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- Category
- Decentralised Identity
- Entity
- All 2 Galxe products
- Official website
- galxe.com
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Details
Scored 59 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in October 2026.
Galxe Passport
KYC credential as a soulbound token
Decentralised Identity
#5 Overall
Ranked #5 of 8 decentralised identity in the published ranking
59
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
Is Galxe Passport right for you?
Look elsewhere if these come first
- Credential custody & revocation power5/10 here; the category best is 9
- Verification without the vendor5/10 here; the category best is 10
- Biometric & PII handling (documented)3/10 here; Human Passport (formerly Gitcoin Passport) scores 7
- Enforcement record & product continuity6/10 here; the category best is 9
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The rank above is the published one, the same for every reader. Find my best identity provider shows where it lands for you.
What will Galxe Passport cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Transactions per year
- 1k
How safe is Galxe Passport?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read October 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to Galxe Passport
Compare all 4- 4Human Passport (formerly Gitcoin Passport)1 point above · stronger on biometric and pii posture (7 against 3)60
- 6Billions Network1 point below · stronger on biometric and pii posture (4 against 3)58
- 7Civic (Civic Auth)11 points below · stronger on biometric and pii posture (6 against 3)48$0.00
For your setup
Find out if Galxe Passport fits you
The rank above is the published one — the same for every visitor. Answer the category's questions and this section shows where Galxe Passport lands for you, which criteria your answers weight up, and which stated needs the record does or does not meet. The published rank stays beside it.
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Why this rank
Why Galxe Passport ranks #5
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (15.0 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
305+4.805.09#4/8Loading evidence…
255+4.005.010#4/8Loading evidence…
253+2.405.08#6/8Loading evidence…
206+3.845.09#3/8Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−1behind Human Passport (formerly Gitcoin Passport), #4
RobustnessOne point from changingacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 57–61 and ranks #4–#6
Evidence4 of 4 scored4 quoted, 4 with a source link
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of Galxe Passport’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
Credential custody & revocation power 5 → 6 on its ladder · passes Human Passport (formerly Gitcoin Passport)+161#5 → #4
Verification without the vendor 5 → 6 on its ladder · passes Human Passport (formerly Gitcoin Passport)+160#5 → #4
Biometric & PII handling (documented) 3 → 4 on its ladder · passes Human Passport (formerly Gitcoin Passport)+160#5 → #4
Enforcement record & product continuity 6 → 8 on its ladder · passes Human Passport (formerly Gitcoin Passport)+261#5 → #4
Credential custody & revocation power 5 → 4 on its ladder · Billions Network passes it−157#5 → #6
Verification without the vendor 5 → 4 on its ladder · Billions Network passes it−157#5 → #6
Biometric & PII handling (documented) 3 → 2 on its ladder · Billions Network passes it−157#5 → #6
Smallest climb: credential custody & revocation power 5 → 6 passes Human Passport (formerly Gitcoin Passport), #4.
Strengths
0 from the score dataWhere it leads
No scored criterion is at or within one point of the category best, so no strength can be stated from the data.
Tradeoffs
4 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Credential custody & revocation power — 5/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Verification without the vendor — 5/10 against a category best of 10/10
- Biometric & PII handling (documented) — 3/10 against a category best of 8/10
- Enforcement record & product continuity — 6/10 against a category best of 9/10
Record watch-outs
- Be honest about what you are buying: an outsourced KYC check with an onchain receipt, which belongs on a shortlist only if that is genuinely what you want. It is a poor fit where the requirement is privacy-preserving or unlinkable verification, because the underlying check is a full document-and-face KYC through Sumsub with no ZK layer. The $5 is charged per user, is non-refundable, and is paid through Galxe's own Smart Balance, an additional commercial dependency inside your payment flow.
- The product is called Smart Balance, not Smart Savings. The substantive point about an in-flow commercial dependency survives, but the product name is wrong in two places. Read again 15 September 2026: the pricing note and the watchout above now name Smart Balance.
- Galxe documents a recovery path: users click "Forgot Password" in the passport app and complete verification steps (facial re-verification); "The first password reset is free; subsequent attempts will incur a $1 fee", and "Once your password is reset, your account will automatically upgrade to Passport V3." The docs nowhere state that a lost password permanently destroys access. Note the recovery path actually cuts the other way for the score's logic: recovery runs back through Galxe plus its Sumsub integration, which deepens rather than removes the vendor dependency.
Competitive position
Where Galxe Passport leads and where it trails
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Availability#1 / 814.0 of 20 · constant here
Published criteria#5 / 811.3 of 30 · best 19.8
Friction#1 / 82.7 of 10 · constant here
Trust record#1 / 83.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#1 / 88.3 of 18 · constant here
Where Galxe Passport leads
- Enforcement record & product continuity#3 / 8
Where it trails
- Biometric & PII handling (documented)#6 / 8
Closest alternatives
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
Human Passport (formerly Gitcoin Passport)#4 of 8 · score 60 · 1.0 point ahead
Galxe Passport leads on
- Credential custody & revocation power5 vs 4
- Verification without the vendor5 vs 4
- Enforcement record & product continuity6 vs 5
Human Passport (formerly Gitcoin Passport) leads on
- Biometric & PII handling (documented)7 vs 3
Largest single reason Human Passport (formerly Gitcoin Passport) is ahead: published criteria (+1.6 display points).Scenario cost: Human Passport (formerly Gitcoin Passport) has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Billions Network#6 of 8 · score 58 · 1.0 point behind
Galxe Passport leads on
- Enforcement record & product continuity6 vs 4
Billions Network leads on
- Biometric & PII handling (documented)4 vs 3
Largest single reason Galxe Passport is ahead: published criteria (+1.0 display points).Scenario cost: Billions Network has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Civic (Civic Auth)#7 of 8 · score 48 · 11.0 points behind
Galxe Passport leads on
- Credential custody & revocation power5 vs 2
- Verification without the vendor5 vs 2
- Enforcement record & product continuity6 vs 2
Civic (Civic Auth) leads on
- Biometric & PII handling (documented)6 vs 3
Largest single reason Galxe Passport is ahead: published criteria (+10.7 display points).Scenario cost: Galxe Passport has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against the leader
81 vs 59 · gap 22.0Why ENS (as identity layer) ranks above Galxe Passport
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale — it reproduces the displayed gap of 22.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisENS (as identity layer)Gap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight11.319.8−22.1, worse
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisENS (as identity layer)Points
Credential custody & revocation power · w3059−3.84, worse
Verification without the vendor · w2558−2.40, worse
Biometric & PII handling (documented) · w2537−3.20, worse
Enforcement record & product continuity · w2069−1.92, worse
Net5981−22.0
Your scenario
Galxe Passport is not priced for this scenario
The cheapest published tier that covers your usage. List price before any discount; add-ons priced separately are excluded. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
your cost/yr · default scenario — set your own
Transactions per year · your input1k
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 22 October 2026.
your cost/yrCost is stated as your cost/yr in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
Not priced on this basis
Under the default inputs · USDCategory median and cheapestNot statedOnly 2 of 8 rows publish a comparable price; a median and a cheapest row need at least 3.
6 of 8 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 22 October 2026
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
4 of 4 cells scored
Score evidenceVerified4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from receipts
4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from a quoted, sourced receipt equal to the published strength.Public receiptsReading…4 quoted with a source URL
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
4/4 criteria scored, with 4 dated sources quoted.RobustnessOne point from changingrank #4 to #6 across one-point re-runs
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.The newest evidence read on the platform is 3 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 22 October 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Credential custody & revocation powerstrength 5 · weight 30Report an error—22 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Verification without the vendorstrength 5 · weight 25Report an error—22 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Biometric & PII handling (documented)strength 3 · weight 25Report an error—22 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Enforcement record & product continuitystrength 6 · weight 20Report an error—22 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Custody failure (Galxe Passport 5/10): whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.Scored by Credential custody & revocation power · 30%
- Regulatory failure (Galxe Passport 6/10): no licence where you are, or a forced market exit.Scored by Enforcement record & product continuity · 20%
- Exit failure (Galxe Passport 5/10): you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.Scored by Verification without the vendor · 25%
- Information failure (Galxe Passport 3/10): the number is wrong or bought, or your data leaks.Scored by Biometric & PII handling (documented) · 25%
Not assessed by this ranking: Liveness failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means.
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- Galxe's help article "Introducing Galxe Passport" (help.galxe.com, updated 10 August 2026, read 22 October 2026) publishes the fee table: "ID Verification $5 USD Required for ID verification. Facial Re-verification $1 USD Charged per facial re-verification." "Galxe+ Premium and Unlimited members get a one-time waiver of the $5 ID verification fee. For any subsequent verifications, the standard fee applies." "Both Facial and ID verification fees are non-refundable. No refunds will be issued if your identity document is declined or if you are under 18." "Should your KYC verification be unsuccessful, you will be granted one additional opportunity to retry the process." "The first password reset is free; subsequent attempts will incur a $1 fee." "Make payment via Smart Balance or get a free mint with a Galxe+ subscription." "The Galxe Passport NFT is minted on the BNB Chain".Galxe Passport — official pricing page ↗ · 22 October 2026
- Prices published in
- USDGalxe Passport — official pricing page ↗ · 22 October 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Multi-chain
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- Galxe's help article "Introducing Galxe Passport" (help.galxe.com, updated 10 August 2026, read 22 October 2026): "Galxe is unable to support identity verification in the following restricted regions:" "Crimea Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) Cuba (CU)* Iran (IR) North Korea (KP) Syria (SY)". That is Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria, and the Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.
Legal entity on file: Galxe, placed in 2 products. Only confirmed entities are shown; nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means this product in this category was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.
Accountable for this review: Mathias Siemonsmeier, Founder.
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History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
9 methodology entries
- 22 October 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 59, #5 of 8. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.7Forty-one more products are offered only where their own quoted terms serve- fixed 141 country exclusions on 31 rows, each the name of a country the row's own quoted terms exclude: for example Mercuryo Hungary, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia and Morocco; Gemini Custody the United Kingdom, Australia and the EU after its wind-down; Backed xStocks the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, Nigeria, the Philippines and Venezuela.
- changed Thirteen rows list the only countries their terms serve: Coins.ph the Philippines, Spritz bill pay, Brex, Unchained, WisdomTree, Franklin BENJI and AnchorWatch the United States (with its territories for AnchorWatch), PRYPCO Mint the UAE, N26 crypto seven EU countries, Gemini Tokenized Stocks the EU, XNET the US, Canada and the UK, Coldbit Steel and MetaMask Card the countries they list.
- changed Published (no-country) orders do not move. Country results change: in India six categories each lose one row (bill pay, cards, off-ramps, P2P, seed backup, tokenised real estate), and bill pay there has no row confirmed available, so it shows the published order marked as such; country pages list 23 fewer rows (24,357 to 24,334). The grounding test now matches full country names in any case, which shows seven earlier exclusions were quoted all along: the named debt of unquoted exclusions falls from 40 to 33 pairs.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
Methodology 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt decentralised_id:galxe_passport:2026.10.18:f265808df1ee
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