Trust Stamp Inc ( NASDAQ:IDAI , ISE:AIID ) has signed a three-year technology services and data sovereignty agreement with Nigeria's BLIP Limited to provide AI-powered identity solutions for Nigerian government programs, in a multi-million-dollar engagement, the company said on Monday.
BLIP is a Nigerian technology provider that delivers national-scale digital registration and certification platforms for the government.
The deployment is expected to exceed one million enrolments in its first year of rollout, Trust Stamp said.
Trust Stamp's patented IT2 technology converts sensitive biometric data into revocable identity tokens, which the company says enables large-scale identity verification and fraud prevention while lowering the risks of storing biometric data.
"This agreement is a significant milestone in our African growth strategy and one of the largest deployments of our technology to date," Trust Stamp CEO Gareth Genner said.
"Governments across the continent are looking for identity infrastructure that is secure, scalable and sovereign, and our partnership with BLIP demonstrates how our privacy-preserving technology can support programs reaching tens of millions of people."
Jonathan Patscheider, senior vice president at Trust Stamp, said BLIP brings deep local expertise and a proven registration platform.
"We see strong demand for this model across Nigeria and the wider region, and we look forward to building on this partnership," Patscheider said.
BLIP CEO Freeman Musa Yusuf highlighted the partnership would help Nigeria and Africa build digital systems that are secure by design.
"Trusted identity is a foundational layer of a modern digital economy," Yusuf said. "It can strengthen program integrity, reduce opportunities for fraud, improve access to services, and help public institutions deliver services with greater confidence and accountability."
The companies said the partnership is intended to provide a model that keeps data under Nigerian control and could be applied in other African markets.
