Civic Technologies is bringing digital identity verification to Solana-based decentralised finance (DeFi). Solrise Finance and Civic have collaborated to develop a decentralised exchange (DEX) with permissioned access based on digital identity verification. According to Civic CEO Chris Hart, DeFi creates a permissioned environment that will be appealing to institutional players. The Civic know-your-customer (KYC) process, which is powered by nonprofit Identity.com, begins with standard email address, phone number verification, photo ID scanning, and a 3D face-map.