Bitget Teams with Sumsub for AI-Powered KYC to Combat Deepfake Scams
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget recently partnered with Sumsub to enhance AI-powered know-your-customer (KYC) verification to combat deepfake scams with over 99% accuracy.
What’s the significance: This collaboration aims to protect Bitget’s 25 million global users from sophisticated AI-generated identity fraud, ensuring safe and efficient crypto transactions.
How it Works: Sumsub provides Bitget with AI-powered identity verification, liveness checks, non-doc verification, and database validation to detect and prevent deepfake fraud.
The big picture: The rise of deepfake technology poses significant threats across industries, especially in cryptocurrency. This partnership is crucial for compliance in regulatory-heavy countries.
By the Numbers:
- Deepfakes detected in the crypto sector increased by 217% from Q1 2023 to Q1 2024.
- Overall increase across industries was 245% year-over-year.
What’s Next: Bitget and Sumsub plan to further develop and refine their security measures, aiming for a long-term, fraud-free blockchain future.
Zooming out:
- Bitget also launched another two initiatives, Blockchain4Youth and Blockchain4Her, each with $10 million funds, to educate and empower young professionals and women in the crypto and blockchain space.
- Recently, Gracy Chen has been appointed as the new CEO of Bitget, aiming to drive global expansion and champion diversity and inclusion in the crypto industry.
Editing by Michael Mislos
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