Animoca Brands Subsidiary Launches Moca Chain for Secure Identity Management

Moca Network, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, has introduced Moca Chain, a new Layer-1 blockchain designed to address the challenges of fragmented logins, redundant Know Your Customer (KYC) processes, and exposed personal data in the cryptocurrency space. The blockchain is built with a focus on decentralized identity and verifiable data, aiming to provide a more secure and efficient infrastructure for identity management.

Moca Chain is designed to serve as an open platform for all identities and data, coexisting symbiotically with other chains as the identity and data verification layer. This platform welcomes any protocol, application, or builder ready to scale credential issuance and verification. The network leverages zero-knowledge proofs and cross-chain interoperability, allowing users to store credentials privately while proving them across applications without exposing raw information. A testnet for Moca Chain is scheduled for the third quarter of 2025, with the mainnet expected to follow in the fourth quarter.

Moca Network is building specialized infrastructure for decentralized identity by combining four core technologies: decentralized storage for user-controlled data, zero-knowledge proof (ZKP)-based verification to preserve privacy, zkTLS to pull in real-world information without centralized intermediaries, and an Identity Oracle to enable cross-chain credential checks. The goal is to allow users to store credentials once—whether a KYC document, a university degree, or gaming achievements—and reuse them across any application without repeatedly surrendering personal data.

For developers, Moca Chain offers AIR Kit, a plug-and-play identity toolkit designed to integrate seamlessly with existing apps, wallets, and protocols without needing to rebuild the user experience from scratch. Beyond privacy, Moca Chain aims to unlock economic value by turning credentials into portable assets. This could streamline compliance, enable new reward models, and reduce fraud, as businesses currently spend millions verifying users while individuals derive no benefit from their own data.

Moca Chain is also a token economy experiment. At the network’s core is MOCA, the utility token that fuels every action on the chain. Issuing, verifying, storing, and even generating credential data via zkTLS all require MOCA. Validators need to stake it to secure the network, while verifiers pay with it to check credentials. The more credentials issued and verified, the more MOCA gets used—creating a demand loop tied directly to network activity.