KyralPASSTM is a secure digital passport for the verification of credentials.
KyralPASS is a decentralized, user-owned digital health passport for self-sovereign identity verification, vaccination status, or any other digital credential for yourself, your community, or your organization. The technology is built on Hyperledger Fabric, an enterprise-grade, private permissioned blockchain that itself is open-source and secure.
KyralPASS can stand alone, but can be part of a larger network and has far more potential than just as a vaccination passport or credentialing system - for more information, please visit our website at KYRAL Health. Kyral is re-imagining health and re-architecting healthcare from the ground-up with privacy, cybersecurity, and data ownership first.
KyralPASS evolved from previous iterations dubbed the Sankofa Healthcare Framework (SHF), the purpose of which was to share immunization records, and where Sankofa stood for the mythical bird that symbolizes learning from past knowledge and wisdom and means to "go back and get it" in the Twi culture of the Akan people of Ghana - quite appropriate, as some of our health histories are somewhere in the past or in inaccessible repositories far removed.
We originally envisioned KyralPASS as a privacy-preserving digital vaccination pass and immunization scheme in 2019, before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic and more than a year before governments and organizations tried to implement digital COVID-19 vaccination status, credentialing, and health passport systems. The scope of this project was to setup a vaccination pass and immunization record system between multiple parties: initially a hospital, a pharmacy, and a university, in which the latter organization required students have immunization histories on record and, more recently, required students be vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to enrollment or attendance.
Kyral in KyralPASS refers to the chirality of molecules in the universe, specifically DNA, the inspiration for this endeavor and, therefore, of life itself - where chiral structures act as a form of information storage similar to zeros and ones, mirror images which are non-superimposable but can exist in both forms, and thus digitally equivalent but unique. Also known as enantiomers, chirality brings diversity and the possibility of mirror worlds, DNA-based computing, or what some refer to as a "mirror life", which is fitting in a future where we will have digital twins of ourselves.
Follow the tutorials to get started with KyralPASS. This contract and application works with any Hyperledger Fabric network, whether running locally or in kubernetes.
When testing locally, follow the tutorial to make changes. By default the contract is setup to run in a container on kubernetes.
KyralPASS was born at KYRAL Health, but belongs to everyone. We are releasing the KyralPASS platform to the public to allow any individual, group, institution, or organization to create their own secure, internal credentialing system or join larger, global networks, including ours at KyralNET. Joining this platform/location/cloud-agnostic, decentralized network will enable secure, private cross-verification of credentials between individuals, groups, institutions, and organizations that are part of KyralNET.
Review our Contributor Guidelines.
Improve the experience for the community and open a PR. Please create a PR on a branch other than main. e.g. dev
There are three ways to our network and community:
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Stand up your own network as described and follow the instructions on "How to Join"; or
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Subscribe to our Beta at KYRAL Health with the required information or through an invite; or
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Join our community on Discord.