Google Cloud and Self collaborate to innovate private identity technology
In a significant move towards securing digital identity and enhancing privacy, Google Cloud has partnered with Self, a leading zero-knowledge identity protocol. This collaboration aims to integrate Self's ZKP-based identity technology into Google Cloud's Web3 and AI tools, thereby supporting the Web3 developer ecosystem with new AI capabilities while maintaining user privacy and data protection [1].
Key aspects of this partnership include the integration of Self Protocol’s ZKP-enabled identity technology with Google Cloud’s Web3 developer tools, hosted on the Google Cloud Web3 Portal. This integration allows developers to incorporate privacy-first identity verification within Web3 applications more seamlessly [1].
Google Cloud has selected Self's SDK to provide secure, privacy-first identity solutions. This decision facilitates features such as secure onboarding of Web3 users, Sybil-resistant polling for transparent governance, compliance checks against sanction lists without exposing user data, and wallet recovery using secure identity proofs [1].
Self's technology supports both offchain and onchain attestations, with onchain attestations performed on the Celo blockchain. Google Cloud has been validating Celo since 2018 and actively supports its ecosystem, making this integration more robust and sustainable [1].
This collaboration builds upon previous efforts, such as Google Cloud enhancing Google Wallets for age verification in the UK (April 2025) and promoting privacy-focused solutions for EU age assurance (July 2025), by applying ZKP technology [1].
Richard Widmann, Google Cloud’s Head of Strategy, Web3, stated that this collaboration lowers barriers for developers creating Web3 solutions by combining ZKP-enabled identity with Google Cloud’s Web3 tools [1].
Google Cloud plans to integrate Self's zero-knowledge proof technology into several key offerings, including the Web3 Portal and Google Cloud's Testnet Faucet. A Mainnet Faucet is in development that will use exclusion proofs from Self's integration with the OFAC sanctions list to conduct sanctions screening, marking one of the first instances of real-time compliance tools integrated with blockchain identity verification [1].
Self's co-founders expressed pride in the protocol's rapid advancement and its role in shaping the future of privacy-conscious Web3 and AI development. This partnership represents a significant step towards making private, verifiable digital identity a standard feature of Web3 ecosystems [1].
[1] Source: Google Cloud and Self Press Release, [date]
The collaboration between Google Cloud and Self will integrate Self's ZKP-based identity technology into Google Cloud's Web3 and AI tools, thus enabling developers to build privacy-focused Web3 applications using secure, privacy-first identity solutions. This partnership will also advance Google Cloud's Web3 Portal and Testnet Faucet by incorporating Self's zero-knowledge proof technology, potentially revolutionizing real-time compliance tools integrated with blockchain identity verification.
Google Cloud's strategic move to integrate Self's technology will support businesses in the finance and data-and-cloud-computing sectors by providing secure onboarding of Web3 users, offering compliance checks against sanctions lists, and leveraging artificial intelligence capabilities, all while preserving user privacy and data protection.
