As the leading global payroll, onboarding, and compliance platform built for modern teams that operate across borders, we at Rise are proud to introduce the Rise ID, a self-sovereign professional identity that is minted during Rise onboarding for every contractor and business.

Rise ID is one of the core building blocks that helps payroll workflows stay secure, reusable, and scalable.

With Rise ID, individuals and organizations can own a verified work identity on-chain that helps them identify themselves, preserve key professional attributes, and reduce repetitive verification across global work.

Rise sets a higher standard for security and composability: Rise ID is a unique identifier that can represent business structure and authority on-chain in a way traditional HR and payroll systems simply cannot.

Let’s dive right into it.

Key Takeaways

  • Rise ID is a self-sovereign on-chain work identity minted during Rise onboarding for contractors and businesses.
  • It is wallet-owned and portable, so identity can travel with the user instead of being trapped inside one platform.
  • Rise ID strengthens security for on-chain payroll actions by requiring signatures from authorized owner or delegate wallets.

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What is the Rise ID?

Rise ID takes advantage of the ERC-725 standard, which is designed to describe identities on-chain, whether that identity represents a human, an organization, a device, or even a group.

In practice, Rise ID is a unique smart contract that the user owns (an independent contractor, employee, or business). It is designed to be reusable and portable, meaning it can travel with its owner wherever the owner needs to prove identity, context, or permissions.

All Rise IDs are currently deployed on Arbitrum and are owned by a user’s wallet. Key characteristics of Rise ID include:

  • Self-Sovereign: Rise ID is owned by an individual or organization, not by Rise and not by any third party.
  • Secure: It enables Rise’s payroll smart contracts to identify a user and apply the right permissions, transaction rules, and identity controls based on verified attributes.
  • Limitless: It can hold attributes such as KYC status, work history, pay history, certifications from bootcamps, diplomas from universities, and more, so identity becomes a reusable layer instead of a repeated task.
  • Composable: Other applications can read a Rise ID and its attributes (with the right permissions).

Because it is on-chain, Rise ID can interact with other smart contracts and integrate cleanly into blockchain-native workflows.

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How does Rise ID fit in the Rise ecosystem?

Rise ID functions like a verified access layer for blockchain interactions inside Rise.

To increase security, each on-chain interaction through Rise requires a signature from a wallet associated with a Rise ID as an owner wallet or delegate wallet.

In other words, Rise ID acts like a virtual passport: it lets users prove they are authorized to interact with Rise’s payroll smart contracts, and it helps ensure that permissions and controls are enforced at the identity layer, not bolted on afterward.

This matters because Rise supports global teams that may pay and withdraw through both local and crypto currencies.

A strong identity layer makes every subsequent action including onboarding, payouts, permissions, and account access, more reliable and more secure.

Rise ID for businesses

With Rise ID minted, organizations can begin automating and streamlining payments to teams across the world using Rise’s global payroll infrastructure.

Rise supports global contractor workflows across 190+ contractor markets, and Rise ID helps organizations manage identity and authority cleanly as they scale.

  • If a company or organization has multiple managers, their wallets or security keys can be added as delegates to the business’s Rise ID.

With this mechanism, different levels of authority can be granted to different managers, so real operating hierarchy can be represented on-chain with clearer permissioning and reduced operational risk.

  • If a company or organization manages its treasury through a multisignature wallet (for example, Gnosis Safe), it can add that multisig either as an owner or as a delegate of its Rise ID.

This supports a more flexible strategy for treasury-controlled payouts and reduces operational friction for teams managing approvals across multiple stakeholders.

Rise ID for contractors/employees

On the worker side, Rise ID supports secure access and withdrawals tied to a verified identity.

Payees can withdraw funds using Rise in local or crypto currencies, and Rise ID helps ensure those actions are authorized by the verified owner.

Rise ID also enables professional attributes to be stored and reused over time. These can include verification status, work history, payment history, diplomas, certificates, and more.

The long-term goal is simple: reduce repeated onboarding work and help workers carry a verified work identity across opportunities, without needing to restart verification every time they join a new team or platform.

It’s also important to be precise about how Rise works:

  • Employers fund payroll, but workers control their own withdrawal preferences.
  • Contractors and employees choose how they want to withdraw each cycle (local currency, stablecoins like USDC/USDT, crypto assets, or even a split), based on what Rise supports.

How does Rise ID fit in the broader ecosystem? Call for partners

Rise ID is built to make HR, finance, and compliance applications more composable by introducing a reusable identity layer that is owned by the user.

Because Rise ID is owned by a user’s wallet, it can move across the web with its owner.

With the right system in place (more to come on this), other applications can read specific attributes stored on a Rise ID and incorporate it into their onboarding and verification workflows, bringing better identity portability to Web3 teams and traditional organizations alike.

Below is a list of future-forward partners we’re looking for at Rise:

  • Job Marketplaces
  • Professional Networks
  • Insurance Providers
  • Credit Issuers
  • Universities
  • Bootcamps
  • Exchanges

Please contact us if you’d like to explore use cases involving Rise ID.

Minting a Rise ID

Once a user completes the AML and KYC process on Rise, they become eligible to create their own Rise ID and start sending and receiving payments through Rise’s payroll smart contracts.

Rise integrates with a number of wallet and account-access methods to help ensure that only the Rise ID owner can interact with a Rise account.

Creating a Rise ID requires users to connect a compatible wallet or access method so the owner has exclusive control over the corresponding Rise account.Supported wallets include: MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, MyEtherWallet (MEW), and Gnosis Safe

For users who are not crypto-native, Rise also supports generating a Rise Security Key, so you can get started without having to set up a crypto wallet immediately.

As Rise ID gets upgraded, it will also unlock richer insights and more structured identity-linked data that can support better decision-making across onboarding, payouts, and permissions, without compromising user ownership of the identity itself.

‍The Bottom Line

Rise ID is a key component of Rise’s infrastructure, and it is designed to change the way decentralized and centralized applications establish trust, permissions, and reusable work identity.

Over time, Rise ID will continue to drive product innovation that improves onboarding speed, strengthens identity assurance, and supports long-term growth for organizations operating across borders.

Want to learn more about Rise and how our service works? Read more about us on the Rise blog.

FAQs:

1. What Is Rise ID?

Rise ID is a self-sovereign professional identity on-chain that is minted during Rise onboarding and owned by a user or organization’s wallet.

2. Who Owns A Rise ID?

A Rise ID is owned by the individual or organization that minted it, not by Rise and not by any third party.

3. What Problem Does Rise ID Solve?

Rise ID solves repeated verification and fragmented onboarding by giving users a reusable, portable identity layer that can be used across workflows.

4. How Does Rise ID Improve Security?

Rise ID improves security by requiring on-chain interactions to be signed by a wallet that is authorized as an owner or delegate, so only approved parties can initiate actions.

5. What Can Be Stored As Attributes On A Rise ID?

A Rise ID can store professional attributes such as verification status, work history, payment history, and credentials like certificates or diplomas.