Identity

Keyring ID

Human-readable names for wallets, owned by the people who use them.

Since: 2025
Team: 4 people, Buenos Aires
Reach: 210,000 names

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The story

Why Keyring ID exists

Keyring ID started as a class project at an Oriel Academy workshop in Buenos Aires in 2025, after a student sent ORL to an address with two characters swapped. The fix was a short name, like ana.orl, that the owner holds in their own wallet.

The Academy grant paid for a Spanish course on names and wallets, workshops in four Argentine cities and a guide for wallet teams that want to show names. Keyring now holds 210,000 names, and two of its students work on it full time.

Grant milestones

What the academy grant paid for

MilestoneStatusPaid

Spanish course on names and walletsShipped June 2025$8,000

Workshops in four Argentine citiesShipped October 2025$7,000

Integration guide for wallet teamsShipped February 2026$5,000

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