for humans and agents to safely participate together in the emerging agentic internet. This version is much closer to what hackathon judges tend to respond to because it starts with a concrete human problem, demonstrates the same architecture solving both vulnerable and executive use cases, and only then explains the technology stack.

How We Built It Polity Passport is built on the AgentiQ and iQube architecture developed as part of the broader metaMe ecosystem. At its core, the system combines: iQubes for portable, permissioned, reputation-bearing participation records AgentiQ for delegated agency and agent orchestration World ID for proof of humanity AgentKit for human-backed agents Walrus for secure evidence storage ProveKit for privacy-preserving verification ENS for discovery and addressability The result is a framework that enables proof of humanity, delegated agency, trusted participation, and anonymous continuity for humans and agents alike. AgentiQ — Delegated Agency Layer AgentiQ provides the orchestration layer that allows humans and agents to work together through trusted delegation relationships. Citizens can delegate authority to agents. Agents can recruit additional specialist agents. Authority, participation, and reputation flow through accountable delegation chains. iQubes — Participation, Reputation & Continuity iQubes serve as the foundational participation containers of the system. Citizen Passports and Participant Passports are implemented as specialized iQubes that carry participation records, permissions, authority relationships, reputation signals, and supporting proofs. Rather than relying on a single centralized identity record, the system uses portable, permissioned iQubes that allow participants to selectively disclose information while maintaining continuity across services and jurisdictions. This creates the foundation for anonymous continuity. World ID — Proof of Humanity World ID verifies that a participant is a unique human without requiring disclosure of personal identity. This establishes the foundation for Citizen Passports while preserving privacy. AgentKit — Human-Backed Agents AgentKit enables human-backed agents capable of acting on behalf of passport holders. This allows citizens to safely delegate authority while maintaining accountability and traceability. Walrus — Secure Evidence Vaults Walrus provides the secure storage layer for credentials, permissions, supporting evidence, and participation records. This functions as the participant’s locker and continuity vault. ProveKit — Privacy-Preserving Verification ProveKit enables zero-knowledge proofs so participants can prove facts, authority, or credentials without revealing unnecessary information. ENS — Discovery & Addressability ENS provides human-readable discovery and addressability for participants, agents, services, and delegation relationships.

Architecture Summary World ID → Proof of Humanity iQubes → Participation, Reputation & Continuity AgentiQ → Delegated Agency AgentKit → Human-Backed Agents Walrus → Evidence & Records ProveKit → Zero-Knowledge Verification ENS → Discovery & Addressability

Together these components create a framework for trusted participation, delegated agency, and anonymous continuity for humans and agents alike.