Trenton, New Jersey, January 23rd, 2026, Chainwire
Cysic today announced a strategic partnership with Billions to provide the hardware accelerated zero knowledge infrastructure required to scale privacy preserving identity verification to a global level. The partnership enables Billions to expand its identity network from millions to billions of users, making bot resistant, privacy first identity practical for mass adoption across Web3.
As crypto adoption accelerates, trust has become one of the ecosystem’s most critical bottlenecks. Bots continue to farm airdrops, sybil wallets manipulate DAO governance, and users are forced to repeat invasive KYC processes across chains and applications. At the same time, AI agents are increasingly interacting with on-chain systems, further eroding confidence in who or what is real.
By combining Billions' privacy-first identity network with Cysic's hardware-accelerated ZK infrastructure, this partnership finally provides a scalable solution to Web3's trust crisis. The result is a more equitable and efficient ecosystem where real users are rewarded, governance is fair, and digital identity is both private and portable. Cysic's infrastructure ensures this future isn't just a promise, but a practical reality that can scale to meet the demands of a global, bot-proof internet.
The Identity Problem in Web3
Today’s Web3 identity landscape is fragmented and fragile. Users must constantly re-verify themselves, exposing personal data while gaining little portability or protection. Governance systems are vulnerable to sybil attacks, and token distributions are routinely diluted by automated bots rather than rewarding genuine participants.
These challenges directly impact user trust, investor confidence and the long term value of decentralised networks.
Billions and Proof of Uniqueness
Billions provides a zero-knowledge-based identity network that enables proof of uniqueness without compromising privacy. Users verify once and can then prove they are real, unique participants across chains and applications without revealing personal information.
This approach enables bot-resistant airdrops, sybil-resistant governance, private and portable KYC, and cross-chain identity that works seamlessly across the ecosystem. Billions is already live with more than 2.2 million verified users and is used by over 9,000 projects, including global enterprises such as HSBC and TikTok.
However, scaling this model to billions of users presents a significant computational challenge.
Hardware Accelerated Identity at Global Scale
Zero-knowledge proofs are powerful but computationally intensive. Without acceleration, identity verification at a global scale becomes slow, expensive, and impractical for real-time and mobile use.
Cysic solves this challenge through its decentralised, hardware accelerated zero knowledge compute network. By combining custom ASICs, GPU clusters, and a distributed prover network, Cysic dramatically reduces the cost and latency of proof generation and verification.
Through this partnership, Billions will leverage Cysic’s infrastructure to perform identity verification that is fast enough for real-world usage, affordable enough for mass adoption, and scalable enough to serve billions of humans and AI agents.
This integration transforms Billions from a strong identity concept into a viable global identity layer for Web3.
Enabling a Fairer Crypto Economy
“Our mission is to make verifiable compute a practical reality at scale,” said Leo Fan, CEO of Cysic. “With Billions’ privacy first identity layer and Cysic’s hardware accelerated zero knowledge compute, we are enabling fast and cost-efficient verification, from proving human uniqueness to authenticating AI agents and models.”
Evin McMullen, CEO of Billions, added: “Trust on the internet does not just need strong cryptography, it needs infrastructure that can scale to real people on real devices. By partnering with Cysic, we are making zero knowledge identity fast and accessible at global scale, without compromising privacy.”
Implications for Web3 Participants
For everyday users, the partnership means fairer airdrops, stronger governance and significantly less exposure of personal data. Real participants receive real rewards, and communities are protected from automated manipulation.
For developers, it provides a scalable identity layer that can be integrated without sacrificing performance or user experience. For investors, it strengthens the foundations of decentralised ecosystems by reducing fraud, improving trust and supporting sustainable growth.
As Web3 expands and AI agents become more prevalent, the need for privacy preserving, scalable identity infrastructure becomes unavoidable. Cysic and Billions are positioning themselves at the centre of this shift.
Key Benefits of the Cysic and Billions Partnership
- Bot-resistant airdrops and sybil-resistant governance
- Private, portable KYC without repeated data exposure
- Cross-chain identity that works across applications
- Authentication for humans and AI agents
- Infrastructure designed to scale to billions of users
Developers, users, and partners are encouraged to explore early integrations as the network continues to expand globally.
About Cysic
Cysic provides a full stack, hardware accelerated compute layer for zero knowledge proof generation and verification. By combining custom ASICs, GPU clusters and a decentralised prover network, Cysic enables scalable applications across rollups, AI, identity and beyond, making verifiable compute practical at internet scale.
About Billions
Billions is the first Human and AI network, built on mobile first, privacy preserving technology to scale trust in the age of AI. Created by founders from Disco.xyz, Hermez and Polygon, Billions powers over 9,000 zero knowledge and identity projects globally, serving more than 2.2 million verified users across enterprises, governments and Web3.
Contact
Felix Clarke
Genius PR
felix@theprgenius.com
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