Incode Joins OpenAge with a Board Role to Shape the Future of Age Assurance

Incode, Persona and Veratad have joined the OpenAge Initiative, adding momentum to industry’s move to privacy-preserving, interoperable age assurance.

OpenAge Initiative Announcement

OpenAge today announced that Incode, Persona, and Veratad have joined the OpenAge Initiative, adding further momentum to the industry’s move toward privacy-preserving, interoperable age assurance as foundational trust infrastructure.

Their participation builds on recent commitments from Meta and Socure, along with broad adoption across k-ID clients and reflects a growing consensus across platforms and identity providers that age assurance is becoming a baseline operational requirement, not a bespoke or jurisdiction-specific feature.

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Launched in late 2025, the OpenAge Initiative brings together platforms, identity providers, and trust infrastructure partners to establish a user-centric, privacy-first framework for age assurance that works across services, jurisdictions, and regulatory regimes.

The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) recently announced its support for the OpenAge Initiative and AgeKey, as a privacy-preserving and low-friction approach to meeting age-assurance requirements without compromising user anonymity or security.

At the centre of the initiative are AgeKeys, a reusable age credential that allows individuals to verify their age once with a participating provider and reuse that age signal across services that accept AgeKeys.

Designed around open standards and double-anonymity principles, AgeKeys minimize data exposure, eliminate repeated verification, and support consistent protections for minors while preserving adult privacy.

AgeKeys have already been used millions of times across participating services, significantly reducing friction compared to traditional age-verification methods while strengthening privacy protections. The OpenAge Initiative remains open to platforms, identity providers, and ecosystem partners committed to advancing interoperable, privacy-preserving age assurance globally.

How Incode Will Collaborate with the OpenAge Initiative

“The conversation has moved on from whether age assurance is needed to how it can be delivered responsibly at internet scale,” said Julian Corbett at OpenAge. “Persona, Incode and Veratad joining the Open Age Initiative is a strong signal that the industry is converging on interoperable, privacy-preserving infrastructure rather than fragmented point solutions.”

Incode and Persona bring configurable age assurance and identity verification used by global platforms, while Veratad supports privacy-preserving, risk-based age and identity assurance through its global orchestration capabilities. Their participation expands the ecosystem of providers able to support OpenAge-aligned implementations.

“Delivering high-assurance, privacy-first, and low-friction age-verification is fundamental to how we build trust online,” said Ricardo Amper, Founder & CEO at Incode. “As interoperability becomes an essential factor for the industry, we’re excited to collaborate with OpenAge to bring our security expertise and help set the standards these global initiatives require.”

Roman Karachinsky, Chief Product Officer at Incode, will represent the company on will represent Incode on a soon-to-be-formed technical advisory board at OpenAge. Incode brings deep expertise in age assurance and security, built on a privacy-first, in-house–developed identity platform powered by proprietary technology.

Through its participation, Incode will help shape OpenAge’s technical direction to ensure that standards for age-verification technology and Age Keys are secure, resilient to abuse, and practical to deploy at scale. The objective is to enable interoperable age signals that platforms can adopt with confidence and ease, while maintaining strong security guarantees and minimizing integration complexity.

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About OpenAge
OpenAge is a global initiative focused on enabling privacy-preserving, interoperable age assurance for the internet. Through shared standards and open infrastructure, OpenAge helps platforms meet regulatory expectations while giving people control over how their age is recognised online.

About AgeKey
AgeKey is a reusable, FIDO-based age-verification credential developed by OpenAge. It lets individuals or parents verify their age once, using approved methods such as Facial Age Estimation, credit-card or government-ID checks, and reuse that token securely across services without revealing personal information.

AgeKey is built on the global FIDO2 standard, developed by the FIDO Alliance and W3C. By leveraging passkey technology, it delivers a seamless, instant experience: it takes about 3 seconds to verify age. It only stores the user’s age signal and no personal information.

About Incode
Incode Technologies is a leader in identity and age-verification. with over 10 years experience, developing proprietary AI-powered technology to redefine how people prove who they are and interact with governments, businesses, and marketplaces through a secure, frictionless experience.

As an end-to-end, fully automated orchestration platform, Incode enables fast, private, seamless, and secure age assurance solutions by combining proprietary age estimation and age-verification methods in a single adaptive waterfall flow. This approach enables compliant, low-friction user experiences while reducing age impersonation and unnecessary data collection. With a vision to power a world of trust at the speed of AI, Incode is shaping the future of digital trust. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company operates globally with offices in Europe and Latin America.

Incode was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Identity Verification. Download the report.

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